1. awry (awry)
I felt like a magnet gone awry, being pulled between two poles.
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Adjective
(adj) askew, awry, cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff (turned or twisted toward one side)
"a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton
"his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"
Adverb
(adv) awry, amiss (away from the correct or expected course)
"something has gone awry in our plans"
"something went badly amiss in the preparations"
(adv) askew, awry, skew-whiff (turned or twisted to one side)
"rugs lying askew"
"with his necktie twisted awry"
2. coitus (coitus)
Jake stood beside his father, a freckle-faced, sandy-haired man, who, unfortunately, I couldn’t look at without picturing him weeping after coitus.
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Noun
(n) sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge (sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur)
3. gladiator (gladiator)
She was sun-kissed, her face open and freckled, the tiny hairs on her arms bleached white, clad in a pale blue dress and gladiator sandals.
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Noun
(n) gladiator ((ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat)
(n) prizefighter, gladiator (a professional boxer)
4. upheaval (upheaval)
But I don’t like upheaval, especially when it involves people close to me.
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Noun
(n) turbulence, upheaval, Sturm und Drang (a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally))
"the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"
(n) convulsion, turmoil, upheaval (a violent disturbance)
"the convulsions of the stock market"
(n) upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust ((geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building))
(n) agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval, hullabaloo (disturbance usually in protest)
5. husbandry (husbandry)
He tried to get up too often, and was grumpy about being stuck in bed and worried about his animals, even though Donna, Jake and I had set up a reasonably good animal husbandry schedule.
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Noun
(n) farming, agriculture, husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)
6. tentative (tentative)
I listened to their stories in the dank church hall – the tentative steps forward over tiny, emotional obstacles.
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Adjective
(adj) probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative (under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon)
"probationary employees"
"a provisional government"
"just a tentative schedule"
(adj) doubtful, tentative (unsettled in mind or opinion)
"drew a few tentative conclusions"
7. oblivious (oblivious)
I pressed my cheek against his, half laughing, half weeping, oblivious to the nurses, to anything except the man before me.
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Adjective
(adj) oblivious, unmindful ((followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of)
"oblivious of the mounting pressures for political reform"
"oblivious to the risks she ran"
"not unmindful of the heavy responsibility"
(adj) forgetful, oblivious (failing to keep in mind)
"forgetful of her responsibilities"
"oblivious old age"
8. emanating (emanate)
I closed my eyes, feeling the warmth of his skin against my cheek, the unwelcome scent of chemical disinfectant emanating from his body.
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Verb
(v) emanate (proceed or issue forth, as from a source)
"Water emanates from this hole in the ground"
(v) exhale, give forth, emanate (give out (breath or an odor))
"The chimney exhales a thick smoke"
9. bemusement (bemusement)
I saw his face, the brief moment when he had looked at me and there had been nothing – no alarm, nothing except perhaps a vague bemusement at finding himself there on the floor, unable to move.
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Noun
(n) bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusement (confusion resulting from failure to understand)
10. ambush (ambush)
‘Drugs ambush?’
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Noun
(n) ambush, ambuscade, lying in wait, trap (the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise)
Verb
(v) ambush, scupper, bushwhack, waylay, lurk, ambuscade, lie in wait (wait in hiding to attack)
(v) still-hunt, ambush (hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing)
11. paramedics (paramedic)
It was one of the first things paramedics were taught – the difference a few seconds could make to someone’s chances of survival.
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Noun
(n) paramedic, paramedical (a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment)
12. reeked (reek)
We halted in a stairwell that reeked of urine and the stale fat of old takeaway cartons.
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Noun
(n) malodor, malodour, stench, stink, reek, fetor, foetor, mephitis (a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant)
Verb
(v) smack, reek, smell (have an element suggestive (of something))
"his speeches smacked of racism"
"this passage smells of plagiarism"
(v) reek, stink (smell badly and offensively)
"The building reeks of smoke"
(v) reek, fume (be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face)
(v) reek (give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.)
"Marshes reeking in the sun"
13. recalcitrant (recalcitrant)
I opened the door, expecting a random pizza delivery, but there stood Treena and Thom and, behind them, his hands jammed into his trouser pockets like a recalcitrant teenager, my father.
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Adjective
(adj) fractious, refractory, recalcitrant (stubbornly resistant to authority or control)
"a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"
"a refractory child"
(adj) recalcitrant (marked by stubborn resistance to authority)
"the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"
14. incessantly (incessantly)
Grumbling incessantly at me about everything I do.
