P3
1.
made-to-order stuff: ready made style; for other’s
requirement, at … requests
2. verse d’ occasion: verse written for a special
event or occasion
3. Aristophanes: (450-385 B.C.)Athenian comic playwright
4. burlesque: satire, mockery, ridicule, comedy, parody,
farce
5. pitiful: wretched, worthless, shabby, poor, sorry,
dreadful, abominable
6.
These magazines were the most pitiful burlesque stuff
that you could imagine, and I took far less trouble
with than then I now would with the cheapest journalism:
These magazines, were the most worthless (extreme)
mockery ones that you could ever think of and it took
me far less time and energy to edit them than it would
take me to (edit) write for the cheapest newspapers
or magazines.
7. thrilling: exciting, stirring, awesome, sensational,
electrifying
8. Robin Hood: a legendary outlaw (figure)
9. narcissistic: of having too great love for one’s
own ability or appearance; too much self-indulgence;
self-respectable; self-important, egoistic, self-centered
10.
in a crude way: coarse, unprepared, raw, unpolished,
tasteless, uncouth, rough, incomplete, simple and
direct, unrefined
11. filter: pass through (a filter); seep, leak, trickle,
drain; well out
12. Slant: incline; angle, tilt; lean
13. (under a kind of) compulsion: (under) demand,
urging, requirement, necessity, obligation, force,
pressure, coercion
14. meticulous: fastidious, scrupulous, exact, careful,
painstaking, precise, punctilious, careless, imprecise,
sloppy, negligent
