tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57064558712150488172024-03-13T10:46:22.062-07:00IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH FOR FREE10-15 min tasks to improve your English.languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.comBlogger818125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-30457456581227859262024-02-19T20:15:00.000-08:002024-02-19T20:15:48.614-08:00My Daily Vocabulary<p> Hello guys,</p><p>Here are the answers to the previous post from 02/18/2024:</p><p>1. heaved</p><p>2. thrall</p><p>3. slumped</p><p>4. hauled</p><p>5. bellowing</p><p>6. stifled</p><p>7. beckoning</p><p>8. banished</p><p>9. jangle</p><p>10. jolts</p><p>11. docile</p><p>12. twitching</p><p>13. loathing</p><p>14. libel</p><p>Enjoy the new words:</p><p>confide</p><p>corollary</p><p>dogged</p><p>fester</p><p>infatuation</p><p>jeer</p><p>lurch</p><p>slur</p><p>throng</p><p>torment</p><p>wheeze out</p><p>1. He had recovered from far worse, but for some reason this cut had begun to ___ and he could already smell the rot.</p><p>2. He pushed away from the trunk with a deep breath that made his head spin and his stomach ___.</p><p>3. Magnus had quickly realised his ___ was entirely one-sided.</p><p>4. Like his friends in Del, he had always ___ at such talk.</p><p>5. I ___ in him and I forget, once again, what I'm doing here.</p><p>6. He glanced down at her, his chest tight as he struggled to ___ the question. </p><p>7. "Why did you ignore me? Did I do something wrong?" he ___, hating how pathetic he sounded, and not only because of illness...</p><p>8. Why did he ___ himself with these questions?</p><p>9. But ___ he moved on, hurrying despite his exhaustion.</p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p>languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-65518375858919093092024-02-18T01:19:00.000-08:002024-02-18T01:19:41.956-08:00My Daily Vocabulary<p> Hello guys,</p><p>Here are the answers to the previous post on 02/10/2024</p><p>1. hurtled</p><p>2. haul</p><p>3. lumber</p><p>4. jeering</p><p>5. snapping</p><p>6. frailing</p><p>7. gnashing</p><p>8. placate</p><p>9. thrall</p><p>10. pyre</p><p>New words to enjoy</p><p>banish</p><p>beckon</p><p>bellow</p><p>docile</p><p>haul</p><p>heave</p><p>jangle</p><p>jolt</p><p>loathe</p><p>libel</p><p>slump</p><p>stifle</p><p>thrall</p><p>twitch</p><p>1. Lief ___ on the cloak with all his might.</p><p>2. You were his ___.</p><p>3. His bronze skin looked sallow, and his tall frame seemed a little ___ in his seat.</p><p>4. Lief and Barda ___ on the cloak, their arms straining.</p><p>5. ____ in shock and terror they sank like stones, their arms thrashing frantically as their great weight drove them down.</p><p>6. Somewhere in those depths lay Jin and Jod, their wickedness ___ forever.</p><p>7. He felt a hand touch his arm, and looked up to see Manus ___ to him urgently.</p><p>8. Lief took a deep breath, ____ the whispering voice from his mind, and nodded.</p><p>9. Until I hear footballs on the steps outside, the familiar ___ of Cathy fishing around in her huge handbag for her house keys.</p><p>10. It ___ me to life.</p><p>11. He does as he's told, kicking off his shoes and lying back on the bed, ___ as a sick child.</p><p>12. Beside him, Manus was sighing and ___ - tormented, no doubt, by dreams.</p><p>13.For five years he had lived with fear and ___ in the company of wickedness.</p><p>14. Can't ___ the dead!!!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-47987007599041231692024-02-09T19:54:00.000-08:002024-02-09T19:54:28.916-08:00My Daily Vocabulary<p> Good morning guys!!</p><p>Here are the answers to my 02.07 post-check yourself!!!</p><p>1.bereavement</p><p>2. scramble</p><p>3. gaped</p><p>4. jutted</p><p>5. wrenched</p><p>6. coaxed</p><p>7. forgone</p><p>Enjoy some new words this weekend!!!</p><p>flail</p><p>gnash</p><p>haul</p><p>hurtle</p><p>jeer</p><p>lumber</p><p>placate</p><p>pyre</p><p>snap</p><p>thrall</p><p>1.The axe ____, spinning, towards her.</p><p>2. He bent and caught Jasmine's arm, trying to ____ her up beside him.</p><p>3. Howling in triumph, Jin and Jod ____ forward.</p><p>4.They were ____, gathering themselves to spring.</p><p>5. Jin and Jod shouted in shock as the black bird attacked them, its sharp beak ___ viciously.</p><p>6. It wheeled away from their ___ arms and dived again.</p><p>7. Lief caught a glimpse of Jod's metal teeth, ____ in furious triumph.</p><p>8. He tried to ___ me, he made all the right noises, he told me it was probably a load of rubbish anyway.</p><p>9. He had captured her five years ago and made her his ____.</p><p>10. If he had died here, you might have joined him on the funeral ___.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-44191818872685485112024-02-07T22:53:00.000-08:002024-02-07T22:53:29.610-08:00New Vocabulary +Answers to the previous post<p> Good morning guys!!! Here are the answers to the post of 05.02.