Saturday, January 14, 2017

Vocabulary Task (Intermediate-Advanced level)



antediluvian
calumniate
cuspidor
demeano(u)r
gape
pugnacious
render
scurvy
snivel


1.     The question of treating animals with kindly consideration is usually disposed of by saying they are not capable of appreciating kind treatment; that their brain capacity is so limited in respect to quantity as to _____ them quite incapable of distinguishing active kindness from passive indifference or even cruel treatment
2.     This is but a _____return for the hospitality you are enjoying.
3.     If you must do the one or the other, be sure to use the _____; but it is safer to let up on tobacco until out-of-doors, or in your own room.
4.     Never _____ people, or give a false coloring to your statements.
5.     Never be explosive or_____, accompanying your side of an argument with roaring explosives and furious gesticulations.
6.     Never be cowering and _____, as though delirious of someone to kick you as a boon.
7.     The deportment, the _____ of the rabbit is no more to be emulated than that of the famished wolf.
8.     Never, in the midst of a discussion upon solemn topics, retail _____ jokes, and then ha,ha! boisteriously at them when no one else can see anything to laugh at.
9.     Never _____, yawn, “heigh ho”, or stamp your feet disapprovingly, when others are talking.

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