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How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!

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Swerving effortlessly around potholes in the middle of the broken road, Farid was a man in his element.

He pointed to the crumbled, charred remains of a tiny village. It was just a tuft of blackened, roofless walls now.

1.Swerving

swerve /swɜːv $ swɜːrv/ verb [intransitive]

1 to make a sudden sideways movement while moving forwards, usually in order to avoid hitting something

swerve violently/sharply

The car swerved sharply to avoid the dog.

swerve across/off/into etc

The bus swerved off the road.

2 [usually in negatives] formal to change from an idea, course of action, purpose etc

swerve from

He would never swerve from the truth.

—swerve noun [countable]

→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

swerve

• In the discus-throwing when his turn came and he hurled the heavy missile, it swerved and fell among the spectators.

• Cars are wet as they drive by, swerving dangerously.

• Dozens were injured when a passenger bus swerved into the wrong lane and slammed into another bus.

• Instead of swerving right, I swerved left, barreling straight into him with the fender.

• Unless we swerve soon, we will drown.

• Quick as she was, Feargal was quicker and swerved swiftly to one side.

• The driver swerved to avoid a child, and crashed into a signpost.

• I swerved to avoid a solitary drunk who dreamily crossed the road backwards.

• She swerved to avoid the cyclist.

• It was a great wordless whoop that echoed round the Castle, and Ruth saw all the spears swerve towards them.

swerve across/off/into etc

• We swerved into a gas station on the corner and started to do figure-eights around the pumps.

• He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right.

• At the last moment the two leading horses refused to jump it and so swerved into oncoming runners.

• It swerved off the road; killed three of the children; and badly injured Anne Maguire.

• He swerved off the track and into the gravel trap backwards, praying he wouldn't clout the wall.

• He gunned the engine and swerved into traffic, tires squealing.

• In an extreme case, she guided one middle manager who was going through mid-life swerve into working at a zoo.

swerve from

• McLaren would never swerve from the truth.

2.potholes

pot‧hole /ˈpɒthəʊl $ ˈpɑːthoʊl/ noun [countable]

1 a large hole in the surface of a road, caused by traffic and bad weather, which makes driving difficult or dangerous

2 British English a long hole that goes deep under the ground, formed by natural processes

—potholed adjective

Examples from the Corpus

pothole

• He rode his bike over an enormous pothole.

• The pass gets its name from two groups of deep limestone potholes set either side of the road.

• The 1996 survey was taken during the fall, when there tend to be more potholes.

• It is going to cost the city at least $500,000 to patch potholes created by winter rains.

• It pitches and bobbles on some roads, and bounces over the potholes driven fast.

• The potholes go half way up the tire.

• In one of these potholes, Estrelita's front right hoof became trapped.

• The road is rutted mud, with potholes like emptied boils.

charred

charred /tʃɑːd $ tʃɑːrd/ adjective

something that is charred has been burned until it is black

the charred remains of a body

Examples from the Corpus

3.charred

• In the cave they found some charred animal bones.

• The charred bodies story also fits.

• It was nearly impossible to recognize the charred bodies.

• The airship's charred ensign hangs in the nearby church.

• Even if anyone saw it under the charred fringes of her robe, she could say it was homework.

• Light whisky is stored in seasoned charred oak casks, which impart little colour or flavour.

• Sadly, the rest of his collection of paintings and furniture had been badly charred or destroyed.

• Nearby, the charred remains of a cabin cruiser.

• Police searched the charred remains of the building, looking for survivors.

• Ribbons had been tied to the charred remains of the weather-vane.

• Straight whiskies are aged in new, charred white-oak barrels for at least two years.

4.tuft

tuft /tʌft/ noun [countable]

a bunch of hair, feathers, grass etc growing or held closely together at their base

tuft of

tufts of grass

Examples from the Corpus

tuft

• Caroline is in her late forties; she resembles a five-foot potato with black tufts of Raggedy Ann yarn for hair.

• Like the rituals of harvest and planting in pastoral societies, the desert broom tufts are a sign.

• The ear tufts of a few species do not represent true ears.

• She had tufts of hair in her armpits like clumps of grass.

• He used small gouges to carve little tufts of fur with long, controlled strokes, following the marked lines.

• Jim leaned on one elbow and tore off tufts of grass and threw them at my face.

• The plant forms a dense, tall tuft, capable of withstanding plenty of disturbance in the tank.

tuft of

• A tiny tuft of red hair poked out from under her scarf.

5.stupefied

stu‧pe‧fied /ˈstjuːpɪfaɪd $ ˈstuː-/ adjective

so surprised, tired, or bored that you cannot think clearly

I stared up at Keith in stupefied amazement.

We sat there stupefied.