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Adverb
(adv) endlessly, ceaselessly, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly, continuously (with unflagging resolve)
"dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste"
(adv) constantly, always, forever, perpetually, incessantly (without interruption)
"the world is constantly changing"
15. canister (canister)
Lily packed her bag, cheerfully stripping my second bedroom of nearly every sign she had ever been there, apart from the Kandinsky print and the camp bed, a pile of glossy magazines and an empty deodorant canister.
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Noun
(n) case shot, canister, canister shot (a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm)
(n) canister, cannister, tin (metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour)
16. deodorant (deodorant)
Lily packed her bag, cheerfully stripping my second bedroom of nearly every sign she had ever been there, apart from the Kandinsky print and the camp bed, a pile of glossy magazines and an empty deodorant canister.
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Noun
(n) deodorant, deodourant (a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant odors)
17. animatedly (animatedly)
I listened to her talking animatedly and fought the sensation that I had been shed, like a skin.
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Adverb
(adv) animatedly (in an animated manner)
"they talked animatedly"
18. cackled (cackle)
’ She cackled at her own impression of Tanya.
[释义]
Noun
(n) cackle (the sound made by a hen after laying an egg)
Verb
(v) cackle (talk or utter in a cackling manner)
"The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"
(v) cackle (squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens)
(v) cackle (emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing)
19. wan (wan)
The wan smile he gave me stayed with me the whole way home.
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Noun
(n) wide area network, WAN (a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network)
Verb
(v) wan (become pale and sickly)
Adjective
(adj) pale, pallid, wan, sick ((of light) lacking in intensity or brightness
dim or feeble)
"the pale light of a half moon"
"a pale sun"
"the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"
"a pallid sky"
"the pale (or wan) stars"
"the wan light of dawn"
(adj) pale, pallid, wan (abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress)
"the pallid face of the invalid"
"her wan face suddenly flushed"
(adj) wan (lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness)
"a wan smile"
20. thrown (thrown)
I could see they felt as thrown as I did.
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Verb
(v) throw (propel through the air)
"throw a frisbee"
Adjective
(adj) thrown (caused to fall to the ground)
"the thrown rider got back on his horse"
"a thrown wrestler"
"a ball player thrown for a loss"
(adj) thrown, thrown and twisted (twisted together
as of filaments spun into a thread)
"thrown silk is raw silk that has been twisted and doubled into yarn"
21. buttock (buttock)
I had told him the story of the beef cheeks and he had laughed for a full minute, trying to straighten his face when I protested that If they had only called them something else and I mean, it’s like being told you’re eating chicken buttock or something.
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Noun
(n) buttock, cheek (either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump)
22. behove (behove)
And that I was quite conscious that in her eyes I was no kind of maternal role model, but that, frankly, none of us appeared to be ideal in that role, and it would behove her to think carefully, for once, about putting her child’s happiness before her own.’
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Verb
(v) behoove, behove (be appropriate or necessary)
"It behooves us to reflect on this matter"
23. frankfurters (frankfurter)
‘And people always need tins of frankfurters,’ I observed.
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Noun
(n) frank, frankfurter, hotdog, hot dog, dog, wiener, wienerwurst, weenie (a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked
often served on a bread roll)
24. infectious (infectious)
Her smile was infectious.
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Adjective
(adj) infectious, infective (caused by infection or capable of causing infection)
"viruses and other infective agents"
"a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease"
(adj) infectious (easily spread)
"fear is exceedingly infectious
children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell
(adj) infectious (of or relating to infection)
"infectious hospital"
"infectious disease"
25. patronizing (patronizing)
But they sounded trite and patronizing.
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Verb
(v) sponsor, patronize, patronise (assume sponsorship of)
Adjective
(adj) arch, condescending, patronizing, patronising ((used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension)
26. trite (trite)
But they sounded trite and patronizing.
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Adjective
(adj) banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn (repeated too often
overfamiliar through overuse)
"bromidic sermons"
"his remarks were trite and commonplace"
"hackneyed phrases"
"a stock answer"
"repeating threadbare jokes"
"parroting some timeworn axiom"
"the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
27. escapism (escapism)
I could do with some escapism.
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Noun
(n) escape, escapism (an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy)
"romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"
"his alcohol problem was a form of escapism"
28. sleazy (sleazy)
‘You are a sleazy, pathetic little man, and if I –’ Mr Garside’s mouth hooked upwards in a sneer.
