dunno words III Flashcards
archive
N: a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people.
“source materials in local archives”
V: place or store (something) in an archive; store
wharf
N: a place where a ship may be docked 码头；quay, pier, dock
moor
V: make ( a boat) attached to the shore
a boat was moored to the dock
rapture
N: a feeling of intense pleasure or joy; ecstasy
“Leonora listened with rapture”
ecstasy
N: rapture; an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement.
“there was a look of ecstasy on his face”
- (according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ.
“thousands of Christians gathered outside Rochester and other cities, awaiting the Rapture”
gullible
A: easily persuaded to believe something; credulous.
“an attempt to persuade a gullible public to spend their money”
credulous
A: gullible; having or showing too great a readiness to believe things.
“a ceremony staged for credulous tourists”
N: credulousness
diurnal
A: of or during the day.
- daily; of each day.
- (of animals/ flowers v) active/only opening in the daytime.
- “diurnal rhythms”
ghastly
A: terrible; causing great horror or fear; frightful or macabre.
2. extremely unwell; ill
“she was overcome with horror at the ghastly spectacle”
2. “he always felt ghastly first thing in the morning”
N: ghastliness
macabre
A: horrifying because of involvement with death and injuries; gruesome, ghastly
fanciful
A: impractical; (of a person or their thoughts and ideas) overimaginative and unrealistic.
“a fanciful story about a pot of gold”
cosmopolitan
A: including people from many different countries
2. ( of plant or animal ) found all over the world
Immigration transferred the city into a cosmopolitan metropolis
