English Sentences 2 Flashcards
Impecunious
The impecunious family was grateful to the food bank for stocking their pantry.
There lived a titled but impecunious family.
My impecunious uncle, who could not afford to buy his own books, usually ended up borrowing mine.
He came from a respectable if impecunious family.
They are invariably independent, impecunious and able to tolerate staggering degrees of discomfort.
Emulate
I idolize Britney Spears so much that I emulate everything she does.
Most rulers wished to emulate Alexander the Great.
They hope to emulate the success of other software companies.
The adaptor is factory set to emulate a Hercules graphics board.
Some smaller cities now emulate the major capitals in their cultural offerings.
Prosaic
The masses were too preoccupied by prosaic day-to-day concerns.
He has a prosaic writing style.
She believes the noises are made by ghosts, but I think there’s a more prosaic explanation.
The critic wrote with dismay of the actor’s prosaic performance, having expected something much more engrossing.
My diary entries are filled with prosaic happenings.
Bereft
Her room was stark and bereft of colour.
His death in 1990 left her bereft.
Alone now and almost penniless, he was bereft of hope.
His family was bereft of food and shelter following the tornado.
After the last of their children had left home the couple felt utterly bereft.
Voluble
The voluble politician was never at a loss for words.
I do not propose to disturb his intense and voluble concentration at this hour.
Many see Parker as the obvious leader, whose voluble style works well on TV.
Evelyn was very voluble on the subject of women’s rights.
It’s not often that one hears such voluble praise for this government.
Frivolous
There is always the danger of frivolous complaints being made at times.
The times are too serious for such frivolous courtesies.
“frivolous ribbons and lacy frills”
the frivolous, fun-loving flappers of the twenties”
Someday all that anxiety about whether your zit will disappear before the prom will seem totally frivolous.
Tremulous
I always feel a trifle tremulous when walking through a graveyard.
She opened the letter with tremulous hands.
He gave a tremulous smile.
He watched her tremulous hand reach for the teacup.
The bride spoke her vows with tremulous modesty.
He was in a state of tremulous excitement.
Zealot
The artistic zealot devoted his life to the completion of a great masterpiece.
He was forceful, but by no means a zealot.
Walsh was accused of everything from being a partisan zealot to an incompetent spendthrift.
The political zealot walked over a thousand miles to get people to sign his petition.
He is a zealot, but fortunately he does not have an army of zealots to lead.