</p><p>1. hulking</p><p>2. rekindled</p><p>3. hiatus</p><p>4. funky</p><p>5. hurtled</p><p>6. dunking</p><p>7. sweatbox</p><p>8. exultation</p><p>Here are new words to enjoy!!</p><p>bereavement</p><p>coax</p><p>forgo</p><p>gape</p><p>jut</p><p>scramble</p><p>wrench</p><p>1. Was there something specific for you? A ___, or some other loss?</p><p>2. He peered over Jasmine's head and his heart thumped as he saw that Jin and Jod were already ___ to their feet.</p><p>3. But Bards and Jasmine just ___ at him.</p><p>4. Yellow tusks ___ from her open, shrieking mouth.</p><p>5. With an effort he ____ his right foot free and stepped to the next gap.</p><p>6. I knew we didn't - we'd taken on a big mortgage, he had some debts left over from a bad business deal his father had ___ him into pursuing - I just had to deal with it.</p><p>7. Couldn't he have ___ a weekend in Vegas?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-49109748359741406272024-02-05T01:29:00.000-08:002024-02-05T01:29:35.417-08:00New VocabularyHello guys! Today's task is super easy. Enjoy filling the gaps with the vocabulary below. And.. learn the words if you don't know them!!))) Have a nice day!!!<div><u>hulking</u> - bulky; great in size<div><u>exultation</u> - rejoicing greatly</div><div><u>hiatus</u> - a gap in time</div><div><u>sweatbox</u> - a type of torture, punishment</div><div><u>funky</u> - hearty and simple</div><div><u>hurtle</u> - move with great speed</div><div><u>dunk</u> - plunge</div><div><u>rekindle</u> - to revive</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>The sweet little cottage they thought they had seen was in fact a grim, ____ square of white stones with no windows.</li><li>I've ____ my love for novels and even joined a book club.</li><li>The ___ was necessary, but I'm ready to dive back into the world of blogging and reconnect with this community.</li><li>Don't miss your opportunity to share your love of Korean with the world through these ___ shirts!</li><li>Someone ___ out and began pounding across the grass towards them.</li><li>With every swing, the hook at the end, still dripping with slime from its ___ in the quicksand missed the fleeting Ralad man by a hair.</li><li>It's like a ___.</li><li>___, fear, confusion, and guilt.</li></ol><div><br /></div></div></div>languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-22223404175955029702023-11-23T19:46:00.000-08:002023-11-23T19:46:49.588-08:00How many errors are contained in the following sentence?<p> You’ll be tunnellling through an bounty of bight, beautiful leaves.</p>languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-26291158638545367492023-10-05T00:25:00.002-07:002023-10-05T00:25:21.380-07:00Commas with parenthetic expression<p> Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas. </p><p> The best way to see a country, unless you are pressed for time, is to travel on foot.</p><p><br /></p><p>This rule is difficult to apply; it is frequently hard to decide whether a single word, such as <i>however</i> or a brief phrase, is or is not parenthetic. If the interruption to the flow of the sentence is but slight, the writer may safely omit the commas. But whether the interruption is slight or considerable, he must never insert one comma and omit the other. Such punctuation as </p><p> Marjorie's husband, Colonel Nelson paid us a visit yesterday,</p><p>or</p><p> My brother you will be pleased to hear, is now in perfect health, is indefensible.</p><p>If a parenthetic expression is preceded by a conjunction, place the first comma before the conjunction, not after it.</p><p> He saw us coming, and unaware that we had learned of his treachery, greeted us with a smile.</p><p>Always to be regarded as parenthetic and to be enclosed between commas (or, at the end of the sentence, between comma and period) are the following:</p><p>(1) the year, when forming part of a date, and the day of the month, when following the day of the week: </p><p> February to July, 1916. </p><p> April 6, 1917. </p><p> Monday, November 11, 1918. </p><p>(2) the abbreviations <i>etc.</i> and <i>jr.