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