UFS201 - 2nd VOCABULARY ENTRY

1. Either: After a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like

`likewise' or `also.

v  I don't deny my Muslim roots, but I don't vilify Europe either.

2. Whimpering: A complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way.

v  Championed by Woodrow Wilson to foster world peace after World War I, Geneva's League of Nations was steamrollered by war, and died with barely a whimper in 1946.

3. Anxious: Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety.

v  But we live in a particularly anxious age.

4. Riddle: A difficult problem.

v  None of the group can solve the riddle, but each has a fine musical time working it over.

5. Neither: Not one or the other.

v  Most of us are neither pilots nor astronauts.

6. Sprint: Usually for a short distance.

v  Since 1999, he has won the sprint world title twice.

7. Pattern: A decorative or artistic work.

v  More than the patterns have changed at Rosenthal.

8. Tricky: Not to be trusted.

v  The task is a tricky one, but Rubin remains bullish.

9. Athlete: A person trained to compete in sports.

v  So athletes who depend on the drugs are usually careful to stop using them before that time.

10. Contraction: A word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds.

v  Stomach contractions are generally unmistakable hunger signals to the stomach's owner.