Monday, January 28, 2013

Vocabulary - The Cut Glass Bowl

1. distraught
- not being normal, being out of your mind
When people drink lots of alcohol, they become distraught.

2. marginal
- very small or not very important
Everything has marginal error, so it is hard to find unless you look carefully.

3. decanter
- glass used for containing wine
In many restaurants we could see plenty of decanters displayed on shelves.

4. forestall
- to realize what they are likely to do and preventing it
The man turned his body to left while he was fighting with his friend.

5. accentuate
- to emphasize something
Our school teacher accentuate this part of the lecuture, and it might probably in our test.

6. blunder
- stupid and careless mistakes
When she make some blunder mistakes, everyone would laugh at her and she would be embarrass.

7. assertive
- to state their opinion or states clearly
To speak fluently, we should first make our states assertive and need details to support.

8. staleness
- old or not fresh
This food is staleness to eat for our lunch, because it was cook last day.

9. flounce
- to make exaggerated movements to show that you are upset
Young boy stamp his feet loudly that his parents can hear that he is angry with them.

10. inflame
- to make people feel strongly about something
Her comments made her friends inflame that they tried to end of their friendship forever.

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