Check Your Vocabulary

 Fill in gaps.

agile

deploy

fluster

gingerly

mundane

on pins and needles

safe and sound

vociferous-vociferously

1. Thank goodness for that much, Isaih told himself, ____ at the thought of the carjacking.

2. After a perimeter had been established by the Merced County Sheriff's Office, working with the Lodren Creek Police Departments, a SWAT team was called in and an Airbus H-125 Echo 1 helicopter was ___ to help in the search for the suspect and rescue of young Gabriel Dunne.

3. Isaiah had voluntarily joined the mission with his canine partner, intent on doing whatever could be done to bring Gabriel back to his mother ___.

4. As Isaiah lifted him from the car, he asked the frightened little boy ____, to be sure, "Are you okay, buddy?"

5. Sensing the armed suspect was hiding somewhere, Isaih took out his weapon and then le Lex loose, believing that the ___ and skilled Begian Malinois would have the element of surprise and fear on his side.

6. When Lex stopped at the water's edge, barking ____, Isaiah caught up to him and spotted what looked to be a person, almost totally underwater, amidst blackbeery bushes and cattails.

7. After being ____ with worry, Tamara was happily reunited with Gabriel at her sister's house.

8. By writing about the admittedly ____ details of my subjects' daily lives -when they slept and ate and worked and worried - I hoped to provide a novel angle on their personalitties and careers, to sketch entertaining small- bore portraits of the artist as a creature of habit.

Key: 1. flustered; 2. deployed; 3. safe and sound; 4. gingerly; 5. agile;6. voceferously; 7. on pins and needles; 8. mundane 

Check Your Vocabulary

 Complete the gaps.

accost

acquiesce

antsy

assailant

at gunpoint

carjack-v

falter

fender

frantic

frizz out

on what grounds

slate (for)

stammer

unsub

1. You don't ____ so you talk normally.
2. She patted down her bangs where they tended to ____ like a forelock.
3. This time the ____ moved, not for but enough to clear the tire, and she stood up and dusted off her hands.
4. What time was this meeting ____?
5. ____ didn't you make breakfast?
6. "All right," Stella ___, "but I want details tomorrow."
7. It was only after she closed the door and went around to the driver's side door that Tamara found herself being ____ by a tall and well-built, dark-haired, dark-eyed Hispanic man in his twenties.
8.  Unfortunately, neither of those was enough to prevent whatever it was her that ___ had in mind.
9. Lex sat quietly nearby in the great room but seemed ____, while Isaih sipped coffee and saw on the television news that a local convenience store clerk had been killed in an armed robbery.
10. The ____ , described as twentysomething, tall Hispanic man, was believed to have carjacked a woman on a street nearby - taking off with the vistim's vehicle and her child, who was in a car seat in the back.
11. She was ___.
12. I was ____ outside my sister's house.
13. He voice ___.
14. Gabriel was inside the car when the man stole it ___.    

Key:1. stammer; 2. frizz out; 3. fender; 4. stated for; 5. on what gorunds;6. acquiesced; 7. accosted; 8. assailant; 9. antsy; 10. unsub; 11. frantic; 12. carjacked;13.faltered; 14. at gunpoint

Check Your Vocabulary

 Enjoy this task and check your vocabulary knowledge!

conjure up

decrapulate

dignified

disarray

divulge

embezzlement

impeccable

rebate

1. Set in autum and winter, Miss Plum and Miss Penny allows the author to ___ evocative scenes of Greeth transformed by snow, where "every window framed a frozen picture of the most perfect artistry", of a Christmas  Eve carol - singing expedition, and of the whole village forsaking their daily tasks to ice-skate on the frozen Tarn.
2. Have you looked into Director Jin's ____?
3. Let's ____!
4. He is also charged with receiving ____ from businesses of two million dollars. 
5. The hospital is in ____.
6. People say I'm _____ and charismatic.
7. She pictured Stanley to herself, ______ dressed as always, and looking more like a retired bank manager than any retired bank manager had ever looked, sitting in Daddy's wing chair, his well- kept hands folded upon his stomach, his handsome grey head politely inclined toward the television screen, calmly and dispassionately evaluating the worth of the performers.
8. Be secret not to ____ secret information today.

Key: 1. conjure up; 2. embezzlement; 3. descapulate; 4. rebates; 5. disarray; 6. dignified; 7.impeccably; 8.divulge.

