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predilection
ascertainment
The road was narrow, white, old, hard and scarred with shadow. It ran away westwards in the mist of the early morning, running cunningly through the little hills and going to some trouble to visit tiny towns which were not, strictly speaking, on its way.
peregrination
‘Is it life?’ he answered. ‘I would rather be without it,’ he said, ‘for there is a queer small utility in it. You cannot eat it or drink it or smoke it in your pipe, it does not keep the rain out and it is a poor armful in the dark if you strip it and take it to bed with you after a night of porter when you are shivering with the red passion. It is a great mistake and a thing better done without, like bed-jars and foreign bacon.’
Always ask any questions that are to be asked and never answer any. Turn everything you hear to your own advantage. Always carry a repair outfit. Take left turns as much as possible. Never apply your front brake first.’
expostulated.
cognisance
If a man stands before a mirror and sees in it his reflection, what he sees is not a true reproduction of himself but a picture of himself when he was a younger man.
sempiternal
acatalectic,’
res ipsa,’
"the thing speaks for itself"
cerebration
banjaxed
"at six she got polio, resulting in a banjaxed leg"
‘Your talk,’ I said, ‘is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.’
defalcation,’
buncombe,’
The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.’
indiarubber
timorous
esoterically
obstreperous
new the night1
catenal
a connected series of related things.
invidious
vexatious
unconscionable,’
diffidently.
Apparently its newness was new enough to blast a man’s brain to imbecility by the surprise of it.
enervating
it is a great thing to do what is necessary before it becomes essential and unavoidable.’
‘Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed,’ I murmured, ‘to those who seek the higher places.’
divil
not much or nothing new
hereditament
embrasure
