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Date: 15/01/2022

Article 2

Article type: Essays & Opinions

Total Pages=15

Wordlist-Day4= 10-15 pages

Title:  Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man

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WORDS LIST
Word	Meaning	Sentence
Retreat	The noun retreat means a place you can go to be alone, to get away from it all. A spot under a shady tree might be your favourite retreat from the sun; move back, retrograde	The sun is slowly retreating across the buildings, but it’s not dark yet.
Culminate	End, especially to reach a final or climactic stage, reach the highest or most decisive point; climax, summit	She struggled to stay focused and push forward, but the culminating weight of everything that had happened that week wouldn’t leave her alone.
Stilted	The adjective stilted describes something—usually a style of writing or speaking—that is unnaturally formal. “when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation”	A stilted letter of acknowledgment
Disgust	Strong feelings of dislike; repel, revolt, nauseate	I left the room and went into a vacant office, boiling with anger and disgust.
Flinch	To flinch is to react to pain by wincing, pulling away, or cringing, draw back, as with fear or pain; quinch, quail, recoil, wince	I almost flinched at the sound of my own name.
Shushed	Silence ( someone ) by uttering ‘ shush !’	–
Respite	A respite is a break from something that’s difficult or unpleasant; abatement, hiatus, reprieve, suspension, recess	Though I dislike the songs, it is music nevertheless, and it is something of a respite from the life I have been living.
Untenable	(of theories etc) incapable of being defended or justified; indefensible	he complete absence of trust between Wendy and Axe is making their renewed relationship untenable.
Plundering	The act of stealing valuable things from a place; pillage	Kidd’s mission was to prowl the Indian Ocean, hunting pirates and plundering French vessels.
Pallid	Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; pale, wan,  (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness	She spent interminable hours staring at the pallid landscape that stretched out before her window.
Succumb	Use the verb succumb to say that someone yields to something they’ve tried to fight off, such as despair, temptation, disease or injury, give in, as to overwhelming force, influence, or pressure; relent, yield (If you succumb to cancer, it means you die of it)	He could have ended the beatings by running away or succumbing to tears, but he refused to do either.
Expediency	The quality of being suited to the end in view, taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others; opportunism	He has had, after all, a maddening tendency of prioritizing political expediency over principle during his career.
Pathos	A quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow), a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; poignancy	The tune was a simple but effective burst of pathos, delivered well.
Dire	Fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; desperate	In the bank’s dire need for cash to keep it afloat, everyone became a potential pawn, even its best, most loyal customers.
Complacency	The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself	This is Utopia, though, where any complacency will be punished.
Scepticism	Doubt about the truth of something; disbelief, incredulity	Despite initial, unfathomable scepticism at the idea of a Mitchell committing a crime, he is eventually arrested, charged and taken away.
Insufferable	Used of persons or their behavior; impossible, unacceptable, unsufferable, intolerable	It was boring, tedious, self-indulgent, hypocritical and insufferable.
Capitulation	The act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)	He does not want just capitulation, but admiration, enthusiasm, for himself and his ideas, and when he doesn’t get it he feels cheated.
Pinnacle	Peak, acme, elevation, height, meridian,  summit, superlative, tiptop, top, zenith	Once you have reached the pinnacle, you can carve your reputation.
Esoteric	Confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle; Secret, arcane, cryptic, abstruse, recondite	The courses seemed esoteric and disconnected from the race and poverty issues that had motivated me to consider the law in the first place.
Xenophobia	A fear of foreigners or strangers	A new study says distrust of those who speak with a foreign accent goes beyond common xenophobia.
Misanthropy	Hatred of mankind	Jealousy is a mental illness, the mother of all human failings, cruelty, hatred, misanthropy, the closing of your soul, selfishness, stinginess.

 

 

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