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Adjective
(adj) sleazy (of cloth
thin and loosely woven)
"the coat has a sleazy lining"
(adj) bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny (of very poor quality
flimsy)
(adj) seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid (morally degraded)
"a seedy district"
"the seamy side of life"
"sleazy characters hanging around casinos"
"sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly
"the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce
"the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
29. punctual (punctual)
He was punctual, I had to give him that.
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Adjective
(adj) punctual, on time (acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed)
"she expected guests to be punctual at meals"
"he is not a particularly punctual person"
"punctual payment"
"she is always on time for class"
30. Prick (prick)
‘Prick,’ muttered Sam.
[释义]
Noun
(n) asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, shit, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, whoreson, son of a bitch, SOB (insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous)
Verb
(v) prickle, prick (make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn)
"The nurse pricked my finger to get a small blood sample"
(v) prick, sting, twinge (cause a stinging pain)
"The needle pricked his skin"
(v) prick up, prick, cock up (raise)
"The dog pricked up his ears"
(v) goad, prick (stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick)
(v) prickle, prick (cause a prickling sensation)
(v) prick (to cause a sharp emotional pain)
"The thought of her unhappiness pricked his conscience"
(v) sting, bite, prick (deliver a sting to)
"A bee stung my arm yesterday"
31. strategize (strategize)
I had to strategize like he would.
32. gaudy (gaudy)
Everything in the little roof garden had now exploded into gaudy life; the petals and whispering leaves bringing colour and movement and fragrance to the grey expanse of asphalt.
[释义]
Noun
(n) gaudy ((Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college)
Adjective
(adj) brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy (tastelessly showy)
"a flash car"
"a flashy ring"
"garish colors"
"a gaudy costume"
"loud sport shirts"
"a meretricious yet stylish book"
"tawdry ornaments"
(adj) flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty ((used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display)
33. infidelity (infidelity)
It felt odd speaking to him while having concurrent conversations with Will in my head, a strange infidelity.
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Noun
(n) infidelity, unfaithfulness (the quality of being unfaithful)
34. concurrent (concurrent)
It felt odd speaking to him while having concurrent conversations with Will in my head, a strange infidelity.
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Adjective
(adj) coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, co-occurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous (occurring or operating at the same time)
"a series of coincident events"
35. coital (coital)
You’d be amazed at the coital injuries we see.’
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Adjective
(adj) coital, copulatory (of or relating to coitus or copulation)
36. residual (residual)
I watered the plants, feeling a creeping, residual guilt.
[释义]
Noun
(n) remainder, balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest (something left after other parts have been taken away)
"there was no remainder"
"he threw away the rest"
"he took what he wanted and I got the balance"
Adjective
(adj) residual, residuary (relating to or indicating a remainder)
"residual quantity"
37. reassuringly (reassuringly)
They were so sweet, smiling at me reassuringly, wanting me to feel better.
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Adverb
(adv) reassuringly (in a reassuring manner)
"the prime minister pointed reassuringly to the silence of the British press"
38. reconcile (reconcile)
Natasha was on holiday, as was Jake, for which I was mostly relieved and a tiny bit put out in a way I couldn’t reconcile.
[释义]
Verb
(v) accommodate, reconcile, conciliate (make (one thing) compatible with (another))
"The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"
(v) harmonize, harmonise, reconcile (bring into consonance or accord)
"harmonize one's goals with one's abilities"
(v) reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate, settle (come to terms)
"After some discussion we finally made up"
(v) resign, reconcile, submit (accept as inevitable)
"He resigned himself to his fate"
39. tethered (tether)
I felt grounded, tethered.
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Noun
(n) leash, tether, lead (restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal)
Verb
(v) tether (tie with a tether)
"tether horses"
40. flinched (flinch)
Mrs Traynor flinched, as if the sound were now unfamiliar.
[释义]
Noun
(n) wince, flinch (a reflex response to sudden pain)
Verb
(v) flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail (draw back, as with fear or pain)
"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
41. impersonal (impersonal)
But no: the cottage was brutally impersonal.
[释义]
Adjective
(adj) impersonal (not relating to or responsive to individual persons)
"an impersonal corporation"
"an impersonal remark"
(adj) impersonal, neutral (having no personal preference)
"impersonal criticism"
"a neutral observer"
42. simultaneously (simultaneously)
She sniffed and shrugged simultaneously, then put her feet up on the dashboard, as if the conversation were closed.
[释义]
Adverb
(adv) simultaneously, at the same time (at the same instant)
"they spoke simultaneously"
43. spluttered (splutter)
Marc spluttered.
