Phrasal verbs

bring back - bring into - bring out - bring up

1. A week by the sea brought her ______ health.
2. He was brought _____ by his grandmother.
3. The work brought me _____ a contact with a lot of interesting people.
4. Jenny opened a cupboard and brought _____ a couple of bottles.

Vocabulary Check

aggregate - baffle -equity - pinch - torment

1. Private _____ activity can include buying distressed companies, and providing management services to maximize the chances of turnaround.
2. Apparently, bank managers are not feeling the _____ in the same way as their employees.
3. Children are far less likely to suffer from the ______ of toothache.
4. In the 1950s and 1960s, when communities across North America debated whether to put fluoride in their supply dentists, university researchers and other experts were ______ as to why people would vote against a measure that so clearly had a beneficial impact on children's teeth.
5. The success of mutual funds in _______ investment dollars from retail investors and charging a fee for providing professional investment management: services has directly spawned the ETF industry.

Vocabulary Check

blur - delusion - equity -rampion - taint  

1. If that's true then I will let you have as many _____ as you want on one condition.
2. Experience may be the best teacher, but biased experience supports bias, distorted experience supports distortion, self - deluded experience supports self- _____.
3. For example, if someone from the US is discussing "communism", because of their social conditioning and the view the communism is inherently bad, or even evil, then their description of this economic system may be ______, or biased by this conditioning.
4. Private Equity refers to _____ that is not listed on any stock exchange.
5. Over the last decade, the distinction between hedge funds and these "alternative" investment vehicles has ______.

SAT Vocabulary

adroit - skillful
decorum - dignified behaviour
largess - generosity
obsolete - no longer valid
adulation - worship

Vocabulary Check

distort - distortion - flaw - rampion - suspension - unattainable

1. My wife saw your ______ from the window and she wanted it so bad, that I could not say no to her.
2. Robert challenged Evensson on the validity of his conclusions claiming that his data were _____ and were too limited to be reliable.
3. In a _____ bridge, there are two towers with one or more flexible cable firmly attached at each end.
4. Experience may be the best teacher, but biased experience supports bias, ______ experience supports distortion, self- deluded experience supports self-delusion.
5. Absolute zero, the temperature at which all substances have zero thermal energy, and thus lowest possible temperatures, is ________ in practice.
6. Without this command, we confuse these important discriminations and _____ the important realities they help us distinguish.

Vocabulary Check

flaw - incarcerate - rampion - scurry - seminal - undulation

1. How dare you come into my garden, and steal my _____ like a thief!
2. Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard anyone speaking he would _____ straight to the appropriate door and press his whole body against it.
3. What he heard his father say was some of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been _____ in his room.
4. There are _____ in some of your calculations, and they need redoing.
5. This superb article can be viewed as a _____ piece of work which has made ground-breaking discoveries about the nature of cancerous cells.
6. Friction between moving air and the ocean surface generates ______ of water called waves.

SAT Vocabulary

certitude - certainly
digress - wonder off the subject
falter - hesitate;waver
indelible - cannot be wiped out
malinger - deliberately avoid work

Vocabulary Check

flutter - luminary -rampion - scruffy - tint -vulnerable

1. The man took the _____ and his wife made a salad out of it and ate it.
2. She would _____ and fidget about from room to room until her husband, who must have been well aware of her state, finally emerged from his privacy and suggested in a cool dry voice that perhaps they had better get going now, had they not?
3. You can't wear those old _____ jeans to the wedding.
4. But the IoT makes us more _____ to cyber-attacks and breaches of personal data.
5. Backed by _____ such as Sir Tim Berners - Lee, the decentralised web, or DWeb, aims to break down the walled gardens of the Internet, where people experience the online world through operators such as Google, Facebook and others.
6. You' ve got the network inside _____.

SAT vocabulary

circuitous - indirect
fervor - passion
inept - incompetent
martinet - person who believes in strict discipline
skirmish - minor battle

Vocabulary Check

boo -demolition -deter - enliven -parse - rampion 

1. He started taking some _____.
2. The fact that the country is socially unstable _____ investors.
3. Audiences inevitably _____ as he sang encore after encore to the delight of fans from all around the country.
4. The notes will later have to be _____ to be of use to the student.
5. The _____ team will push the button in maybe eight minutes.
6. It would be a great comfort to Mr. Weston, as he grew older to have his fireside _____ by the sports and nonsense, the freaks and the fancies of a child never banished from home; and Mrs Weston - no one could doubt that a daughter would be most to her; and it would be quite a pity that any one who so well knew how to teach, should not have their powers in exercise again.

SAT Vocabulary

acrid - sharp
boorish - ill-mannered
poignant - deeply moving
respite - a break
hiatus - pause

Vocabulary Check

accrue - frenetic - infrared - leverage - rampion -rigorous  

1. Please, do something, I really want to eat those _____.
2. Some of the _____ comes from positions in derivative instruments such as futures and options.
3. The standard cost structure is known as 2 and 20, which _____ to the managers.
4. All amid all this _____ change, some are beginning to question whether the news media are still fulfilling their basic mission of holding powerful people to account and helping audiences understand the world around them.
5. However, please understand this is an introductory General Education non-credit bearing course and is not as _____ as we would expect a normal course to be.
6. The ______ aerial photograph seems to show a large village around 1,000 years ago.

