Hi, everyone! Let me share some cool vocabulary from my PR book with you once again!
1) Genial= diffusing warmth and friendliness –радушный, приветливый
He was a genial soul, very ready to talk and to answer any questions I asked him.
SYNONYMS: amiable, friendly, affable
ANTONYMS: rude ,mean, gloomy
2) Consummate= having or revealing supreme mastery or skill=непревзойденный, совершенный
Unless he was a consummate actor, a fraud simulating an astonishment he did not feel, this was an utterly convincing demonstration that he was still in the past.
SYNONYMS: gifted, talented, skilled.|
ANTONYMS: inept, poor
3) Façade= a showy misrepresentation to conceal something unpleasant-прикрытие, видимость
I have no feeling or evidence,’ the psychiatrist wrote, of any hysterical or “put-on” deficit. He lacks both the means and the motive to make a façade.
SYNONYMS: disguise, cloak
ANTONYMS: truth, reality
4) Drivel= a worthless message чушь, чепуха, бессмыслица
But were there depths in this unmemoried man, depths of an abiding feeling and thinking, or had he been reduced to a sort of Humean drivel, a mere succession of unrelated impressions and events?
SYNONYMS: nonsense, gibberish, tripe
ANTONYMS: sense, wisdom, truth
5) Fallible= likely to fail or make errors=склонный ошибаться, ненадежный
There was no forgetting, no Korsakov’s then, nor did it seem possible or imaginable that there should be; for he was no longer at the mercy of a faulty and fallible mechanism — that of meaningless sequences and memory traces…..
SYNONYMS: faulty, untrustworthy, imperfect
ANTONYMS: perfect, reliable, unerring
6) Confound= be confusing or perplexing to= озадачить, сбить с толку
This was an amazing thing to hear, confounded, confounding.
SYNONYMS: to confuse, to bewilder, to puzzle
ANTONYMS: to clarify, to clear up, to explain, to make clear
7) Solicitude= a feeling of excessive concern=обеспокоенность, забота
And society lacks words, and sympathy, for such states. The blind, at least, are treated with solicitude — we can imagine their state, and we treat them accordingly.
SYNONYMS: anxiety, care, concern, disquiet
ANTONYMS: carelessness, inattention, negligence, unconcern
8) Vociferate= utter in a very loud voice=кричать, голосить
He had somehow contrived to fall out of bed, and was now sitting on the floor, carrying on and vociferating, and refusing to go back to bed.
SYNONYMS: holler, shout, yell, bellow
ANTONYMS: be quiet, to whisper
9) Quip= witty remark=острота, тонкое замечание
It was New Year’s Eve, and everyone was celebrating. Half the staff were drunk; quips and crackers were flying; a carnival scene.
SYNONYMS: banter, pun, repartee
ANTONYMS: to gibe, gag
10) Incredulity= doubt about the truth of something=недоверие , скептицизм
He gazed at me with a look compounded of stupefaction, incredulity, terror and amusement, not unmixed with a jocular sort of suspicion, ‘Ah Doc!’ he said. ‘You’re fooling me! You’re in cahoots with that nurse — you shouldn’t kid patients like this!’
SYNONYMS: disbelief, skepticism, doubt
ANTONYMS: belief, certainty, sureness, trust
