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トフル あかい 19
Term | Definition | |
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wreckage | broken and disordered parts or material from something | Workers sifted through the wreckage of the building, searching for bodies. |
woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief | She listened to his tale of woe. |
wobbly | lacking stability | He replied in a wobbly voice. |
vortex | any whirling motion or mass; a whirlpool or whirlwind | He was caught in a swirling vortex of terror. |
vomit | to expel the contents of the stomach through the mouth as a result of a series of | The patient was vomiting blood. |
volatile | characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change | The protests are increasing, creating a volatile situation in the capital. |
unanimous | shared as a view by all of the people concerned, with nobody disagreeing | The judges made a unanimous ruling. |
undercut | to offer to sell at lower prices than or to work for lower wages than a competitor | They undercut the competing store by 10 percent. |
uprising | an act or instance of rising up, especially a usually localized act of popular violence in defiance usually of an established government: rebellion | The government quickly put down the uprising. |
upturn | overturned completely; to turn or cause to turn from a vertical or horizontal position | an upturn in the economy |
tactile | discernible by touch | visual and tactile experiences |
tamper | to interfere so as to weaken or change for the worse -- used with "with" | The evidence has been tampered with. |
terrify | to make somebody feel frightened or alarmed | They represent a terrifying and destructive force that kills more than two out of every five Americans. |
tentative | likely to have many later changes before ti becomes final and complete | We have tentative plans for the weekend. |
sacred | regarded with particular reverence or respect | the sacred image of the Virgin Mary |
sanctioned by | adhering to beliefs or practices approved by authority or tradition | His actions were not sanctioned by his superiors. |
satire | a work, as a novel or play, that exposes folly by the use of humor or irony | His movies are known for their use of satire. |
savage | so intense as to cause extreme suffering | The coast was lashed by savage storms. |
scatter | to cause to separate and go in various directions | The wind scattered the pile of leaves. The crowd scattered when the police arrived. |
scavenger | an organism that feeds habitually on garbage or dead and putrefying flesh | New research casts T-Rex dinosaurs as little more than a scavenger, hunting out the kills of other carnivores and stealing them. |
wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid; to extract or obtain by or as if by twisting and compressing | I wrung my hair and wrapped it in a towel. |