SAT Vocabulary

accolade - praise
bolster - support
lamentation - expression of regret or sorrow
obliterate - destroy
tentative - not certain

SAT Vocabulary

certitude - certainty
digress - wander off the subject
falter - hesitate,waver
indelible - cannot be wiped out
malinger - deliberately avoid work

Vocabulary Check

aggregate -compliant - formidable - rampion -skiff - wavery 

1. His skin was like an oil slick over his bones, muscles and tendons; you could see them, _____ and distorted, beneath it.
2. King of France, who was _____ still in spite of his recent reverses; and it was necessary, therefore, to have recourse to some profitable scheme, which was a matter of great difficulty in the impoverished condition of exhausted Italy.
3. One day the woman saw a plant called _____which is used to make salads.
4. Because they _____ capital from many investors, it is possible for a single one to invest in mutual funds with an amount as little as a few hundred dollars.
5. The World Olympic committee has allowed ______, a type of a small boat used in competitive sport, to complete in their own class in the next Olympic games.
6. Peter was a ______ worker, not like his coworker Simon, who stubbornly challenged his bosses at every opportunity.

Vocabulary Check

dabble - debrief -digress - distorted -slick - tangible - vying

1. His skin was like an oil _____ over his bones, muscles and tendons; you could see them, wavery and distorted, beneath it.
2. You'll be back and ______ by oh seven hundred hours tomorrow.
3. Looking at him is like looking into a _____ mirror at a carnival, the kind that squashes you as it magnifies you.
4. If the speaker ______ or goes off topic, with concise notes it is possible to expand them and add in information.
5. Some of you might have ______ in real-estates.
6. Real assets are ______ assets which are used to create value.
7. You have hundreds of retailers ______ for your business, which means you have lots of choice.

Vocabulary Check

daunting - debrief -digress - distorted - perpetual - sacrosanct 

1. His skin was like an oil slick over his bones muscles and tendons; you could see them wavery and _____, beneath it.
2. But _____ goes out the window when the Old Man calls, and there was a note beside my bunk when I awoke, on the Old Man's orange paper, telling me to report to his office at my convenience, which is his way of saying immediately.
3. Joliet and Joy are ______now.
4. I have worn and continue to wear multiple professional hats - scholar, consultant, investor, trader, teacher and _____ student.
5. In this location, there is barely a secondary market for debt, the sheer scale of operations makes everything ______.
6. This style  is characterized as the lecturer as performer, with a wide range of intonation, and frequent _____.

Vocabulary Check

amplification - banged up - debrief -lard - quartermaster - riffle through - sacrosanct - tendon - tourniquet

1. Heat the butter and ______ in a frying pan.
2. His skin was like an oil slick over his bones, muscles and _____, you could see them wavery and distorted beneath it.
3. I traded the jacket for information, and the belt had made a pretty effective ______, if you must know.
4. He gets a day to _____, and then a day to himself.
5. It's kind of ______.
6. He's pretty ______.
7. He picked up a file from from his desk, ______ it and pulled out a sheet of blue paper.
8. If I need any ______ I can get in touch with you.
9. The ______ is from one of the heavier Earths - places where you feel like you weigh 500 pounds, and often do.

Vocabulary Check

bawl - crumble -lard - mesh - quart -squander - tangible - wary- wobbly

1. The net crackled and sparked tiny blue sparks where the ______ touched.
2. It's kind of ______; it smells like damp and pizza and sweaty sports equipment - and if I don't sound like I love my school,well,I guess that's because I don't.
3. I made it up the steps, keeping a _____ eye on the sky for gladiators on flying discs.
4. I was ready to start ______ like a baby.
5. Good thing, too,because the world - had gone kind of ______.
6. This was dark like something you could touch, something solid and _____ and cold.
7. I usually use butter,but I could only find _____.
8. He _____ all his wealth after the death of his father.
9. Two blocks from her house,intending to buy a _____ of milk and aloof of whole-wheat bread, Tina stopped at the supermarket.

Vocabulary Check

crackle - creep -crotch- dodge - finicky -shove - swoop - yelp 

1. I managed to _____ up Peaches from the bottom step.
2. My house wasn't my house, my family wasn't my family, my girlfriend wasn't my girlfriend - well, she hadn't been from the start, but this was no time to get _____.
3. I _____ in pain and clutched my kneecap.
4. What made it worse was that I knew that behind mirrored mask, the _____ was smiling.
5. The net ______ and sparked tiny blue sparks where the mesh touched.
6. Jay ______ me.
7. I _____ to the left, just as a net landed where I had been.
8. There were bad guys on flying manhole covers after me, and a guy with an armoured ______ and a mirrored face.

Vocabulary Check

boo -distorted - flop down - have at it - hog - prop open - putrid - snuggle - swoop - tip 

1. We _____ them all, scattering our lives across the chipped mosaic tile top.
2. I told Marisol and _____ my chin.
3. As she locked the door, a bird _____ low across the landing.
4. About why we never _____ our door in the summer like the other tenants.
5. Marisol signed, flicking one fingernail under the poodle's white chin and ______ her close.
6. I need another dog like this little ______.
7. "Afternoon,girls!" Mrs Newsome ______ next to us, helping herself to popcorn.
8. _______,lady.
9. Twenty - four years  I've lived with that _____ green.
10. It was the strangest thing, staring into that bank,silvery face and seeing my own face staring back at me, all bent and ______.

