Monday, October 29, 2007

More Tale of Two Cities Vocabulary

The man was very besmirched looking as he lay out on the street with the sense that he was corrupted or tarnished in some way.
As he hid that blunderbuss under his coat, the other man could see the old gun in plain view.
He lay cadaverous looking, sprawled out on the ground as he was, like a dead body.
The woman stopped capitulating toward the stranger; she had given in to his almighty power over her.
The contraband had fallen into the wrong hands; the forbidden substance was in great danger.
He had discomposed the grave in the cemetery; he had disturbed it.
It made me feel bad seeing him so dolefully; to see him sad like that hurt me more than it hurt him.
The man with his swirling smile looked very eddying to the crowd.
The girl was emaciated due to her abnormal eating habits of not eating at all.
In the epoch of the dinosaurs, the era was ruled by many uncivilized beasts.
The team of explorers expeditiously mapped the entire area; perfect accuracy and care was needed to perform this duty correctly.
There was an expostulation sticking out of his coat; the projecting object looked inapt in the place that is was positioned.
The boy feigned in such a way that it was disturbing to even try to comprehend the fact that it was all a fake.
I acted very genial when I saw the same, friendly look on his face.
The teacher was very inscrutable when it came to world politics because I wasn’t the only person there who couldn’t understand what he was saying.
Seeing the lady act so insensible toward the poor shop clerk, I was forced to step in and stop the horrible lack of understanding by the woman.
The whole crew was extremely mutinous and rebellious toward the captain when they had been at sea for three months and still had not found land.
It was a myriad number of days before the seemingly everlasting journey was over at last.
The outspoken woman was nondescript because of her plainness and lack of fashion.
The postilion stopped the carriage and got out to let the passengers out of the back.
The provender, or provisions, of the farmers was so great because of the lack of crops produced this year.
The requisition for fish this year was so great, that the fish vendors requested that people eat less fish than usual.
The retinue of Jesus was a large number as he was so popular with his people.
The rustic community of Portsmouth is the opposite of the urban community of Providence.
The sagacity of the wise men was so great that they could answer any question without having to think about it.
A substratum between my house and the ground is needed to keep my house firmly on the ground with the support it needs.
The turnkey was forced to jail so many criminals this past year, that a second jailer was needed to keep up with it all. The unfathomable ocean floor lay deep at the bottom of the ocean.

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