четверг, 10 ноября 2011 г.

Some vocabulary tasks

yammer - кричать, говорить без умолку
"...the small irresistible voice yammering in my ear would have made me stop everything..."

rascal - мошенник, плут
"He was up to no good again, the rascal."

nudge - 1) зд. медленно въезжать 2) толкать локтем
"I nudged my car into a parking place over the cruise ship office..."

stutter - запинаться, заикаться
"Rita's observation was so unexpected I couldn't even stutter for a minute."

tattered - разорванный в клочья
amid - среди
"...the start of the day amid the last tattered pieces of dream."

scowl - хмуриться, бросить сердитый взгляд
"Doakes slouched back in his chair with a last scowl at me."

insight - озарение, проницательность
"Oh, just a guess. Not a real insight, I'm afraid."

2 комментария:

  1. Any phrasal verbs? any idioms? and word combinations? It is good that you give examples of usage, but try to vary your vocabulary work (give synonyms, antonyms, some set expressions the words are used in, etc.)

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