Vocabulary Check

heck - goofy - ripple - scrutinize -shimmer- sick sense of humour - splinter - subtle 

1. Little things, ______ things were not the same.
2. I thought maybe the hall carpet was a slightly different pattern, but who the _____ remembers a carpet pattern?
3. If it is a joke, it's being pulled by a multimillionaire with a really sick sense of humor.
4. This girl had red- brown hair, freckles, kind of a ______ expression.
5. Mrs. Harker was _____ me.
6. To this day I don't know if I ran away because it was all too much to handle or because I wanted to spare her what I knew: that reality can ______ like a hammered mirror.
7. Suddenly the air in front of me ______.
8. It _______, like heat waves gone all silvery, and then it tore open.

Vocabulary Check

buzz cut - chain saw -  contagious -daze -sole - surrender - tap - wind chimes

1. I ran straight across the street, _____ Rowena on the shoulder and said, "I"m sorry.Guess we should have listened to Ted".
2. This girl wore her blond hair in _____ - real short.
3. She was looking at me like I had just climbed out of the sewer wearing a hockey mask and carrying a _____.
4. I had _____ all my change.
5. Under the inner_____was a folded five dollar bill.
6. I took out the five bucks, put my shoe back on, got some change and got on a bus for home, rehearsing all the things I could say to Mr Dimas, to Rowena, even to Ted, and wondering whether I"d get lucky in the next twelve hours and somehow manage to contract a disease so _____ that they'd have to keep me out of school until the end of the semester...
7. I rode the bus home in a _____.
8. It looked the same from the outside - same _____ hanging from the front porch roof.

Vocabulary Check

blurb - pant - snatch - stubble - swelter 

1. You had your faraway settings and swoonworthy characters - extra points for tossing in a manic-pixie dream girl or _____ faced bad boy.
2. Great books give us spine - tingling plots or twists that reach right into your lungs and _____ your next breath.
3. And my friend was right - we were wilting with the _______afternoon.
4. They should come up with: the title, the index, the table of contents , the preface, the _____ on the back cover.
5. At least the fog was almost gone when I got back to the cross street, ______ and out of breath.

Academic Verbs Synonyms

affect - influence
attempt - try
calculate - compute
challenge - question
demonstrate - show
identify - distinguish
include - involve
investigate - study
provide - give
Can you guess which column is academic?)))

Vocabulary Check

bead -lemming -manic- pixie - twist - wilt - tartan

1. You had your faraway settings and swoonworthy characters - extra points for tossing in a _____ dream girl or stubbly faced bad boy.
2. Great books give us  spine -tingling plots or ______ that reach right into your lungs and snatch your next breath.
3. And my friend has right - we were ______ with the sweltering afternoon.
4. "No problem," I said with all the confidence of a ______ who thinks he's headed for a nice day at the seashore.
5. I headed straight into it, felt it _____ cold on my face.
6. Across the street was a McDonald's I"d never seen before, with a huge green _____ arch above it.

Word family - employ

employ - employer - employee - employment - employable

1. The shoe-factory is the largest ______in this area.
2. Mexican law prohibits ______ of children under 14.
3. The training scheme aims to make people more______.
4. The firm has 450 ______.
5. The police had to ______ force to enter the house.

Vocabulary Check

blip - dubiously - relish - spine-tingling - swoon-worthy - take guts -  tank top

1. I could become more than a anonymous _____ on her radar.
2. I even told my parents how I felt, and that _____.
3. Ted and Rowena looked at me ______.
4. I could see that she didn't _____ walking five or six blocks with Ted Russell, but that she also didn't want to be wandering around down town for the rest of the day.
5. You had your faraway settings and ______ characters - extra points for tossing in a manic-pixie dream girl or stubbly faced bad boy.
6. Great books give us ______ plots or twists that reach right into your lungs and snatch your next breath.
7. Fall means boots and scarves and sweaters, not ______.

SAT Vocabulary

diorama - model of a scene
fecund - fertile
inebriation - drunkenness
marshal - to gather together
parity - equality

Check your Vocabulary

be canned for - clobber - drool over - obnoxious - sprite - squid - sway

1. She is a Cuban- American Californian who can be found haunting her favorite coffee shops, _____ leather jackets, and wishing she was in London or Paris.
2. Rumor at school was that he was going to _____ that one.
3. The _____ was fast asleep in mom's lap - she was still breast-feeding him back then.
4. Past the witching hour, ______.
5. Even though he's just a city councilman, he has more _____ among some people than mayor does.
6. The worst that might happen would be an old lady _____ us with her purse if one of us was foolish enough to try to help her across 42nd Avenue.
7. But I was willing to put up with Russell, _____ jerk that he was, to be here - to be anywhere with Rowena Danvers.

SAT Vocabulary

abstemious - self-denying
blithe - carefree
crepuscular - active at dawn and dusk
enunciation - clear pronunciation
lackluster - dull, monotonous

Vocabulary Check

blunder - fiefdom - haunting - quad - quirky - squid

1. She is a Cuban-American Californian who can be found _____ her favorite coffee shops, drooling over leather jackets, and wishing she was in London or Paris.
2. This former teacher writes young adult novels about ______ teens learning to navigate life and love.
3. We had just built a new annex - added a hallway and a bedroom for the ______, aka Kevin, my really little brother.
4. I realised I'd turned right instead of left, so I promptly made the same mistake again and ______ into the closet.
5. He made the front page of the local paper last year and nearly got fired when he turned two classes into warring _____ that tried to negotiate peace for an entire semester.
6. The peace talks eventually broke down and the two classes went to war on the ______ during free period.

