Typical Recent Mistakes

 1. Remember that when an "i" and "e" are next to each other in a word the "I" usually comes before the "e", unless it is after a "e".

Ex: achieve, receive

2. Semicolon usage

- To avoid confusion with numbers:

Add the following: $ 1.25; $ 7.50; and $ 12.89.

- Before explanatory words or abbreviations - namely: We are able to supply you with two different gauges of nylon stockings; namely, 45 and 51.

- To separate short Statements of contract:

War is destructive; peace is constructive.

3. Still

The word "still" is used as a transition word to show exception.

Ex: I tried again and still I failed.

My Daily Vocabulary

 Hello guys!!! Hope you enjoy your holidays and find some time to do this short activity.))) The words in bold are of high frequency. Don't forget about the grammar!

bash

console

fumble

grueling

jittery

linger

locum

ogle

one's heart in one's throat

rimmed

slump

soar

stint

swipe (at)

worried sick

1. He still had another three months of his ___ position left.

2. He had one more ___ on the island, so they had to continue to work together.

3. Since he'd left the island, she'd tried her best to ___ herself with his friendship, but a part of her knew she'd taken the coward's way out that day.

4. Meg started running too, ____.

5. Summer wanted to trace it with her fingers, then immediately commit it to canvas so she could ___ it for the rest of her life.

6. She wasn't expecting anyone, and since receiving a disturbing call from a prosecuting attorney last week, her nightmares and ____ nerves had returned with a vengeance.

7. Meg's heart ____.

8. Sam ____ next to Paula's chair.

9. Her red ___ and swollen eyes spoke of the tears she had shed.

10. Paula ____ in her chair.

11. I'm ____ about Derrick.

12. Her frustration grew as she ____ with the lock.

13. It was ___.

13. It was going to be the best surprise fortieth birthday ____ ever.

14. Paula ____ at her eyes.

Key: 1. locum; 2. stint; 3. console; 4. her heart in her throat; 5. ogle;6.littery; 7.soared; 8.lingered; 9. rimmed ; 10. slumped; 11. worried sick; 12. fumbled; 13. grueling; 14. bash; 15. swiped.

 

My Daily Vocabulary

 Hello guys!!! Enjoy this new vocabulary task!! Fill the gaps with suitable words. Mind the grammar!

adamant

casualty

confide (in)

DOA-dead on arrival

dogsbody

foul play

knoll

muster

nascent

offal

shove

skid

* words in bold are of high-frequency

1. As the Southern REscue helicopter took their ___ over the Foreaux Strait, the sea separating Stewart Island from the larger South Island of New Zealand, Cam turned to Meg.

2. To his right he saw a high, steep ___ covered with scrubby grass.

3. Although many of Lomb's principles have been corroborated by SLA research, the preceding points- the value of extensive reading at ___  learning stages - remain relatively unexplored.

4. Today's star is beef ____ for 512 yen.

5. Like Meg, Harold had been born on the island and following his diagnosis, was ____ he wanted to die there, surrounded by the place and people he loved.

6. Two passengers had been ____ at the hospital.

7. Any evidence of ___ in the van or at the scene?

8. My parents went out to dinner, ___ on ice, and rolled off the road.

9. Maybe he shouldn't have ____ in her about his past, his fiance, whose love was also ripped away while Cam had been distracted by grief.

10. But Cam's mind cleared as he ____ his pain down where it belonged.

11. As a full-time manager, part-time therapist, housekeeper, general ___ to her baby sister, Summer thought she'd seen it all from behind the scenes in the comfort of jeans, sweaters, and, most importantly, comfy sneakers.

12. It was as if neither of them had been able to ____ the will to fight for a future.

Key: 1. casualty; 2. knoll;3. nascent;4. offal; 5.adamant; 6. DOA; 7. foul play;8. skidded; 9.confided; 10.shoved; 11. dogsbody; 12. mustered

My Daily Vocabulary

 Fill the gaps with suitable words.

adamant

alleviate

confide (in)

dire

don

graft

offal

on-ramp

pertinent

shove

skid (mark)

square

smattering

wince

* words in bold are of high-frequency

1. We'll look at doing some skin ____ at a later date, but hopefully Miss Chloe will be out of here soon.

2. The Battalion had a few older men, veterans of the Great War, but most of the soldiers were working-class boys without even the Officer Training Corps experience that Bernie and the ___ of other public -  school men possessed.