[释义]
Noun
(n) spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering (the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively)
"he heard a spatter of gunfire"
Verb
(v) sputter, splutter (utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage)
(v) splutter, sputter, spit out (spit up in an explosive manner)
44. wig (wig)
Having left me a coffee, perhaps in lieu of an apology, Lily had subsequently spilt green paint on the hall floor, left a tub of ice cream to melt on the side in the kitchen, taken my door keys, with my car key attached, because she couldn’t find her own, and borrowed my wig for a night out without asking.
[释义]
Noun
(n) wig (hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair)
(n) wig, wigging (British slang for a scolding)
45. insouciant (insouciant)
I tried to sound insouciant.
[释义]
Adjective
(adj) casual, insouciant, nonchalant (marked by blithe unconcern)
"an ability to interest casual students"
"showed a casual disregard for cold weather"
"an utterly insouciant financial policy"
"an elegantly insouciant manner"
"drove his car with nonchalant abandon"
"was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner"
46. soapbox (soapbox)
‘Hold that soapbox.
[释义]
Noun
(n) soapbox (a crate for packing soap)
(n) dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, ambo, stump, soapbox (a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it)
47. wonky (wonky)
I gave him a smile that went a bit wonky.
[释义]
Adjective
(adj) askew, awry, cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff (turned or twisted toward one side)
"a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton
"his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"
(adj) rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky (inclined to shake as from weakness or defect)
"a rickety table"
"a wobbly chair with shaky legs"
"the ladder felt a little wobbly"
"the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"
48. humdrum (humdrum)
I mean, falling off a roof isn’t exactly humdrum.
[释义]
Noun
(n) monotony, humdrum, sameness (the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety)
"he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"
"he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"
"he hated the sameness of the food the college served"
Adjective
(adj) commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous (not challenging
dull and lacking excitement)
"an unglamorous job greasing engines"
(adj) humdrum, monotonous (tediously repetitious or lacking in variety)
"a humdrum existence
all work and no play"
"nothing is so monotonous as the sea"
49. quadriplegics (quadriplegic)
We don’t get many quadriplegics in here.’
[释义]
Noun
(n) quadriplegic (a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs)
50. laminated (laminated)
We stood there silently as he flicked through his laminated binder.
[释义]
Verb
(v) laminate (create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material)
(v) laminate (press or beat (metals) into thin sheets)
(v) laminate (cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material)
"laminate the table"
(v) laminate (split (wood) into thin sheets)
51. swing (swing)
‘You took a swing at him?’
[释义]
Noun
(n) swing (a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity)
"the party went with a swing"
"it took time to get into the swing of things"
Verb
(v) swing (move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting)
"He swung his left fist"
"swing a bat"
(v) swing, sway (move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner)
"He swung back"
(v) swing (change direction with a swinging motion
turn)
"swing back"
"swing forward"
(v) swing, swing over (influence decisively)
"This action swung many votes over to his side"
(v) swing, sweep, swing out (make a big sweeping gesture or movement)
(v) dangle, swing, drop (hang freely)
"the ornaments dangled from the tree"
"The light dropped from the ceiling"
(v) swing (hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement)
"The soccer player began to swing at the referee"
(v) swing (alternate dramatically between high and low values)
"his mood swings"
"the market is swinging up and down"
(v) swing (live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style)
"The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely"
(v) swing (have a certain musical rhythm)
"The music has to swing"
(v) swing, get around (be a social swinger
socialize a lot)
(v) swing (play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm)
(v) swing (engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends)
"There were many swinging couples in the 1960's"
52. geriatric (geriatric)
she said cheerfully, and I tried not to think too hard about the fact that I was, in her eyes, basically geriatric.
[释义]
Adjective
(adj) geriatric (of or relating to the aged)
"geriatric disorder"
(adj) geriatric, gerontological (of or relating to or practicing geriatrics)
"geriatric hospital"
53. waif (waif)
The way you keep promising to live some kind of a life, then sacrifice yourself to every waif and stray who comes across your path.’
[释义]
Noun
(n) waif, street child (a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned)
"street children beg or steal in order to survive"
54. grunts (grunt)
Only grunts.
[释义]
Noun
(n) grunt, oink (the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs)
Verb
(v) grunt (issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise)
"He grunted his reluctant approval"
55. contemplate (contemplate)
‘We were discussing the small things in day-to-day life that force you to contemplate loss,’ said Marc.
[释义]
Verb
(v) contemplate (look at thoughtfully
observe deep in thought)
"contemplate one's navel"
(v) contemplate (consider as a possibility)
"I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job"
(v) study, meditate, contemplate (think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes)
"He is meditating in his study"
(v) chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate (reflect deeply on a subject)
"I mulled over the events of the afternoon"
"philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"
"The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"
56. nudged (nudge)
Daphne nudged me.