Check Your Vocabulary

 Hello guys! Enjoy these new words!

alienated 

bullion

cochlear

corral

fumble

implication

recracement

scrutinize

1. There can be a ____ within a trend.

2. ETFs that track silver prices or futures could be a better bet versus physical ____, as they can be sold quite easily if investors think prices are too frothy.

3. But we must ___ not only unnecessary actions but unnecessary thoughts, too, so needless acts don't tag along after them.

4. Her romantic life consists of an annual Christmas card from her old flame George, and her social swirl involves Stanley, a prissy neighbour who keeps her in wind for a future wife, and Hubert, a neurotic widowed priest with an ____son. 

5. Until he'd met Bethany, he'd never heard of  ____ implants.

6. he wanted to believe her, but the ___ were grim if he did.

7. She ___ with her phone and heldit out to him.

8. But when someone suggested that he take up biking, Thorp ____ the number  of "deaths per hundred million passenger miles for cycling" and "decided that the risk was too high."

Key: 1. retracement; 2. bullion; 3. corral; 4. alienated; 5. cochlear; 6. implications; 7. fumble; 8. scrutinize.

Check Your Vocabulary

 Hello guys! Some new words for you to enjoy! Enjoy!!!

bole

brocade

cheesy

clog

condescendng

craggy

flatulence

flog-flogger

fradulent

grimoire

impasse

intimidate

islet

kick ass

nick

pandemonium

petty

plunder

putrefy

ravine

remit

slammer

slumber

sombre

squander

swag

turd

twat

1. Our food ____ our bodies, and then, because we're clogged, we start to feel bad and we take measures to feel better, but, at the same time, we're still eating foods that are clogging up the system.
2. Therefore, both proteins ___ in the system.
3. You may be eating fruit absolutely correctly and still develop this gas and ____.
4. According to the legend, John the Baptist himself set foot on the ___.
5. She worked all week, and every Saturday she went to the market to sell her ____.
6. The vines stopped their fall, but it was a long way down to the bottom of the ____.
7. I'm ____
8. She's still very ____.
9. You take the money and just ____ it and have us fool ourselves.
10. You're so ____.
11. Valiant men lie ____, they sleep their last sleep; not one of the warriors can lift his hands.
12. Now as we move inexorably into the twenty first century, we are delighted to be widening out ____ even more.
13. Then, among the wet grey shapes of the trees, ___ rocks began to appear.
14. The honey is black as night, thick as sin, and sweet as ____.
15. The bees of Death are big and black, they buzz low and ____, they keep their honey in combs of wax as white as altar candles.
16. The scythe that had done the work leaned against the gnarled ___ of a pear tree.
17. ___ will always exist.
18. I've been ____ for this guy since I can ever remember.
19. This is so ____.
20. But I'd forgotten to take a flashlight with me, and it turned out that the clothes I'd ___ were a bunch of babies' bibs and toddlers' underpants.
21. I might as well have tried to sell a ___.
22. I was just lying there in this ditch full of nettles, feeling like a ____.
23. The cops came to my house a few days later and found the gloves and my pile of  ____.
24. Ankh- Morpork gradually awoke from its ____.
25. In the Library above, the ____  creaked and rustled their pages in astonishment as the invisible runner passed straight through the books he lives and disappeared, or rather, disappeared even more.
26. As the VBB approached, I' d reached an ____.
27. I couldn't truthfully present my vision, not did it seem wise to craft a ____ board.
28. Winson Green was an old Victorian ____ that had been built in 1849.
29. It was ____.

Key: 1. clogged; 2. putrefy; 3. flatulence; 4. islet; 5. brocade; 6. ravine; 7. intimidate; 8. condescending; 9.squander; 10. petty; 11.plundered; 12. remit; 13. craggy; 14. treacle; 15. sombre; 16. bole; 17. floggers; 18. kick ass; 19. cheesy; 20. nicked; 21. turd; 22.twat; 23. swag; 24. slumber; grimoires; 25. impasse; 26. fraudulent; 27. slammer; 28. pandemonium.