3. But the Russian was ____, his face set.

4. Put the garlic on top of the ___.

5. Meg ___ at the panicked tone of Jan's voice, abandoned her breakfast and stood.

6. To her relief, Cam quickly ____ his coat.

7. Panic froze Meg's veins as she navigated the short drive to the Stevenses' home, outlining Harold's ___ medical history for Cam.

8. He'd often ____ in Meg that he hated hospitals.

9. It was only a few hundred yards from the ___ to the interstate.

10. The black ____ suggested the driver had tried to make a sudden stop.

11. His prognosis was ___.

12. Cam ___ his fingers through his hair.

13. The disease has obviously advanced since he last saw the respiratory specialist, but there are things that could be done to ___ his current symptoms.

14. She ____ her shoulders.

Key:1. grafts;2. smattering; 3.adamant;4. offal; 5. wince; 6. donned; 7. pertinent; 8. confided; 9. on-ramp; 10. skid marks; 11. dire; 12. shoved; 13. alleviate; 14. squared.

 

New Vocabulary Task

Fill the gaps with suitable words.

 abate

buck

casualty

corroborate

DOA

femur

knoll

rear

slit

squeal

throb

topple

1. As they fitted the splint together and prepared their ____ for transportation to hospital, Cam watched Meg with fascination.

2. The Republic had held a strong opposition, on top of a hill that sloped down steeply to the Jarama river valley, dotted with little ___ and planted with olive trees.

3. Although many of Lomb's principles have been ____ by SLA research, the preceding points - the value of extensive reading at nascent learning stages - remain relatively unexplored.

4. Two ____, one in critical condition.

5. He felt the ____ of them in his brain.

6. He tried to open his eyes, but he couldn't manage, more than a narrow ____ that allowed the flashing lights to pierce his head.

7. The ___ of a tow truck jerked her attention back to the ongoing activity only yards away.

8. It's enough that we go into each and every day knowing that there is no one to pass the ___ to.

9. With a shriek and flailing of arms, the woman ____ into the water.

10.  The highest calling of a physician has always been to identify the disease process at its earliest moment of inception through skill, judgment, and wisdom, and to ____ the problem with surgery, medicine, or irradiation.

11. When she cut the damp trousers from his injured leg with scissors, the compound fracture of the ___ gave both Meg and him pause.

12. A breeding pair will reunite year after year to ___ their chicks.

Key: 1. casualty; 2. knoll; 3 .corroborate; 4. DOA; 5. slit; 6. squel; 7. buck; 8. topple; 9. abate; 10. femur; 11. rear

Check your vocabulary

 Hello guys!!! Let's revise our vocabulary!!! complete the gaps with the given words.  Mind the grammar and enjoy!!!

affluent

beau 

blurt out

brine

callow

corral

cove

delude

dispense (with)