</i></p><p>(3) non-restrictive relative clauses, that is, those which do not serve to identify or define the antecedent noun, and similar clauses introduced by conjunctions indicating time or place. </p><p> The audience, which had at first been indifferent, became more and more interested. </p><p>In this sentence, the clause introduced by <i>which</i> does not serve to tell which of several possible audiences is meant; what audience is in question is supposed to be already known. The clause adds, parenthetically, a statement supplementing that in the main clause. The sentence is virtually a combination of two statements which might have been made independently: </p><p> The audience had at first been indifferent. It became more and more interested. </p><p>Compare the restrictive relative clause, not set off by commas, in the sentence, </p><p> The candidate who best meets these requirements will obtain the place. </p><p>Here the clause introduced by <i>who</i> does serve to tell which of several possible candidates is meant; the sentence cannot be split up into two independent statements. </p><p>The difference in punctuation in the two sentences following is based on the same principle: </p><p> Nether Stowey, where Coleridge wrote <i>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,</i> is a few miles from Bridgewater. </p><p> The day will come when you will admit your mistake. </p><p>Nether Stowey is completely identified by its name; the statement about Coleridge is therefore supplementary and parenthetic. The <i>day</i> spoken of is identified only by the dependent clause, which is therefore restrictive. </p><p>Similar in principle to the enclosing of parenthetic expressions between commas is the setting off by commas of phrases or dependent clauses preceding or following the main clause of a sentence. </p><p> Partly by hard fighting, partly by diplomatic skill, they enlarged their dominions to the east, and rose to royal rank with the possession of Sicily, exchanged afterward for Sardinia.</p><p>The writer should be careful not to set off independent clauses by commas.</p><p> from "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk</p><div><br /></div>languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-71062859004925259042023-10-03T21:52:00.003-07:002023-10-03T21:52:59.735-07:00Comma rule in series<p> In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a</p><p>Use a comma after each word except the last.</p><p>Thus write,</p><p> red, white, and blue</p><p> gold, silver, or copper</p><p> He opened the letter, read it, and noted its contents.</p><p>This is also the usage of the Government Printing Office and of the</p><p>Oxford University Press.</p><p>In the names of business firms, the last comma is omitted, as,</p><p> Brown, Shipley & Co.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> from "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk</p></blockquote>languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-78678278469766961982023-08-14T23:23:00.002-07:002023-08-14T23:23:19.291-07:00Advanced vocabulary(SAT,GRE)<p> ram - ramming</p><p>scrape</p><p>shudder (v)</p><p>broadsided</p><p>prod - prodding</p><p>flip</p><p>swerve</p><p>rip</p><p>swing a right</p><p>rivet (v)</p><p>SUV</p><p>lure</p><p>emollient</p><p>sideswipe</p><p>berm</p><p>yank (v)</p><p>tip (v)</p><p>precarious</p><p>skid - skidded - skidding</p><p>crunch</p><p>encroach</p><p>oblivion</p><p>crumple</p><p>tablish</p><p>scramble (v)</p><p>averted</p><p>crackle</p><p>scoot</p><p>wheeze out</p><p>rim</p><p>puffy</p><p>ripple</p><p>whizz</p><p>lurch</p><p>gurney</p>languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-92151785364157880222023-06-08T06:44:00.005-07:002023-09-28T22:11:06.793-07:00Possession rules<p> Good evening, guys!! Here is one of the most confusing rules of possessive. Add your examples in the comments below.</p><h3 style="clear: both; font-size: medium; margin-top: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><a id="Rule_1">1.</a> Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's.</h3><p style="margin: 0.75em auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.5em;">Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write,</p><div class="example" style="font-size: smaller; margin: 1em 0px;"><p style="margin: 0.25em 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.5em;">Charles's friend</p><p style="margin: 0.25em 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.5em;">Burns's poems</p><p style="margin: 0.25em 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.5em;">the witch's malice</p></div><p style="margin: 0.75em auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.5em;">This is the usage of the United States Government Printing Office and the Oxford University Press.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.5em;">Exceptions are the possessive of ancient proper names in <i>-es</i> and <i>-is</i>, the possessive <i>Jesus'</i>, and such forms as <i>for conscience' sake</i>, <i>for righteousness' sake</i>. But such forms as <i>Achilles' heel</i>, <i>Moses' laws</i>, <i>Isis' temple</i> are commonly replaced by</p><div class="example" style="font-size: smaller; margin: 1em 0px;"><p style="margin: 0.25em 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.5em;">the heel of Achilles</p><p style="margin: 0.25em 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.5em;">the laws of Moses</p><p style="margin: 0.25em 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.5em;">the temple of Isis</p></div><p style="margin: 0.75em auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.5em;">The pronominal possessives <i>hers</i>, <i>its</i>, <i>theirs</i>, <i>yours</i>, and <i>oneself</i> have no apostrophe.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> from "The Elements of