[释义]
Noun
(n) nudge, jog (a slight push or shake)
Verb
(v) nudge, poke at, prod (to push against gently)
"She nudged my elbow when she saw her friend enter the restaurant"
(v) nudge (push into action by pestering or annoying gently)
57. analogy (analogy)
‘Stupid analogy,’ he said, with a half-smile.
[释义]
Noun
(n) analogy (an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others)
(n) analogy (drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect)
"the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain"
"the models show by analogy how matter is built up"
(n) doctrine of analogy, analogy (the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater
any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate)
58. thumping (thumping)
I removed the helmet, my heart still thumping in my ears, and tried to lift my sweaty hair from my head with fingers that were still stiff from gripping the pillion handlebars.
[释义]
Noun
(n) thump, thumping, clump, clunk, thud (a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects))
Verb
(v) beat, pound, thump (move rhythmically)
"Her heart was beating fast"
Adjective
(adj) humongous, banging, thumping, whopping, walloping ((used informally) very large)
"a thumping loss"
59. melancholy (melancholy)
I tidied up a little, washed my uniform, and then, just as I was sinking into a kind of quiet melancholy, my buzzer went.
[释义]
Noun
(n) melancholy (a feeling of thoughtful sadness)
Adjective
(adj) melancholy, melancholic (characterized by or causing or expressing sadness)
"growing more melancholy every hour"
"her melancholic smile"
"we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
(adj) somber, sombre, melancholy (grave or even gloomy in character)
"solemn and mournful music"
"a suit of somber black"
"a somber mood"
60. deafening (deafening)
Or we could go dancing …’ She swayed past me and headed for the music system, where she turned up the sound to a deafening level.
[释义]
Verb
(v) deafen (be unbearably loud)
"a deafening noise"
Adjective
(adj) deafening, earsplitting, thunderous, thundery (loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss)
61. dislodged (dislodge)
which always dislodged my curly wig, at which he would frown, as if it was somehow a failure indicative of my personality, not an inbuilt hazard of wearing a nylon hairpiece that didn’t actually stick to my head.
[释义]
Verb
(v) dislodge, free (remove or force out from a position)
"The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"
"He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble"
(v) shift, dislodge, reposition (change place or direction)
"Shift one's position"
(v) dislodge, bump (remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied)
"The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"
62. interlude (interlude)
Half of me was concerned, the other a tiny bit relieved just to have a brief interlude of calm.
[释义]
Noun
(n) interlude (an intervening period or episode)
Verb
(v) interlude (perform an interlude)
"The guitar player interluded with a beautiful improvisation"
63. intimidating (intimidating)
And a bit intimidating.
[释义]
Verb
(v) intimidate (make timid or fearful)
"Her boss intimidates her"
Adjective
(adj) daunting, intimidating (discouraging through fear)
64. tilted (tilt)
She tilted her head and watched me, as if trying to work out whether to do as I asked.
[释义]
Noun
(n) joust, tilt (a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances)
Verb
(v) lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle (to incline or bend from a vertical position)
"She leaned over the banister"
(v) cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch (heel over)
"The tower is tilting"
"The ceiling is slanting"
(v) careen, wobble, shift, tilt (move sideways or in an unsteady way)
"The ship careened out of control"
(v) tilt (charge with a tilt)
65. peonies (peony)
I had driven to the supermarket on the other side of Stortfold, where she had chosen a huge hand-tied bouquet of freesias, peonies and ranunculus.
[释义]
Noun
(n) peony, paeony (any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers)
66. eavesdropping (eavesdropping)
‘And you really must stop this awful eavesdropping habit.
[释义]
Verb
(v) listen in, eavesdrop (listen without the speaker's knowledge)
"the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations"
67. blanched (blanch)
Tanya Houghton-Miller blanched.
[释义]
Verb
(v) pale, blanch, blench (turn pale, as if in fear)
(v) blanch, parboil (cook (vegetables) briefly)
"Parboil the beans before freezing them"
68. weeds (weed)
‘You don’t have to wear widow’s weeds till you’re elderly.’
[释义]
Noun
(n) weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)
Verb
(v) make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water (eliminate urine)
"Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug"
(v) weed (clear of weeds)
"weed the garden"
69. dementia (dementia)
‘When she had the dementia, I mean.
