Advanced Vocabulary Lists and Exercises

Advanced Vocabulary List 9 (beta version)

adverse: Unfavorable; harmful.
But on the passage the winds became adverse, and they were obliged to come to anchor off Sclavonia, where he remained some days in hopes of finding some other vessel bound to the Levant. - The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
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celebrate: When I win the lottery, we are going to celebrate with a huge party.
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coherent: Saskia's eyes widened as she took a sip from the glass Andreas was holding out to her and she gasped as the delicious bubbles exploded against her taste buds. - The Demetrios Virgin
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consecutive: Three consecutive, and unwelcome, thumps before sunrise; it meant she'd read Monday's Gazette already and left it in the mailbox on the service porch. - Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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detain: Max was detained by the police for more than 3 hours at the airport.
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disclose: Apparently the last thing Eet wanted to disclose was the life he might or might not have had before Valcyr swallowed the stone on the swamp world. - The Zero Stone
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disrobe: The nurse asked the patient to disrobe and wait for the doctor in the exam room.
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distort: Light reflecting from the vessel began to distort, and in a matter of moments the ship vanished. - Before Destruction
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enforce: The police are supposed to be here to enforce the law.
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flout: Openly disregard.
If in these pages I have appeared to flout his cautionary words, it is because he has given me an inward reassurance. - Autobiography of a Yogi
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hostile: Unfriendly; Antagonistic
Le Carré's stories deal with the personnel of the sponsor service and their opposite numbers in hostile services and rarely involve actual "agents," which accounts for the freshness and impact of his approach. - VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2
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lethal: A rattlesnake's venom is lethal.
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lubricate: To keep your bicycle going smoothly, you should lubricate all of the moving parts.
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malign: To speak bad about someone.
Please do not malign Mary. She is a very good person.
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meander: To follow a winding course; to wander.
Max arrived late to school everyday because instead of walking straight to school he�d first meander through the park hunting insects for his collection.
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prohibit: General Scott soon determined that the only mode of settlement was to prohibit or have an agreement on both sides to leave the territory unoccupied by either party until the matters in dispute could be arranged between the governments of the United States and Great Britain, taking the matter out of the jurisdiction of the State of Maine and the province of New Brunswick. - General Scott
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provoke: He would provoke -- I had to teach him football, right? - CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: The 'Odd Couple' Reunites - March 23, 2001
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recede: Her aches would recede, and her ears would return to normal. - The Irda
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remove: Late Latin dēviāre is based on the Latin adjective devius ` out of the way; off the road, 'which is also the ancestor of English DEVIOUS ` roundabout, circuitous; not straightforward, underhanded' and OBVIATE ` to remove from the way; to make unnecessary by anticipating or circumventing ' - VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
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revere: His behavior to me was such that I shall ever revere his name. - George Washington
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revoke: To take back by reversing; to cancel the validity of something.
The judge said that he would revoke my driver's license if I got another speeding ticket.
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ridicule: His ideas were ridiculed by his colleagues.
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stamina: Endurance; ability to sustain physical or mental effort.
You must have incredible stamina to compete in the Tour de France.
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subterfuge: Did she really see it only as a subterfuge, a cover to keep them from danger? - A Man Of Honour
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