dissuade

frond

glazier

impeccable

invincible

lanky

lavish

meddlesome

muse

oblong

on a whim

rueful

shoddy

suffuse

tangles

1.  The ___ was scared of me.
2. How can such a person not be ___?
3. But we must ____ not only unnecessary actions but necessary thoughts, too, so needless acts don't tag along after them
4. As much as Maria loved her ____ aunts, there was no denying that they were the bane of her existence.
5. That time had chiseled his features and smoothed away the youthful ____ in his limbs so that he looked like an overly flattering portrait of himself.
6. There was no graceful, polite way to extricate herself from the prospect of spending the remainder of the afternoon in the company of her former ___.
7. She trailed after him, aware of the ___ nature of this place.
8. The deep ___ quiet of it all.
9. It was palatal - though not, she ____, for a person who had his own palace.
10. Perhaps this was the equivalent of a ____ old hostel for a man like Cajetan.
11. Cajetan gazed at the feast, then at her, and there was something almost ___ in his gaze.
12. "Oh, don't", Maria ___, half a second before her brain caught up with her mouth.
13. Not that I don't appreciate the effect, but could we ___ with the pleasantries?
14. Only Cajetan who had to remind himself that he was a grown up man, not a ___ adolescent who had never been in the presence of a woman before.
15. At least, that was what the prolonged silence indicated as the two of them continued making their way through ___ of palms and vines.
16. The truth, which she hadn't bothered to share with her aunts, or anyone else in her family lest they try to ___ her, was that was no ordinary walk.
17. Pushing one last palm ___ aside, Maria stepped through the tangle of gree and emerged into a spot on a cliff above a sheltered cove.
18. The last time Maria had seen it, it had lain beneath the brilliant blue waters of the ___, its broken mast jutting out so close to the surface that Maria had been able to dive down and touch it.
19. The landed far below, in a cramped, airless space that smelled of ____ and seaweed.
20. I don't ever do things ____.
21. In addition to all above-mentioned fruits and nuts, half of an ____ Russian olive stone was recorded from Rabat - 4.
22. "A shipwreck?" Enrique repeated, his voice ____ with fury.
23. I saw I had been ___ in thinking that we would've been anything, but a mistake.
24. Half a dozen young ladies of good families and ___ manners, all of whom sported smooth air, delicate gold jewelry and impeccable frocks in shades of white and ivory.

Key: 1 glazier; 2 invincible; 3 corral; 4 meddlesome; 5 lankiness; 6 beau; 7 lavish; 8 affluent; 9 mused; 10 shoddy; 11 rueful; 12 blurted out; 13 dispense; 14 callow; 15 tangles; 16 dissuade; 17 frond; 18 cove; 19 brine; 20 on a whim; 21 oblong; 22 suffused; 23 deluded; 24 impeccable.

When to double the final consonant?

 If a word of more than one syllable ends with a short vowel and one consonant,

• DOUBLE THE FINAL CONSONANT before adding a suffix that begins with a

vowel if the accent is on the last syllable.

• DO NOT DOUBLE THE FINAL CONSONANT if the accent is not on the last syllable or if the suffix begins with a consonant.

Double the Final Consonant

-ing, -ed -ence, -ent -ance -al

befitting abhorrence acquittance acquittal

befogged concurrent admittance transmittal

committing excellence remittance noncommittal

compelled intermittent transmittance

controlling occurrence

impelling recurrent

incurred

omitting -er -en -able

permitted beginner forbidden controllable

propelling propeller forgotten forgettable

regretted transmitter regrettable

submitting

Do NOT Double the Final Consonant

ENDING IN TWO VOWELS ACCENT NOT SUFFIX BEGINS

TWO CONSO- BEFORE THE ON THE FINAL WITH A

NANTS CONSONANT SYLLABLE CONSONANT

-ing, -ed -ing, -ed -ing, -ed -ment

consenting concealing benefiting allotment

converted contained blossomed annulment

demanding detaining differed commitment

diverted disdained gathered deferment

requesting refraining limiting equipment

subsisted remounted profited interment

supplanting restraining quarreling preferment

supported retained soliciting

transcending revealing summoned

My Daily Vocabulary

 adversity

bail

bleak

brisk

commotion

crude

deter

fleck

flinch away

fling

forensics team

foundling

gorge

harrumph

impede

incinerator

light beacon

penance

postmortem

self-flagellation

tend

tut

1. About Mrs. Arbuthnot there was nothing bright and ____, though much in her way with the Sunday school children that was automatic; but when Mrs. Wilkins, turning from the window, caught sight of her in the club she was not being automatic at all, but was looking fixed at one portion of the first page of the Times, holding the paper quite still, her eyes not moving.

2. Between two great mountains of grey and green as the rock cropped out between the tufts of emerald verdure, the valley, almost as narrow as a ___, ran due west towards the sea.

3. She leaped over the coffee table, with its heat stack of Las Vegas magazines and a tray of complimentary Debauve& Gallais truffles, her name written in chocolate ganache ___ with edible gold.