My Daily Vocabulary

 Hello guys! I hope you enjoy your English and find time to complete this vocabulary activity! Mind parts of speech!

abysmal

audacity

bling

brat

brocade

cheesy

clog

comply

damsel

exquisite

finicky

flatly

flatulence

gloat

indimidate

inexorably-inexorable

islet

iterate

outrightly

on the rampage 

petty

putrefaction

ravine

resplendent

revamp

valiant

squander

swot

1. Most of the food we eat in this country is of a ___ nature.
2. Because there's this ____, fermentation, and resulting acid, what actually is in the stomach at that time is a mass of spoiled, rotting, foul-smelling food.
3. On occasion the introduction of fruit, properly eaten, will cause some gas and ____.
4. Today's building is perched a top the ___ and is accessible by a narrow path that includes 241 steps.
5. Each ____ took five days to weave.
6. The men heard the sound when Hayes hit the north wall of the ____ hard.
7. He is the most ____ person that has ever walked the surface of this earth.
8. You're about to go ____ again, aren't you?
9. I'm not a ____ in distress.
10. I'm ___.
11. If I have to turn down the Rene holdings measure, I have to come up with an alternative plan and funding to save the company, and also to ____ our stock value in the market.
12. She is very ___.
13. So, now you have known me, when am I getting my ___?
14. I had my doubts though, because you know Satoen is very ___.
15. Your records are ___.
16. The financials show that you ____  every dime.
17. Sell the company ____.
18. Let him ____.
19. You are the one giving him the  ___ to insult me.
20. If a week passes and you don't ____, I will see you in  court.
21. She's just a spoiled ___ who always gets away with things.
22. He is such a ___!
23. You're so ____.
24. You are ___ with light, more majestic than mountains, rich with the game.
25. ___ men lie plundered, they sleep their last sleep; not one of the warriors can lift his hands.
26. Now, as we move ____ into the XXI century, we are delighted to be widening our remit even more.
27. I ___ refused.
28. The way you serve your drinks is ____.
29. This whole process passed for me as long ____ and reading of a lot of stories in a lot of languages hundreds of times.  

Key: 1. clogging; 2. putrefaction; 3. flatulence; 4. islet; 5. brocade; 6. ravine; 7. cheesy; 8. on the rampage; 9. damsel; 10. intimidate; 11. revamp; 12. condescending; 13. bling; 14. finicky; 15. abysmal; 16. squandered; 17. outrightly; 18. gloat; 19. audacity; 20. comply; 21. brat; 22. swot; 23. petty; 24. resplendent; 25. valiant; 26. inexorably; 27. flatly; 28. exquisite; 29 iterations.

Synonyms Letter C

 cajole—coax, persuade, wheedle (to convince by asking nicely)

 camaraderie—friendship, companionship, togetherness

 candid—truthful, straightforward, unrehearsed

 candor—honesty, directness, veracity (truthfulness)

 capricious—willful, arbitrary, impulsive (acting without thought)

 captivate—dazzle, enchant, fascinate

caustic—burning, hurtful, sarcastic (cutting or mocking)

 chaos—disorder, confusion, pandemonium (an uproar or hubbub)

 circumvent—go around, avoid, elude (to get away from)

 clandestine—secret, undercover, covert, surreptitious (hidden)

 cloying—sticky, sentimental, clingy

 coerce—force, bully, pressure 

cogent—powerful, logical, persuasive

 cognizant—aware, informed, sentient (conscious)

 coherent—understandable, clear

 cohesive—close-knit, unified, interconnected

 collaborate—work together, cooperate, join forces

 commend—praise, applaud, honor

 compatible—harmonious, well-suited, congenial (friendly)

 compel—force, require, pressure

 competent—skilled, qualified, proficient (good at)

 complacent—self-satisfied, comfortable, smug (self-satisfied)

 comply—obey, conform, follow

 comprehensive—thorough, inclusive, complete

 concise—short, to the point, succinct (brief)

 condescending—rude, snobbish

 confident—sure, convinced, positive

 conform—comply, submit, follow

 conformity—compliance, submission

 congested—packed, jammed, blocked

 congruent—alike, matching, harmonious (goes well together)

 consensus—agreement, compromise, harmony

 consequential—important, major, meaningful

 conservative—traditional, old-fashioned, conventional

 constant—steady, persistent, incessant (unceasing)

 constrain—hold back, restrict, inhibit (to slow down or prevent)

 consummate—ideal, perfect, superlative (the best)

contaminate—pollute, spoil, taint (to spoil or damage)

 contemporary—modern, up to date, new

 contradict—disagree, oppose, challenge

 conventional—usual, established, typical

 converge—meet, come together, join

 convey—tell, express, communicate

 convoluted—complex, difficult

 corroborate—confirm, support, substantiate (to back up with evidence)

 corrupt—dishonest, shady, crooked

 covert—secret, hidden, underground

 criticize—disparage (to cut down), denigrate (to put down)

 culpable—responsible, guilty, at fault

 curtail—cut back, limit, shorten, restrict