P13
1. indulgence: extravagance, excess
2.
For any middle-aged person of sedentary habits it
is a considerable ordeal: It is quite a severe trial
for any middle-aged person who does desk work. The
author is such a person.
3. ordeal: harsh experience, agony, suffering, anguish
4. vanity: pride, conceit, self-praise, self-admiration,
self-praise
5. pig-headedness: determinedness, absoluteness
6. sedentary: used to, needing, long setting and only
slight activity
7. enterprise: undertaking, venture, endeavor, project,
operation
8. intervene: occur between times, step in, break
in, interpose
9. imperative: urgent, vitally, important, essential,
necessary, compulsory
10. clamber: to climb using both hands and feet and
with difficulty and effort
P14
1. battered: worn out or shapeless (clothing)
2. indefatigable: having no sigh of tiredness
3. tracker: person moving around while taking distant
pictures
4. attune: to cause to become used to or ready for
(to)
