Week10
Diameter直徑
No solicitor 謝絕推銷
Attorney 法定代理人
Hero heroine
﹤initiaion﹥Florence
Conflicts
1.A Room with a view
2.passion restrain
3.heart status
Vocabulary
1.Deceive
to persuade someone that something false is the truth
The company deceived customers by selling old computers as newones.
2.Seductive
It was a seductive black evening dress.
3.Seductive
It was a seductive black evening dress.
4.Solicitor
› a type of lawyer in Britain and Australia who is trained toprepare cases and give advice on legal subjects and canrepresent people in lower courts
5.Lie
to be in or move into a horizontal position on a surface
He lies awake at night, worrying.
6.Overlook
to provide a view of, especially from above
Our hotel room overlooked the harbour.
7.Spinster
a woman who is not married, especially a woman who is nolonger young and seems unlikely ever to marry
8.Disdain
when you dislike someone or something and think that they do not deserve your interest or respect
9.Pension
a sum of money paid regularly by the government or aprivate company to a person who does not work any more because they are too old or they have become ill
10.Generosity
the quality or condition of being generous
11.Delicate
needing careful treatment, especially because easilydamaged
12.Taciturn
saying little, especially usually
13.Violent
He shouts a lot but I don't think he's ever been physically violent towards her.
14.Brood
a group of young birds all born at the same time
The blackbird flew back and forth to its brood.
15.Femininity
acting, or having qualities which are traditionallyconsidered to be suitable for a woman
With his long dark eyelashes, he looked almost feminine.
16.Indecent
morally offensive, especially in a sexual way
She accused him of making indecent suggestions to her.
17.Suffragette
a woman in Britain, Australia and the United States in the early 20th century who was a member of a group thatdemanded the right of women to vote and that increasedknowledge of the subject with a series of public protests
18.Rape
to force someone to have sex when they are unwilling, using violence or threatening behaviour
19.Objectivity
based on real facts and not influenced by personal beliefsor feelings
Judges must weigh the evidence logically and objectively.
20.mugging
an act of attacking someone and stealing their money
Police are concerned that mugging is on the increase.
21.eminary
a college for training people to become priests
22.Commit
to do something illegal or something that is consideredwrong
He was sent to prison for a crime that he didn't commit.
23.daffodil
a yellow bell-shaped flower with a long stem which iscommonly seen in the spring
24.conventional
traditional and ordinary
disapproving I find his art rather dull and conventional
25.proposal
a suggestion, sometimes a written one
Congress has rejected the latest economic proposal put forward by the president.
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