4. Life had been so damn hard, and she'd clawed her way up only to ____ herself back down.

5. How you handle even minor ___ might seem like nothing, but, in fact, it reveals everything. 

6. He was no longer he, it was a body, an "it, in domestic ____ beside a barn in a field beside a house at the end of a lane, off a minor road.

7. one man was able to put up ___,  and he was released.

8. Philosophy calls for simple living but not for ___ - it's quite possible to be simple without being ____.

9. There was no self- flagellation, no paying ___, no self-esteem issues from guilt or self- loathing.

10. Laying into yourself, unduly depriving yourself, punishing yourself  - that's ____, not self-improvement.

11. While it's true that someone can impede our actions, they can't ___ our intentions and attitudes, which have the power of being conditional and adaptable.

12. I had long since been disabused of the notion that I was a ____ child.

13. Nothing will ___ them from what is honorable, and nothing will lure them into what is base.

14. I'm confident the ___ will show that he was already dead.

15. She reached out, but I ___ from her.

16. Oh, these ____ winds, and bitter northern skies, and impassable roads, and dilatory country surgeons!

17. They said they would have to get a ___ straight away and that  I needed to pack a bag and leave the house, but that I must leave out the clothes I had worn the day my father died.

18. The woman guard followed me, ___.

19. The man said they'd do their best and the woman made a ___ noise.

20. They set up these huge ___ pointing towards the house and the barn.

21. I heard some ____ outside the bedroom door.

22. She walked their dogs and ___ to their chickens and designed furniture for their job.

Keys:

1. brisk; 2. gorge; 3.flecked; 4. fling; 5.adversity; 6. incinerator; 7. bail; 8. crude; 9. penance; 10. self-flagellation;11. impede; 12. foundling; 13. deter; 14. postmortem; 15. flinched away; 16. bleak; 17. forensics team; 18. tutting; 19. harrumph; 20. light beacons; 21. commotion; 22. tended

My Daily Vocabulary

Complete the gaps with the correct words

abate

adversity

bail

brisk

chamber pot

disabuse

flap

fling

horrendous

impede

incinerator

malice

nexus

ordeal

penance

pick at

promontory

self-flagellation

take a toll (on)

twinge

verdure

1. Combination used to make Mrs Wilkins wonder, for she had been told by Mellersh, on days when she had only been able to get plaice, that if one were efficient one wouldn't be depressed, and that if one does one's job well one becomes automatically bright and ___.
2. Between two great mountains of grey and green as the rock cropped out between the tufts of emerald ____, the valley, almost as narrow as a gorge, ran due west towards the sea.
3. We were rapidly descending the valley, and, as we got lower, the ____ seemed to take a bolder shape and was beginning to stand out as a round-topped hill of somewhat noble proportions.
4. ____ of every sort had there been her portion; aches, hurts, discouragement, and she the whole time being steadily unselfish.
5. She dodged the edge of the giltwood settee, ____ its pillow over her shoulder.
6. Even after she has laid the received in its cradle, Dede goes on elaborating the root system of her anacahuita tree, shading the branches, and then for the fun of it, opening and closing the ____ of the envelope to watch the tree come apart and then back together again.
7. He was the nexus of my world, a ____ of the world.
8. This is more fit for a king - to seize your ____ head on.
9. I knew that corpses decomposed and began to rot and smell, so I carefully placed the bag into the ___ barrel.
10. School had been ____.
11. Weekly shopping trips were always an ____.
12. Dad said there was not ____ in it.
13. I would buy what we needed for the week and get home again, nerves ____ as I turned into the lane.
14. Suppose that two men were booked on the same charge at the same time and that the same ___ was set for both of them.
15. We swapped duties as age ____ on him.
16. And then he stopped coming out of his room and he wrote his prescriptions with a shakier hand, and he only _____ food.
17. I fed it to him sometimes when his hands shook too much and I changed his bed linen on the days when he could not control himself and didn't make it into the ____ under his bed, which I emptied every morning and rinsed out with bleach.
18. Philosophy calls for simple living but not for _____ - it's quite possible to be simple without being crude.
19. There was no ____, no paying penance, no self-esteem issues from guilt or self-loathing.
20. While it's true that someone can ____ our actions, they can't impede our intentions and our attitudes, which have the power of being conditional and adaptable.
21. I had long since been ____ of the notion that I was a foundling child. 

