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!).