SAT Vocabulary

absolution - forgiveness
blatant - obvious
creditable - praiseworthy
ensconce - establish firmly in a position
laceration - a cut

Vocabulary Check

arcane - albeit - delineate - demeanor - obscene - scrutinize -wallflower

1. Certain items of vocabulary are rarely or never spoken, such as many polysyllabic chemical terms, or the more _____  legal terms.
2. Conversely, certain items of spoken vocabulary are not normally written and certain slang or ______ expressions.
3. For the purposes of this essay, two opposing theories will be ______.
4. So, provided that we remember this, then we can give people basic rights, ______ with limitations.
5. There's not a lot of _______ in this example.
6. You can't assess a person's intelligence or _______ by the clothes they wear.
7. This is a woman who's not looking to be a ______.

SAT Vocabulary

malediction - a curse
prevaricate - speak misleadingly
scuttle - sink
unfrock - to remove a priest from his position
diffident - lacking confidence position

Vocabulary Check

alleviate - curb - impinge - intricate - transient

1. He needed to resolve Catholic - Protestant divisions within the country; ______ the power of the Guise, Montmorenci and Bourbons factions which threatened to subvert royal power; and he needed to restore the French economy.
2. There is a skepticism in the minds of many ministers that the plan is really going to _____ transport difficulties.
3. The basic function of a signal is to _____ upon the environment in such a way that it attracts attention.
4. Speech is time-bound, dynamic, ______- part of an interaction, in which, typically, both participants are present, and the speaker has a specific addressee in mind.
5. It promotes the development of careful organization more compact _____, structured expression.

SAT Vocabulary

chicanery - trickery
fatuous - silly, foolish
parched up - dried up
profane - unholy
serene - calm, peaceful

Vocabulary Check

quasar - incessantly - locomotion - weasel words - revered

1. _____, which are relatively small objects, emit an enormous amount of energy.
2. Both men worked congenially and cooperatively, read the same books, located and shared information, talked ______ about the possibility of manned flight.
3. The Ciliata, which use the same basic means for locomotion as the Mastigophora, have a larger number of short tails.
4. Choose a topic about an issue of grammar, syntax, word choice, or punctuation that students not studying writing may need guidance on such as _______.
5. You'll ______ enhance your employment prospects if you write well.
6. English has no protector of language such the 400- year-old body of ______ experts who protect the French language.

SAT Vocabulary

celerity - speed
dexterous - skillful with hands
extraneous - irrelevant
maladroit - clumsy; unskillful
pallid - pale

Vocabulary Check

quasar - aloof - congenially - combustion - acquiesce - motility

1. _____ emit an enormous amount of energy.
2. So as the crisis ebbed and the bank moved to embrace  retail finance, its grandees tried to appear a fraction more cuddly or less arrogantly _____.
3. Both men worked _____ and cooperatively, read the same books, located and shared information, talked incessantly about the possibility of manned flight.
4. They were to take advantage of the relatively tight internal _____ engine.
5. Further more, composers _____ to the demands of singers, writing many operas that were little more than a succession of brilliant tricks to the voice, designed to showcase the splendid vocal talent of the singers who had requested them.
6. They are fantastically diverse, but three major groups may be identified on the basis of their _____.

SAT Vocabulary

caustic - burning
detrimental - harmful
extol - praise
incipient - just beginning
magnanimous - generous

Vocabulary Check

quasar - rear - premise - ebb - tacit - haul

1. _____ are relatively small objects.
2. In addition, the number of children born to unmarried women who choose  to  keep their babies and _____ them by themselves has increased dramatically.
3. The fundamental _____ of alchemy derived from the best philosophical dogma and scientific practice of the time, and the majority of educated persons between 1400 and 1600 believed that alchemy had great merit.
4. So as the crisis _____ and the bank moved to embrace retail finance, its grandees tried to appear a fraction more cuddly or less arrogantly aloof.
5. Corporate Culture is  the "shared customs, beliefs, norms, values, and _____ assumptions that make up the culture of a given organisation."
6. Moreover, if patrons were at distance from the artist, the finished work might have to be _____ in a cart.

SAT Vocabulary

chary - cautious about
dilatory - slow
malleable - flexible
sequester - isolate
mallet - wooden hammer

Vocabulary Check

reiterate - dilated - wrought - impinge - relish - salient - dodgy - bluntly

1. You may wish to _____ how to use web bookmarks, if necessary.
2. During periods of stress or excitement, the heart rate increases and airways  to the lungs become _____.
3. Unlike cast iron, pure _____ iron has no carbon.
4. The basic function of a signal is to _____ upon the environment in such a way that it attracts attention.
5. Irrespective of what you want, your children are going to take actions or be exposed to things that you may not _____.
6. The web provides some ______ examples, like pornography.
7. He is guaranteed to run into something ______ on the web and my wife and I can take ordinary precautions.
8. To put ______,there is no riding developmental milestone.

Vocabulary Check

utensil - realign - exasperation - gauge - clutter up - indemnify - toll
Do you know these words?