Keys:

1. brisk; 2.verdure; 3.promontory; 4. twinge; 5. fling; 6. flap; 7. nexus;8. adversity; 9. incinerator; 10. horrendous; 11. ordeal; 12. malice; 13.abate; 14. bail; 15. take a toll; 16. pick at; 17. chamber pot; 18. penance; 19. self-flagellation; 20. impede; 21. disabused

My Daily Vocabulary

 Hello guys!!!

Enjoy this simple vocabulary activity!!! Just fill in the gaps with the correct words.)))

adversity

beaker

bluntness

buttonhole

combustion

dawdle

flap

fling

frock

gorge

heave

impregnable

incinerator

intimidating

mitigate

nexus

remorse

secluded

settee

sheath

slander

tweak

twinge

vengeance

1. She, therefore, though prepared to _____ her last penny into the adventure, was not prepared to ___ into it a single farthing that was not demonstrably her own; and she felt that if her share of the rent was reduced to fifteen pounds only, she would have a safe margin for the other expenses.

2.  It's not a ___.

3. She had not one ____.

4. She dodged the edge of the giltwood ___, flinging its throw pillow over her shoulder.

5. On the back of an envelope left beside the museum phone, she has sketched an enormous tree, laden with flowers, the branches squirreling over the ____.

6. Not only is he saying that the more you struggle with fortune, the more vulnerable you are to it, but he also says that the better path to security is in the ____ wall  "of philosophy".

7. She too had on a white ____, and her head was bare.

8. Abundantly as she was used to it, it surprised her to be told it with such ____, and by a woman.

9. Nothing bored her so much as people who insisted on being original, who came and ____ her and kept her waiting while they were being original.

10. So by focusing exclusively on the present, we're able to avoid or remove those ____ or negative thoughts from our frame of view.

11. Today, I won't ____ myself.

12. We must consciously opt to do things differently - to ____ and change until we actually get the result we're after.

13. He was ferocity ____ in elegance, perfection veined with flaws.

14. He was the ___ of my world, a nexus of the world.

15. Residents trickled onto the sidewalks, taking their dogs out or heading toward Central Park for an early-morning run, stealing what time they could before the workday kicked with a ____.

16. There was ____ there, and relief.

17. If gasoline vapor mixes with air, _____ will occur.

18. You will not have time to ____ or think too long, so go as fast as you can.

19. One way to ___ the problem, however could be to include components made with renewable resources.

20. I sat on the end, took the lid off his ____ and drank his tea, missing the sugar I put in mine.

21. ____ reveals.

22. The ground was frosted so I had to ____ the bag up on my shoulder every few minutes so that it wouldn't rip.

23. Once a month, when he was well, Dad would empty the bins into the ____.

24. He refused to pay the bin charges and we lived in such a ____ spot that the council didn't chase us about it.

Keys:

1. fling; 2. slander; 3. twinge; 4.settee;5. flap; 6.impregnable; 7. frock; 8. bluntness; 9. buttonholes; 10. intimidating; 11. gorge; 12. tweak; 13. sheathed; 14. nexus; 15. vengeance; 16. remorse; 17. combustion; 18.dawdle; 19. mitigate; 20. beaker; 21. adversity; 22. heave; 23. incinerator; 24. secluded 

Sentence Structure Practice - Verbs

 1. Almost everyone fails ___ the driver's test on the first try.

a. passing

b. to have passed

c. to pass

d. in passing

2. If endangered species ___ saved, rainforests must be protected.

a. are to be

b. be

c. can be

d. will be

3. The average spoken sentence in conversational English takes 2.5 seconds ___.

a. for to complete

b. completing

c. to complete

d. by completing

4. Only twenty years ago, most doctors agreed ___ truthful with their terminally ill patients, a trend that has reversed itself in modern medical practice.

a. don't to be

b. not to be

c.we shouldn't been

d. not to been

5. William Torrey Harris was one of the first educators interested ____ a logical progression of topics in the school curriculum.

a. in establishing

b. for establishing.

c. establishing

d. to establish

Keys:

1c;2a;3c;4b;5a

My Daily Vocabulary

 Hello guys,

Here are your new words to enjoy!!! Fill in the gaps. Mind the grammar!!!