[释义]
Noun
(n) dementia, dementedness (mental deterioration of organic or functional origin)
70. spiky (spiky)
I didn’t know what to make of the spiky girl, who walked around my living room, making the air around her crackle.
[释义]
Adjective
(adj) peaky, spiky (having or as if having especially high-pitched spots)
"absence of peaky highs and beefed-up bass"
71. caramel (caramel)
It was in her blue eyes, that vaguely caramel colouring.
[释义]
Noun
(n) caramel (firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk)
Adjective
(adj) caramel, caramel brown (having the color of caramel
of a moderate yellow-brown)
72. squint (squint)
Jake’s father continued to squint at me.
[释义]
Noun
(n) strabismus, squint (abnormal alignment of one or both eyes)
Verb
(v) squint, squinch (cross one's eyes as if in strabismus)
"The children squinted so as to scare each other"
Adjective
(adj) askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong ((used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy)
"her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen
"sidelong glances"
73. perk (perk)
I know that in many companies time off is pretty much considered a staff perk.
[释义]
Noun
(n) fringe benefit, perquisite, perk (an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right))
"a limousine is one of the fringe benefits of the job"
Verb
(v) perk up, perk, percolate, pick up, gain vigor (gain or regain energy)
"I picked up after a nap"
74. reincarnated (reincarnated)
‘You’re making it sound like I’m out there slaughtering everyone’s reincarnated husbands.’
[释义]
Verb
(v) reincarnate, transmigrate (be born anew in another body after death)
"Hindus believe that we transmigrate"
(v) reincarnate, renew (cause to appear in a new form)
"the old product was reincarnated to appeal to a younger market"
75. Surreptitiously (surreptitiously)
Surreptitiously, I gathered my belongings, wondering whether I should announce my leaving or whether it would be simpler just to run.
[释义]
Adverb
(adv) surreptitiously, sneakily (in a surreptitious manner)
"he was watching her surreptitiously as she waited in the hotel lobby"
76. recuperating (recuperate)
I’m recuperating.’
[释义]
Verb
(v) recover, recoup, recuperate (regain or make up for)
"recuperate one's losses"
(v) recover, go back, recuperate (regain a former condition after a financial loss)
"We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90"
"The company managed to recuperate"
(v) recuperate (restore to good health or strength)
(v) recuperate, recover, convalesce (get over an illness or shock)
"The patient is recuperating"
77. eternity (eternity)
You can’t sit around here on your backside for all eternity.’
[释义]
Noun
(n) eternity, infinity (time without end)
(n) eternity, timelessness, timeless existence (a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife)
(n) eternity (a seemingly endless time interval (waiting))
78. buttocks (buttock)
It might have been my imagination, but her buttocks might have clenched even more tightly.
[释义]
Noun
(n) buttock, cheek (either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump)
79. remnant (remnant)
That family had gone from being my whole life to a ghostly remnant of a time I wouldn’t allow myself to remember.
[释义]
Noun
(n) leftover, remnant (a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists)
(n) end, remainder, remnant, oddment (a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold)
80. cursory (cursory)
When people asked me, I could give them only the most cursory details.
[释义]
Adjective
(adj) casual, cursory, passing, perfunctory, superficial (hasty and without attention to detail
not thorough)
"a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"
"a passing glance"
"perfunctory courtesy"
"In his paper, he showed a very superficial understanding of psychoanalytic theory"
81. armpit (armpit)
Treena wedges her shoulder under my armpit and turns briefly to glare out at the neighbours, her eyebrows raised as if to say, Really?
[释义]
Noun
(n) armpit, axilla, axillary cavity, axillary fossa (the hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder)
"they were up to their armpits in water"
82. mantelpiece (mantelpiece)
I think of them standing in my doorway, my mother’s hands tight on her bag as she surveyed the unwashed bed-linen, the empty wine bottles lined up in a row on the mantelpiece, the solitary half-bar of Fruit and Nut in the fridge.
[释义]
Noun
(n) mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece, chimneypiece (shelf that projects from wall above fireplace)
83. Psychiatrist (psychiatrist)
We know things have been all – well, you know – since –’ ‘Psychiatrist?’
[释义]
Noun
(n) psychiatrist, head-shrinker, shrink (a physician who specializes in psychiatry)
84. attuned (attune)
When your whole world shrinks to four walls, you become acutely attuned to slight variations in atmosphere.
[释义]
Verb
(v) attune (adjust or accustom to
bring into harmony with)
85. sulphurous (sulphurous)
I don’t have to ask what they are: the sulphurous smell floods the room as soon as she opens her bag.
