Tuesday 24 July 2012

Vocabulary notes

                                                                   Useful vocabulary

  • lone
  • lonesome
  • exaggerated
  • coroner
  • downright
  • upright
  • susceptible
  • deathly
  • epidemic deadly=fatal
  • incriminating
  • ammunition
  • honers
  • like a storm in a tea cup
  • punctually
  • barely audible
  • indignant
  • undignified
  • indigent
  • indigenous
  • rivulets
  • remnants
  • downsize
  • flicker
  • timely
  • enumerate
                                                Useful words to embellish an essay
  1. surely
  2. Admittedly
  3. gravely
  4. Consequently
  5. However
  6. Nevertheless
  7. sharply
  8. By contrast
  9. in contrast with sth
  10. on the contrary
  11. Undoubtedly
  12. Personally
                                                              Listening
I bet...........I'm pretty certain.
I've got a hunch......I suspect.
I could kick my self....I wish I hadn't done that.
I can't figure out.....I don't understand.
Help yourself.....You can take as much as you like.
You're barking up the wrong tree....You've got the wrong idea.
There are plenty more fish in the sea.....You've got other option.
I hate to say this...... You're not going to like this.

1 comment:

  1. Another super post by Izoldi! Idea: why don't you try to write a sentence with each word you want to remember? (I am talking about the initial ones.)

    Whenever you have some extra time! What do you say? :-)

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