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Word | Definition | Context | |||
1) abnormal | unusual | "I'm not interested in bull-fighters. That's an abnormal life. | |||
2) Parcel | package | We unwrapped the little parcels of lunch. | |||
3) buoyant | floating or cheerful (бурливая) | The water was buoyant and cold. | |||
4) sinister | giving the impression that something harmful | "The Purple Land" is a very sinister book if read too late in life.
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5) overmatch | be superior to(превосходить) | Spider promptly overmatched him and got | |||
6) trout | especially type of fish | Bill sat down, opened up his bag, laid a big trout on the grass. | |||
7) to peel | remove skin or rind(корка) | Bill laid down the egg he was peeling. | |||
8) to rejoice | make happy | Let us rejoice and believe and give thanks. | |||
9) to float | stay on th surface of water | Then in the quiet water I turned and floated. | |||
10) to prep | prepare | At the military school where he prepped for Princeton | |||
11) distaste | Dislike | This increased Cohn's distaste for boxing | |||
12) motion | The action or process of moving | "Put it in there, Henry," the count motioned. | |||
13) tribute | admiration | As a tribute to the Great Commoner. | |||
14) hencoop | House of chickens | the holy mysteries of the hencoop with simian fingers. | |||
15) simian | monkey | the holy mysteries of the hencoop with simian fingers | |||
16) hense | Then or away (отсюда) | and hence any different from anybody else | |||
17) suspicion | mistrust | I always had a suspicion that | |||
18) to commence | begin | The review commenced publication in Carmel | |||
19) purely | cleanly | who had been regarded purely as an angel | |||
20) editorial | editing | name had appeared on the editorial page | |||
21) afterward | later | We had dined at l'Avenue's and afterward went | |||
22) to get sore | anger | Don't get sore | |||
23) to recount | To report | It recounts splendid imaginary amorous adventures | |||
24) exalted | Grand or majestic | None of your exalted connections | |||
25) Callousness | rudeness | He remembered with what callousness | |||
26) to make reparation | repair | It was not too late to make reparation for that. | |||
27) Hideous | frightening | idea of my soul being hideous | |||
28) to make a joke | fun | wine and Georgette made a joke | |||
29) grace | favor | had all their easy social graces | |||
30) proprietor | owner | and the proprietor himself | |||
31) composure | calm | to shatter that superior, simpering composure | |||
32) dance big-hippily | Shake | the tall blond youth, who danced big-hippily | |||
33) resemblance | Being alike | Their physical resemblance must be a source | |||
34) savor | taste | Everything after savors of anticlimax | |||
35) dominance | Influence over others | Eyes had established dominance | |||
36) priceless | Invaluable (бесценный) | "Oh, priceless," I said. Brett laughed. | |||
37) sober | Not drunk or calm | "You're wonderfully sober," I said. | |||
38) to possess | To control or hold | "What possessed you to bring her?" | |||
39) envelope | Paper in which letters are sealed and sent | asked them for an envelope | |||
40) to slam | clap | and slammed the door. | |||
41) miserable | unhappy | I've been so miserable | |||
42) to jolt | mental shock | we jolted close together | |||
43) merriment | fun | a subject of merriment while remaining | |||
44) to shove off | Get out | "I must shove off. Seen Cohn?" | |||
45) luncheon | A formal lunch | A good deal at luncheon | |||
46) pale | shade | His pale hair as | |||
47) imply | Give someone to understand | Implying that a dozen chefs | |||
48) clench | press | With his fists clenched in his laps | |||
49) brisk | Active or energetic | A brisk red bug to meet all trains | |||
50) credulity | trust | As our credulity switched back | |||
51) odour | smell | the rich odour of roses | |||
52) innuendo | suggestion | Given to violent innuendo | |||
53) corpulent | fat | Corpulent person in his middle years | |||
54) grievance | Offence (обида) | The old grievance. | |||
55) to uptake | To understand | "I say, you are slow on the up-take," | |||
56) to Tempt | Attract (соблазнять) | Dozen bottles of Mumms. Tempt you?" | |||
57) bang | beat | I banged on the glass. | |||
58) sliced | cut | He shoved the sliced cucumbers away | |||
59) moron | idiot | "That moron," said Harvey. | |||
60) Conceit | Vanity (тщеславие) | The sort of healthy conceit that | |||
61) inconsequentially | Without importance | trying to talk inconsequentially | |||
62) alimony | aliment | I could have had alimony | |||
63) pretty | rather | "Feel pretty happy?" | |||
64) dismay | To make someone feel worried | Dismayed at its indifference | |||
65) drowsiness | tired | His fancies until drowsiness | |||
66) consent | agree | Robert has kindly consentedto speak to you | |||
67) splendid | Very impressive | I agreed that it was splendid | |||
68) senile | Old | With her senile aunt | |||
69) to scrutinize | to look over | We scrutinized the twelve lemon | |||
70) muddy | dirty | Muddy swamps | |||
71) asunder | Into pieces | Were rent asunder by dissension | |||
72) to engross | To preoccupy | They were so engrossed in each other | |||
73) mistress | A woman having a sexual relationship with a married man | What do you suppose he said to his mistresses when he wouldn't marry them? | |||
74) to daunt | To upset | Never been daunted | |||
75) Splendid | excellent | Splendid. Wish he wouldn't keep going off | |||
