Vocab. recap:
elision - The omission of a vowel, consonant or syllable in pronunciation. Blending your words together. (hl)
If you master the rules of elision in English, your speech will sound more [smooth] and [natural].
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paren(the)tic mnemonic semantic
choppy - Of speech, not smooth and flowing, halting. (col)
Her English is [grammatically] correct, but somewhat choppy.
(of a novel) [The plot] was too choppy for my taste; the author fails to create [continuity] between the chapters.
creative license - A kind of literary device. Refers to the way in which artists and authors [bend] or [break] rules in order to [achieve] a particular [aesthetic] or creative effect.
The poet K was criticized by his contemporaries for his blatant disregard [for] convention. It was not until years after his death that critics came to appreciate his liberal [use] of creative license.
Orwell [took] some creative license [with] the historical events of the Russian Revolution.
word play - creative [use] of language.
Shakespeare was known for his ample [use] of word play.
fellow, guy, chap, dude, man, guy, gentleman -
Guy is what most American young people use to refer to any grown man. I say dude too, but it is perhaps a little slangier.
see advert (refer to, stuffy)
Gentleman is a polite word for a grown man.
Chap sounds British to me. I would avoid it.
Fellow sounds outdated to be used in normal contexts, but it does have some idiomatic usages: sorry fellow - a worthless person, a rogue. (惡棍)
see brogue
Fellow has another meaning in the academic world - someone who is part of some scholarship program or academic association.
She was one of only three people selected to be [Hugh's] Fellow this year.
strike as - to give one the impression of being someway.
She strikes me as [an extremely talented young woman].
I only read the first chapter, but the author's style struck me as [excessively elaborate and almost florid]. (鮮紅色的,過分華麗的)
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lurid dun tawny
uncouth - clumsy, awkward or unmannerly. (hl)
His uncouth cousin proved to be [an] [embarrassment] at every family gathering.
This word is a little similar to philistine, but not the same. Philistine refers more to [a] lack of
cultural sensitivity,
intellectual pursuit[s], or
aesthetic refinement; whereas uncouth emphasizes poor manners.
An uncouth person is called a boor (hl).
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fumble
incongruous cacophony
juxtapose - to draw a contrast between two things, or to describe two ideas as opposite, incompatible and conflicting.
Her theory juxtaposed [religion] and [science].
The journalist's Olympic coverage juxtaposed [the extravagance] of Beijing's new buildings, [with] [the slums] which still cover much of the city.
frolic
[From] the surreal opening image of a Christ statue "flying" over Rome by helicopter
[through] Anita Ekberg's [frolic] in the Trevi Fountain
[to] the final beach scene,
Fellini [filled] his first [foray] into widescreen photography with evocative imagery [juxtaposing]
[ancient Rome]
[with] [modernity], surface beauty with spiritual desolation.
virtuoso
Suzanne's interest in Chinese marionettes [links] Hou's Red Balloon (as well as the original) [to] his 1992 masterpiece, The Puppetmaster. The mode can be off-handedly self-reflexive,
[as when]
Hou's camera ponders the virtuosity of two movers [maneuvering] a piano up an impossibly narrow stairway,
[or]
in the melancholy [juxtaposition] of
[archaic 8mm home movies]
[with] [Suzanne's voiceover characterizations].
punctuate
A movie that encourages the spectator to rummage, Flight of the Red Balloon is contemplative but never static, and [punctuated] by passages of pure cinema.
vacillate
As Eli, Paul Dano's voice [vacillates] between
[a soft-spoken gentleness in his serene moments] and
[a thin, reedy growl during his Biblical orations].
It is Conchita's emotional ambivalence towards the tenaciously persistent suitor that is reflected through the physical [vacillation] between the two actresses playing the role of Conchita,
[Carole Bouquet (cold and demure)] and
[Angela Molina (sensual and aggressive).]
oscillate
(figuratively, to vacillate)
Like [a flower in the wind], he [oscillated] between
[one view] and
[another], unable to make up his mind.
osculate
(to kiss, to touch)
His chief political skill was in [osculating] the infants of eligible voters.
pet peeve - a personal annoyance.
One of [my] pet peeves is being late.
vial
pour out vial[s] of wrath
travail
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