fitfully (adj) – irregular intervals
• The wind howled fitfully.
• The sporadic raindrops fell fitfully.
• The drunk driver swerved along the road fitfully.

guesswork (noun) – process of guessing
• The way we learn english in China is pure guesswork.
• We use guesswork to find our candidates.
• America has been using guesswork to find its spies.

distaste (noun) – mild dislike
• I regard my mother with distaste.
• They eye me up and down with distaste.
• There is a certain amount of distaste in her voice

succumb (verb) – failed to resist pressure; to accept defeat.
• The soldiers succumbed to their injuries.
• After so many deaths, we succumbed.
• The Titanic succumbed to the freezing ocean.

procure (verb) – obtain something carefully and with much effort.
• I managed to procure the secret from her.
• We managed to procure some edible food from the dumpster.
• Have you procured the documents?

actuate (verb) – cause to take action; motivate; put into motion.
• My dislike for America was actuated by political zealots.
• A high performing athlete is actuated by good warmups.
• The sudden heavy rain actuates the crowd to disperse.

shirk (verb) – neglect a duty.
• The massage therapist shirked when she saw her client.
• I shirked the cleanup because the environment was too dangerous.
• She shirks her agreement because he was just too creepy.

incongruous (adj) – out of harmony with its surrounding; out of place
• I felt incongruous on my first day in an American school.
• The bottles of soda looked incongruous sitting there on the gym floor.
• My black girlfriend and I were incongruous in American’s dating scene.

convolute (verb) – make something difficult to follow.
• The US government convolutes her people’s wishes.
• The remnants of the crash convolutes the investigation.
• Their selfish ways convolute our team work.

innumerable (adj) – too many to count
• They are indifferent to the innumerable sufferings of children.
• The amount of problems that Andy has is innumerable.
• The innumerable army surges forward.

pugnacious (adj) – eager to argue/fight
• Those brats are pugancious.
• The most pugnacious countries in the world has the most insecure citizens.
• When I’m hungry, I become pugancious.

sordid (adj) – involving immoral actions and motives
• I ignore their sordid explanations.
• The overcrowded slums are sordid.
• The sordid affairs of Israel’s president should be investigated.

eccentric (adj) – odd; unconventional
• You have very eccentric behavior.
• The girl behind the tree is eccentric.
• The eccentric teacher takes a nap.

sanguine (adj) – optimistic in the face of a bad situation.
• I am sanguine about my test scores.
• I have a sanguine view on the Palestine-Israel conflict.
• Young people always have sanguine opinions on love.

ref – https://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/adjective_phrases.htm

An adjective phrase is a group of words headed by an adjective that describes a noun or a pronoun.

She had extremely menacing eyes.

She – subject
had – linking verb
extremely menacing – adjective phrase (group of words)
eyes – noun

The dog covered in mud is mine.

The dog – subject
covered in mud – adjective phrase
is – linking verb

This is called Attributive Adjective.

An attributive adjective typically sits before the noun it is modifying.

The beautifully carved frames are priceless.
(The adjective phrase is before the noun it modifies (“frames”). This is an attributive adjective phrase.)

She had blue eyes. (adjective)
She had extremely blue eyes.

She wore expensive shoes. (adjective)
She wore very expensive shoes. (adjective phrase)

An overly sensitive heart is not healthy.

I’m a fairly intelligent person.

The frames beautifully carved by monks are priceless.
(The adjective phrase is after the noun it modifies (“The frames”), but this time it’s an attributive adjective.)

Sarah was hostile towards me.

People are so sick of them.

The dog covered in mud looks pleased with himself.

(In this example, the first adjective phrase – even though it’s positioned after its noun (“The dog”) – is attributive because it appears inside the noun phrase “The dog covered in mud.” The second is predicative because it appears outside the noun phrase of the noun it modifies. Note how it is linked to its noun with a linking verb (“looks”).)

separate(v)分离

They separate.
We are separate.
Ok! {Separate} can be used as a verb or an adjective.

mavelled (v) 感到惊奇

Watch your spelling.
marvelled (v) 感到惊奇

They marvelled.
Ok!