Reviewing Learned Words

(1) His gloom was now compounded by the failing mark on his geometry now.

(gloom): a feeling of great sadness and lack of hope

 - (Example) a time of high unemployment and economic gloom

(2) The annals of sports are replete with the names of great black athletes.

(3) One of the great paradoxes of American life is that through minority groups have suffered injustices, nowhere in the world have so many varied groups lived together so harmoniously.

(4) A tinge of garlic is all that's necessary for most recipes.

(5) A cruel king would not allow the prince to enter his realm restricting him to the forest, which abounded with wild animals.

 

Reviewing Studied Words

(Examples for Recently Studied Words)

 

(1) The football game was replete with excitement and great plays.

(2) The eminent author received the Nobel Prize for literature.

(3) My cousin is so steeped in schoolwork that his friends call him a bookworm. ( = soaked, drenched, saturated)

(4) After skiing, I find that I have a voracious appetite.

(5) Modern warfare often results in the indiscriminate killing of combatants and innocent civilians alike.

 

combatant: someone who fights in a war

 

(6) The mayor refused to prognosticate as to his margin of victory in the election.

(7) The time is approaching when human workers may be replaced by automatons.

(8) A clever salesman will always ask a matron if her mother is at home.

(9) The western plains used to abound with bison before those animals were slaughtered by settlers.

(10) The man may be freed from backbreaking labor by the products of scientific technology.

 

In the following image, you can see a bison.

backbreaking: physically difficult and makes you very tired

Daily 5 New Words-4

badger: to try to persuade someone by asking them something several times (Synonym) pester

(Phrase)

(1) badger someone to do something

(2) badger someone into doing something

 

(Example)

(1) It is difficult to change someone's opinion by badgering him.

Daily 5 New Words

paradox: a situation that seems strange because it involves two ideas or qualities that are very different

(Collocations)

(1) apparent/ great paradox

(2) explain/ resolve a paradox

 

(Example)

(1) It's a paradox that in such a rich country there can be so much poverty.

Daily 5 New Word

 

abound: (verb) to exist in very large numbers

(Example)

(1) Rumors abound as to the reasons for his resignation.

(2) Examples of this abound her book.

(3) The worlds of scinece-fiction abound with wonders.