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The best way to improve your vocabulary is to read a lot and every time you come across a new word or a phrase, you must try to look it up in a dictionary. Then instead of trying to remember it, you should write down that new word or phrase in a diary.
Today we are sharing some words and phrases from this book “With Malice Towards None – The Life of Abraham Lincoln” by Stephen B. Oates.
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eschew
loquacious
inveigh against
John was writing so ecstatically about the city that Adam’s head began to swim.
a blizzard came raging across the prairie
a freezing downpour
travel was perilous
newfangled railroads
curtail exorbitant interest rates
inchoate
retiring some of his debts
fracas
proboscis
economic panacea
squelch antislavery protest
bucolic
a fusillade
penchant for something
empurpled rhetoric
obstreperous
nebulous
an albatross around one’s neck
a coffle
cataract (a large waterfall)
a tyro
shrewd – a shrewd politician, a shrewd move, shrewd enough to
an intellectual gadfly, political gadflies
a hick
fallacious argument
fallacy
roil
shibboleth of
expatiated on
a scissors-and-paste job
bailiwick
condone violence
differences between them were more of degree than of kind
gibbet
hangman’s noose
fait accompli
a gauche
plug-uglies
derringer
a Kossuth hat
face was desiccated
buttonhole (verb)
sophism
a brisk March wind was blowing
caisson
smells wafted in
it was swarmed with politicians
salvo ( a salvo of gunfire, a salvo of laughter, opening salvo)
marionette
their chances were slander
corduroy road
dilatory behavior, dilatory tactics, dilatory in doing something
goggle eyed
predicated
predicate on something
dragooned into fighting a war
bayou
pell-mell – He ran pell-mell up to the White House
shattered the myth of passivity
cavil
I have a cavil about this movie.
make piecemeal attempts
antebellum days
extirpate
fatuity
filibuster
There was not a scintilla of truth to either speculation.
He recounted the event in a spirit of levity
encore
glower
rile
catafalque
reprieve
grant a reprieve
a dramatic play called Aladdin had just opened
The actor ad-libbed a line
mourning crepe on one arm
measured cadence
rotunda
a funeral cortege
The legitimate object of the government is to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they can not, by individual effort do at all or do so well, for themselves.
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall
True patriotism is more holy than false piety
