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Prestigious 1100 Words You Need Prestigious 1100 Words You Need /presˈtɪdʒ.əs/ (adj) greatly respected and admired, usually because of being important, admirable, significant, paramount, impressive, high-status, prominent, esteemed, celebrated, exalted, influential, notable, respectable: Among film festivals, Cannes is the giant. The Palme d’Or is its most prestigious prize, and it’s the most widely coveted on…
Wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve Wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve to reveal your true feelings evidently, show your feelings, put one’s cards on the table, lay one’s cards on the table: With Maurine it hadn’t been any way she had dressed, though; and back then girls scarcely wore any make-up, only a little…
Ilk 1100 Words You Need Ilk 1100 Words You Need /ɪlk/ (noun) a particular type, kind, class, sort, like, breed, manner, character, variety: John, 3rd Earl of Athol, who succeeded his father in the year 1513, was married to Grizel Rattray, daughter of Sir John Rattray of that Ilk. The worst of her criticism was…
Incoherent 1100 Words You Need Incoherent 1100 Words You Need /ˌɪn.kəʊˈhɪə.rənt/ (adj) expressing yourself unclearly, expressed unclearly, especially with words or ideas that are joined together badly, disjointed, jumbled, illogical, insensible, all over the place, inarticulate, unintelligible, garbled, incomprehensible, mumbled, slurred: The concept of thought disorder has been criticized as being based on circular or…
Windfall 1100 Words You Need Windfall 1100 Words You Need /ˈwɪnd.fɔːl/ (noun) an amount of money that you win or receive from someone unexpectedly, money obtained unexpectedly, something that is blown down by wind, bonus, handout, bonanza, payout, dividend, win: A windfall gain or windfall profit is any type of unusually high or abundant income that is sudden and/or unexpected. Investors…
Quip 1100 Words You Need Quip 1100 Words You Need /kwɪp/ (noun & verb) an amusing and clever remark, humor, witticism, joke, jibe, wisecrack, pun, bon mot – to jest, to joke, to retort, kid: Sarcasm is an underrated art form. It takes plenty of smart power to create a hilarious sarcastic comeback or quip…
Lurid 1100 Words You Need Lurid 1100 Words You Need /ˈljʊə.rɪd/ (adj) 1. too brightly colored, gaudy, pale, wan, loud, garish, striking, colorful: That’s a very lurid shade of lipstick she’s wearing. 2. (especially of a description) shocking because involving violence, sex or immoral activity, outrageous, explicit, sensational, vivid: Responding to the article, Ian Wright,…
Sow One’s Wild Oats 1100 Words Sow One’s Wild Oats 1100 Words (of a man) to manage to have sexual relationships with so many women, especially while he is young, to lead a wild and carefree life: There is a saying: “If you sow wild oats for six days, pray for crop failure on day…
Sporadic 1100 Words You Need Sporadic 1100 Words You Need /spəˈræd.ɪk/ (adj) happening irregularly; not regular or continuous, periodic, intermittent, infrequent, patchy, erratic, random: sporadic gunfire a sporadic electricity supply More than 100 people have been killed this year in sporadic outbursts of ethnic violence. Millions of voters across swathes of southern India cast ballots…
Lax 1100 Words You Need Lax 1100 Words You Need /læks/ (adj) lacking care, attention or control; not severe, strict or strong enough, reckless, careless, tolerant, permissive, negligent, slack, nonjudgmental, relaxed: He took a gun through baggage control to highlight the lax security. The subcommittee contends that the authorities were lax in investigating most of…