Gre-Bibile-2

Front 1

epaulet

Back 1

ornament worn on the shoulder (of a uniform; etc;

The shoulder loops on Sam Spade's trench coat are the nonmilitary counterparts of the fringed epaulets on George Washington's uniform.

Front 2

roseate

Back 2

rosy; optimistic;

I am afraid you will have to alter your roseate views in the light of the distressing news that has just arrived.

Front 3

celibate

Back 3

abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried;

Though the late Havelock Ellis wrote extensively about sexual customs and was considered an expert in such matters, recent studies maintain he was celibate throughout his life.

Front 4

interim

Back 4

meantime

The company will not consider our proposal until next week; in the interim, let us proceed as we have in the past.

Front 5

paraphrase

Back 5

restate a passage in one's own words while retaining thought of author

In 250 words or less, paraphrase this article.

Front 6

schism

Back 6

division; split;

Let us not widen the schism by further bickering.

Front 7

virtue

Back 7

goodness; moral excellence; good quality

A virtue carried to extremes can turn into something resembling vice; humility, for example, can degenerate into servility and spinelessness.

Front 8

encomium

Back 8

high praise; eulogy;

Uneasy with the encomiums expressed by his supporters, Tolkien felt unworthy of such high praise.

Front 9

nullify

Back 9

to make invalid

Once the contract was nullified, it no longer had any legal force.

Front 10

cardinal

Back 10

chief

If you want to increase your word power, the cardinal rule of vocabulary-building is to read.

Front 11

doctrinaire

Back 11

unable to compromise about points of doctrine; dogmatic; unyielding

Weng had hoped that the student-led democracy movement might bring about change in China, but the repressive response of the doctrinaire hard-liners crushed his dreams of democracy.

Front 12

hiatus

Back 12

/ haɪˈeɪtəs / n. gap; pause

Except for a brief two-year hiatus, during which she enrolled in the Peace Corps, Ms.

Front 13

incredulity

Back 13

/ˌɪn.krəˈdjuː.lɪ.ti/ adj. a tendency to disbelief

Your incredulity in the face of all the evidence is hard to understand.

Front 14

riveting

Back 14

absorbing; engrossing;

His story makes riveting listening.
The reviewer described Byatt's novel Possession as a riveting tale%3a absorbed in the story, he had finished it in a single evening.

Front 15

cavalier

Back 15

casual and offhand; arrogant;

The club's owner showed a cavalier attitude to the licensing laws.
Sensitive about having her ideas taken lightly, Marcia felt insulted by Mark's cavalier dismissal of her suggestion.

Front 16

repository

Back 16

storehouse

Libraries are repositories of the world's best thoughts.

Front 17

tutelary

Back 17

protective; pertaining to a guardianship;

I am acting in my tutelary capacity when I refuse to grant you permission to leave the campus.

Front 18

archives

Back 18

public records; place where public records are kept;

These documents should be part of the archives so that historians may be able to evaluate them in the future.

Front 19

vindictive

Back 19

revengeful

She was very vindictive and never forgave an injury.

Front 20

empirical

Back 20

based on experience

He distrusted hunches and intuitive flashes; he placed his reliance entirely on empirical data.

Front 21

novelty

Back 21

something new; newness;

The computer is no longer a novelty around the office.

Front 22

garish

Back 22

gaudy

garish colors
She wore a garish rhinestone necklace.

Longman:very brightly coloured in a way that is unpleasant to look at

Front 23

list

Back 23

tilt; lean over;

That flagpole should be absolutely vertical; instead, it lists to one side.

Front 24

precursor

Back 24

forerunner

a precursor of modern jazz
Though Gray and Burns share many traits with the Romantic poets who followed them, most critics consider them precursors of the Romantic Movement, not true Romantics.

Front 25

incontinent

Back 25

lacking self-restraint

His incontinent behavior off stage shocked many people and they refused to attend the plays and movies in which he appeared.

Front 26

rift

Back 26

opening; break;

The plane was lost in the stormy sky until the pilot saw the city through a rift in the clouds.; Party officials have denied that there is any rift between ministers.

Front 27

caulk

Back 27

to make watertight (by plugging seams)

When water from the shower leaked into the basement, we knew it was time to caulk the tiles at the edges of the shower stall.

Front 28

alchemy

Back 28

medieval chemistry; ;

The changing of baser metals into gold was the goal of the students of alchemy.

Front 29

compelling

Back 29

overpowering; irresistible in effect ;

The prosecutor presented a well-reasoned case, but the defense attorney's compelling arguments for leniency won over the jury.

Front 30

outspoken

Back 30

candid; blunt

The candidate was too outspoken to be a successful politician; he had not yet learned to weigh his words carefully.