Adversity

Austerity

Battlement

Churlish

Complimentary

Dodge

Doodle

Fling

Impertinent

Ingenuity

Laden

Lithe

Propel

Puckered

Reconnaissance

Resilient

Slander

Tip over

Twinge

Ventable

Viable

1. Mrs. Wilkins was prepared to ____ her entire egg into the adventure, but she realized that if it were to cost even six pence over her ninety pounds her position would be terrible.
2. It is true that there were three sitting rooms besides the garden and the ____  at San Salvadore, so that there would be opportunities of withdrawal from MRS Wilkins; but it would be disagreeable to Mrs Fisher, for instance, if Mrs. Wilkins were suddenly to assert that she saw Mr. Fisher.
3. don't forget, though, that you can come from a long, unbroken line of ancestors who survived unimaginable ___, difficulty, and struggle.
4. You're an heir to an impressive tradition - and as their ___ offspring, you're capable oof what they are capable of.
5. You ___ me.
6. Which attitude will ___ you onward and upward?
7. Otherwise, they go on and on, asking the most ___ questions.
8. There is a ___ racket of gratitude on the other end, and Dede has to smile at some of the imported nonsense of this woman's Spanish.
9. Instead of looking for instruction, they cultivate skills like creativity, independence, self-confidence, ___, and the ability to problem solve.
10. In this way, they are ___ instead of rigid.
11. One must serve on watch, another in ____ another on the front line...
12. Domenico ____ ran up the last few steps ahead and pushed the door open.
13. Except for the beds, it suggested a happy ___.
14. According to everybody she had ever come across she ought at least to have ____.
15. Under the circumstances, I could only say "yes", as it would have been a ____ thing to refuse.
16. She moved about with quick, purposeful steps, her long thin body held up straight, her small face, so much ____ at home with effort and fear, soothed out.
17. She ____ the edge of the giltwood settee, flinging its throw pillow over her shoulder.
18. She leaped over the coffee table, with its neat stack of Las Vegas magazines and tray with ___ Debauve & Gallais truffles, her name written in chocolate ganache flecked with edible gold.
19. Her foot caught the bouquet of Juliet roses and the vase ____, scattering pink blossoms all over the carpet.
20. "We don't name them," Dede says, driven to ____ to contain her impatience.
21. On the back of an envelope left beside the museum phone, she has sketched an enormous tree ____ with flowers, the branches squirreling over the flap.

Keys

1. fling; 2. battlement; 3. adversity; 4. viable; 5.slander; 6.propel; 7. impertinent; 8.ventable; 9. ingenuity; 10. resilient; 11.reconnaissance; 12. lithe; 13.austerity; 14.twinge; 15. churlish; 16.puckered; 17. dodge; 18.complimentary; 19.tip over; 20. doddle; 21. laden

Keys

 Hello guys,

Here are the keys to the previous vocabulary post (from 4/2/2024).

1. eave

2. regs

3. bust

4. parole

5. pawnshop

6. smirk

7. ace in the hole

8. warp

9. snotty

10. stale off

11. dweeb

12. clavicle

13. furnice

14. magnanimous

15. vignette

16. mundane

17. chomp

18. dictum

19. wonky

From now on the keys are going to be below the best to improve your productivity (but don't cheat!).

Daily Writing Practice

Essay:

A Day in the Life of a Snail.

Daily Vocabulary Practice

 Good morning, guys!!!

Can you call out the names of animals that fall into the following categories:

Farm animals, Pets, and Wild animals?

Daily Writing Practice

 Hello guys!!