[释义]
Adjective
(adj) sulfurous, sulphurous (of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from sulfur)
(adj) acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic (harsh or corrosive in tone)
"an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"
"a barrage of acid comments"
"her acrid remarks make her many enemies"
"bitter words"
"blistering criticism"
"caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"
"a sulfurous denunciation"
"a vitriolic critique"
(adj) sultry, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous (characterized by oppressive heat and humidity)
"the summer was sultry and oppressive"
"the stifling atmosphere"
"the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"
86. dispensation (dispensation)
Dad gets special dispensation from work, because Mum won’t travel by herself.
[释义]
Noun
(n) dispensation (an exemption from some rule or obligation)
(n) dispensation (a share that has been dispensed or distributed)
(n) dispensation (the act of dispensing (giving out in portions))
87. looms (loom)
Dad looms over me.
[释义]
Noun
(n) loom (a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile)
Verb
(v) loom (come into view indistinctly, often threateningly)
"Another air plane loomed into the sky"
(v) loom, tower, predominate, hulk (appear very large or occupy a commanding position)
"The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain"
"Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall"
(v) brood, hover, loom, bulk large (hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing)
"The terrible vision brooded over her all day long"
(v) loom (weave on a loom)
"materials loomed in Egypt"
88. crucifix (crucifix)
My mother reaches up and touches the crucifix around her neck.
[释义]
Noun
(n) crucifix, rood, rood-tree (representation of the cross on which Jesus died)
(n) crucifix (a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings when the gymnast supports himself with both arms extended horizontally)
89. withered (withered)
The plants have long since withered and died.
[释义]
Verb
(v) shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, wither (wither, as with a loss of moisture)
"The fruit dried and shriveled"
Adjective
(adj) shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened (lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness)
"the old woman's shriveled skin"
"he looked shriveled and ill"
"a shrunken old man"
"a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie
"he did well despite his withered arm"
"a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"
(adj) dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered ((used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture)
"dried-up grass"
"the desert was edged with sere vegetation"
"shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"
"withered vines"
90. hooded (hooded)
I change into my pyjama bottoms and a hooded sweatshirt, then open the fridge, pull out a bottle of white and pour a glass.
[释义]
Verb
(v) hood (cover with a hood)
"The bandits were hooded"
91. ebullient (ebullient)
A naturally ebullient man.
[释义]
Adjective
(adj) ebullient, exuberant, high-spirited (joyously unrestrained)
92. brackets (bracket)
‘You have … brackets.’
[释义]
Noun
(n) bracket (a category falling within certain defined limits)
Verb
(v) bracket (support with brackets)
"bracket bookshelves"
(v) bracket, bracket out (place into brackets)
"Please bracket this remark"
(v) bracket (classify or group)
93. dislodged (dislodge)
which always dislodged my curly wig, at which he would frown, as if it was somehow a failure indicative of my personality, not an inbuilt hazard of wearing a nylon hairpiece that didn’t actually stick to my head.
[释义]
Verb
(v) dislodge, free (remove or force out from a position)
"The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"
"He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble"
(v) shift, dislodge, reposition (change place or direction)
"Shift one's position"
(v) dislodge, bump (remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied)
"The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"
94. laminated (laminated)
We stood there silently as he flicked through his laminated binder.
[释义]
Verb
(v) laminate (create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material)
(v) laminate (press or beat (metals) into thin sheets)
(v) laminate (cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material)
"laminate the table"
(v) laminate (split (wood) into thin sheets)
95. reconcile (reconcile)
Natasha was on holiday, as was Jake, for which I was mostly relieved and a tiny bit put out in a way I couldn’t reconcile.
[释义]
Verb
(v) accommodate, reconcile, conciliate (make (one thing) compatible with (another))
"The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"
(v) harmonize, harmonise, reconcile (bring into consonance or accord)
"harmonize one's goals with one's abilities"
(v) reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate, settle (come to terms)
"After some discussion we finally made up"
(v) resign, reconcile, submit (accept as inevitable)
"He resigned himself to his fate"
96. quadriplegics (quadriplegic)
We don’t get many quadriplegics in here.’
[释义]
Noun
(n) quadriplegic (a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs)
97. upheaval (upheaval)
But I don’t like upheaval, especially when it involves people close to me.
[释义]
Noun
(n) turbulence, upheaval, Sturm und Drang (a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally))
"the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"
(n) convulsion, turmoil, upheaval (a violent disturbance)
"the convulsions of the stock market"
(n) upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust ((geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building))
(n) agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval, hullabaloo (disturbance usually in protest)
98. flinched (flinch)
Mrs Traynor flinched, as if the sound were now unfamiliar.
