Deck 'Everything' Vol.10 Flashcards
(29 cards)
apparatus (meaning)
the technical equipment
eg. the apparatus is in good working order.
respite (meaning)
a short period of rest
eg. 24 hours respite
threescore (meaning)
sixty
eg. age of thirty of threescore
galling (meaning)
causing resentment
eg. it was a galling reminder
acclimatise (meaning)
become accustomed to
eg. get acclimatised in time
absolve (meaning)
declare free from guilt
eg. hadn’t absolved me from the sin
cocksure (meaning)
confident in arrogant way
eg. he seemed so cocksure
foist (meaning)
impose unwanted things on someone
eg. the ideas that the people tried to foist on me
plank (meaning)
a long, thin, flat piece of timber
eg. I dropped heavily into my sleeping plank
Ducks and drakes (한글뜻)
조약돌을 물에 튀기는 놀이
eg. children were playing ducks and drakes
shunting yard (한글뜻)
차량 기지, Vehicle Yard
iota (meaning)
extremely small amount.
eg. If I had an iota of self-knowledge
autodidact (meaning)
a self-taught person
eg. the autodidact came to say good-morning to me
whiff (meaning)
a smell that is only smelt faintly
eg. I got a whiff of perfume
voluminous (meaning)
having much fabric (숱이 많은)
eg. a voluminous purple fabric
indolence (meaning)
laziness
eg. a sort of indolence
insipid (meaning)
lacking flavour, tasteless
eg. mugs of insipid coffee
convulse (한글 뜻)
경련을 일으키다
eg. I convulsed with anger
dazed steps
unsteady and unfocused movements of someone
au pair basis (한글 뜻)
외국인 가정에서 일정한 시간 동안 아이들을 돌보아 주는 대가로 숙식과 일정량의 급여를 받는 것을 뜻
purge (meaning)
rid of unwanted feeling or memory
eg. I purge myself in this way
nebulous (meaning)
hazy
eg. a giant nebulous glow
flustered (meaning)
agitated or confused
eg. If I ask them what they did yesterday, they don’t get ‘flustered’; they tell you all about it in a few words.
eiderdown (meaning)
a quilt filled with down
eg. blue coat which looked like an eiderdown
