Vocabulary Recitation 2020/05/08

Posted 2020-11-29 xiaoheng2020

choice adj./n.

1. N-COUNT If there is a choice of things, there are several of them and you can choose the one you want.
2. N-COUNT Your choice is someone or something that you choose from a range of things.
3. ADJ-GRADED Choice mean of very high of quality.
4. PHARSE If you have no choice but to do somethingor have little choice but to do it, you cannot adoid doing it.
5. PHARSE The thing or person of your choice is the one that you choose.
6. PHARSE The item of choice is the one that most poeple prefer.

balmy adj.

1. ADJ-GRADED Balmy weather is fairly warm and pleasant.

gauche adj.

1. ADJ-GRADED If you describe someone as gauche, you mean that they are awkward and uncomfortable in the company of other people.

accidental adj.

1. ADJ An accidental event happens by chance or as the result of an accident, and is not deliberately intended.

recluse adj./n.

1. N-COUNT A recluse is a person who lives alone and deliberately avoids other people.

unveil vt./vi.

1. VERB If someone formally unveils something such as a new staute or or painting, they draw back the curtain which is covering it.
2. VERB If you unveil a plan, new product, or some other thing that has been kept secret, you introduce it to the public.

polymerization n.

doleful adj.

1. ADJ-GRADED A doleful experssion manner, or voice is depressing and miserable.

insufficient adj.

1. ADJ Something that is insufficient is not large enough in amount or degree for a particular purpose.

antique adj./n.

1. N-COUNT An antique is an old object such as a piece of china or furniture which is valuable because of its beauty or rarity.

beneficiary n.

1. N-COUNT Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
2. N-COUNT The beneficiaries of a will are legally entitled to receive money or property from someone when that person dies.

guileless adj.

1. ADJ-GEADED If you describe someone as guileless, you mean that they behave openly and truthfully and do not try to deceive peolple.

baboom n.

1. N-COUNT A baboon is a large monkey that lives in Africa.

impertinent adj.