[释义]
Noun
(n) wince, flinch (a reflex response to sudden pain)
Verb
(v) flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail (draw back, as with fear or pain)
"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
99. oblivious (oblivious)
I pressed my cheek against his, half laughing, half weeping, oblivious to the nurses, to anything except the man before me.
[释义]
Adjective
(adj) oblivious, unmindful ((followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of)
"oblivious of the mounting pressures for political reform"
"oblivious to the risks she ran"
"not unmindful of the heavy responsibility"
(adj) forgetful, oblivious (failing to keep in mind)
"forgetful of her responsibilities"
"oblivious old age"
100. residual (residual)
I watered the plants, feeling a creeping, residual guilt.
[释义]
Noun
(n) remainder, balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest (something left after other parts have been taken away)
"there was no remainder"
"he threw away the rest"
"he took what he wanted and I got the balance"
Adjective
(adj) residual, residuary (relating to or indicating a remainder)
"residual quantity"
101. brackets (bracket)
‘You have … brackets.’
[释义]
Noun
(n) bracket (a category falling within certain defined limits)
Verb
(v) bracket (support with brackets)
"bracket bookshelves"
(v) bracket, bracket out (place into brackets)
"Please bracket this remark"
(v) bracket (classify or group)
102. eternity (eternity)
You can’t sit around here on your backside for all eternity.’
[释义]
Noun
(n) eternity, infinity (time without end)
(n) eternity, timelessness, timeless existence (a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife)
(n) eternity (a seemingly endless time interval (waiting))
103. oblivious (oblivious)
I pressed my cheek against his, half laughing, half weeping, oblivious to the nurses, to anything except the man before me.
[释义]
Adjective
(adj) oblivious, unmindful ((followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of)
"oblivious of the mounting pressures for political reform"
"oblivious to the risks she ran"
"not unmindful of the heavy responsibility"
(adj) forgetful, oblivious (failing to keep in mind)
"forgetful of her responsibilities"
"oblivious old age"
104. flinched (flinch)
Mrs Traynor flinched, as if the sound were now unfamiliar.
[释义]
Noun
(n) wince, flinch (a reflex response to sudden pain)
Verb
(v) flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail (draw back, as with fear or pain)
"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
105. dementia (dementia)
‘When she had the dementia, I mean.
[释义]
Noun
(n) dementia, dementedness (mental deterioration of organic or functional origin)
106. simultaneously (simultaneous)
She sniffed and shrugged simultaneously, then put her feet up on the dashboard, as if the conversation were closed.
[释义]
Adjective
(adj) coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, co-occurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous (occurring or operating at the same time)
"a series of coincident events"
107. paramedics (paramedic)
It was one of the first things paramedics were taught – the difference a few seconds could make to someone’s chances of survival.
[释义]
Noun
(n) paramedic, paramedical (a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment)
108. mantelpiece (mantelpiece)
I think of them standing in my doorway, my mother’s hands tight on her bag as she surveyed the unwashed bed-linen, the empty wine bottles lined up in a row on the mantelpiece, the solitary half-bar of Fruit and Nut in the fridge.
[释义]
Noun
(n) mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece, chimneypiece (shelf that projects from wall above fireplace)
109. laminated (laminated)
We stood there silently as he flicked through his laminated binder.
[释义]
Verb
(v) laminate (create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material)
(v) laminate (press or beat (metals) into thin sheets)
(v) laminate (cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material)
"laminate the table"
(v) laminate (split (wood) into thin sheets)
110. deodorant (deodorant)
Lily packed her bag, cheerfully stripping my second bedroom of nearly every sign she had ever been there, apart from the Kandinsky print and the camp bed, a pile of glossy magazines and an empty deodorant canister.
[释义]
Noun
(n) deodorant, deodourant (a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant odors)
111. sulphurous (sulphurous)
I don’t have to ask what they are: the sulphurous smell floods the room as soon as she opens her bag.
[释义]
Adjective
(adj) sulfurous, sulphurous (of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from sulfur)
(adj) acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic (harsh or corrosive in tone)
"an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"
"a barrage of acid comments"
"her acrid remarks make her many enemies"
"bitter words"
"blistering criticism"
"caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"
"a sulfurous denunciation"
"a vitriolic critique"
(adj) sultry, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous (characterized by oppressive heat and humidity)
"the summer was sultry and oppressive"
"the stifling atmosphere"
"the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"
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