Chapter13-1

1.smarmy

Now there was a cunt you just wanted to reach out and smack that smarmy look off her face !

2.bloke

I love the bloke. I want to pay out on him.

3.infirmary

All they need now are the keys to the infirmary.

4.hysterical

Police and bodyguards had to form a human shield around him as the almost hysterical crowds struggled to approach him.

5.apprehensive

People are still terribly apprehensive about the future.

6.confiscate

The law has been used to confiscate assets from people who have committed minor offences.

7.limerick

A limerick is a humorous poem which has five lines.

8.nondescript

It inherits the language context of feed and is otherwise nondescript.

9.soggy

You want to keep it moist but not soggy.

10.recede

Luke's footsteps receded into the night.

11.flurry

The Alps expect heavy cloud over the weekend with light snow flurries and strong winds.

12.file

The ants filed down the hill.

13.burp

Charlie burped loudly.

14.chuck

I took a great dislike to the clock, so I chucked it in the rubbish.

15.squid

A squid is a sea creature with a long soft body and many soft arms called tentacle.

16.undaunted

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17.acne

She wore no makeup, and her face was dotted with acne.

18.culprit

All the men were being deported even though the real culprits in the fight have not been identified.

19.morale

Many pilots are suffering from low morale.

20.lurid

But once the investigation began, the focus turned on the president himself and the Israeli press was filled with lurid accounts of the case.

21.confetti

The custom of throwing confetti however, does not come from Italy.

22.surly

He became surly and rude toward me.

23.cupid

May cupid arrest you and lock your finger with an engagement ring.

24.shin

She punched him on the nose and kicked him in the shins.

25.twang

The song is a fiery mix of twanging guitar with relentless drumming.

26.holdup

The holdup, it appears, is with Apple, which is now promising the white model sometime this spring.

27.commotion

He heard a commotion outside.

28.divine

He suggested that the civil war had been a divine punishment.

29.valiant

Despite valiant efforts by the finance minister, inflation rose to 36%.

30.mirth

That caused considerable mirth among students and coaches alike.

31.leering

He has been leering at a girl at the next table.

32.one-up

But that’s not stopped a handful of companies from trying to one-up Google by inserting a human element into search.

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