Style" by William Strunk</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-27074747688831822222022-08-30T01:37:00.009-07:002023-03-29T09:22:14.878-07:00Articles in English (Your Reflections)<p> Hello guys,</p><p>I'd like to share some opinions on articles and looking forward to receiving your opinion on the same topic.</p><p>So, ARTICLES</p><p>... article usage in English is complex and, in many instances, arbitrary. There are several different uses for each article, articles are often omitted, and there are dialectal differences in the use of articles.</p><p> (Brinton & Brinton, 2010, p.123)</p><p>... the English article system ... appears to be virtually impermeable to instruction.</p><p> (Gass & Selinker, 2008, p. 383)</p><p>What is your opinion about article system in English?</p>languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-42059952386865202802020-05-28T05:36:00.001-07:002020-05-28T05:36:29.293-07:00Phrasal verbs<b>bring back - bring into - bring out - bring up</b><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>A week by the sea brought her ______ health.</li><li>He was brought _____ by his grandmother.</li><li>The work brought me _____ a contact with a lot of interesting people.</li><li>Jenny opened a cupboard and brought _____ a couple of bottles.</li></ol></div>languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-45334013084839159422020-05-27T01:12:00.001-07:002020-05-27T01:12:37.495-07:00Vocabulary Check<b>aggregate - baffle -equity - pinch - torment</b><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Private _____ activity can include buying distressed companies, and providing management services to maximize the chances of turnaround.</li><li>Apparently, bank managers are not feeling the _____ in the same way as their employees.</li><li>Children are far less likely to suffer from the ______ of toothache.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ol></div>languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-58723083562918195552020-05-25T22:43:00.000-07:002020-05-25T22:43:31.702-07:00Vocabulary Check<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>blur - delusion - equity -rampion - taint </b><br />
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<li>If that's true then I will let you have as many _____ as you want on one condition.</li>
<li>Experience may be the best teacher, but biased experience supports bias, distorted experience supports distortion, self - deluded experience supports self- _____.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Private Equity refers to _____ that is not listed on any stock exchange.</li>
<li>Over the last decade, the distinction between hedge funds and these "alternative" investment vehicles has ______.</li>
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languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-5983521710002649302020-05-25T22:34:00.001-07:002020-05-25T22:34:51.595-07:00SAT Vocabulary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
adroit - skillful<br />
decorum - dignified behaviour<br />
largess - generosity<br />
obsolete - no longer valid<br />
adulation - worship</div>
languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-138990701459777122020-05-24T23:26:00.000-07:002020-05-24T23:26:13.868-07:00Vocabulary Check<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>distort - distortion - flaw - rampion - suspension - unattainable</b><br />
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<li>My wife saw your ______ from the window and she wanted it so bad, that I could not say no to her.</li>
<li>Robert challenged Evensson on the validity of his conclusions claiming that his data were _____ and were too limited to be reliable.</li>
<li>In a _____ bridge, there are two towers with one or more flexible cable firmly attached at each end.</li>
<li>Experience may be the best teacher, but biased experience supports bias, ______ experience supports distortion, self- deluded experience supports self-delusion.</li>
<li>Absolute zero, the temperature at which all substances have zero thermal energy, and thus lowest possible temperatures, is ________ in practice.</li>
<li>Without this command, we confuse these important discriminations and _____ the important realities they help us distinguish.</li>
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languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-4678227756749869352020-05-23T23:46:00.000-07:002020-05-23T23:46:03.937-07:00Vocabulary Check<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>flaw - incarcerate - rampion - scurry - seminal - undulation</b><br />
