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The best way to improve your vocabulary is to read a lot and every time you come across a new word or a phrase, you must try to look it up in a dictionary. Then instead of trying to remember it, you should write down that new word or phrase in a diary.
Today we are sharing some words and phrases from this book “Bitter Lemons” by Lawrence Durrell.
New Words...
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Skim off something
Skim something
Bluestocking
Malapropism
Grampus
Potations
windlass
Golliwog
Provender
Filch away
Exeat
Exigent
Unwittingly
Resentment
Nacreous
Glaucous
Undertow
wiseacres
heifer
plaintive
outcrop
mouldering
Chaffering
darning
Dawdle
Drawstring
spread-eagled
canonical
comestibles
byre
suborn
opprobrium
anfractuous
rancour
referent
desuetude
Run up
Athwart
Hard by
Slobbering
Purlieu
tergiversation
Useful Phrases and Collocations
Things pushed to their extremes becomes their opposites.
A subject of inquiry
Flies and anopheles are kept down by municipal health-people.
In the long harangues about the government and its deficiencies there has never been any mention so far of dishonesty – only stupidity, arrogance, and ignorance.
Charges spring to the lips of indignant Greeks
voided a basketful of earth
The maid was apostrophizing the more approachable saints.
He could take a mild teasing about his nationalistic convictions with good humour.
No rights are prized so much as the local rights to which a man is born.
A king has started on his downward path by tampering with the rights of city wards.
No race, however weak, prefers a stranger ( a foreigner in this context) in the chair of state.
He couldn’t catch the mule so he gave the saddle a good thrashing.
Rot slowly like a gangrened limb
Receded like a mirage before a thirsty man
She came through for a few days on her way to Turkey.
One might run one’s hand affectionately over the flanks of a favourite horse.
Silence one keeps for someone who has just suffered an irreparable bereavement.
Portion something out
The flute squeaked and yipped
Whimper of a mandolin
A sky covered in ugly festoons of dark clouds
Storm had begun to lift
Sun was getting out
Write out a cheque
He motioned me to silence
I will be darned
I found my friend freshly shaven and spruce
searing by something
cast a furtive glance at someone
Coached me in
Its shadow incapacitates one for serious work
He pronounced the word after village fashion
Being of a scientific turn of mind
Sweat-slobbered shirt
On a certain night of the year
Workmen could not execute designs so rare
Making heavy weather of something
Under weather
To try to cadge a free consultation from him
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