Description Flashcards
Smudgy (adj.)
Tangled (adj.)
The glasses are smudgy.
The T-shirt is inside-out.
The wires are tangled.
Frown (v.)
She frowns at me, clearly annoyed.
Shiver (v.)
She shivered in the cold with a short T shirt.
Scratchy (adj.)
Scratchy clothes are tough and uncomfortable.
Sizzling (adj.)
It’s a sizzling hot day today!
Fetching (adj) = attracting
You look very fetching in your green shorts
Spoiled (adj)
A spoiled child is allowed to do anything that they want, usually they behave badly and do not show respect to others
rickety (adj) = weak and likely to break
Careful! The chair is a bit rickety.
deaf (adj) = unable to hear
He has been totally deaf since birth
brutal (adj) = cruel / violent
A brutal dictator 殘曦獨裁者
He was imprisoned for the brutal murder of a girl
mammoth (adj) = extremely large
Cleaning up the city-wide mess is going to be a mammoth task.
sprain (v)
twist the ligaments of (an ankle, wrist, or other joint) violently so as to cause pain and swelling but not dislocatio
puff up 腫脹
My leg puffed up all around the insect bite
dampen (v) = to make sth slightly wet
Rain had dampened the tent so we left it to dry in the afternoon sun
trauma (n) 心理創傷
He had psychotherapy to help him deal with his childhood traumas.
breavement (n) = death of the parent or close friend
She has recently suffered a bereavement
orphan (n) = a child whose parents are dead
The civil war is making orphans of many children
perennial (adj) = lasting a very long time, or happening repeatedly or all the time
The film “White Christmas” is a perennial favourite
daunting (adj) = making you feel slightly frightened or worried about your ability to achieve something
The country was faced with the daunting prospect of overcoming four decades of division.
reckon (v) = to think / believe
I reckon it’s going to rain.
Fairy-tale （adj) 童話般的
Sadly, there was no fairy-tale happy ending to the story
alleviate (v) - to make something bad such as pain or problems less severe
The drugs did nothing to alleviate her pain/suffering
ecstatic (adj) = extremely happy
The new president was greeted by an ecstatic crowd
wary (adj) = not completely trusting or certain about something or someone
I’m a little wary of/about giving people my address when I don’t know them very well.
