Thẻ ghi nhớ: 4000 wf part 2

2000. I congratulate her on the elegance and _____ with which she stood on her head. (FRIGID)

2000. sangfroid

2001. She struck me as an extremely _____ young woman with a lot of presence. (POSSESS)

2001. self-possessed

2003. She seems _____ by her sudden success and fame. (FAZE)

2003. unfazed

"2004. She's totally _____ - you have to be when working in such a high-pressure environment. (FLAP)"

2004. unflappable

2005. The students we spoke to were surprisingly _____ in talking about sex. (INHIBIT)

2005. uninhibited

2006. For a man in danger of losing his job, he appeared fairly _____. (RUFFLE)

2006. unruffled

2007. She said that she was feeling completely _____ about the wedding. (STRESS)

2007. unstressed

2008. Sometimes he was _____ childish. (CONTEMPT)

2008. contemptibly

2009. He suffered a serious, permanent and _____ head injury. (ABLE)

2009. disabling

2010. He said that prisoners had been _____ abused. (GRACE)

2010. disgracefully

2011. I have never seen anything so _____ large in my entire life. (GROTTO)

2011. grotesquely

"2012. It's a _____ difficult job. (HELL)"

2012. hellishly

2013. He was _____ on revenge. (BEND)

2013. hell-bent

2014. Korea is _____ in its demands for a new treaty. (YIELD)

2014. unyielding

2015. He has earned a reputation as a stern and _____ politician. (BEND)

2015. unbending

2016. The strikes were confined to a few traditionally _____ factories. (MILITANT)

2016. super-militant

2017. The political street brawler made it clear in a recent interview that he has no regrets about his _____ tactics. (SMASH)

2017. smashmouth

2018. The country is fortunate to have a leader who is so _____ focused on making things better for the people. (MIND)

2018. single-minded

2019. For the grey-haired, being young is often equated with being hot-headed, turbulent, _____, obstinate, and too hot to handle. (WILL)

2019. self-willed

"2020. Landowners' _____ about land reform helped precipitate the reaction against them. (CALCANEUS)"

2020. recalcitrance

2021. Tonight he faces the most _____ opponent of his boxing career. (DOUBT)

redoubtable

"2022. If you're determined to be so _____ stubborn and blind to the truth, so be it. (PIG)"

2022. pigheadedly

2023. In the film, when the medication runs out his _____ alterego is unleashed. (AGGRESSION)

2023. hyper-aggressive

2024. The rock weighed over a ton and was completely _____. (MOVE)

2024. immovable

2025. She was a _____ child, always getting into trouble. (STRONG)

2025. headstrong

"2026. He's _____, he smokes and drinks, he's too wrapped up in his work to have satisfying relationships. (BOIL)"

2026. hard-boiled

"2027. He's a _____ traditionalist where cooking is concerned - he doesn't allow any modern gadgets in the kitchen. (WOOL)"

2027. dyed-in-the-wool

2028. He bowed to her _____ will. (ADAMANT)

2028. adamantine

2029. This has quietly and _____ grown into a big problem. (SIT)

2029. insidiously

2030. Its agenda is as broad as it is deep, touching personal nerves and _____ prejudices. (SEAT)

2030. deep-seated

2031. Smoking has caused _____ damage to his lungs. (VERSE)

2031. irreversible

2032. The couple separated on the grounds of _____ breakdown. (RETRIEVE)

2032. irretrievable

2033. The human cell is _____ complex. (REDUCE)

2033. irreducibly

2034. There are _____ flaws in the logic of the argument. (REDEEM)

2034. irredeemable

2035. The belief that you should own your house is deeply _____ in our society. (GRAIN)

2035. ingrained

2036. Are you too _____ to buy tickets online? (COMPUTER)

computer-illiterate

2037. The amount due was a simple matter of mathematical _____. (COMPUTE)

2037. computation

2038. A _____ portion of the fee will be refunded. (RATE)

2038. prorated

2039. He gained a reputation as a smart _____ who could turn data into policy. (NUMBER)

2039. number-cruncher

2040. We can imagine cases where there is little divergence in the values yet _____ still occurs. (COMMUTE)

2040. non-commutativity

2041. This poses a problem for complex algebraic _____ approaches. (GRID)

2041. multigrid

2042. Students will be expected to represent problem situations _____. (ALGEBRA)

2042. algebraically

2043. Services will include a fast, 24/7, _____ connection to the Internet. (ON)

2043. always-on

2044. _____ are adopting innovative security measures to protect valuable information in the virtual world. (ACT)

2044. cyberactors

2045. Messages encrypted using the public key can be _____ only by someone with the private key. (CRYPT)

decrypted

2046. _____ your computer overnight. (FRAGMENT)

2046. defragment

2047. Choose Properties from the _____ menu and select the Device Manager tab. (DROP)

2047. drop-down (pull-down)

2048. The value of the new television technology to the company is that it is highly _____. (EXPORT)

2048. exportable

2049. Unfortunately the _____ buyer had hit the wrong buttons on his computer keypad, before clicking the send button. (FINGER)

2049. fat-fingered

2050. _____ is one of the key threats that organizations face today. (HACK)

