Between a rock and a hard place

vocabulary revision

WARNING many lists are of dubious usefulness. Vocabulary should be learnt in context. What follows is just a quick revision list and is no substitute for careful dictionary work and your own notetaking.

Match the key words with their definitions:

1. ordeal
2. amputate
3. in dire straits
4. trail
5. spur of the moment
6. blunt
7. course of action
8. ingenuity
9. quintessential (example)
10. improvise
11. formidable
12. spiritual
13. gory
14. gruelling

a. in a very difficult situation
b. immediately
c. a difficult experience to go through
d. unable to cut
e. to cut off, sever
f. path
g. perfect
h. disturbingly big
i. involving suffering and hardship
j. religious
k. with blood or something similarly horrible
l. cleverness, inventiveness
m. to invent or make up
n. a thing to do


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