Vocabulary TKaM Chs 23 - end
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stealthy, secretive, shifty, sly |
"Exchanging furtive glances, they oozed a nervousness, perhaps in fear that some prewritten script would go awry" (Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg by Bloomberg). |
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filthy & dirty; foul & squalid; morallly degraded, base |
"sordid tales of the celebs' love lives" |
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having a dirty or wretched appearance |
"squalid conditions in the refugee camp" |
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briefness; shortness (intime) |
"the brevity of the graduation speech was appreciated by the students" / "the brevity of the child's life was mourned at her funeral" |
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false; lacking substantiation; forged |
"spurious claims" |
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endowed with the power of speech; expressing oneself in clear & effective language |
"an articulate speaker" / "anarticulate essay" |
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delightful, greatly pleasing (esp. to the taste); delicious |
a delectable witticism; adelectable dinner. |
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lacking in distinctive qualities |
"His nondescript appearance -- blue jeans, Abercrombie & Fitch t-shirt -- made him easy to forget." |
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ruddy, rosy, or reddish; flowery, excessively ornate, showy |
“a florid complexion” “floridwriting” |
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easily provoked to anger, very irritable; characterized or produced by ange |
“an irascible old man” “anirascible response” |
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swarming; abounding; full of |
"a forest teeming with life, both flora & fauna" |
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to restrain by binding the arms or wings of |
“...[He] tried to catch my arms, but they were tightly pinioned.” TKaM |