Improve Gaokao English Listening: Immersive Passage Training to Help Adolescents Master 3500 Core Words

adj

1. socially uncomfortable
unsure and constrained in manner

e.g. awkward and reserved at parties
ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know
was always uneasy with strangers

Synonym: ill at ease(p)uneasy

2. causing inconvenience

e.g. they arrived at an awkward time

3. hard to deal with
especially causing pain or embarrassment

e.g. awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion
an awkward pause followed his remark
a sticky question
in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign

Synonym: embarrassingstickyunenviable

4. not elegant or graceful in expression

e.g. an awkward prose style
a clumsy apology
his cumbersome writing style
if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?

Synonym: clumsycumbersomeinaptineptill-chosen

5. lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance

e.g. an awkward dancer
an awkward gesture
too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes
his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot

6. difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape

e.g. an awkward bundle to carry
a load of bunglesome paraphernalia
clumsy wooden shoes
the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl

Synonym: bunglesomeclumsyungainly

noun

1. a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

Synonym: biaspreconception

noun

1. the act of withdrawing

e.g. the withdrawal of French troops from Vietnam

2. the termination of drug taking

Synonym: drug withdrawal

3. formal separation from an alliance or federation

Synonym: secession

4. a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation

Synonym: coitus interruptuswithdrawal methodpulling outonanism

5. the act of ceasing to participate in an activity

6. the act of taking out money or other capital

7. the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.

e.g. the nurse was expert at the withdrawal of blood

8. a retraction of a previously held position

Synonym: backdownclimb-down

9. avoiding emotional involvement

Synonym: detachment

adj

1. compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming

e.g. she is addicted to chocolate
addicted to cocaine

noun

1. a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

Synonym: progressiveprogressive tenseimperfect tensecontinuous tense