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<li>How dare you come into my garden, and steal my _____ like a thief!</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>What he heard his father say was some of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been _____ in his room.</li>
<li>There are _____ in some of your calculations, and they need redoing.</li>
<li>This superb article can be viewed as a _____ piece of work which has made ground-breaking discoveries about the nature of cancerous cells.</li>
<li>Friction between moving air and the ocean surface generates ______ of water called waves.</li>
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languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-75037837553649065282020-05-23T23:36:00.001-07:002020-05-23T23:36:17.250-07:00SAT Vocabulary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
certitude - certainly<br />
digress - wonder off the subject<br />
falter - hesitate;waver<br />
indelible - cannot be wiped out<br />
malinger - deliberately avoid work</div>
languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-15506369178618906292020-05-22T22:29:00.000-07:002020-05-22T22:29:28.125-07:00Vocabulary Check<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>flutter - luminary -rampion - scruffy - tint -vulnerable</b><br />
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<li>The man took the _____ and his wife made a salad out of it and ate it.</li>
<li>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?</li>
<li>You can't wear those old _____ jeans to the wedding.</li>
<li>But the IoT makes us more _____ to cyber-attacks and breaches of personal data.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>You' ve got the network inside _____.</li>
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languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-87922885882356782542020-05-22T22:07:00.000-07:002020-05-22T22:07:07.120-07:00SAT vocabulary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
circuitous - indirect<br />
fervor - passion<br />
inept - incompetent<br />
martinet - person who believes in strict discipline<br />
skirmish - minor battle</div>
languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-29044557352190341412020-05-21T21:09:00.001-07:002020-05-21T21:09:50.640-07:00Vocabulary Check<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>boo -demolition -deter - enliven -parse - rampion </b><br />
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<li>He started taking some _____.</li>
<li>The fact that the country is socially unstable _____ investors.</li>
<li>Audiences inevitably _____ as he sang encore after encore to the delight of fans from all around the country.</li>
<li>The notes will later have to be _____ to be of use to the student.</li>
<li>The _____ team will push the button in maybe eight minutes.</li>
<li>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.</li>
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acrid - sharp<br />
boorish - ill-mannered<br />
poignant - deeply moving<br />
respite - a break<br />
hiatus - pause</div>
languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-85084806325292499772020-05-20T21:18:00.001-07:002020-05-20T21:18:39.574-07:00Vocabulary Check<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>accrue - frenetic - infrared - leverage - rampion -rigorous </b><br />
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<li>Please, do something, I really want to eat those _____.</li>
<li>Some of the _____ comes from positions in derivative instruments such as futures and options.</li>
<li>The standard cost structure is known as 2 and 20, which _____ to the managers.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>The ______ aerial photograph seems to show a large village around 1,000 years ago.</li>
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languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-15472906142837246292020-05-20T21:10:00.001-07:002020-05-20T21:10:21.529-07:00SAT Vocabulary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
accolade - praise<br />
bolster - support<br />
lamentation - expression of regret or sorrow<br />
obliterate - destroy<br />
tentative - not certain</div>
languagereadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257010669715631037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706455871215048817.post-44684688302669609612020-05-19T21:06:00.002-07:002020-05-19T21:06:28.814-07:00SAT Vocabulary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
certitude - certainty<br />
digress - wander off the subject<br />
falter - hesitate,waver<br />
indelible - cannot be wiped out<br />
malinger - deliberately avoid work</div>
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