Match the words


1. a district or area of a city
2. to get bigger in size
3. of very poor quality
4. fragile, easily damaged
5. surviving memorial from the past
6. water vapor
7. opposite of smile
8. attentive, wide awake
9. open the mouth to express sleepiness
10. big and strong, macho
11. hostile, mean, violent
12. blood-sucking worm
13. to throw around loosely
14. lobby, entrance hall to a house
15. silly laughter
16. to cry profusely
17. cut down something neatly
18. to shine brightly, glisten
19. hairy coating of an animal
20. an unbound publication
***
a.     alert
b.     delicate
c.     fierce
d.     foyer
e.     frown
f.      for
g.     giggle
h.     husky
i.      leech
j.      lousy
k.     pamphlet
l.      precinct
m.    relic
n.     scatter
o.     sob
p.     sparkle
q.     steam
r.      swell
s.     trim
t.     yawn

Key: 1.l, 2.r, 3.j, 4.b, 5.m, 6.q, 7.e, 8.a, 9.t, 10.h, 11.c, 12.i, 13.n, 14.d, 15.g, 16.o, 17.s, 18.p, 19.f, 20.k,

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Acrostic Technique

An acrostic is an invented sentence or poem with a first letter cue:The first letter of each word is a cue to an idea you need to remember. Example 1 Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally Sequence in solving or evaluating math equations Parenthesis Exponents Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction Example 2 the planets in the order from the sun correspond to the first letter of each word in the sentence “ my very educated mother just sent us nine pizzas .” Below are several more examples. Example 3 Bones of the skull: Old People From Texas Eat Spiders Occipital, parietal, frontal, temporal, ethmoid, sphenoid Example 4 Continents: Eat An Aspirin After A Nighttime Snack (NOTE: The 2nd letter in the first three "A" words help to remember the "A" continents) Europe, Antarctica, Asia, Africa, Australia, North America, South America Example 5 Oceans: I Am A Person Indian, Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific Example 6 Rainbow colors: Richard Of York Got Bugged In Venice Red, o
Read more

Group Study

Image
What is a Study Group My definition of a study group is a collection of disciplined school peers that regularly meet to discuss and work on common topics enriching the knowledge and skill set of each member i.e. create better grades. Form a Study Group Forming a study group isn't hard. Making it work, is. The first steps in forming a study group is to pick your members, approach them, get their consent, choose a meeting place and time and then assign positions. For a study group to work their has to be a governance system and division of labor. You need a leader, timer, general members, and sometimes a treasurer. Bundling all these tasks to one person will exhaust them leading to poor function. Spreading the load amongst the study group is more efficient and leads to a smooth operation. Study Group Leader For a study group to work, one member must be the boss. The study group leader does not have to be you even if it was your idea. The study group leader needs to be the me
Read more

What's the best way to revise?

There’s no ‘right’ way to revise, it’s largely a matter of what suits you best and the particular exam you’re taking (multiple choice answers, calculations, short-answer questions, or essays). Methods might include making notes from text books, writing quick summaries of topics (in the form of mind map s or spidergrams perhaps), reciting facts out loud, learning dates, formulae or vocabulary by heart, and reading revision books or watching revision programmes. Switching between methods helps you hold your interest and absorb information better. Mix dull subjects with more interesting ones, for the same reason. If it’s hard to get started, begin with something easy. Actively think about, sift and question what you’re writing and reading, and test yourself afterwards. Writing endless notes is probably a waste of time. If you come to something you don’t understand, try reading about it somewhere else. If that doesn’t work, then ask someone who knows the subject well. If you have a p
Read more