21/11/2015 evening Flashcards
(11 cards)
ramble
- A ramble is a long walk in the countryside. …an hour’s ramble through the woods.
- If you say that a person rambles in their speech or writing, you mean they don’t make much sense because they keep going off the subject in a confused way. Sometimes she spoke sensibly; sometimes she rambled.
rank
A rank is what level you are at.His rank is level 4 .
dwelling
- A dwelling or a dwelling place is a place where someone lives. Some 3,500 new dwellings are planned for the area.
- If you dwell on something, especially something unpleasant, you think, speak, or write about it a lot or for quite a long time. “I’d rather not dwell on the past,” he told me.
raiment
Raiment is clothing. I want nothing but raiment and daily bread.
robust
- Someone or something that is robust is very strong or healthy. He was always the robust one, physically strong and mentally sharp.
- Robust views or opinions are strongly held and forcefully expressed. The Secretary of State has made a robust defense of the agreement.
shrine
A shrine is a place of worship which is associated with a particular holy person or object. …the holy shrine of Mecca.
A shrine is a place that people visit and treat with respect because it is connected with a dead person or with dead people that they want to remember. The monument has been turned into a shrine to the dead and the missing.
sleek ask abugee about last bit
- (of hair, fur, or skin) smooth and glossy it can be animal as well:
he was tall, with sleek, dark hair. A sleek black cat. 2.(person) having a wealthy and well-groomed appearance:
a sleek and ambitious junior Minister.
3.object having an elegant, streamlined shape or design:
his sleek black car slid through the traffic.
ingratiating; unctuous:
she gave Guy a sleek smile to underline her words.
stern
firm, strict, or uncompromising: stern discipline.
- hard, harsh, or severe. Her father was stern and hard to please
- rigorous or austere; of an unpleasantly serious character: stern times.
- grim or forbidding in aspect: a stern face.
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obstinate
stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so:
her obstinate determination to pursue a career in radio.
▪ (of an unwelcome situation) very difficult to change or overcome:
the obstinate problem of unemployment.
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