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.