Think of the advantages and disadvantages of having a holiday in space. What are the good things about going on holiday into space? How would we benefit? What are some of the problems we could face? What would stop us from going on a holiday in space?

Daily Writing Practice

 Hello guys!!

Write a letter to your friend (in another classroom) about the things in  (describing) their classroom.

Paste your text in the comments below. Thank you!

My Daily Vocabulary

 Hello,guys!

Here are the answers to the previous post:

1. fester

2. lurch

3. infatuation

4. jeered

5. confide

6. wheeze out

7. slurred

8. torment

9. doggedly

10. throng

11. corollary

Now it is high time to have some more practice. Enjoy it!!!

ace in the hole

bust

chomp

clavicle

dictum

dweeb

eave

furnace

magnanimous

mundane

parole

pawnshop

regs

smirk

snotty

stale off

vignette

wonky

1. I had a desk beneath the room's other ____, my old Royal typewriter, and a hundred or so paperback books, mostly science fiction, which I lined up along the baseboard.

2. Copying the files had been an infraction of department ___, and the fewer people who knew that the better.

3. There are no bad dogs according to the title of popular training manual, but don't tell that to the parent of a child mauled by a pitbull or a rottweiler, he is or she is apt to ____ your beak for you.

4. Additionally, these families will find, perhaps, some comfort in knowing that Mr. Waits is serving a prison sentence of life without the possibility of ____.

5. As an initial offer of credibility and good faith, he suggests that investigators review the investigation into the death of Daniel Fitzpatrick,63, who was buried to death in his Hollywood Boulevard ___ on April 30, 1992.

6. Olivas ____ as of Borsch didn't see the light.

7. But the bag of carrots was our ___.

8. the whole experience has ___ me.

9. I'm probably being ___ here, but I am also, believe me, honestly curious.

10. If I don't write every day, the characters begin to ____ in my mind-they begin to seem like characters instead of real people.

11. Also, I didn't want to sound like a workaholic ___.

12. he raises his hand and I cringe, ducking my head, waiting for the pain, and in that moment I know that I've done this before, felt this before, but I can't remember when and I don't have time to think about it now, because although he hasn't time, he's placed his hands on my shoulders and he's gripping them tightly, and it hurts s much I cry out.

13. I wrote my first two published novels, Carrie and Salem's Lot, in the laundry room of a doublewide trailer, pounding away on my wife's portable Olivetti typewriter and balancing a child's desk on my thighs; John Clever reputedly wrote in the basement of his Park Avenue apartment building, near ___.

14. I suggest a thousand words day, and because I'm feeling ___, I'll also suggest that you can take one day a week off, at least to begin with.

15. Whether it's a ___ of a single page or an epic trilogy like The Lord of the Rings, the work is always accomplished one word at a time.

16. It surrounds me, keeps the  ___ world out.

17. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing up, ___ his cigar and making his magic.

18. The ___ in writing classes used to be "write what you know".

19. It's morally ___, for one thing- the job of fiction is to find the truth inside the story's web of lies, not to commit intellectual dishonesty in the hint for the buck.

My Daily Vocabulary

 Hello guys,

Here are the answers to the previous post from 02/18/2024:

1. heaved

2. thrall

3. slumped

4. hauled

5. bellowing

6. stifled

7. beckoning

8. banished

9. jangle

10. jolts

11. docile

12. twitching

13. loathing

14. libel

Enjoy the new words:

confide

corollary

dogged

fester

infatuation

jeer

lurch

slur

throng

torment

wheeze out

1. He had recovered from far worse, but for some reason this cut had begun to ___ and he could already smell the rot.

2. He pushed away from the trunk with a deep breath that made his head spin and his stomach ___.

3. Magnus had quickly realised his ___ was entirely one-sided.

4. Like his friends in Del, he had always ___ at such talk.

5. I ___ in him and I forget, once again, what I'm doing here.

6. He glanced down at her, his chest tight as he struggled to ___ the question. 

7. "Why did you ignore me? Did I do something wrong?" he ___, hating how pathetic he sounded, and not only because of illness...

