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Autonomous University of Honduras

Class: Workshop III

Students: 

Cristian Dodanim Cruz Cruz  

   20191004291

Sinia Janeth Velasquez perez 

           20191006517

Miss.Andrea Rosales

Homework: vocabulary

The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates
— written by Stephen King and narrated by Jill Eikenberry  —

1)Strength:(Adverb)     

Pronunciation

ˈStreŋ(k)ths.

https://voca.ro/1cd9LGrYn0HJ

Which part of speech is.

"The strength slips from her legs".

Definition

The quality or state of being strong : capacity for exertion or endurance

power to resist force : SOLIDITY, TOUGHNESS,

degree of potency of effect or of concentration.

Examples

1.If it comes well you will have a lot of strength all day.

2.Strength does not come from physical ability, but from the will of the soul.

3.Where my strength ends, God's begins.

4.The strength a storm is, the faster it passes.

By sinia velasquez 

2) Beneath (Adverb)

Pronunciation

BəˈnēTH  

https://voca.ro/1i745JhGhXyt 

Which part of speech is.

"Her wet bottom dampening the sheet beneath her".

Definition

Beneath means under or below, it is usually a slightly more formal option than under, which is usually the most used preposition. It is also used figuratively to indicate something hidden.

Examples.

1. The sand beneath my feet is cold.

2. The floor beneath.

3. He had his hand on your knee beneath the table.

4. There is a basement beneath the house.

By Sinia Velasquez

 3)Dropped: (Verb)

Pronunciation

Dräpt

https://voca.ro/1e90NCSyz3Uz

Which part of speech is.

"Thumping down with the heavyweight of a dropped book on a barefoot, and she begins to cry.”

Definition

We use dropped when something falls out of our hands,

the quantity of fluid that falls in one spherical mass

 something that resembles a liquid drop.

Examples.

1. When my poor tree declined, the leaves yellowed and dropped.

2. I dropped a grape in the kitchen and it disappeared.

3. He paused and dropped the map on the table.

4. The price of oil has dropped by about $ 45.

By Sinia Velasquez

4)Wreckage  (Noun)

Pronunciation

ˈˈRekij

https://voca.ro/1cd9LGrYn0HJ

Which part of speech is.

Her husband crawled from the wreckage of the burning plane.

Definition

"When something such as a plane, car, or building has been destroyed, you can refer to what remains as wreckage or the wreckage".

Examples.

1. Mark was dragged from the burning wreckage of his car.

2. Two children were trapped in the wreckage.

3. Bus wreckage is hard to find.

4. Rescue teams searched among the wreckage for survivors.

By Sinia Velasquez

5) Lungs (​Noun)

Pronunciation 

   /lʌŋ/

https://voca.ro/1e90NCSyz3Uz

Which part of speech is.

"He has caught her on the exhale and her lungs feel as flat as sheets of paper".

Definition

The lungs are a pair of organs found in the chest, behind the ribs. Together, the lungs are one of the largest organs in your body.

Examples:

1.The left and right lungs are different sizes.

2.Smoking tobacco is the biggest cause of lungs-related complaints.

3.If you drink too much soda it is bad for your lungs.

4.The lungs bring oxygen into the  blood.

By  sinia velasquez

6) Growl:  (Noun)

Pronunciation 

Growl

https://voca.ro/1eYeI8NRDJQD

Definition 

Of an animal, especially a dog) make a low guttural sound in the throat.

Which part of speech is.

"It emerges in a kind of horrified growl".

Examples

1. Taff after he and my camera operator hear the growl.

2. No, this is a scary growl.

3.I heard a growl from my cat.

4.My cousin was scared last night because she heard a very strange growl.

By Cristian Cruz

 

7) Shrewish: (Adjective)

Pronunciation 

Shroo·uhss

https://voca.ro/1kA6VFQTMFMP

Definition 

Bad-tempered or aggressively assertive (typically used of a woman).

Which part of speech is.

"In her normal voice, this might have come out sounding shrewish".

Examples

1.I think she's a fickle, faithless, shrewish brat!

2.She's so rough, shrewish and she likes beating others up.

3. How shrewish  you are.  

4.Andrea is a tired and semi-shrewish doctor.

By Cristian Cruz

8) Scolding   (Verb)

Definition

an angry rebuke or reprimand.

Pronunciation

skowl duhng

https://voca.ro/1mQfyJxY8awR

Which part of speech is.

"A mother scolding her wayward eleven-year-old who’s come late to the supper table yet again—but now it emerges in a kind of horrified growl."

Examples

1. Because you'll get scolding from boss now.

2. I guess all it takes is a scolding from Lily to ruin breakfast.

3. The teacher was scolding his students.

4. My grandmother was scolding me a moment ago.

By Cristian Cruz

9) Wipe : (Noun)

Pronunciation

Wīp

https://voca.ro/1jaJMcM70vqA

Definition

Clean or dry (something) by rubbing with a cloth, a piece of paper, or one's hand.

Which part of speech is.

She wipes it away with the back of her hand and then flings it into the wherever, a thing she hasn’t done since she was a child.

Examples 

1. Then wipe with a cloth, shoot well.

2. Remove the flip-top from the vial and wipe the top with a 70% alcohol swab.

3. I have a pink wipe at home.

4. My sister removed her makeup with a wipe.

By Cristian Cruz

 10)Hesitant: (Adjective)

Pronunciation

ˈHezədənt

https://voca.ro/14u9fHZ1kuuB

Which part of speech is.
"Sounding uncharacteristically hesitant and unsure of himself".

 Definition

Tentative, unsure, or slow in acting or speaking.

Examples

1.We are witnessing a hesitant global economic recovery.

2. And he's still hesitant to trust me with his entire empire.

3.A hesitant smile.
4.The baby’s first few hesitant steps.

By Cristian Cruz