Thursday, November 28, 2019

New Words


  • abdication
  • fluster
  • formidable
  • ligament
  • supplant
  • tartar
  1. Preventive tooth scaling once a year is recommended if your teeth tend to accumulate _____.
  2. Periodontal diseases are infections of the periodontal tissues, which include the gums, periodontal _____ and alveolar bone.
  3. That kind of interviewing is used by us to give someone an opportunity to show they are smart and not easily _____.
  4. Many of our readers may be able to recollect how _____ such an accusation became in the period at which our story is dated.
  5. With the rapid instinct of selfishness, Caderousse readily perceived the solidity of this mode of reasoning; he gazed, doubtfully, wistfully, on Danglars, and then caution ______ generosity.
  6. You understand that, on account of your uncle, M. Policar Morrel, who served under the "other" government, and who does not altogether conceal what he thinks on the subject, you are strongly suspected of regretting the _____ of Napoleon.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Improve your vocabulary )))


  • tartar
  • acquiesce
  • mug
  1. Proper brushing and flossing are necessary to reduce plaque and ______ build up.
  2. I'm not thrilled about answering questions like "If you were being _____, and you had a light sabre in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?"
  3. If a minority in such case will secede rather than _____, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them; for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such minority.

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Do you know these words? Check yourself!


  • crank
  • pendant
  • saber
  • secede
  • spanner
  • tartar
  1. The _____ was in your car because you murdered Mary Jones with it.
  2. This form of  _____ is less harmful as it is visible and can be identified easily allowing us to visit our dentist early.
  3. There were _____ and an expensive watch.
  4. This is not the usual _____ call.
  5. If a minority in such case will _____ rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them; for a minority of their own will _____ from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such minority.
  6. I'm not thrilled about answering questions like "If you were being mugged, and you had a light ______ in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?

Monday, November 11, 2019

Preposition practice

Good evening,my dear English learners! Here is the collection of preposition links. Enjoy!!!)))
http://www.better-english.com/grammar/prepositions.htm
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/0101/es-prepositions.html
http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/prepositions.ht
http://www.eslpdf.com/esl_prepositions.html 
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/alle_grammar.htm 
http://www.quia.com/tq/126698.html
http://www.quia.com/jg/73573.html
 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/594/01/
http://www.better-english.com/grammar/timepreps.htm
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/grammar/prepo.htm http://esl.about.com/library/grammar/blgr_prep1.htm
http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CiLL/eap/
http://moodle.citylit.ac.uk/moodle/file.php/1/Study%20skills%20work%20sheets/gramm ar/intermediate/Microsoft%20Word%20%204.17%20Prepositions%20with%20nouns,%20adjectives%20and%20verbs.pdf
http://www.evt.edunet.tn/depinteg/projetstic/secondaire/projets/anglais/intasks/prep9.htm
http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/eap/2004/u2/pg34preps.htm
http://www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_grammar/adjectives_prepos.htm
http://esl.about.com/library/grammar/blgr_prep5.htm
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_prep7.htm
http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CiLL/eap/2004/u2/pg34ex3prepositional%20phrases.htm
http://collegewriting.org/index.php/revision/editing/editstrings-of-prepositional-phrases
http://www.uefap.com/writing/feature/complex.htm
http://www.bestessaytips.com/improve_writing_style.php
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/style/wordiness.html

Monday, October 7, 2019

Check your vocabulary

Good evening,my dear English learners! Let's check if you know the words below.

  • adamant
  • bask
  • blithely
  • codicil
  • crest
  • furrow of anxiety
  • imminent
  • penal servitude
  • pendant
  • precarious
  • regurgitate
  • vim
  1. Not all of them eke out a ______ livelihood by murdering one another, but there is a definite section of the population which murders - not casually, on the spur of the moment, but on definitely commercial lines of so many dollars per murder.
  2. The man in the street not have known it, but a great crisis was _____ in New York journalism.
  3. The cars ran ______ on Broadway.
  4. Newsboys shouted "Wux-try!" into the ears of nervous pedestrians with their usual Caruso- like _____.
  5. Society passed up and down Fifth Avenue in its automobiles, and was there a ______ upon society's brow?
  6. He was _____.
  7. To Mr. Wilberfloss the sentence was almost equivalent to _____.
  8. You can buy Miss Lotta Lauriece a diamond _____ with the thousand dollars.
  9. There is a _____ to your uncle's will.
  10. The cassowary has a large bony _____ on its head that uses to dig in the dirt for food.
  11. The frilled lizard goes back to ______ in the sun.
  12. Firstly, even the best school can take a fascinating subject, such as electricity or classical civilization, and make it boring, by turning it into facts which have to be learnt by heart and then _____ for exams.

Saturday, October 5, 2019

SAT words

Good morning,my dear English learners!
Check your vocabulary for SAT.))) Give definitions for the following words.

  • mendacious
  • protean
  • flout
  • clemency
  • paucity

Check your vocabulary

Good morning, my dear English learners!
Here is your new vocabulary task.))) It's a very simple task. Just fill the gaps with the correct word. You may need to change the form.

  • succumb
  • sloth
  • red-lipped batfish
  • contentment
  • treacherous
  • potent
  • ante
  • prudence
  • beckon to
  • gout
  • morbid
  • indentured
  • eke out
  1. Every my old man ____ and did not contradict her, but gave me double share instead.
  2. A ____ has four legs, long claws and brown fur.
  3. A ____ lives in the sea.
  4. Policy Lider Electrik is focused on more complete clients _____ with reliable and qualitative electrical equipment.
  5. The landscape for jobseekers today is more _____ than at my time in recent memory.
  6. The power of religion remains _____ here at the dawn of the 21st century.
  7. In their struggle, to survive, increasingly lean organizations are making decisions that also raise the  _____ for jobseekers.
  8. _____ counseled Brainard to assume that the voice was that of the stenographer, and to hang up the receiver.
  9. The reporter _____ him.
  10. I think I've got _____!
  11. No artist is ever _____.
  12. Indians were brought to South Africa by British to work on farms as "_____ workers" for five years and others - "free Indians" - came to buy and sell things there.
  13. Not all of them ______ a precarious livelihood by murdering one another, but there is a definite section of the population which murders - not casually, on the spur of the moment, but on definitely commercial lines at so many dollars per murder.