SAT Vocabulary

catharsis - purging of pent- up emotion
deter - prevent
expedite - make faster
incarceration - putting in prison
overwrought - worked up in an emotional state

Vocabulary Check

utensil - frantic - infuse - inquisitive - prudent - ambiguity

1. The _____ are returned to the platter or serving bowl in the same position.
2. In 2010 with aviation authorities _____ about the ash billowing from Eyjafallajokull, Siggi raced his SUV into the dark heart of the cloud.
3. The Icelanders _____ this empty land with meaning but they also denuded it.
4. Thomas Edison was a very _____ child, conducting his first experiment at the age of three.
5. Because J.P. Morgan was known as a reputable and _____ businessman, he was able to persuade other to remain in the market even after the crash began.
6. Insurance is a monetary medium through which individuals and organizations transfer risk, or _____ about monetary loss, to others.

SAT Vocabulary

despondent - miserable
inadvertent - not intentional
luscious - juicy;moist;succulent
oust - push out of a position
sanguinary - bloody

Vocabulary Check

utensil - paltry - snug - pulp - lesion 

1. Never rest a _____ half on a plate and half on the table.
2. These are certainly happy being; but others also are objects of envy, who dignify their _____ employments, and sometimes even their passions, with pompous titles, representing them to mankind as gigantic achievements performed for their welfare and glory.
3. Here,too, I have discovered such a _____, comfortable place, which possesses peculiar charms for me.
4. This specialist is concerned with the diagnosis and cause of disease affecting the _____ or nerve of the tooth, or the tissues on tooth.
5. In most cases the oral pathologist does not see you, but your dentist would send them a biopsy or any questionable tissue or _____.

Check Your Vocabulary

utensil - exquisite - teem 

1. Soiled ______ are laid on the plate or bowl it is provided with (not on the table).
2. I am so happy, so absorbed in the _____ sense of more tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents.
3. When while the lovely  valley _____ with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary.

SAT Vocabulary

abasement - degradation
billowing - waving
cower - recoil/ in fear
harangue - noisy
replete - full

SAT Vocabulary

certitude - certainly
digress - wander off a subject
falter - hesitate
indelible - cannot be wiped out
malinger - deliberately avoid work

Check Your Vocabulary

lumber - rigorous - utensil -tine

1. So you get these complaints that have survived in Ashurbanipal's library, the library where the best version of the epic was dug up - complaints from architects and builders about the quanity of _____ that they have.
2. The collapse of the bridge highlighted the need for a more ______ analysis of the effects of constant traffic movements.
3. For almost all meals, if you are wondering what  _____ to use, start from the outside and work your way in.
4. Hold your fork in your left hand, _____ downward.

SAT Vocabulary

despondent -miserable
inadvertent - not intentional
luscious - juicy
oust - push out of a prison
sanguinary - bloody

SAT Vocabulary

despondent - miserable
inadvertent - not intentional
luscious - juicy; moist
oust - push out of a position
sanguinary - bloody

Vocabulary Check

utensil - blot - pied - beagle - stingray - digress 

1. When you pause to take a sip of your beverage or to speak with someone, rest your _____ by placing your knife and fork on your plate near the  center, slightly angled in an inverted V and with the tips of the knife and fork pointing to ward each other.
2. Use the napkin to _____ your lips as needed and before taking a drink.
3. New work on a migratory bird, the _____ flycatcher, takes things a stage further by showing how a climate- related population decline was actually caused.
4. She has three dogs: two poodles and a _____.
5. While visiting the beach, we saw: pelicans, _____ and iguanas.
6. Explain to students that other important signposts to recognise are when a lecturer _____ from the main topic, and adds an idea which may not be relevant.

Vocabulary Check

lumber - vexation - equanimity - elucidate

1. So you need to really subdue a population out there  to get their _____.
2. I will no longer continue to ruminate on every petty _____ which fortune may dispense.
3. No doubt you are right there would be far less suffering among mankind, if me did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with ______.
4. The article helps to ______ for the ordinary reader some of the more difficult references in Shakespeare's plays.

Vocabulary Check

utensil - tine - blot - collate - interim - solace - pungent 

1. Deciding which knife, fork or spoon to use is made easier by the outside table manners rule - using _____ on the outside first and working your way inward.
2. The fork _____ may be either up or down.
3. The basic function of the napkin is to wipe your fingers and _____ your mouth.
4. Part of my role was to  _____ the results of our experiments.
5. I am told that Smythe is about to publish some _____ results.
6. She could not think that Harriet's ______ or her own sins required more; and she was therefore industriously getting rid of the subject as they returned.
7. Some believers in both Theravada and Mahayana are vegans, and some do not eat onion, garlic, or leek either - referring to these as the "five ______ spices."

Make vs DO

Make
a breakthrough
the best of the situation
a toast
sense of
certain
an attempt
contact (with somebody)
amends
the most of
a note (of)
a confession
an exception
Do
an operation
the honours
your duty
harm
good
your head in (informal)
economics at university
away with somebody (informal)
damage
80 mph
press ups
the bare minimum

Vocabulary Check

lumber - alienation - ruminate - assiduously - elucidate

1. You actually have to do some _____ and timbering.
2. The study is ultimately concerned with urban _______.
3. My dear friend I promise you  I will improve, I will no longer, as ever been my habit, continue to _____ on every petty relaxation which fortune may dispense.
4. No doubt you are right there would be far less suffering among mankind, if men did not employ their imaginations so _____ in recalling equanimity.
5. Animal models can be used to _______ basic principles of the development origins of adult diseases.

