Unit 3
compassion = sympathy marginal = secondary shirk = evade lust = craving swaggering = pretentious bully = tough chattering = gossiping brawling = fighting sneering = scoffing whimpered = sobbed
1.He has a hobby of collection colorful inscriptions found in old graveyards.
2.Many ancient religious rituals and customs have been carried over into modern times and
incorporated into both secular and religious observations.
3. A brave or gallant fighter carries out a dangerous mission, not without fear, but without
letting fear preventing him from doing his duty.
4.The researchers argued that only a(n) negligible rise in atmospheric radioactivity resulted
from the test.
5.The detective was first puzzled then thoroughly mystified as to why she had never mentioned
her husband on the hundreds of diaries entries she had made.
6.Many Chinese painters preferred less grandiose subjects than did the western painters
7.Jefferson had no constitutional authority to buy the territory from France, but Congress
eventually appropriated funds and approved the land deal.
8.Many cultures do not value openness and directness because, to them, Openness and
directness seem rude and destructively infantile
9.If we glimpse the unutterable, it is unwise to try to utter it nor should we seek to invest with
significance what we cannot grasp.
10.During the 1980s the increase in reports of violent use of guns underscored a major problem
in the United Sates.
Evidence from many ancient societies
which game into permitted use but organized with started beginning when while By and resisted that growing in right attracting
What many young people fail to realize is the fact that
you don’t have to be much better than (the) most others on order to do well
Only a slightly(slight) superiority may be enough to make a vast difference
Most of the people we call successful are not twice as smart (as)
Indeed, if they are only ten percent (more) proficient,
the best batting or passing records are not a greater(great) deal higher than the average
a fraction of an inch or a fraction of a second may distinguish the winner into(from)the also-rans…
If you can average five to ten percent better--even(no) more--than others in your field
You only have to be a little bit better than most in which(what) you do
Just a little steady(steadier)
They would not have any cause to feel so conceit(conceited)