8. Why did he ___ himself with these questions?

9. But ___ he moved on, hurrying despite his exhaustion.

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. 

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.

My Daily Vocabulary

 Hello guys,

Here are the answers to the previous post on 02/10/2024

1. hurtled

2. haul

3. lumber

4. jeering

5. snapping

6. frailing

7. gnashing

8. placate

9. thrall

10. pyre

New words to enjoy

banish

beckon

bellow

docile

haul

heave

jangle

jolt

loathe

libel

slump

stifle

thrall

twitch

1. Lief ___ on the cloak with all his might.

2. You were his ___.

3. His bronze skin looked sallow, and his tall frame seemed a little ___ in his seat.

4. Lief and Barda ___ on the cloak, their arms straining.

5. ____ in shock and terror they sank like stones, their arms thrashing frantically as their great weight drove them down.

6. Somewhere in those depths lay Jin and Jod, their wickedness ___ forever.

7. He felt a hand touch his arm, and looked up to see Manus ___ to him urgently.

8. Lief took a deep breath, ____ the whispering voice from his mind, and nodded.

9. Until I hear footballs on the steps outside, the familiar ___ of Cathy fishing around in her huge handbag for her house keys.

10. It ___ me to life.

11. He does as he's told, kicking off his shoes and lying back on the bed, ___ as a sick child.

12. Beside him, Manus was sighing and ___ - tormented, no doubt, by dreams.

13.For five years he had lived with fear and ___ in the company of wickedness.

14. Can't ___ the dead!!!

My Daily Vocabulary

 Good morning guys!!

Here are the answers to my 02.07 post-check yourself!!!

1.bereavement

2. scramble

3. gaped

4. jutted

5. wrenched

6. coaxed

7. forgone

Enjoy some new words this weekend!!!

flail

gnash

haul

hurtle

jeer

lumber

placate

pyre

snap

thrall

1.The axe ____, spinning, towards her.

2. He bent and caught Jasmine's arm, trying to ____ her up beside him.

3. Howling in triumph, Jin and Jod ____ forward.

4.They were ____, gathering themselves to spring.

5. Jin and Jod shouted in shock as the black bird attacked them, its sharp beak ___ viciously.

6. It wheeled away from their ___ arms and dived again.

7. Lief caught a glimpse of Jod's metal teeth, ____ in furious triumph.

8. He tried to ___ me, he made all the right noises, he told me it was probably a load of rubbish anyway.

9. He had captured her five years ago and made her his ____.

10. If he had died here, you might have joined him on the funeral ___.

New Vocabulary +Answers to the previous post

 Good morning guys!!! Here are the answers to the post of 05.02.

1. hulking

2. rekindled

3. hiatus

4. funky

5. hurtled

6. dunking

7. sweatbox

8. exultation

Here are new words to enjoy!!

bereavement

coax

forgo

gape

jut

scramble

wrench

1. Was there something specific for you? A ___, or some other loss?

2. He peered over Jasmine's head and his heart thumped as he saw that Jin and Jod were already ___ to their feet.

3. But Bards and Jasmine just ___ at him.

4. Yellow tusks ___ from her open, shrieking mouth.

5. With an effort he ____ his right foot free and stepped to the next gap.

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.

7. Couldn't he have ___ a weekend in Vegas?

New Vocabulary

Hello 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!!!

hulking - bulky; great in size

exultation - rejoicing greatly

hiatus - a gap in time

sweatbox - a type of torture, punishment

funky - hearty and simple

hurtle - move with great speed

dunk - plunge

rekindle - to revive

1. The sweet little cottage they thought they had seen was in fact a grim, ____ square of white stones with no windows.
2. I've ____ my love for novels and even joined a book club.
3. The ___ was necessary, but I'm ready to dive back into the world of blogging and reconnect with this community.
4. Don't miss your opportunity to share your love of Korean with the world through these ___ shirts!
5. Someone ___ out and began pounding across the grass towards them.
6. 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.
7. It's like a ___.
8. ___, fear, confusion, and guilt.