Monday, February 19, 2024

My Daily Vocabulary

 Hello guys,

Here are the answers to the previous post from 02/18/2024:

1. heaved

2. thrall

3. slumped

4. hauled

5. bellowing

6. stifled

7. beckoning

8. banished

9. jangle

10. jolts

11. docile

12. twitching

13. loathing

14. libel

Enjoy the new words:

confide

corollary

dogged

fester

infatuation

jeer

lurch

slur

throng

torment

wheeze out

1. He had recovered from far worse, but for some reason this cut had begun to ___ and he could already smell the rot.

2. He pushed away from the trunk with a deep breath that made his head spin and his stomach ___.

3. Magnus had quickly realised his ___ was entirely one-sided.

4. Like his friends in Del, he had always ___ at such talk.

5. I ___ in him and I forget, once again, what I'm doing here.

6. He glanced down at her, his chest tight as he struggled to ___ the question. 

7. "Why did you ignore me? Did I do something wrong?" he ___, hating how pathetic he sounded, and not only because of illness...

8. Why did he ___ himself with these questions?

9. But ___ he moved on, hurrying despite his exhaustion.

10. I'm part of the Friday - evening commuter ____, just another wage slave amongst the hot, tired masses, looking forward to getting home and sitting outside with a cold beer, dinner with the kids, an early night. 

11. The ___  is that no writer will take all of his or her editor's advice; for all have sinned and fallen short of editorial perfection.


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