English/100.adoc

100 Sentences

• We become more defensive when criticized, and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our own esteem.

affirm	deliberate	empirical	flatter
genuine	intuition	portray	profound
superiority	inferiority	despise	disdain
scorn	contemn	humiliate	insult
lash	offend	reproach	underrate

• Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point.

brisk	divine	formidable	retrospect
sober	solemn	unpretentious	vibrant

• Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed. Mail-box keeps the spammer out of our inboxes.

clumsy	incorporate	intricate	liable
notwithstanding	prosperous	reciprocal	resort
reveal	utilize	venture	whip

• At the same time, people continue to treat fire as an event that needs to be wholly controlled and unleashed only out of necessity.

unleash	adverse	averse	aggravate
casualty	disperse	scatter	dissipate
emission	emit	enclosure	evacuate
precaution	quench	pile

• As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don’t get the nod also may wish to move on.

cloak	commodity	deputy	disgrace
pursue	recruit	turbulent	conform
consent	weld

• Everyone needs to find their extra—their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.

deficit	discard	fluctuate	impair
impetus	momentum	strive	endeavor
headstrong	unbending	submissive	surge
surpass	textile	undermine	intensify

• It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is articulate our reactions to it, and not grasp music itself.

articulate	grasp	abrupt	aerial
antenna	consecutive	continuity	intensity
marvelous	metaphysical	overhear	plague
sensual	sonata	implicit	prevail

• Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them.

distinct	shaky	entitlement	ethic
lapse	sprout	stem	vermin

• A moralist, satirist, and social reformer, Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama English society.

morality	satirize	intricate	panorama
backdrop	bleak	installment	plunge
reputation	conceal	imprison	reform
steward	wound

• Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living.

retain	enviable	rural	coherence
alongside	dweller	endorse	meadow
pasture	mead	lucrative	renewal
renovation	sensible	sentiment	spectrum
bait	barn	ditch	famine
fell	fertile	flock	irrigate
orchard	ore	peasant	plough
reservoir	ripe	trench	entrenched

• Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only "sorting mechanism" in society should be profit and the market.

profit	disposable	lucrative	turnover
virtue	courtesy	diligence	painstaking
forgiveness	norm	criteria	intricate
ethics	bribe	bully	intimidate
bluster	vicious	debase	deceit
fraud	trickery	imposter	gamble
notorious	disreputable	strain	superficial
vice	versa	concede	confess

• We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever.

hail	extol	emigrant	promotion
proclaim	refugee	rigid

• The issue of voluntary past-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment.

decent	divert	erect	meditate
subordinate	transcend	exceed	underlie
vacant	reap	retake

• Firms are now studying how genes interact, looking for correlations that might be used to determine the causes of disease or predict a drug’s efficacy.

correlation	agitate	discrepancy	futile
genetics	innovation	monopoly	preliminary
renovate	symmetry	synthesis	photosynthesis

• Dead markets partly reflect the paralysis of banks which will not sell assets for fear of booking losses, yet are reluctant to buy all those supposed bargains.

paralysis	reluctant	bruising	concession
illiquid	vastly	appall	coward
dismay	dread	startle	timid

• He adds humbly that perhaps he was "superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully".

humbly	concisely	hazy	submissiveness
inferior	badge	pendulum	rim
fringe	rpd	scrap	shaft

• Many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess.

canon	bulletin	embark	enroll
faculty	holistic

• Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly.

sparing	anxious	extravagant	incentive
lottery	obsession	scarce	wage
coupon	hospitality	diminish	curtail
miniature	trifle

• These benefactors have succeeded in their chosen fields, they say, and they want to use their wealth to draw attention to those who have succeeded in science.

benefactor	distort	inevitable	unintentional
prestige	recipient	scatter	indict
dictator	captivate	beguile	intrigue
lure	entice	allure

• Perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to intangible qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way to size zero or wasp-waist physiques.

faint	intangible	wasp	physique
persuasion	ethical	impinge	scent
odor	slender	stylish	uplifting
amiable	arrogant	cocky	humble
blunt	bluff	eccentric	egp
hypocrisy	hypocritical	hysterical	imperial
queer	eccentric	slippery	sly
sympathetic	sympathize	tame	temperament
vanity	vicious	savage	weird