the charm of conversation is that it does not really start from anywhere, and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. the enemy of good conversation is the person who has “something to say.” conversation is not for making a point.
chant
derelict
hummock
stow
fodder
clamour
desolate
slump
squash
plight
invoke
civility
sovereign
commit
engulf
undoing
symbolize
adversary
alliance
prey
fallacy
incredulous
scalpel
perspicacious
trauma
shed
pedantic
desist
clutch
waif
charles lamb, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of sundays, unfettered the informal essay with his memorable old china and dream's children. there follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond lamb's frontier, indeed, "informal" may not be quite the right word to describe this essay; "limp" or " flaccid" or possibly "spongy" are perhaps more appropriate.
revolt
nostalgic
stature
provincial
mores
orgy
transitory
contingent
obsolescent
strife
he fought back at his tormentors with ________ of a corner red rat.
he monopolized the conversation by ________ of his own prowess at hunting and fishing.
it was alleged that he was present at the scene of the crime, but he ________ that he was in europe at the time.
it has become the ________ for royalty to appear as democratic and “ folksy” as the average politician.
the ________ between guelphs and ghibellines in medieval italy passed from controversy over papal authority to petty was between city states.
he was too nervous to speak and had to be ________ .
australia ________ the treaty of peace with japan on 10th april, 1952; new zealand on 29th april, 1952.
he is a poet with ________ imagination.
________ clodhoppers guffawed at seeing male ballet dancers wearing tights.
the police were shocked by the_____ attack.
he is in a _____ position as the only part— time worker in the firm.
a____ person is unable to see what results of a particular action or decision will be; to think about anything outsides his own situation.
the two all independent countries entered into_____with each other and they felt less afraid of their powerful neighbor.
you have to be so _____about everything and only trust yourself.
he hasn' t received the latest issue of national insurance because he forgot to pay the _____ for it in time.
children do not know by_____the difference between right and wrong.
society is_____ together by certain commonly held beliefs.
unemployment was proving to be an _____ problem.
it' s not a hotel, in the_____ sense, but rather a whole village turned into a hotel.
dwelling
strand
vague
distress
miraculous
. scorn
sullen
perseverance
plaintive
ramshackle
i did not say anything. as so often with piquette, there did not seem to be anything to say. there was a kind of silence around the image in my mind of the fire and the snow, and i wished i could put from my memory the look that i had seen once in piquette's eyes.