Tham khảo tài liệu 'word smart ii phần 3', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 58 WORD SMART II CHURL n churl a rude person a boor Too much wine made Rex act like a churl he thumped his forefinger on the waiter s chest and demanded to speak to the manager. To be a churl is to be churlish. Rex s churlish behavior toward the waiter made him unwelcome at the restaurant. Everyone was appalled by his churlishness. CHUTZPAH n HUT spuh brazenness audacity This slang word comes from the Yiddish. The bank manager had so much chuizpah that during a recent robbery he asked the stick-up men to sign a receipt for the money they were taking and they did Note carefully the pronunciation of this word. . CIPHER n SYE fer zero a nobody a code the solution to a code The big red cipher at the top of his paper told Harold that he hadn t done a very good job on his algebra exam. George was a cipher after he had transferred to a new school no one could remember what he looked like. Heather loved codes and she quickly figured out the simple cipher that older girls had used to write one another secret messages about boys. To decipher di SYE fer a coded message is to decode it. To encipher en SYE fer a message is to put it into code. Larry s emotions were hard to decipher the expression on his face never gave one a clue as to what he was feeling or thinking. Q U I C K Q u l z 17 Match each word in the first column with its definition in the second column. Check your answers in the back of the book. 1. chaff a. worthless stuff 2. chameleon b. highly changeable person 3. champion c. chuckle with glee 4. channel d. pure and unadorned 5. chaste e zero 6. cherub f. supercute child 7. chortle g. direct 8. churl h. brazenness 9. chutzpah i. defend 10. cipher j. rude person CIRCUMNAVIGATE V sur kum NAV uh gayt to sail or travel all the way around Magellan s crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe. Circumnavigating their block took the little boys most of the THE WORDS 59 morning because they stopped in nearly every yard to play with their Ninja Turtles. The word can .
