Various Flashcards
- To dim the vision of, especially to blind with intense light.
- To amaze, overwhelm, or bewilder with spectacular display:
Dazzle
a figure skater who dazzled the audience with virtuosic jumps.
Prepared beforehand ,not spontaneous
Cut and dried
Perkins followed; she had several petitions at her command, good sincere ones too, but a little cut and dried, made of scripture texts laboriously woven together.
- The feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn.
- The state of being despised or dishonored
Contempt
He was held in contempt by his former friends.
- another word for illegal
2. not allowed or approved by common custom, rule, or standard:
Illicit
illicit sexual relations
Illicit love
Illicit trade
preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose)
Primble
My dear colleagues,” said Barbicane, without further preamble, “the subject now before us is the construction of the engine, its length, its composition, and its weight
And the third suggestion I cannot state until I have made a preamble.
off the right track, adrift, off course, off the mark, amiss .
lead someone @ lead into sin, lead into error, lead into bad ways, lead into wrong, lead off the straight
Astray
Many items of mail being sent to her have gone astray
The judge thought he’d been led astray by others.
Hamper,impede
slow or prevent progress or movement.
hinder is to hold back or delay, as by barring the way forward: The unfair performance review threatened to hinder her career.
Spread over a large area ,not concentrated
Diffuse
to cut down, reduce, or diminish; curtail (expenses)
Hsbc is @ to its Asian roots
Retrench
Their instinct is to hold their ground rather that retrench,advance rather than retreat,intimidate rather than negotiate.