—stupefaction /ˌstjuːpəˈfækʃən $ ˌstuː-/ noun [uncountable]

Examples from the Corpus

stupefied

• Foreman looked stupefied by the results of the test.

• Upon the steps, pushing by a stupefied Grand Duke and Duchess, stood a radiant figure.

• Theroux described Potosi station as a mausoleum of stupefied travellers, which bore on its upper walls frescoes by Fernando Leal.

6.destitute

des‧ti‧tute /ˈdestɪtjuːt $ -tuːt/ adjective

1 having no money, no food, no home etc

The floods left many people destitute.

see thesaurus at poor

2 → be destitute of something

—destitution /ˌdestɪˈtjuːʃən $ -ˈtuː-/ noun [uncountable]

Examples from the Corpus

destitute

• The floods left many people destitute.

• The rest of her family all died in a smallpox epidemic, leaving her destitute.

• Meanwhile his Society's inefficiency left him destitute.

• Everywhere he went, people were destitute, and all of those people offered him something to eat.

• Six years before, she had shocked her family and class by marrying a destitute Berkeley law student.

• In 1860 Father Murphy set up a home for orphans and destitute children.

• But when they first meet, as children, she is a destitute peasant girl called Firecrackers.

• The first was from a destitute young woman about to be evicted and threatening to gas her four children, then herself.

left ... destitute

• He neither knew nor cared who had been evicted from it and left destitute.

• Meanwhile his Society's inefficiency left him destitute.

• After her own parents died and she was left destitute, Elizabeth had found her wandering the streets.

From Longman Business Dictionary

des‧ti‧tute /ˈdestətjuːt-tuːt/ adjective

having no money, no food, and nowhere to live

San Francisco has targeted the problems of street litter and homelessness by hiring destitute citizens to perform jobs cleaning up the city.

—destitution noun [uncountable]

Many low-paid workers are living on the brink of destitution.

7.inseparable

in‧sep‧a‧ra‧ble /ɪnˈsepərəbəl/ adjective

1 people who are inseparable are always together and are very friendly with each other

Jane and Sarah soon became inseparable companions.

inseparable from

Tom was inseparable from his dog Snowy.

2 things that are inseparable cannot be separated or cannot be considered separately

inseparable from

Britain’s economic fortunes are inseparable from the world situation.

—inseparably adverb

—inseparability /ɪnˌsepərəˈbɪləti/ noun [uncountable]

Examples from the Corpus

inseparable

• Ever since they met those two have been inseparable.

• The three girls were inseparable friends.

• Work and ongoing education are becoming inseparable in our society.

• My brother and James have been inseparable since they were at primary school.

inseparable from

• Kelly considers equality to be inseparable from true liberty.

8.burlap

bur‧lap /ˈbɜːlæp $ ˈbɜːr-/ noun [uncountable]

American English a type of thick rough cloth SYN  hessian British English

Examples from the Corpus

burlap

• Dan wrapped his hands in the big burlap sleeves of the garment he was wearing.

• Then I find on a crumbling burlap bag this note: Medicine has.

• He was playing the fiddle with hands wrapped in burlap.

• In the sanctuary a huge swath of burlap obscured the cross of glory.

• You can alternate three layers of newspaper with three of burlap.

• A door at the back of the barn opened, and Dad emerged, carrying an old burlap grain sack.

9.citadel

cit‧a‧del /ˈsɪtədəl, -del/ noun [countable]

1 a strong fort (=small castle) built in the past as a place where people could go for safety if their city was attacked SYN  fortress

2 → the citadel of something

Examples from the Corpus

citadel

• Outside this was a citadel, fortified like the inner bailey, but containing a greater number of buildings.

• Whenever there was fighting around Limoges one permanent complicating factor was the rivalry between city and citadel.

• With your help, and that of the Forteviot men, the main citadels may still be standing.

• Far from being a challenger for power, it could not even hold on to its old citadels.

• It seemed that the verderers were going towards the outlaws' citadel, not away from it.

• New Zealand became the citadel of the new right.

• In the citadel of St Martial everyone's nerves were on edge.

10.obliterated

o‧blit‧er‧ate /əˈblɪtəreɪt/ verb [transitive]

1 to destroy something completely so that nothing remains

Hiroshima was nearly obliterated by the atomic bomb.

see thesaurus at destroy

2 to remove a thought, feeling, or memory from someone’s mind

Nothing could obliterate the memory of those tragic events.

3 to cover something completely so that it cannot be seen

Then the fog came down, obliterating everything.

—obliteration /əˌblɪtəˈreɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]

→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

obliterate

• Especially that part she wanted to obliterate.

• Who among us is so righteous that a sane society would entrust her with the power to obliterate a city?

