New food for thought today!

a) beguiled

b) meekly

c) contemptuously

1.     Anne followed them ______home and slipped in by the back door. ( Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud)

2.I would wrap it up in the cover she had made for the latest Carlyle: she would skin it ______and again bring it down. ( Margaret Ogilvy by Barrie, James Matthew )

3.Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and ______the rest of the evening with his banker's-book, went home to bed. (Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)

(Answer:1.b;2.a;3.c )

Robin Hood

Hi! Did you have time to revise your vocabulary today?

a) meekly

b) thatched

c) contemptuously

1.     Will Scarlet was especially delighted to greet again his old time friend, while Allan-a-Dale and his good wife bustled about to make her welcome in their tiny ______cottage. (  Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker)

2.     It was wonderful that her friends should seem so little elated by the possession of such a home, that the consciousness of it should be so ________borne. (  Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane)

3.     'Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head.(Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

(Answer: 1.b;2.a; 3.c)

March Hare's quiz

Hi!Here is a new challenge for your vocabulary!

a) meekly

b) thatched

c) indignantly

1.     The A-shaped roof was _______with small branches laid close together and over these long jungle grass and palm fronds, with a final coating of clay.(  Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice)

2.     I flushed somewhat ________at his manner with sanctities. (The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard )

3.     'It was the BEST butter,' the March Hare _____replied.(Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

(Answer:1.b;2.c;3.a)

Today's quiz

Hello everyone! Here is the today’s quiz:

a) thatched

b) indignantly

c) flinging

1.     Then the boat emerged, half swamped, Leach _______the water out and Johnson clinging to the steering-oar, his face white and anxious. ( The Sea Wolf by London, Jack)

2.     He had a nest ______with leaves in the top of a tall tree; and he had a little squirrel wife called Goody.( The Original Peter Rabbit Books by Potter, Beatrix)

3.     I ________deny that I or my wife ever presumed to see your Lordship's name as a means of recommendation to sitters without your permission. (  My Lady's Money by Collins, Wilkie)

(Answer: 1.c;2.a;3.b)

Hi! Let's practice some words today!

Hi! Let’s practice some words today!

a) flinging

b) indignantly

c) thatched

1.He sprang to his feet and saw to starboard, and not a hundred yards from their heeling, pitching boat, a vast iron bulk like the blade of a plough tearing through the water, tossing it on either side in huge waves of foam that leaped towards the steamer, ______her paddles helplessly in the air, and then sucking her deck down almost to the waterline. ( The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G.)

2. At intervals we passed a wretched cabin, with a ____roof, and about its small fields and garden patches in an indifferent state of cultivation.(  A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark)

3. "I should say she was," declared Nancy,_____. (  Pollyanna by Porter, Eleanor H.)

(Answer 1.a;2.c;3.b)