IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH FOR FREE: December 2019

Sunday, December 29, 2019

There is an interesting answer to the question: "Why is English such a hard language?"
https://ororo.tv/en/channels/tedx-talks#dc8Kxtp1m1c

Brainard threw in _____.
This may even be an underestimate as many heat- related deaths are recorded by cause of death such as heart failure, stroke, or respiratory failure, all of which are ______ by excessive heat.
The sun set; the ______ fell on the stream and lights began to appear along the shore.
Farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ______ on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under stars.
In the ______ of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past veiled not by a sense of mystery but a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself.

The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowing ______congealed, and turned to misanthropic ice.
Brainard thought he was for a night in the open and cursed his _____ in jumping off into the desert.
Brainard liked the girl, felt a strange sort of pity for her, an unreasoned pity for a forlorn and lonely child, who he instinctively divined was sensitive and perhaps unhappy in spite of her _____ speech.
_____ people die of the cold because of poor housing and not being able to afford to heat their homes.
The virtue of _____, Brainard found, was admirably cultivated in these sparsely habited parts of the earth.
Your nasty comments _____ a bad situation.
The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media _____ and individuals have spent the past 30 years sowing doubt about the reality of climate change - where none exists.

_____ control toothpastes,in some cases, may cause sensitivity to hot and cold in some teeth or irritation to the soft tissues of the mouth.
I'm hoping the PDF below is _____.
Plainly, the central idea of _____ is the essence of anarchy.
Scrooge resumed his labours with an improved opinion of himself, and in a more _____ temper than was usual with him.
Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so that people ran about with flaring links, ______ their services to go before horses in carriages, and conduct them on their way.
In the main street, at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a ______, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming, their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture.

While _____ control toothpastes can significantly reduce ______ buildup on teeth above the gum line, they show only minimal results on the preventing dental calculus formation below the gum line.
You can have rapport, or you can have fast, _____ notes, but you cannot have both.
When I was thirteen years of age we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon; the ______ of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.
If my father had taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely exploded and that a modern system of science had been introduced which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimerical, while those of the former were real and practical, under such circumstances I should certainly have thrown Agrippa aside and have contented my imagination warmed as it was, by returning with greater ______ to my former studies.

Most of the ______ control tooth pastes also contain fluoride and antibacterial agents to fight the root cause of the problem, the bacteria of dental plaque.
It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the _____ light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whale men who had gone before me.
Is the signature ______?
My temper was sometimes violent, and my passions ______; but by some law in my temperature they were turned not towards childish pursuits but to an eager desire to learn and not to learn all things indiscriminately.
I feel _____ pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.