Wednesday 28 January 2015

Vocabs from the Fallen in Love

SCRAPE [verb]
Drag or pull a hard or sharp implement across a surface/remove dirt or other matter
  • Ani scraped the mud off her shoes with the edge of a stone.
  • Kamal is scrapping the heavy axe towards his father to cut down the tree that might timber anytime.


CRESTFALLEN [adjective]
Sad or disappointed
  •     She could tell by his crestfallen expression that what he told is not what he really meant.
  •     Crestfallen feeling due to the previous quarrel had put her down up to 3 weeks.


RUT [noun]
A long deep track made by repeated passage of the wheel
  • The cart hit a rut and rattled fiercely


HEM [noun]
Restrict the space or movement of someone or something / the edge of a piece of cloth (noun) / turn under and sew the edge of cloth (verb)
  •              Mom began to hem a boarder on that drawing (verb)
  •      He wipe his face with the hem of his shirt. (noun)
  •    The hemming by Sir Said had woke Lysa up from day dreaming in his    class.


SOMBRE
Having or conveying a feeling of deep seriousness and sadness / dark or dull on colour of tone
  •            The sombre look had frightened her out till .
  •     The night skies were sombre and starless.

Tuesday 27 January 2015

Words for today..

NATIVE [noun]
A person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth
Ø New York in the summer was too hot even for the natives.
Ø Amsar in the native of United State before he shifted to Malaysia.

NECESSITATE [noun]
Make something necessary as a result or consequence
Ø A cut which necessitated 18 stitches
Ø The late arrival had necessitated her getting out of bed.
Ø This time he necessitate going to class due to his failure in every semester.

FOSTER [verb]
Encourage the development of something
Ø The teacher’s task is to foster learning.
Ø Jotting and memorizing new words per day foster a person to be better in speaking a language.

ENGAGING [adjective]
Charming and attractive
Ø Farhan is such an engaging person.

BLIZZARD [noun]
Snowfalls that come down thickly / a large or overwhelming number of things arrived suddenly
Ø Due to the blizzard in New York had made the citizen to vegetate at home.
Ø People had gotten lost 10 meters from their home in blizzards.

Ø The position offered to him in that company is an unexpected blizzard that can change his entire life.

Monday 26 January 2015

Having a great time learning new words

COMPASSION
Sympathetic pity and concern for sufferings
v The victim should be treated with compassion
v The compassion in me towards those homeless woke me up on doing fund raising in order to minimize their burden.

SCOUNDREL
A dishonest/unscrupulous person
v The scoundrel sets a bad example for the other young men
v Scroundrelism should be avert in each of the citizans in order to reach our goal.

HEIRLOOM
A valuable object that has belonged to a family for several generations
v The gold bracelet is an heirloom from my mother’s family.

DISDAIN
Refuse to do something from feelings of pride or superiority
v Arif disdained to talk about the matter that hurts him.
v She remained standing.pointedly disdaining his invitation to sit down.
v They disdained to clean up the dirt that would dirty their shirts.

INDIGENOUS
Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place;native
v He must fulfil the requirement orderd to obtain the indigenity of Thailand.

v The indigenous peoples of Siberia.

Sunday 25 January 2015

more n more

STEALTHY
Behaving or done in a cautious and surreptitious manner so as not to be seen or heard
ü Stealthy footsteps
ü Amsar walk stealthly to his room as he came home 12 midnight which might made his parents mad at him.

SARTORIAL
Relating to clothes,tailoring or style of dress
ü Sartorial elegance
ü Those dresses are sartorialy perfect.

USHER
A person who shows people to their seats especially in cinema/theathre/wedding.
ü A waiter ushered me to the table.
ü The usher guided me gently to the reserved seat.
Cause or mark the start of something new
ü The railways ushered in an area of cheap mass travel.

DEPICT
Represent drawing,painting or other art form or potrays in words
ü Painting depicting Old Testrament scenes.
ü Youth is depicted as a time of vitality and good health.
ü Depict of the man who brought up this company to success is hung on the entrance of the office.

AVERT
Turn away/prevent/word off
ü She averted her eyes while he made stilted conversation.
ü Unwilling to take action to avert impending doom.

ü Amran is trying to avert himself from getting punished by his teacher by completing his homework.

Saturday 24 January 2015

Having fun with words


PONDER
Think about something carefully,especially before making decision

  • I pondered the quest of what clothes to wear for the ocassion.
  • She sat pondering about her problems.
  • The man went mad as he ponders the silly matter all day.

SPURN
reject with disdain or contempt

  • He spoke gruffly,as if afraid that his invitation could be spurned.
  • Asman tried his best to flirt on that pretty girl with words so that he'll not been spurned.
RECTITUDE 
morally correct behaviour
  • Mattie is a model of rectitude.
  • A person with rectitude creates wonderful appearence and ideas.
PLAGUE
a contagious bacterial disease,any contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people
  • Diseases like smallpox wiped out the indigenous people in a succession of plagues.
SOLACE
comfort or consolation in a time of great distress or sadness
  • She sought solace in her religion.
  • The soundlessness of nature impressed and solaced her.
  • Asma's husband solaced her with courages after she's hurt with the harsh words said by her employee.

Friday 23 January 2015

More wordss...


MEADOW
»grassland
→There are a few cattle grazing in the meadows.
→The meadow is owned by that rich man who live up    the hill.

DEROGATE
»seem inferior or putting someone down
→remarks derogating from her merits,qualities and      vitues.

MERIT
»a man/woman of merit(deserves)
→There's no merit giving away what you dont really      want.

FROLIC
»play or more about in cheerful & lively way
→Those kids love to frolic on the sand
→They enjoyed frolicking at the theme park.

BICKER
»argue
→couples who bicker over who gets what from the        divorce.
→They bicker over small matters.

Thursday 22 January 2015

enhancing language ;)


FRIVOL
behave in a frivolous way
lack of seriousness/playful
→A night of fun and frivolity.
→We shan't have time to frivol.

STUPOR
a state of near-unconsciousness
→A drunken stupor

ENAMOUR
be filled with love
have a liking or admiration for
→I really enamour her beauty.
→she was truly enamoured of New York.

ORATE
make a speech,especially pompously or at    length
→"please listen to what I'm going to brief on" Ash orated.

PLUMMET
fall/drop straight down at high speed
→a climber was killed when he plummet 300 feet down on icy             gully.
→The cat was said to be dead after it plummet from the roof top.

Wednesday 21 January 2015

Lets begin with vocabs


RAUCOUS
» harsh soundding
The raucous cries of crows

FIDGET
»small restless movement that annoyed people
→stop fidgetting,it annoys me a lot.
→hurry up,your father is beginning to
    fidget.

EMERGED
»come into view or prominence
 The swimmer emerged from the lake to the suface.
→The moon emerged from behind the clouds brightly.

DREARY
»makes one sad/depressed/gloomy
→dreary winter day
→dreary people leading deary lives

BIZARRE
»weird or strange appearance
I had a bizarre dream yesterday.