76) Nix | caution | "Nix," I said | |||
77) pestilential | harmful | "Have you been in this pestilential city long?" | |||
78) armistice | To make friends | right after the armistice, and Madame Lecomte | |||
79) to ladle | Spoon out (зачерпывать) | The girl ladled some onto a plate | |||
80) undischarged | Unfulfilled(невыполненный) | Mr. Campbell is an undischarged bankrupt | |||
81) outbursts | Flash | What are these outbursts of affection, Michael? | |||
82) mourn | Regret for | As a mourning wreath | |||
83) vista | A pleasing view | Hand along the front vista | |||
84) reciprocal | Done in return | With polite reciprocal curiosity | |||
85) itinerary | journey | I wrote out an itinerary so they could follow us | |||
86) loveliest | beautiful | “We have got the loveliest hotel," Mike said. | |||
87) nuisance | A person who is in need to help | You're sure we wouldn't just be a bloody nuisance? | |||
88) mincing | affected | Mincing shout | |||
89) peer | Be just visible | The man peered into the basket | |||
90) coarse | rude | Spoke to her husband in coarse voice | |||
91) cease | To stop | And then ceased together | |||
92) antecedents | past | First wild rumors about his antecedents | |||
93) to ingratiate | To Try to please | Trying to ingratiate myself | |||
94) reverie | dream | For a while these reveries provided | |||
95) flavor | To give a smell | That flavored conversation | |||
96) melt | disappear |
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97) incense | Smell in the church | it smelt of incense | |||
98) strident | harsh | Strident argument | |||
99) side street | Tight and small street | walked back along sidestreets to the hotel | |||
100) rowdy | noisy | My age and a rowdy little boy | |||
101) lousy | Very poor or bad | It was lousy to enjoy it, but I felt lousy. | |||
102) clench | press | With his fistsclenched in his lip | |||
103) majestic | great | Signed Robert in a majestic hand | |||
104) elusive | Difficult to find | An elusive rhythm | |||
105) lurk | secrete | If the past were lurking here | |||
106) dilatory | Slow | In a dilatory grudging way | |||
107) greedy | Always wanting more food, money, power | We drink in long, greedy swallows | |||
108) bystander | Viewer (a person who is present at an event but does not take part) | An awed hush fell upon the bystander | |||
109) apparition | ghost | The apparition stood swaying for a moment | |||
110) flicker | Feeling that continues for a very short time | That the constant flicker of men | |||
111) divergence | a difference in opinions | A plane where any divergence from a code | |||
112) incurably | Impossible to change | He is incurably dishonest | |||
113) Gnawing | worrying | The Gnawing of his | |||
114) receptacle | box | With innumerable receptacles to contain | |||
115) wicker | To twist | sat down in one of the wicker chairs | |||
116) lather | soap | he lathered his face | |||
117) slur | To speak | he slurred that over--"or me? | |||
118) sped | More quickly | We sped along toward | |||
119) overripe | past its best | Very sensuous about it-overripe | |||
120) bluff | Fall(oбрыв) | the bluff above the river | |||
121) swell people | Wonderful | "These Basques are swell people," | |||
122) posada | motel | stopped in front of the posada | |||
123) supplies | Stock(припасы) | Behind them were shelves stacked with supplies and goods | |||
124) snobbishly | exclusive | As my father snobbishly suggested | |||
125) solemn | formal | He wrote a series of very solemn letter | |||
126) perpetual | Never ending and changing | Source of perpetual confusion | |||
127) bizzare | Very strange | The bizzare are not a little man | |||
128) scarcely | Only just | He scarcely knew at all | |||
129) apron | Cloth worn to protect | who had been serving drinks came out wiping her hands on her apron | |||
130) whitewashed |
| We went up the street, past the whitewashed stone houses, | |||
131) disembody | Separate from its material form | I had no girl whose disembodied face | |||
132) daylight | The natural light of day | The blinds we'd of seen daylight | |||
133) succelent | appetizing | A succelent hush arrived | |||
134) pitcher | A large container | In a few minutes a girl brought a stone pitcher | |||
135) diligence | Hard working | Outside under the window were some carts and an old diligence | |||
136) gulp | Drink (глоток) | He took a big gulp of coffee. | |||
137) expatriated | emigrant | An expatriated newspaper man. | |||
138) tricycle | Bicycle with three wheels | "I heard it was a tricycle." | |||
139) joystick | Control lever | The joystick works the same way."
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140) tadpoles | Frog(головастик) | In the flat pool beside the stream tadpoles spotted the sand | |||
141) steep | Dangerous coast (крутой берег) | We went up a steep bank | |||
142) enormous | huge | They're enormous trout there." | |||
143) dope | drag | I come Thursday'. That gives you a lot of dope, doesn't it?" | |||
144) discredit | damage | That story reflects great discredit on me." | |||
145) burden | A short sudden effort | A moment of the burden of the banjo | |||
146) vinous | Be Fond of wine | Went off into a deep vinous sleep | |||
147) convivial | friendly | Convivial way, girls were swooning | |||
148) ineplty | Having or showing no skill | She had decided,ineplty, that everything was very sad | |||
149) hollow | Having a hole | with a clattering on the wood in the hollow box | |||
150) awkwardly | Uncouthly(неуклюже) | The steer ran awkwardly | |||
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