SAT Vocabulary

bigot - narrow-minded person
enfranchise - give voting rights
hamper  - hinder
noxious - harmful
placid  - calm;peaceful

MAKE VS DO

Make
an announcement
a noise
a mess
an inquiry
a profit
an investment
a discovery
an application
progress
a suggestion
a wish
a speech
a list
Do
your best
the right thing
a workout
well
a course
business
yoga
your hair
a talk
a dance
the accounts
your make-up
your nails

Vocabulary Check

lumber - anguish - oscillation - rigorous - alienation- mundane - frizzy - feeble 

1. So it was regularly the case, the chronicles of these Babylonian Assyrian kings would describe journeys to get _____ as among the great expeditions of their life.
2. The fragments of the jug broke, and after an hour of useless toil, Dantes paused with _____ on his brow.
3. A slight _____ showed Dantes that all went well.
4. His tutor was critical of his work for not being _____ enough.
5. The study is primarily concerned with urban _____.
6. One of my favorite scenes inside troy is a very _____ scene.
7. I had it done and it made it so _____ I can't even brush it.
8. Was it my fault that whilst the peculiar charms of her sister afforded me an agreeable entertainment a passion for me was engendered in her ______ heart?

MAKE VS DO

Make 
dinner
an appointment
the bed
a complaint
a decision
a promise
a difference
an effort
a mistake
an excuse
friends
a phone call
a plan
money
Do
exercise
a crossword
somebody a favour
research
the ironing
the shopping
an exam
the washing up
the cooking
your homework
the housework
the cleaning
nothing
sport

Check Your Vocabulary

lumber - subdue - mundane - conspicuous - dirigible - despondency

1. so it was regularly the case, the chronicles of these Babylonian Assyrian kings would describe journeys to get _____ as among the great expeditions of their life.
2. So you need to really _____ a population out there to get their _____.
3. It's also the case that when you get _____ details, it's not serving the kind of realism effect that we know from the novel.
4. It's almost a _____ consumption of information of detail.
5. Hydrogen was used as a power source for _____ before helium, which was safer.
6. The prisoner reproached himself with not having thus employed the hours he had passed in vain hopes, prayer, and _____.

SAT Words

malediction - a curse
annex - a building which is addition to an existing building
scuttle - sink
fallacious - false
pristine - unspoiled

Vocabulary Check

containment - pivotal - curtailment - oblivion - rigorous - apprehension

1. Our interpersonal upsets and inner pain are so frequently a form of rebelling against much _____ or protesting not enough contact or security.
2. One of the _____ experiences for Goethe, and for his conception of world literature was his encounter with the Persian poet Hafez.
3. anarchy is political philosophy which  advocates stateless societies based on voluntary associations and the ______ or abolition of traditional forms of government and institutions.
4. What happens when people dig it up after 2,000 years of ______.
5. The research used a _____ methodology which had been tested on many occasions.
6. For many people listening in academic contexts in a foreign language can be difficult and there is a certain element of _____ when they have to listen.

SAT Vocabulary

ameliorate - make better
ossify - turn to bone
sanctimonious - hypocritically holy
lukewarm - unenthusiastic
turpitude - depravity

Vocabulary Check

containment - constraints - revered - coinage - circumnavigation - peruse - indispensable

1. Lost in space ...and suddenly we are longing for _____.
2. Others might be initially terrified by newly imposed _____.
3. so a kind of interesting double effect, where some of the most _____ religious or epic texts often are the early adopters of new writing technologies.
4. And that then leads straight to the story of world literature, in that it leads to the _____ of world literature by Goethe in 1827, who experiences a world market literature.
5. And that market is driven by trade and _____ of the globe.
6. While there are no specific recommended readings for this week, you may be interested to _____ Goethe's works.
7. Within a couple of years of arriving in Weimar, Goethe had made him _____.

SAT Vocabulary

ambivalence - lack of clarity

ambulatory - able to walk around

lucid - clear

truncate - cut short

desecrate - pollute a holy place

Vocabulary Check

Discernible - containment - constraint - sanity - cumulative - brag about - elaborate

1. Crimea has no ______ chances to be internationally recognized as Russian.
2. When we have too much _____, we scream for freedom.
3. Some initially delight in new found freedom - the removal of _____.
4. For our well-being, and the well-being of our families and communities, we are called upon to design sustainable structures that produce sanity, safety, and human thriving.
5. If we think that learning is ______, and we think that between three and five is when we learn to learn, then if you miss that window, we won't be able to make it up afterwards.
6. And this is a kind of clay civilization, and its greatest achievement is this epic, which presents itself as being written and which _____ this clay civilization.
7. There are small poems that are exchanged in very _____ and sophisticated paper.

Do you know...?

Indices is the plural form of which noun?
indice or index?

Vocabulary Check

discernible - delirious - prudence - magnitude of the undertaking - allege - presume - containment - adrift

1. Fortunately, he fancied that Dantes was _____; and placing the food on the rickety table, he withdrew.
2. At intervals he listened to learn if the noise had not begun again, and grew impatient at the _____ of the prisoner, who did not guess he had been disturbed by a captive as anxious for liberty as himself.
3. It has been occasioned by ill- health and the _____.
4. The scheme was not in _____ when the preparation of the work was first announced.
5. Those close to him _____ that he committed an act of fraud.
6. No structure is ______.
7. It can only be _____ that she has left the country.
8. Human suffering is often about freedom and _____.
9. But when we have too much freedom, we can start to feel _____.

