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quiz 5

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Affront: an offense to one's dignity or self-respect; to make ashamed or confused;
Syn: indignity, provocation, insult
e.g.: It's an affront to human dignity to keep someone alive like this.
Blasé: indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures.
Syn: nonchalant, apathetic
e.g.: Chan has been known to be blasé about his Hollywood work
Cajole: to persuade by flattery or promises; wheedle; coax.
Syn: coax, flatter, deceive, delude, dupe
e.g.: I managed to cajole his address out of them
Choleric; extremely irritable or easily angered
Syn: irritable, irascible
e.g.: He was affable at one moment, choleric the next
Encumber: to impede or hinder; to block up or fill with what is obstructive or superfluous
Syn: bother, burden, block
e.g.: The girl's long skirt encumbers her while running.
Feckless 软弱的: having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy.
Syn: aimless, carefree, careless
e.g.: He regarded the young man as feckless and irresponsible
Impasse: a position or situation from which there is no escape
Syn: stalemate, deadlock, dilemma
e.g.: Negotiations have reached an impasse.
Indolent 懒惰的,无痛的: causing little or no pain; inactive or relatively benign
Syn: lazy, drony
e.g.: I don't want to make friends with indolent persons.
Lugubrious: mournful, dismal, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner
Syn: dismal, melancholy, mournful
e.g.: He plays some passages so slowly that they become lugubrious
Ribald: vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent;
scurrilous.
Syn: vulgar, obscene, bawdy, coarse
e.g.: The answer was lost in a shout of ribald laughter.
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