Words
heedless
Someone heedless is reckless or not paying attention. Heedless rhymes with needless, and someone who's heedless acts as if needed things are needless. If you head out to surf in a tsunami, you're heedless of the giant-wave warnings.
outmanoeuvre
to gain an advantage over someone by using cleverer or more skilful plans or methods
root out
destroy completely, as if down to the roots
to find something bad or illegal and get rid of it
=get rid of, abolish, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, remove, weed out
orthodox
Orthodox practices or beliefs are generally accepted as true or correct. If you are an orthodox vegetarian, you never, ever eat meat––not like those people who have chicken once in awhile, or even––gasp!––bacon.
1.orthodox ideas, methods, or behaviour are accepted by most people to be correct and right SYN conventional:
orthodox medical treatments
He challenged the orthodox views on education.
2.someone who is orthodox has the opinions and beliefs that are generally accepted as being right, and does not have new or different ideas:
Orthodox economists believe that a recession is now inevitable.
an orthodox Marxist
3.believing in all the traditional beliefs, laws, and practices of a religion:
an orthodox Jew
footage
cinema film showing a particular event:
old footage from the First World War
1. film of a particular subject or event
2. the size of the area covered by a building, especially a shop, measured in square feet
enormity
1.the great size, seriousness, or difficulty of a situation, problem, event etc
Even now, the full enormity of his crimes has not been exposed.
the enormity of the task
2.a very evil and cruel act
Sentences
1、Part of his plan has been to modernise the armed forces, with a $720 billion weapons-renewal programme in 2010; part to use the media to turn Russia into a fortress against a hostile West; and part to intervene abroad.
2、Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy is born of weakness and made for television.