epub |eng | 2013-05-05 | Author:Michael Gates [Gates, Michael]

N nephelococcygia [NEF-el-o-kok-SIJ-ee-uh] (noun) Cloud gazing; the act of looking for and finding shapes in clouds; also, when capitalized, the name of “Cloud-Cuckoo-Land” in Aristophanes’ The Birds “Terrence spent Saturday ...

azw3 |eng | 2017-06-05 | Author:Stuart Webb & Paul Nation [Webb, Stuart]

This can be done in pen-and-paper format, or using online polling software such as Poll Everywhere if the resources are available (see Website references). Online surveys allow students to answer ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:kathy steinemann [steinemann, kathy]

B Bereft, beside oneself with grief, bitter, bleak, blue, broken, brokenhearted, brooding, bummed out C Cast down, cheerless, close to tears, crestfallen, crying one’s eyes out, crushed D Defeated, deflated, ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:kathy steinemann [steinemann, kathy]

Went How often do you rely on went when you send your protagonists somewhere? Mike went to the office, and then Marlene went to the store. Nothing in the preceding ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Magoosh & Chris Lele [Magoosh & Lele, Chris]

LESSON 96 Is It Everywhere or Anywhere? Some of these words describe the omnipresent, while others depict the opposite. pervasive (adj.) pərˈvāsiv Describing something negative that is common throughout an ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-14 | Author:David Olsen [Olsen, David]

ANTONYMS impolitic (im-PAWL-i-tick). Not prudent; injudicious; unwise. After a few drinks, Uncle Roland has an unfortunate habit of making IMPOLITIC remarks about my father’s failed business ventures. indiscreet (in-dih-SKREET). Lacking ...

epub |eng | 2009-04-18 | Author:Robert W. Bly [Bly, Robert W.]

“Arrogance on the part of the MERITORIOUS is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, nineteenth-century German ...

epub |eng | | Author:Isabel L. Beck [Beck Isabel L., McKeown Margaret G., Kucan Linda]

• If something is usual, does it happen a lot? • Does drenched mean very hungry? Another issue to be aware of is that with yes/no items there is a ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Chris Baldick

in-yer-face theatre A term coined by Aleks Sierz in his book In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (2001), to refer to a new wave of British drama of the 1990s that ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Baldick, Chris;

in-yer-face theatre A term coined by Aleks Sierz in his book In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (2001), to refer to a new wave of British drama of the 1990s that ...

epub |eng | 2002-09-30 | Author:Anu Garg [Garg, Anu]

pervious (PUR-vee-uhs) adjective 1. Permeable; open to passage or penetration. 2. Open to suggestions, arguments, reason, change, and so forth. From Latin pervius, from per- (through) + via (way). • ...

azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-19 | Author:Anu Garg & Garg, Suti [Garg, Suti]

pervious (PUR-vee-uhs) adjective 1. Permeable; open to passage or penetration. 2. Open to suggestions, arguments, reason, change, and so forth. From Latin pervius, from per- (through) + via (way). • ...

azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anu Garg

Not to spread too much negativity, here are a few words with positive meanings. Then again, you could use them in insults, too, as in telling someone, “You aren’t exactly ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2017-02-17 | Author:RACHEL MITCHELL [MITCHELL, RACHEL]

COLLOCATIONS/L Lose touch with [Verb + Noun] (to not see or hear from someone any longer/ to no longer see, hear or communicate with someone.) John and I were close ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Steven J. Matthiesen

LESSON 14 • ample • arduous • arid • avert • defy • diligent • enact • feign • fertile • freshly • function • fundamental • indiscriminate • pinpoint ...