Vocabulary Task

devise	ditch	elaborate	flounder	fortuitous	poignant
coin	cheery	cadaver	dung	sojourn	toil	tenuous

1.     Headdresses are made of feathers and grotesque faces and are often very _____.

2.     A couple of weeks after “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” was first published in November 2003, I met an old subeditor friend at a party who said he had once _____ a rather good comic routine around a martial art called Pungshway Shon in which the karate- style moves were derived from well-known punctuation marks.

3.     We even _____ phrases to express our sense of these differences, as when an English person, describes Italian as talking with their arms or Westerners refer to people from oriental countries as “insrutable”.

4.     In fact, it would appear that one of the beauties of the English language in that with even the most _____ grasp you can speak volumes if you show enough enthusiasm – a willingness to tootle with vigour, as it were.

5.     But the shoulder was indignantly withdrawn and the hardhanded son of _____ went to earth.

6.     He _____ a bit, but came up smiling, made a loose effort to brush the dust off his coat and legs, but a smart pass of his hand missed entirely, and the force of unchecked impulse slewed him suddenly around, twisted his legs, together, and projected him, limber and sprawling, into the lap of the Lord Longlegs.

7.     The sidewalks were merely long, deep _____, with steep snow walks on either side.

8.     A _____ fire was blazing on the hearth.

9.     Latin sentence is strictly _____.

10.From electronic libraries to the digitized _____ of an executed killer Networld! Covers everything that’s happening on the Net.

11.There can be no better preparation for a descent into Italy than a _____ among the upper Swiss valleys.

12.The residents of the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea have 100 words for yams, while the Maori of New Zealand have 35 words for _____ (don’t ask me why).

13.The aborigines of Tasmania have a word for every type of tree, but no word that just means “tree”, while the Araucanian Indians of cile rather more _____ have an abundance of words to distinguish between different degrees of hunger.

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