Pineapple Girl

Good afternoon, my dear vocabulary learners! There are some new words for you to practice!

coveted	mundane	fright	knobbly
pecked	rampaging	thrust	trimming

1.     Eloise related the morning’s happening without _____.

2.     I looked a perfect ______.

3.     You’re not a beauty, but you’re not ______.

4.     You can repeat the sedation at 6 o’clock if she’s still _____.

5.     He ______ the chart at Eloise.

6.     She ______ at their cheeks and loosened the expensive furs she was wearing.

7.     He had lived largely in a world of his own far removed the more ______ life around him.

8.     He had mortgaged the shop and house in order to find the money to buy the rare books he had ______.

Pride and Prejudice

Good evening, my dear vocabulary learners! I have a new quiz for you today!))

clatter	butting	repellent	seethe	oscillation
panoply	pinched	scorch	skiff	towhead

1.     From under this great _____ she peeped up in nervous, hesitating fashion at our windows.

2.     ______ upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur.

3.     I was pretty willing to let her _____ right along.

4.     A _____ is a sandbar that has cottonwoods.

5.     So I judged the raft must be ______ into the bank every now and then.

6.     It stayed with me and _____- me more and more.

7.     That was where it ______.

8.     Right then along comes a ______ with two men in it with guns, and they stopped and I stopped.

9.     The main part is the product, for example, insect _____, which settles as a solution or suspension at the bottom of the can.

10.                         Mrs. Bennett’s voice was casual, masking her ______ curiosity.

Pineapple Girl Vocabulary

crude(2)

deplorable

hedge

nipped

peevishly

1.     And no wonder, she thought ______.

2.     She smiled at them both, happily forgetful of her ______ appearance, and ______ across the lobby and down the stairs, to be greeted by her friends.

3.     Someone dragged her through a ______ backwards.

4.     The ______ of writers could invent nothing more ______.

Mark Twain

Good morning my dear readers! Today there is some food for thought from Mark Twain. Enjoy!

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones that you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the winds in your soils. Explore. Dream. Discover.

---Mark Twain

Pride and Prejudice

dregs

eke out

heaved

wan

toil

verge

1.     On the extreme _____ of the horizon lie a long chain of mountain peaks.

2.     He had ______ painfully down the ravine in the vain hope of seeing some signs of water.

3.     The child was pale and ______, but her healthy arms and legs showed that she had suffered less than her companion.

4.     Those ladies who were once more on their legs were putting in the last hair rollers and drinking the final ______ of the cocoa.

5.      Mrs. White _______ at something under the blankets and produced a pineapple.

6.     If she lived with her mother there would be more money to ______ Mrs. Bennett’s tiny pension.