Pre-Final 1100 words Flashcards
to Solicit
To beg, seek earnestly
ex: to solicit contributions(вклады, взносы)
Adverse
Unfavorable, harmful, preventing success, development.
ex: Adverse weather conditions.
Amicable
Friendly, peaceful
ex: There will be an amicable settlement for the dispute.
Malady
Disease
ex: an incurable malady
Inclement
Unfavorable, stormy, harsh
ex: Inclement weather
To peruse
To read carefully
ex: He sat at his desk, trying to peruse a company report.
Premonition
Forewarning, a strong feeling that something is going to happen, esp sth unpleasant
ex: A premonition of calamity
To desist
To cease
ex: A premonition of calamity that besieged him wouldn’t desist.
To recoil
To draw back
ex: He recoiled when the phone rang.
Pertinent
Appropriate, to the point
ex: The astute lawyer was able to elicit the pertinent information from the key witness.
A mastiff
A large dog
To obsess
To preoccupy, to haunt
Doleful
Sad, Melancholy
Wan
[won]
Sickly pale
ex: She was looking wan.
Histrionics
Display of emotions
ex: The doctor explained the situation calmly, avoiding histrionics.
Elusive
Hard to grasp
ex: The elusive dog had frustrated all attempts to find him so far.
Symptomatic
Having to do with signs or symptoms, indicative
ex: …symptomatic of rabies.
To interject
To interrupt, to insert
ex: The policeman interjected that there hadn’t been a case of a mad dog in the county in over twenty years.
Inert
ინერტული, without power to move
ex: She lay inert in her bed.
Salient
Prominent, outstanding, most noticeable
ex: Once the salient characteristics appear, then death will be imminent.
Imminent
Likely to happen, threatening
ex: You’re in imminent danger.
Squeamish
Easily shocked, over sensitive, easily made to feel sick/disgusted/faint
ex: He was squeamish at the sight of blood.
Engrossed
Absorbed
ex: They seemed to be engrossed in conversation.
To inundate
To flood, to swamp
ex: The station was inundated with phone calls.
Fruitless
Useless
Poignant
Moving, painful to the feelings
ex: A poignant reminder of the passing time.
Garbled
Confused, mixed up
Sanguine
Optimistic
ex: There was little tangible evidence, but the police remained sanguine.
Phlegmatic
[fleg mat’ ik]
Calm, hard to rouse to action, sluggish(slow-moving)
ex: The normally phlegmatic Jerry Hart was deeply upset.
To corroborate
To confirm, support
ex: Even if the rabies could not be corroborated Jerry was determined to see that his son received the vaccine.
Zealous
[zel’ es]
Enthusiastic
ex: The comprehensive search party was zealously fanning out in circles around the supermarket.
To coerce
To force
e: They were coerced into silence.
To elapse
To slip by
ex: Forty hours had elapsed before the police work and the publicity paid off.
Meticulous
Careful
ex: The police was meticulously checking registrations of every car.
Domicile (noun)
[dom’ e sil]
Home
ex: A man’s domicile is his castle.
Lax (adj)
Careless, negligent
ex: The lax control of the borders enabled the enemies to raid the country.
Sporadic
Occasional
Rash
Too hasty, reckless
ex: It would extremely rush to make such assumption.
To obviate
To do away with, eliminate
ex: The necessity for preparing sandwiches was obviated when the picnic was postponed.
Lurid
Sensational
ex: The newspaper switched from mundane coverage to lurid reporting.
Quip
To joke
ex: “His bark was worse than his bite,” quipped Jerry.
