Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Check Your Vocabulary

 Fill in the gaps. There is one extra word.

ablaze

brandish

decay

domestic (n)

docile

fair and square 

fend for oneself

fringe

gravely

have a hunch

mope around

oblique

paddock

pep talk

pertain

rectification

regurgitate 

render

retaliate

tempestuous

thwack

toodles

vengeful

waft

whiplash

1. I ___.

2. one pill can suppress the memory and emotion of a horse and make them ___.

3. This man killed his wife and ___ his own son mentally ill just to cover it up.

4. The Internet is going ___ when they find out what this golden boy did.

5. To any judge, you're just ___, entitled, trustfund babies.

6. I ___ by taking over new territories and attacking his children.

7. This boy was placed here as a ___.

8. So she broke rule three withiin two seconds of walking out of the Hughes Racing hospitality center in the ___ Zandvoort, the Netherlands.

9. Amelia's boxing gloves ____ heavily against her personal trainer's focus mitts, each punch strong and precise and furious.

10. Not even Nico's firmly planted feet could keep her from swaying back, her dark brows raised as she knew her curly ___ from her eyes.

11. I wanted to get in ___.

12. She'd slammed the brakes so hard she still felt the ___.

13. I don't need a ___.

14. Before she could consider softening her comment, a member of the marketing team appeared, clipboard ____ like a weapon.

15. It seemed a different lifetime Wafaa, her sister and their mother, a ____ in his father's mansion, had lived in its lower level.

16. It infuriated Wafaa still, how they, a trio of women, had to ____ afterwards.

17. She murmured in that ___ French accent, which Amelia had quickly come to enjoy during their time spent training together- so much so that she often replayed their conversations in her head at night, but nobody needed to know about that.

18. We're tired of watching both of you ___ like lovesick idiots.

19. Was it, she wondered, an ___ way of telling her he had decided to marry Dr. Mary Evans after all?

20. A giant anaconda ___ another.

21. Thank you so much! ____

22. As a former lawyer, Joseph maintains an interest in copying issues as they ___ to EFL materials development.

23.  The "____ of spring"  that was the tranlation of the Sham el Nessim holiday's meaning had, sadly, done little to renew her.

Key: 1. have a hunch;2. docile; 3. render; 4. ablaze; 5.vengeful; 6. retaliated; 7. decoy; 8. paddock; 9. thwacked;10. fringe; 11. fair and square;12. whiplash; 13. pep talk; 14. brandished; 15. domestic; 16. fend for themselves; 17. gravelly;18. mope around;19. oblique; 20. regurgitating;21. toodles; 22. pertain; 23. waft