2050. hacktivism

2051. He received praise for the ability to make _____ adjustments to compensate for days when he was not at his best. (GAME)

2051. in-game

"2052. If a doctor _____ a drug chart, they could put the patient's life at risk. (WRITE)"

2052. miswrote

2053. Make sure you _____ your essay before you hand it in. (SPELLING)

2053. spellcheck

2054. There is great potential for _____ if working in an IT based industry. (COTTAGE)

2054. telecottaging

"2055. After you have _____ the file, click on the 'Start' button. (ZIP)"

2055. unzipped

2056. Learning to _____ has made my work much quicker. (TYPE)

2056. touch-type

2057. Until relatively recently, the Japanese car industry was the _____ of international success. (TOUCH)

2057. touchstone

2058. The system has a _____ control panel. (TOUCH)

2058. touch-sensitive

2059. All he ever talks about is football. He's got a _____ mind. (TRACK)

2059. one-track

2060. The researchers discovered that moving among certain social groups involves participating in constant _____. (UP)

2060. one-upmanship

2061. For the first six years of its life the company was a _____ pony. But what a trick! (TRICK)

2061. one-trick

2062. Duggan, a TV personality and _____ journalist, made the announcement last week. (TIME)

2062. one-time

2063. It was _____ whether they'd allow him into the country or not. (TOUCH)

2063. touch-and-go

2064. He delivers a funny, poignant and _____ dignified performance. (TOUCH)

2064. touchingly

2065. Hand dryers are available with push button or _____ automatic operation. (TOUCH)

2065. touchless

2066. He needs to persuade the _____ in the cabinet. (LINE)

2066. hard-liners

"2067. It's very difficult to change attitudes that have become so deeply _____ over the years. (TRENCH)"

2067. entrenched

2068. We have been left with an almost _____ difficult set of problems to solve. (SUPER)

2068. insuperably

2069. Open-plan offices function well for people who need to be communicating with each other all the time. (PLAN)

2069. open-plan

2070. The referendum was the first major vote in the era of _____ politics. (TRUE)

2070. post-truth

"2071. Not being one of the _____, I failed to understand the ballet's subtler points. (COGNITION)"

2071. cognoscenti

"2072. The reduction of crime levels is the _____ of the president's domestic policies. (CENTRE)"

2072. centrepiece

"2073. Tourism is the _____ of Hawaii's economy. (LIFE)"

2073. life-blood

"2074. He's slightly aggressive, which a lot of people find _____ when they first meet him. (PUT)"

2074. off-putting

2075. They used a _____ excessive amount of violence. (SICK)

2075. sickeningly

2076. I hate the ads that use _____ cute children and animals. (NAUSEA)

2076. nauseatingly

2077. We were treated to the _____ spectacle of Congressmen fighting like children. (EDIFICE)

2077. unedifying

2078. The novel, while almost _____ sad, is still a joy to read. (BEAR)

2078. unbearably

2079. I had to get up at some _____ hour in the morning to take her to the airport. (GOD)

2079. ungodly

2080. Against this background was an _____ fact: the poverty of the suburbs where the immigrants were concentrated. (PALATE)

2080. unpalatable

2081. He described fox hunting as _____ cruel. (SPEAK)

2081. unspeakably

2082. The safety precautions taken by large resort hotels are often _____ inadequate for the number of people who stay there. (WOE)

2082. woefully

2083. The children are _____ unhappy because of some social or economic factor in their background. (WRETCH)

2083. wretchedly

2084. My daughter is so _____; her eyes are always riveted on her phone. (SCREEN)

2084. screen-obsessed

"2085. She never thinks about anyone else—she's completely _____! (OBSESS)"

2085. self-obsessed

"2086. Don't mention tax or Bernard'll get on his _____ again. (HORSE)"

2086. hobbyhorse

"2087. He became _____ with his best friend's wife. (FIX)"

2087. fixated

2088. These people are caught in a toxic _____ of what they call "the Old Way". (FETISH)

2088. fetishisation

2089. Troops crossed the border _____. (OPPOSE)

2089. unopposed

2090. It was a _____ thing and Millar had to endure a five-minute wait before the judges decided that he had won. (RUN)

2090. close-run

2091. The hopeless _____ and fools who populate the book are no reflection upon those who know the author. (CHANCE)

2091. chancers

2092. "South London" is a _____ term for anywhere south of the river. (CATCH)

2092. catch-all

2093. They raced ahead into new markets, leaving other companies to play _____. (CATCH)

2093. catch-up

2094. Some _____ threatened Helen with the video they secretly made. (MAIL)

2094. blackmailers

2095. Is editing your profile pic to make yourself look better really so different from _____? (CAT)

2095. catfishing

2096. The local business community has been destroyed by corruption, cheating and _____. (DEAL)

2096. double-dealing

2097. He _____ his way into a powerful job. (FAST)

2097. fast-talked

2098. If you feel your insurance was _____ and would like to know how to get a refund, then follow the simple steps below. (SELL)

2098. missold

2099. The university was divided into those people who thought he was a genius and those who thought he was a _____. (MOUNT)

2099. mountebank

2100. You think you can _____ me? (SMART)

2100. outsmart