100 words to Impress an Examiner!

(adj.) rude, insolent (Most of your comments are so _________ that I don’t wish to dignify them with an answer.)

(adj.) increasing, building upon itself (The _________ effect of hours spent using the World English website was a vast improvement in his vocabulary and general level of English.)

(v.) to hate, detest (Because he always wound up getting hit in the head when he tried to play cricket, Marcin began to ______ the sport).

(v.) to give up, renounce (I won't _______ my conservative principles.)

(n.) something that differs from the norm (In 1974, Poland won the World Cup, but the success turned out to be an ______, and Poland have not won a World Cup since).

(v.) to agree without protesting (Though Mr. Pospieszny wanted to stay outside and work in his garage, when his wife told him that he had better come in to dinner, he ________d to her demands.)

(n.) eagerness, speed (For some reason, Simon loved to help his girlfriend whenever he could, so when his girlfriend asked him to set the table he did so with _________.)

(adj.) friendly (An _____ fellow, Neil got along with just about everyone.)

(v.) to calm, satisfy (When Jerry cries, his mother gives him chocolate to _____ him.)

(adj.) obscure, secret, known only by a few (The professor is an expert in _____ Kashubian literature.)

(v.) to urge, coax (Magda's friends _____ her into drinking too much.)

(n.) honesty, frankness (We were surprised by the ______ of the politician’s speech because she is usually rather evasive.)

(adj.) cautious (Though I promised Marta’s father I would bring her home promptly by midnight, it would have been more ________not to have specified a time.)

(adj.) secret (Announcing to her boyfriend that she was going to the library, Maria actually went to meet George for a _________ liaison.)

(adj.) quiet, modest, reserved (Though everyone else at the party was dancing and going crazy, she remained ______.)

(adj.) expressive, articulate, moving (The best man gave such an _______ speech that most guests were crying.)

(adj.) learned (My English teacher is such an ________ scholar that he has translated some of the most difficult and abstruse Old English poetry.)

(adj.) secretive, sly (Claudia’s placement of her drugs in her sock drawer was not as ________ as she thought, as the sock drawer is the first place most parents look.)

(adj.) casually rude, insolent, impertinent (The _________ young woman looked her teacher up and down and told him he was hot.)

(adj.) disdainfully proud (The superstar’s _________ dismissal of her co-stars will backfire on her someday.)

(adj.) incapable of being appeased or mitigated (Watch out: once you shun Grandmother’s cooking, she is totally _________.)

(n.) excessive greed (The banker’s _____ led him to amass an enormous personal fortune.) (алчность)

(n.) pretending to believe what one does not (Once the politician began passing legislation that contradicted his campaign promises, his ________ became apparent.)

(adj.) excessively bold, brash, clear and obvious (Critics condemned the writer’s ______ attempt to plagiarise Frankow-Czerwonko’s work.)низкий, бесстыдный

(n.) overindulgence in food or drink (Helen’s fried chicken tastes so divine, I don’t know how anyone can call _______ a sin.)

(v.) to steal money by falsifying records (The accountant was fired for _________ing €10,000 of the company’s funds.)

(v.) to make somebody do something by force or threat (The court decided that David Beckham did not have to honor the contract because he had been _______ into signing it.)

(adj.) short, abrupt, dismissive (Simon’s brusque manner sometimes offends his colleagues.)(бестактный, резкий, грубый)

(n.) sensitivity to another’s feelings as if they were one’s own (I feel such ________ for my dog when she’s upset so am I!)

(v.) to voice disapproval (Hania ______ Gregory for his vulgar habits and sloppy appearance.)

(adj.) showing care in doing one’s work (The ________ researcher made sure to double check her measurements.)

n.) ill will, hatred, hostility (John and Scott have clearly not forgiven each other, because the ______ between them is obvious to anyone in their presence.)

(adj.) overjoyed, thrilled (When he found out he had won the lottery, the postman was _________.)

(n.) self-satisfied ignorance of danger (Simon tried to shock his friends out of their __________ by painting a frightening picture of what might happen to them.)

(adj.) exemplary, flawless (If your grades were as _________ as your brother’s, then you too would receive a car for a graduation present.)

(adj.) astounded (Whenever I read an Agatha Christie mystery novel, I am always ________ when I learn the identity of the murderer.)

(adj.) uncalled for, unwarranted (Every evening the guy at the fish and chip shop gives me a ________ helping of vinegar.)

(adj.) logically consistent, intelligible (William could not figure out what Harold had seen because he was too distraught to deliver a ________ statement.)

(v.) to make up, invent (When I arrived an hour late to class, I __________ed some excuse about my car breaking down on the way to work.)

(adj.) harsh, cold, unfeeling (The murderer’s ______ lack of remorse shocked the jury.)

(n.) a person entrusted with secrets (Shortly after we met, he became my chief ________.)

(v.) to plot, scheme (She _____d to get me to give up my plans to start up a new business.)

(v.) to lower the quality or esteem of something (The large raise that he gave himself _______d his motives for running the charity.)

(v.) to criticize openly (Andrzej Lepper, the leader of the Polish Self Defence party _____ied the appaling state of Polish roads.)

(adj.) showing respect for another’s authority (Donata is always excessively __________ to any kind of authority figure.)

(v.) to laugh at mockingly, scorn (The native speaker often _______d the other teacher’s accent.)

(n.) one who has total power and rules brutally (The ______ issued a death sentence for anyone who disobeyed his laws.)

(v.) to praise, revere (Kamila ______ed the virtues of a vegetarian diet to her meat-loving boyfriend.)

(adj.) wild, savage (That beast looks so ______ that I would fear being alone with it.)

(adj.) troublesome or irritable (Although the child insisted he wasn’t tired, his ________ behaviour - especially his decision to crush his jam sandwiches all over the floor - convinced everyone present that it was time to put him to bed.)