Word Groups #8
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- Wave (살살 굽이치다) -- verbs
- undulate, fluctuate, ripple, roll, sway, swing, wave, weave... "As we travel south, the countryside begins to undulate as the rolling hills sweep down to the riverbanks."; "Her body slowly undulated in time to the music."
- Forbid -- verbs
- ban, debar, disallow, inhibit, interdict, outlaw, prohibit, proscribe, taboo, forbid, enjoin... "The judge enjoined Varityper from using the ad in any way."; "The National Trust has placed an interdict on jet-skis in Dorset, Devon and Cornwall."
- Ease/ Pacify -- verbs
- propitiate, pacify, appease, assuage, calm, conciliate, dulcify, gentle, mollify, placate, soften, soothe, sweeten, pour oil on troubled water
- Edge (옆걸음질하다, 가만가만 다가들다) -- verbs
- sidle, ease, edge, inch, saunter, tilt, veer
- Omen -- adjectives
- apocalyptic, apocalyptical, baneful, dire, direful, fire-and-brimstone, grave, hellfire, ominous, unlucky, looming, pretentious, premonitory, ill-boding, pompous
- Opportunity -- adjectives
- advantageous, encouraging, favorable, fortunate, golden, good, happy, hopeful, propitious, prosperous
- Criticize -- verbs
- admonish, advise, alert, caution, chide, criticize, enjoin, lecture, rebuke, remind, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, upbraid, warn... "There's no call for talk like that,' Mrs Evans reproved him."; "She admonished him gently, `You should rest, not talk so much."; "The president rebuked the House and Senate for not passing those bills within 100 days."
- Quibble (to raise unnecessary or trivial objections) -- verbs
- quibble, cavil, carp, niggle, nitpick, pettifog... "I don't think this is the time to cavil at the wording of the report."; "Council members spent the day quibbling over the final wording of the resolution."
- Oblique (비스듬한, 간접적인, 부정한)
- oblique, angled, askance, askew, aslant, awry, backhanded, bent, crooked, cross, devious, diagonal, duplicitous, evasive, inclined, indirect, louche, perverse, pitched, roundabout, sidelong, sideways, sidewise, sinister, skew, slanted, slanting, sloped, tangential, tilted, underhand, vague, beveled, biased... "oblique hints"; "oblique dealings"
- Wrong -- adverbs
- awry, afield, amiss, astray
- Speech (장황하게 논하다) -- verbs
- reiterate, belabor... "I won't belabor the point, for this is a familiar story."
- Urge -- verbs
- exhort, press, admonish, advise, caution, encourage, goad, incite, persuade, plead, preach, press, prod, spur, urge, warn... "Kennedy exhorted his listeners to turn away from violence."
- Skepticism -- adverbs
- askance, askant, askew, asquint, critically, crooked, cynically, doubtfully, obliquely, sideways, sidewise, skeptically... "They have always looked askance at the western notion of democracy."
- Vortex (회오리바람, 소용돌이와 같은 피할 길 없이 빨려들어가는 혼란스러운 사태) -- nouns
- vortex, cyclone, eddy, gyre, spiral, tornado, tourbillion, twister, waterspout, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind... "When marriages break down children are swept into the vortex of their parents' embittered emotions."; "the vortex of war 전란(戰亂)"; "in the vortex of busy work 바쁜 와중에"
- Object -- verbs
- remonstrate, challenge, demur, expostulate, inveigh, protest, argue, combat, complain, criticize, dispute, expostulate, fight, object, oppose, profess, rebel, reproach... "On a public board of a certain portal site, netizens have begun signing a statement of protest, with the aim to collect 10,000 signatures, to remonstrate against the chain of safety accidents in Lotte World."
- Fate -- nouns
- kismet, destiny, doom, fate, lot, predestination
- Luck -- adjectives
- providential, fortunate, lucky... "The pistols were loaded so our escape is indeed providential."
- Martinet -- nouns
- martinet, authoritarian, dictator, disciplinarian, ramrod, tyrant... "He's a retired Lieutenant Colonel and a bit of a martinet."
- Labyrinth -- nouns
- labyrinth, cat's cradle, entanglement, jungle, knot, maze, mesh, morass, skein, snarl, web... "a labyrinth of streets"
- Intimidate -- verbs
- badger, bully, heckle, hound, taunt, hector, bludgeon, browbeat, bulldoze, cow, menace, threaten
- Disapproval --nouns
- reproof, admonishment, admonition, reprimand, reproach, scolding
- Avoid (회피하다, 돌아서 오다, 법규에서 빠질 구멍을 생각해내다) -- verbs
- bypass, circumnavigate, detour, go around, circumvent, burke, bypass, dodge, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, get around, shun, skirt... "in order to circumvent strict regulations for the opening of new casinos"; "exploring new loopholes to circumvent tax rules"
- Accident -- adjectives
- adventitious, accidental, casual, extrinsic, foreign, fortuitous, nonessential... "an adventitious disease 우발병 《후천성의 병》"
- (배가) 기울다, (차가) 흔들리다 -- verbs
- careen, bend, cant, incline, keel, lean, list, lurch, pitch, slant, slope, stagger, sway, swing, tilt, tip, veer, weave
- Bounce (당구공처럼) -- verbs
- carom, bounce, bump, glance, graze, rebound, ricochet, skim, strike
- Turn (나선형으로 회전하다) -- verbs
- circle, gyrate, circulate, revolve, rotate, spin, spiral, turn, twirl... "the gyrations of the currency markets"
- Command -- verbs
- bid, charge, direct, instruct, order, tell, enjoin... "She enjoined me strictly not to tell anyone else."
- Twists and turns (구불구불 움직이는) -- adjectives
- sinuous, anfractuous, bending, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curving, curvy, deviating, devious, indirect, meandering, serpentine, slinky, snaky, twisting, wavy, winding, zigzag... "the silent, sinuous approach of a snake through the long grass."
- Indirect (도는 길의, 돌려서 넌지시 말하는) -- adjectives
- circuitous, anfractuous, ambiguous, circular, complicated, crooked, curved, deceitful, devious, indirect, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, rambling, roundabout, round about, serpentine, turning, twisted, underhand, wandering, winding
- Best -- adjectives
- best, greatest, height, ideal, maximum, peak, supreme, zenith, optimal, superlative, unsurpassed
- (강물이) 굽이쳐 흐르다, (눈이) 펄펄 흩날리다, 정처없이 다니다 -- verbs
- meander, amble, curve, drift, ramble, roam, rove, snake, stray, turn, twist, wander, wind, zigzag, coil, corkscrew, curl, entwine, snake, spiral, twine, twist, weave, wreathe, promenade, saunter... "roads that meandered round the edges of the fields."; "We meandered through a landscape of mountains, rivers, and vineyards."
- Serrate (톱니 모양이 들쭉날쭉한) -- adjectives
- serrate(d), denticulate, erose, jagged, notched, toothed... "Bread knives should have a serrated edge."; "a serrate leaf"