What ‘Z’ is an area distinct from adjoining areas Zone
What ‘A’ comes after pay, attract and stand at Attention
What ‘T’ is to convert raw hide into leather Tan
What ‘U’ means to do with all persons or things in the
world Universal
What ‘E’ is a separate event that is part of a larger
series Episode
What ‘H’ means at right angles to the vertical Horizontal
What ‘F’ is careful and economical Frugal
What ‘D’ means distinct or with exact limits Definite
What ‘F’ is intensely cold Frigid
/ freezing
What ‘K’ means of basic importance Key
What ‘B’ is to search idly through a book Browse
What ‘W’ is to sharpen on stones Whet
- The document now makes explicit
what had been only implicit
in the shifty eyes of the negotiator.
- To what extent
have they searched for the extant
manuscripts of the Gettysburg Address?
- An extemporaneous
speech is not the same thing as an impromptu
speech.
- Nothing seemed to faze
her as she went through the adolescent phase
of her life.
- When we say a man is literally
an idiot, we don't necessarily mean he has a low I.Q.; we might be
exaggerating, saying he is "virtually" an idiot. If we speak figuratively,
calling him a pumpkin-head, we're using the language of analogy.
- He showed a flagrant
disregard for public morals in his blatant
errors of mismanagement.
- Flammable — see inflammable
- The football players seemed to flout
the referees and continued to brazenly flaunt
their silly, arrogant routine every time they scored.
- The horse-owners began to flounder
about in the stands when they saw their horse founder
right at the starting gate. [A flounder is a fish. A founder
(noun) is what we call someone who establishes an institution (a church or
community, for example). That person, we could say, has founded
something (not to be confused with the past tense of to find: "She found
the flashlight.")]
- She had a foreboding
that she was about to meet up with her forbidding
father.
1. I met
my friend last night (meet)
2. She went
to a party last Saturday (go)
3. Robert rode
his bicycle to work every day last week (ride)
4. I'm very
tired. I slept very badly last night. (sleep)
5. I don't
feel well. I think I drank too much beer last night (drink)
6. My son did
a lot of homework last night. (do)
7. I ate two
cakes at the weekend - after I baked them! (bake)
8. Susan and
Michael drove to Salzburg
9. Jane took
her mother to the theatre last Saturday. (take)
10. Last week
Mary had a cold. (have)
1) - If
someone's a dead man walking, they are certainly going to be in a lot of
trouble. True False
2) - If
someone falls on their sword, they escape punishment for something they have
done wrong. True False
3) - If
someone has a skeleton in their closet, they have a secret about their past
that they don't want people to know.
True False
4) - In
English, we say that the pen is not mightier than the sword. True False
5) - If
something is dead in the water, it will make progress.
True False
6) - If
someone gives up the ghost, they die. True False
7) - If you
are dead to the world, no one will listen to you. True False
8) - A grass
widow is a woman whose husband is dead. True False
9) - If
something is a matter of life and death, there is no solution possible. True
False
10) - If
someone is at death's door, they have died. True
False
Joke: There was a
car crash on a country road. One of the drivers was a doctor, the other a
lawyer.
The lawyer helped the doctor from his car, then went to his car and got out a bottle of brandy and two
glasses. He poured two large glasses and offered the doctor a drink of brandy to help get over the
shock of the crash.
The doctor accepted the offer and sat down by the side of the road, drinking the brandy.
After a couple of minutes he noticed that the lawyer wasn't drinking his brandy and so asked him,
"Aren't you going to have a drink, too?"
The lawyer replied, "Yes, but I'll wait until after the police have been and gone before I do."
The lawyer helped the doctor from his car, then went to his car and got out a bottle of brandy and two
glasses. He poured two large glasses and offered the doctor a drink of brandy to help get over the
shock of the crash.
The doctor accepted the offer and sat down by the side of the road, drinking the brandy.
After a couple of minutes he noticed that the lawyer wasn't drinking his brandy and so asked him,
"Aren't you going to have a drink, too?"
The lawyer replied, "Yes, but I'll wait until after the police have been and gone before I do."
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