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biography
future, destiny
Her biography revealed that she was not as rich as everyone thought.
history life
usually written history of life
A biography is a true story about someone's life.
noun
John James Audubon
noun
John James Audubon was an American self-trained artist,
It's fair to describe John James Audubon as a genius, a pioneer, a fabulist, and a man whose actions reflected a dominant white view of the pursuit of scientific knowledge.
undermine
spoil,undercut
support, improve
lessen the effectiveness, power, or ability of, especially gradually or insidiously.
verb
plummeting
crash, drop
rise. uprise. ascend. get up.
House prices have plummeted in recent months.
fall or drop straight down at high speed.
verb
impatiens
noun
an East African plant with abundant red, pink, or white flowers. It is often grown as a houseplant, and its many hybrids are grown as bedding plants.
The production of a flower-bud has even been noticed on the root of a species of Impatiens.
salary
noun
a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker.
she got her salary last friday
money
debt. bills.
shimmering
The green gems reflected the sunshine, shimmering through the clear water.
dark. dull. gloomy.
glint
glisten
shining with a soft, slightly wavering light.
adjective
splurge
spend, squander, throw away,
save, keep
an act of spending money freely or extravagantly.
Charlotte made a rare splurge on an expensive bottle of perfume.
verb
opera
work of art
reality.
direction
a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists.
noun
I am going to an opera tonight.
French Foreign legion
volunteer corps of foreign citizens in the military service of a state.
something in human beings which is unaccountable, when they are well bred, made him join the French Foreign Legion immediately war broke out, and behave with great gallantry.
noun
eeriest
ghostly odd stange
reassuring normal
strange and frightening.
She heard the eerie noise of the wind howling through the trees.
adjective
cicadas
a large homopterous insect with long transparent wings, occurring chiefly in warm countries. The male cicada makes a loud shrill droning noise by vibrating two membranes on its abdomen.
noun
Cicadas sang in the trees near them, and a mockingbird mimicked its feathered friends
