Yi's English Daily Learning 7

Front 1

perplex

Back 1

verb (used with object)
1.
to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
2.
to make complicated or confused, as a matter or question.
3.
to hamper with complications, confusion, or uncertainty.

Front 2

snicker

Back 2

verb (used without object)
1.
to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
verb (used with object)
2.
to utter with a snicker.
noun
3.
a snickering laugh.

Front 3

glean

Back 3

verb (used with object)
1.
to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
2.
to gather (grain or the like) after the reapers or regular gatherers.
3.
to learn, discover, or find out, usually little by little or slowly.
verb (used without object)
4.
to collect or gather anything little by little or slowly.
5.
to gather what is left by reapers.

Front 4

compel
compelling

Back 4

verb (used with object)
1.
to force or drive, especially to a course of action: His disregard of the rules compels us to dismiss him.
2.
to secure or bring about by force.
3.
to force to submit; subdue.
4.
to overpower.
5.
Archaic. to drive together; unite by force; herd.
adjective
1.
tending to compel; overpowering: compelling reasons.
2.
having a powerful and irresistible effect; requiring acute admiration, attention, or respect: a man of compelling integrity; a compelling drama.

Front 5

propel

Back 5

verb (used with object), pro·pelled, pro·pel·ling.
1.
to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.
2.
to impel or urge onward: Urgent need of money propelled him to take a job.

Front 6

slump

Back 6

verb (used without object)
1.
to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
2.
to assume a slouching, bowed, or bent position or posture: Stand up straight and don't slump!
3.
to decrease or fall suddenly and markedly, as prices or the market.
4.
to decline or deteriorate, as health, business, quality, or efficiency.
5.
to sink into a bog, muddy place, etc., or through ice or snow.

Front 7

straitlaced

Back 7

adjective
1.
excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
2.
tightly laced, as a bodice.
3.
wearing tightly laced garments.

Front 8

analogy

Back 8

noun, plural a·nal·o·gies.
1.
a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump.
2.
similarity or comparability: I see no analogy between your problem and mine.
3.
Biology . an analogous relationship.
4.
Linguistics .
a.
the process by which words or phrases are created or re-formed according to existing patterns in the language, as when shoon was re-formed as shoes, when -ize is added to nouns like winter to form verbs, or when a child says foots for feet.
b.
a form resulting from such a process.
5.
Logic. a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain respect, on the basis of the known similarity between the things in other respects.

Front 9

wacky

Back 9

adjective,
odd or irrational; crazy: They had some wacky plan for selling more books.

Front 10

downright

Back 10

adjective
1.
thorough; absolute; out-and-out: a downright falsehood.
2.
frankly direct; straightforward: a downright person.
3.
Archaic. directed straight downward: a downright blow.
adverb
4.
completely or thoroughly: I'm not just upset—I'm downright angry.

Front 11

overt

Back 11

adjective
1.
open to view or knowledge; not concealed or secret: overt hostility.
2.
Heraldry. (of a device, as a purse) represented as open: a purse overt.

Front 12

etiquette

Back 12

noun
1.
conventional requirements as to social behavior; proprieties of conduct as established in any class or community or for any occasion.
2.
a prescribed or accepted code of usage in matters of ceremony, as at a court or in official or other formal observances.
3.
the code of ethical behavior regarding professional practice or action among the members of a profession in their dealings with each other: medical etiquette.