• Frequent flooding eventually obliterated all traces of the community that used to live there.

• His productivity and avidity for life could not obliterate an inner malaise.

• Soon the screen was obliterated by the fuzz of burning light behind Ari's eyes.

• Entire sections of the city were obliterated by the repeated bombing.

• Large areas of the city were obliterated during World War II.

• In addition, an AR-IS semiautomatic rifle with an obliterated serial number was found abandoned on the riverbank.

• The thick smog hung in the air, obliterating the hills from view.

• Perhaps he could obliterate the signature?

• I had been given the power to obliterate, to steal a body from its grave and tear it to pieces.

11.rubble

rub‧ble /ˈrʌbəl/ noun [uncountable]

broken stones or bricks from a building or wall that has been destroyed

Examples from the Corpus

rubble

• As the full horror of the explosion unfolded, the Halifax building society was reduced to a mound of rubble.

• Piles of rubble and bits of rubbish were everywhere and Endill saw signs of where pupils had explored before him.

• If the site is made of builder's rubble, cover it with a foot of topsoil.

• As long as the rubble remains and rains fall, the leaching process will continue.

• Converse went across the street and watched the ambulance people Jug body bags over the rubble.

• The aim is to use the rubble in as accurate a way as possible, avoiding recourse to modern materials.

• I try, but all the roads are blocked with the rubble of fallen buildings.

• Some places she taught, like Helvetia and Sasco, have long since turned to rubble.

12.debris

deb‧ris /ˈdebriː, ˈdeɪ- $ dəˈbriː, deɪ-/  noun [uncountable]

1 the pieces of something that are left after it has been destroyed in an accident, explosion etc

She was hit by flying debris from the blast.

2 technical pieces of waste material, paper etc

plant/garden/industrial etc debris

Clean the ventilation ducts to remove dust and insect debris.

Examples from the Corpus

debris

• Fragments of building debris can form a large part of the total number of finds from a site.

• Men on board pulled the wounded and the mangled bodies of the dead from beneath collapsed debris.

• Wheels spun free and shredded carbon-fibre debris from disintegrating front wings flew in all directions.

• And arrowheads and other debris excavated from the ruins indicate that Qumran, too, opposed the Romans by force of arms.

• Flaps were to be left in the down position to facilitate the removal of mud and other debris prior to their retraction.

• Like a widening conveyer belt it scraped away more and more of the hillsides and carried off the debris.

• The beach was littered with debris.

flying debris

• The hardtop shuddered with the impact of flying debris.

• Also, the order in which the individual loads of dynamite were detonated determined the principal direction for the flying debris.

plant/garden/industrial etc debris

• Slugs and snails Soft-bodied, voracious molluscs that often shelter by day beneath leaves and plant debris, and feed at night.

• Get the Tidi Noir, a light, plastic bag, for garden debris.

• Jobs, both temporary and permanent, have been created from industrial debris.

• And always remove old plant debris.

13.ramshackle

ram‧shack‧le /ˈræmʃækəl/ adjective

a ramshackle building or vehicle is in bad condition and in need of repair SYN  tumbledown

a ramshackle old cottage

Examples from the Corpus

ramshackle

• After they had deposited their bags at the hotel, itself ramshackle and run-down, they had gone on to the hospital.

• No one had lived in the ramshackle farmhouse for years.

• a row of ramshackle homes

• The shepherds from the village of Debelde, a collection of ramshackle houses, have stayed with their flocks.

• He told us of families who had built ramshackle premises on unused land only to see them bulldozed.

• The only original thing at Ferry Farm today is a ramshackle shed where young George may have studied surveying.

• The trucks were so ramshackle that it was amazing they could move at all.

14.unadulterated

un‧a‧dul‧te‧rat‧ed /ˌʌnəˈdʌltəreɪtɪd/ adjective

1 [only before noun] complete or total

a feeling of pure unadulterated pleasure

2 not mixed with other less pure substances

Examples from the Corpus

unadulterated

• These recipes are intended to be unadulterated bliss.

• Billy Butlin stressed fun, pure unadulterated, non-uplifting collective fun.

• What unadulterated nonsense!

• Nowadays more and more people are choosing to buy unadulterated organic food, which has been grown withut pesticides and chemicals.

• This is pure unadulterated punk-injected rock and roll.

• Only on special occasions, such as holidays, did most people get a chance to eat unadulterated rice.

• For years we have taken its plentiful, unadulterated supply for granted.

summary:

on the way to find Hassan's son, Amir met Talib and a old beggar who used to be teacher at the university with Amir's mother, the old man told him about his mother, after questioning too much the old man remember nothing else .Thus Amir went on to the orphanage where he learnt that Sorha was sold to Talib because director had to do so.