Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Mr. Bernstrom (Sweden)
Words from Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, gathered by learners on the B2/C1.level.
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  1. ominous
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  2. pert
    characterized by a lightly saucy or impudent quality
  3. exuberant
    joyously unrestrained
  4. satire
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  5. dubious
    fraught with uncertainty or doubt
  6. scorn
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
  7. sporadic
    recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances
  8. deteriorate
    become worse or disintegrate
    Maybe when you deteriorate back down the ladder of evolution — as I have, when you sink into the tomb world slough of being a special— well, best to abandon that line of inquiry.
  9. sagacity
    the trait of having wisdom and good judgment
    Every day he declined in sagacity and vigor.
  10. vigor
    forceful exertion
    Every day he declined in sagacity and vigor.
  11. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
  12. constituent
    one of the individual parts making up a composite entity
  13. tottering
    unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age
  14. cogitate
    consider carefully and deeply
  15. deplorable
    of very poor quality or condition
  16. perpetual
    continuing forever or indefinitely
  17. intrinsic
    belonging to a thing by its very nature
Created on Thu Oct 25 04:33:08 EDT 2012 (updated Tue Sep 22 02:39:49 EDT 2015)

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