Phrase
lavishly decorated
"This is going to be perfectly
splendid."
excellent
The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath. Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down.
young person endowed with
exceptional qualities
the cot was colorless
and stark
bare in appearance
And yet something seemed to guide me anywaya quickening in the chest; a whisper in the viscous air and suddenly I couldn’t wait another second.
thick consistency
He was a skinny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who had the pinched, slightly unhealthy look of someone who has grown a lot in a short space of time. His jeans were torn and dirty, his T-shirt baggy and faded, and the soles of his trainers were peeling away from the uppers
wears eyeglasses
a day merges through a multitude of shades
a large number
When we got the letter in the post, my mother was ecstatic.
full of joy
He hurled a bomb at the imperial carriage. Miraculously, the tsar was uninjured, but many in his retinue were not as lucky. Concerned about his people, Alexander stepped from his carriage. That’s when a second bomb was thrown. This one landed between his feet.
entourage
Bilbo was very rich and very peculiar and had been the wonder of the Shire
energetic activity
This had been her mother, the warm and vital woman whose name had been Katrina.
full of energy
At the age of four, she could read fast and well and she naturally began hankering after books. The only book in the whole of this enlightened household was something called Easy Cooking belonging to her mother, and when she had read this from cover to cover and had learnt all the recipes by heart, she decided she wanted something more interesting.
a strong desire