P1
1. outrage: provoke, enrage, offend, shock, make one’s
blood boil
P2
1. disagreeable: unpleasant, distasteful, ill-natured,
irritable, ill-tempered, nasty, bad-tempered
2. mannerism: eccentricity, characteristic style,
habit, habitual gesture
3. unpopular: odious, displeasing, unacceptable, infamous,
disgusting
4. undervalued: not sufficiently evaluated (something,
somebody); despise
5. facility: aptness, dexterity, capability, competence,
skill, expertness
6.
I knew that I had a facility … in everyday life: I
knew that I had the capability of using words and
the courage to deal with any difficulties in life,
and with these two things I was sure I could handle
all the difficulties in my daily life.
7. to get to one’s own back: get compensated; get
revenged
8. amount to : make a total of
9. plagiarism: the action of taking words or ideas
from someone else’s work and use as one’s own without
admitting one has done so
10. Blake: William Blake (1757-1827) English poet,
painter and engraver “The Tiger” is a poem
in Songs of Experience (1794).
as was another, …: I also wrote another poem on the
death of Kitchener (printed in local newspaper) two
years later.
Kichener: (1850-1916) commander in chief of British
forces in the Boer War and War Minister from 1914
--16. He was drowned on a voyage to Russia.
11.
Georgian style: an anthology of contemporary verse
initiated in 1912 (22) by a group consisting of Rupert
Brooke, John Drinkwater, Harold Monro, Wilson Gibson
…
12. ghastly: dreadful, horrible, terrifying, frightful,
terrible, shocking, appalling, grim, dismal
