chapter9 Ⅱ~Ⅵ

Words & Expressions

1.hold out

...Stores are holding out...

explanation: if a supply of something holds out, there is still some left

e.g. Water supplies won't hold out much longer.

2.overt

This morning Wargrave had sat huddled in his chair on the terrace refraining from any overt activity.

explanation:(usually before noun) formal done in an open way and not secretly

e.g. There was little overt support for the project.

3.bogus

Of those seven, one is, if I may so express myself, a bogus little Soldier boy.

explanation: pretending to be real or genuine

4.undue

"It would require no undue exertion of force?"

explanation: (only before noun) formal more than you think is reasonable or necessary

e.g. They are taking undue advantage of the situation.

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Good sentences

Again a gesture of the judge's hand arrested a speaker before he finished his speech.

It was the dispassionate stare of a man well used to weighing humanity in the balance.

Given the scheme in question which is neither more nor less than the execution of justice upon certain individuals for offences which the law cannot touch, there is only one way in which that scheme could be accomplished.