Vocabulary Check

Good afternoon,my dear English learners! Let's work on your vocabulary today.
discernible - sporadic - pamper - catwalk - impertinence - profess

1. No structure is _____.
2. There was _____ criticism of this viewpoint throughout the 19th century, but it was not until the 20th century that an alternative approach became widespread.
3. Now back in the Cincinnati area, she _____ her grandchildren, experiments with cooking, and visits art museums as often as possible.
4. He mentions the menswear _____ at Balenciaga and Gucci and male fashion role, models such as young actor Timothee Chalamet and older men such as David Beckham.
5. If you do not choose to understand me, forgive my _____.
6. The motive _____ was his conviction of its being worthlessness had not been so well known as to make it impossible for any young woman of character to love or confide in him. 

Vocabulary Check

Good morning, my dear English learners! Here are some new words for you:
ambiguity - apparent - elocution - funnel - implicate - imply - inflatable - insidious - discernible 

Vocabulary Check

Good afternoon,my dear English learners!
Here there are some words to practice:
ambiguous - contented - discernible - funnel - implicate - insidious - ludicrous - ransacking

1. No structure is _____.
2. The role of the brain's left hemisphere is strongly _____, but its exact influence is unclear.
3. The conflicting and _____ research findings, linked with ambitious claim about the cause of dyslexia, have led to a great deal of skepticism about the condition, especially when the possibility of an underlying medical cause is being stressed.
4. The dangling modifier is one of the most _____ and confusion-causing problems in the English language.
5. A _____ shaped cloud stirred up dust.
6.  As the above examples show, dangling modifiers result in inaccurate and sometimes ______ statements.
7. ______ the attic, the young widow at last discovered the antique wedding dress.
8. We passed the evening _____, reading and listening to music.

Vocabulary Check

Good evening,my dear English learners! I hope you are fine and save. It's time to work on your vocabulary.Enjoy!!!)))
arduous - discernible - elocution - etch - lustre - peruse

1. No structure is ______.
2. Being a commercial traveller is  _____ but without travelling I couldn't earn my living.
3. And also to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times there is mentioned; and extending the benefits, thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, end _____ historical and other prints.
4. Many of these selections are taken from the most elegant and classical American authors - writers whose noble productions have already shed and unfading _____, and stamped immortality upon the literature of our country.
5. After a careful ______ of this work, we are decidedly of opinion, that it is the only successful attempt of the kind.
6. No school should be without this book, and it ought to find a place in the library of every gentleman who values the attainment of a just and forcible _____.

Reading - Mental Health

Good afternoon,my dear English learners! During this difficult time in isolation I'd like to offer an article on how to improve your mental health. Enjoy it!
Before reading the text find definitions for the words below:
adrift - containment - sanity
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/four_things_to_do_every_day_for_your_mental_health?utm_source=Greater+Good+Science+Center&utm_campaign=f6a0979943-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_GG_Newsletter_Mar_26_2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ae73e326e-f6a0979943-74377243

Vocabulary

Good morning,my dear English learners! Let's work on our vocabulary today.Enjoy!!!
austere - aggrandize - corroborate - discernible - dishevel - render - swish

1. No structure is _____.
2. We have already been accused of inordinate ambition, and of seeking to _____ ourselves by an extension, on all sides, of our limits.
3. He _____ everything, enjoyed everything and underwent the strangest agitation.
4. He has the power to _____ us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a foil.
5. The two girls, their skirts _____, immediately ran out through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they went.
6. Gregor's mother, her hair still _____ from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked at his father.
7. Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, grey-black building on the other site of the street - which was a hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the _____ and regular line of windows piercing its facade.

Vocabulary

Good evening,my dear English learners!
Today it is time to work on your vocabulary. Enjoy!
astute - acquiesce - discernible - distemper - impetus - treacherous - whittle down

1. No structure is _____.
2. But the following week it returned again, and the _____ was spread into two or three other parishes and, to the great affliction of the city, one died within the walls, in the parish of St Mary Woolchurch.
3. All frights from French Polynesia, Australia and the US have been suspended, and the number of flights from Auckland have been _____.
4. To those _____ readers who noticed the typo - thank you and apologies for any confusion.
5. Either they reconnect refreshed staff with their original companies, or are the _____ for a new direction for both parties; there might be a new corporate hire and a new job for the employee.
6. The copperhead is considered much more _____ than the rattlesnake.
7. If we were now to seize upon Florida after a great change in those circumstances, and after declaring our intention to _____ in the procrastination desired by Spain.

Listening: Bitcoin

Good evening,my dear English learners! I'd like to share a listening lesson about bitcoin. Enjoy!
http://elllo.org/english/1501/1521-Anthony-Bitcoin.htm
http://elllo.org/english/1501/1522-Anthony-Bitcoin2.htm

Check your vocabulary

Good afternoon,my dear English learners! Hope you are doing well.Here are some words for you to learn during quarantine time.Enjoy!)))
discernible - distemper - ennoble - felicity - inculcate - sordid - squabble

1. The people showed a great concern at this, and began to be alarmed all over the town, and the more, because in the last week in December 1664 another man died in the same house, and of the same ______.
2. Underscoring the difficulty of enforcing the rules, Modou Njie, a health ministry director, said that many passengers on Wednesday were uncooperative from the outset and _____ about boarding the bus to the hotel.
3. After a week spent in professions of love and schemes of _____, Mr. Collins was called from his amiable Charlotte by the arrival of Saturday.
4. The fifteenth century saw Japan ______ it into a religion of aestheticism - tea-ism.
5. Tea-ism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the ______ facts of every day existence.
6. It ______ purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.

