Week 1 Flashcards
Learn new vocab (51 cards)
How is the name of the “body”, “skin” and “arm” of the tree?
Body = trunk Skin = bark Arm = branch
What is drapes?
Curtains
What’s blunt?
Blunt could mean not sharp for knife, scissors etc, and direct for person.
Synonyms to paramount
Very important, crucial and vital
What’s gate-crasher?
Someone who goes to a party without invitation.
What’s attic?
Room inside the roof used for storage things.
What’s aisle? How is the pronunciation?
It’s the corredor in a plane/supermarket.
The pronunciation is without the s, same that I’ll
What’s deign?
Deing means to lower yourself to do something that you consider to be beneath/below you.
How word can you use to discribe when you put the corpes of someone dead in a grave ?
Bury
What’s foreseeable?
Not too far.
Eg: foreseeable future
What’s lame?
Terrible.
Eg: lame excuse
Synonyms to hate
Dislike, deteste and loathe.
The leaves _____ in the wind.
Rustling
The waves _____ against the shore.
Crashing
The _____ of children at the playground.
Giggling
The ____ of an exotic sports car.
Roar
The _____-______ of raindrops on the roof.
Pitter-patter
The _____ and ______ of a busy street.
Hustle / bustle.
What a wolf does?
Howl
What’s hiccups?
When you make sound with your “stomach” and you need water to get better (“soluço”).
What’s the difference about enquiry and inquest?
Enquiry is an investigation about politcs and similar. Inquest is an investigation about murder etc.
What’s the meaning of uttered?
Said.
What’s veil?
Veil is the semi-transparent cloth used to cover the bride.
Three meanings to bark:
Bark - a dog barks.
Bark - the skin of the tree.
Bark - when a “sargent” bark orders to the soldiers.
