Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Check your vocabulary

 Hello guys!!! Let's revise our vocabulary!!! complete the gaps with the given words.  Mind the grammar and enjoy!!!

affluent

beau 

blurt out

brine

callow

corral

cove

delude

dispense (with)

dissuade

frond

glazier

impeccable

invincible

lanky

lavish

meddlesome

muse

oblong

on a whim

rueful

shoddy

suffuse

tangles

  1.  The ___ was scared of me.
  2. How can such a person not be ___?
  3. But we must ____ not only unnecessary actions but necessary thoughts, too, so needless acts don't tag along after them
  4. As much as Maria loved her ____ aunts, there was no denying that they were the bane of her existence.
  5. That time had chiseled his features and smoothed away the youthful ____ in his limbs so that he looked like an overly flattering portrait of himself.
  6. There was no graceful, polite way to extricate herself from the prospect of spending the remainder of the afternoon in the company of her former ___.
  7. She trailed after him, aware of the ___ nature of this place.
  8. The deep ___ quiet of it all.
  9. It was palatal - though not, she ____, for a person who had his own palace.
  10. Perhaps this was the equivalent of a ____ old hostel for a man like Cajetan.
  11. Cajetan gazed at the feast, then at her, and there was something almost ___ in his gaze.
  12. "Oh, don't", Maria ___, half a second before her brain caught up with her mouth.
  13. Not that I don't appreciate the effect, but could we ___ with the pleasantries?
  14. Only Cajetan who had to remind himself that he was a grown up man, not a ___ adolescent who had never been in the presence of a woman before.
  15. At least, that was what the prolonged silence indicated as the two of them continued making their way through ___ of palms and vines.
  16. The truth, which she hadn't bothered to share with her aunts, or anyone else in her family lest they try to ___ her, was that was no ordinary walk.
  17. Pushing one last palm ___ aside, Maria stepped through the tangle of gree and emerged into a spot on a cliff above a sheltered cove.
  18. The last time Maria had seen it, it had lain beneath the brilliant blue waters of the ___, its broken mast jutting out so close to the surface that Maria had been able to dive down and touch it.
  19. The landed far below, in a cramped, airless space that smelled of ____ and seaweed.
  20. I don't ever do things ____.
  21. In addition to all above-mentioned fruits and nuts, half of an ____ Russian olive stone was recorded from Rabat - 4.
  22. "A shipwreck?" Enrique repeated, his voice ____ with fury.
  23. I saw I had been ___ in thinking that we would've been anything, but a mistake.
  24. Half a dozen young ladies of good families and ___ manners, all of whom sported smooth air, delicate gold jewelry and impeccable frocks in shades of white and ivory.
Key: 1 glazier; 2 invincible; 3 corral; 4 meddlesome; 5 lankiness; 6 beau; 7 lavish; 8 affluent; 9 mused; 10 shoddy; 11 rueful; 12 blurted out; 13 dispense; 14 callow; 15 tangles; 16 dissuade; 17 frond; 18 cove; 19 brine; 20 on a whim; 21 oblong; 22 suffused; 23 deluded; 24 impeccable.

Sunday, September 1, 2024

When to double the final consonant?

 If a word of more than one syllable ends with a short vowel and one consonant,

• DOUBLE THE FINAL CONSONANT before adding a suffix that begins with a

vowel if the accent is on the last syllable.

• DO NOT DOUBLE THE FINAL CONSONANT if the accent is not on the last syllable or if the suffix begins with a consonant.

Double the Final Consonant

-ing, -ed -ence, -ent -ance -al

befitting abhorrence acquittance acquittal

befogged concurrent admittance transmittal

committing excellence remittance noncommittal

compelled intermittent transmittance

controlling occurrence

impelling recurrent

incurred

omitting -er -en -able

permitted beginner forbidden controllable

propelling propeller forgotten forgettable

regretted transmitter regrettable

submitting

Do NOT Double the Final Consonant

ENDING IN TWO VOWELS ACCENT NOT SUFFIX BEGINS

TWO CONSO- BEFORE THE ON THE FINAL WITH A

NANTS CONSONANT SYLLABLE CONSONANT

-ing, -ed -ing, -ed -ing, -ed -ment

consenting concealing benefiting allotment

converted contained blossomed annulment

demanding detaining differed commitment

diverted disdained gathered deferment

requesting refraining limiting equipment

subsisted remounted profited interment

supplanting restraining quarreling preferment

supported retained soliciting

transcending revealing summoned