500 Words You Should Know
- Alinemembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
That blue dress really complements your eyes. That remark is, of course, a compliment, which That red dress really complements your eyes probably isnt. - b0019720499membuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
ignoble
In front of a word beginning with n, the prefix ig- means ‘not’, so ignoble is simply ‘not noble - b0019720499membuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalucombination of distorted, distasteful and bizarre:
- b0019720499membuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalugratuitous
Unnecessary, uncalled for, as in a gratuitous insult o - b0019720499membuat kutipan3 tahun yang laluflagrant
From the Latin for burning, this means very much the same as BLATANT - b0019720499membuat kutipan3 tahun yang laluthose who are inconstant in their affections
- b0019720499membuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalufastidious
This means picky, critical, hard to please an - b0019720499membuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalubit too easy and thus having little value: a facile victory is more or less a walkover;
- b0019720499membuat kutipan3 tahun yang laluexcoriate
Even harsher than DENOUNCE, this means literally to take the skin off, so metaphorically to flay someone alive, to criticize very severely. A critic might, for example, write an excoriating review of a film or play he - b0019720499membuat kutipan3 tahun yang laluseemed not to realize the enormity of his crime’ means he didn’t acknowledge he had done something dreadful,
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