Check Your Vocabulary

Good morning,my dear English learners! Hope everyone is ok on quarantine.)))) Here are some new words for you:
discernible - gruff - discourtesy - fretsaw - intercede -dungeon
I'm going to include the sentences to practice these words in my next post. Enjoy your English journey!!!Take care!!!

Academic Phrasal Verbs

The English language contains many phrasal verbs that express the same meaning as a one-word verb. In general, the phrasal verb is used for informal writing and speaking, and the one-word verb is used for more formal language. Some of the phrasal verbs that are common to academic language are listed here. Can you write me the definitions of these phrasal verbs in comments?
bring about
carry on
carry out
clear up
come about
come across
come by
come out with
cut down on
fall through
figure out
find out
give off
go after
go back
go before
go down
go on
go over
go through
go up
keep on
keep up
leave out
look for
look into
look like
look over
look up
look up to
make out
make up
pick out
point out
put off
put up with
rule out
run across
run into
set up
show up
spell out
stand for
stick out
take into account
take over
take place
think through
throw away
touch on
try out
turn into
turn out
turn up
wind up
work out
write up

Reading: Consuming Vegetables during Corona Isolation

Good morning, my dear English learners! Today you have some reading to do.))) Hope you are going to enjoy it during your isolation time! Take care!
1. This link provides vocabulary practice for the text.
2. Word families for "nutrient" and "ferment":
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-adjective-for/nutrient.html
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-adjective-for/ferment.html
3. Read the text:
https://theconversation.com/frozen-canned-or-fermented-when-you-cant-shop-often-for-fresh-vegetables-what-are-the-best-alternatives-131678
Enjoy it!)))

Don't get bored at home!!!)))

Here is the list:
https://chatterpack.net/blogs/blog/list-of-online-resources-for-anyone-who-is-isolated-at-home?fbclid=IwAR2XHGZtgLpoBi3jvtRFMtl585tK1WZfnUVfmugRUgEarIjPwOcet9_ueqw

Frequently Confused Words

1. finalized - concluded or complete
    completed - formal usage
2. flaunt - make a display of
    flout - show contempt, scorn
3.former - the first of two
    latter - the second of two
4. habit - individual tendency to repeat a thing
    custom - group habit
5. healthful -gives health
    healthy - has health
6. hanged - refers to a person
    hung - refers to a thing
7. humans - informal
    human being - formal
8. if - introduces a condition
    whether - introduces a choice

Check Your Vocabulary

Good morning,my dear English learners! Hopefully you enjoy the weather today and ready for vocabulary warm-up!))
discernible - emboss - lap - lapel - parchment - slit

1. No structure is _____.
2. The subject principally involves the study of writing on papyrus, _____ (vellum), or paper, though it does not exclude other forms (such as graffiti).
3. Epigraphy is the study of ancient inscriptions - texts that have been written on hard, durable material, such as stone, marble, metal, clay, pottery, wood, and wax, using such techniques as engraving, carving, _____, and painting.
4. On the right, Julia is wearing a long, brown, tailored jacket with wide, dark brown velvet _____ and narrow velvet cuffs.
5. Under this she is wearing a brown, button-down blouse with a narrow neck, a waistcoat and a matching brown skirt with a _____ at the front.
6. Every morning he swims ten _____ in the pool and lifts weights for an hour.

Check Your Vocabulary

Good afternoon,my dear English learners!
Here are some words for you to improve your vocabulary:
Discernible - fain - groove - parchment - provenance - reed

1. No structure is _____.
2. The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was _____ to grope with his hands.
3. Others move the tongue sideways, or form a _____ along the middle - an important feature of the articulation of /s/.
4. The history of graphic expression shows a variety of implements, including the use of _____, quills, brushes, steel points, fountain pens, pencils, ball-point pens, fibre - tipped pens, chalks, crayons, typewriters, laser printers, photo composing systems, and everything that modern computation makes available.
5. Many surfaces have been involved, such as animal bone, rock, clay, wax, pottery, cloth, papyrus, _____, paper, film, and electronic display screens.
6. Paleography is the investigation of ancient and medieval handwriting in order to establish the _____, date, and correct form of a text.

Check Your Vocabulary

Good afternoon,my dear English learners!
Most of us are isolated right now and use this opportunity to work our English vocabulary!))))Take care!!
Use these words in the sentences:
discernible -squeamish -against overwhelming odds - loot - beguile - deceased

1. He lived in chambers which had once belonged to his _____ partner.
2. Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and _____ the rest of the evening with his banker's book, went home to bed.
3. Some rebels _____ the city.
4. He is captured and sold as a gladiator, and eventually makes his way to the Colosseum in Rome, where he becomes a hero by engineering a spectacular victory _____.
5. The _____ which tries to ignore the existence of slang fails signally, for not only in the streets and prisons, but at the bar on the bench, in the pulpit, and in the houses of Parliament, does slang make itself heard, and understood too.
6. no structure is ______.