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jeanlouis Sam 6 Sep - 14:07UNIT 8 Dover-London revisited
CHOOSE THE BEST WORD OR EXPRESSION TO MATCH THE DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS GIVEN BELOW
To Investigate To Stride A Shelter To Plod To be Squeezed Stuccoed To Wonder
A ______________ is a small building or covered place which is made to protect people from bad weather or danger. The city's bomb _____________s were being prepared for possible air raids. ...a bus ___________.
If a place provides ____________, it provides you with a place to stay or live, especially when you need protection from bad weather or danger. The number of families seeking __________ rose by 17 percent.
If you ____________________ someone, usually someone who is being hunted by police or other people, you provide them with a place to stay or live. ...people ______________ring illegal immigrants.
If someone ______________s, they walk slowly and heavily. If you say that someone __________s on or _____________s along with a job, you mean that the job is taking a long time. He is _____________ding on with negotiations. Aircraft production continued to ____________ along at an agonizingly slow pace.
If someone, especially an official, ________________ an event, situation, or claim, they try to find out what happened or what is the truth. Officials are___________________ing the cause of an explosion which badly damaged a house in Hampshire = look into He ordered an ____________________ tion into the affair
Synonyms: examine, explore, go into, inquire into, inspect, look into, probe, research, study
If you ______________ somewhere, you walk there with quick, long steps. They were joined by a newcomer who came __________ ing across a field. He turned abruptly and _____________ (past) off down the corridor. Someone's ________________ is their way of walking with long steps. He lengthened his ______________ to keep up with her. If you make __________________s in something that you are doing, you make rapid progress in it. The country has made enormous _________________s politically but not economically. In British English, if you take a problem or difficulty in your ________________, you deal with it calmly and easily. The American expression is take something in _________________.
He was struck by how Mary took the mistake in her stride.
If you __________________ something, you press it firmly, usually with your hands. He ____________zed her arm reassuringly. Also a noun. liked her way of reassuring you with a _______________ of the hand
If you _______________ your eyes shut or if your eyes _____________ shut, you close them tightly, usually because you are frightened or to protect your eyes from something such as strong sunlight.
With a giant whoosh! the raft dropped over the edge. Nancy ________________ed her eyes shut and prayed.
_______________ is a type of plaster used for covering walls and decorating ceilings.
If you ________________ about something, you think about it, either because it interests you and you want to know more about it, or because you are worried or suspicious about it. I _____________red what that noise was. If you say that it is a ______________ that something happened, you mean that it is very surprising and unexpected. The _________________ is that Olivier was not seriously hurt. ________________ is a feeling of great surprise and pleasure that you have, for example when you see something that is very beautiful, or when something happens that you thought was impossible. I was expressing some amazement and ___________ at her good fortune. = awe
CHOOSE THE BEST WORD OR EXPRESSION TO MATCH THE DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS GIVEN BELOW
To Investigate To Stride A Shelter To Plod To be Squeezed Stuccoed To Wonder
A ______________ is a small building or covered place which is made to protect people from bad weather or danger. The city's bomb _____________s were being prepared for possible air raids. ...a bus ___________.
If a place provides ____________, it provides you with a place to stay or live, especially when you need protection from bad weather or danger. The number of families seeking __________ rose by 17 percent.
If you ____________________ someone, usually someone who is being hunted by police or other people, you provide them with a place to stay or live. ...people ______________ring illegal immigrants.
If someone ______________s, they walk slowly and heavily. If you say that someone __________s on or _____________s along with a job, you mean that the job is taking a long time. He is _____________ding on with negotiations. Aircraft production continued to ____________ along at an agonizingly slow pace.
If someone, especially an official, ________________ an event, situation, or claim, they try to find out what happened or what is the truth. Officials are___________________ing the cause of an explosion which badly damaged a house in Hampshire = look into He ordered an ____________________ tion into the affair
Synonyms: examine, explore, go into, inquire into, inspect, look into, probe, research, study
If you ______________ somewhere, you walk there with quick, long steps. They were joined by a newcomer who came __________ ing across a field. He turned abruptly and _____________ (past) off down the corridor. Someone's ________________ is their way of walking with long steps. He lengthened his ______________ to keep up with her. If you make __________________s in something that you are doing, you make rapid progress in it. The country has made enormous _________________s politically but not economically. In British English, if you take a problem or difficulty in your ________________, you deal with it calmly and easily. The American expression is take something in _________________.
He was struck by how Mary took the mistake in her stride.
If you __________________ something, you press it firmly, usually with your hands. He ____________zed her arm reassuringly. Also a noun. liked her way of reassuring you with a _______________ of the hand
If you _______________ your eyes shut or if your eyes _____________ shut, you close them tightly, usually because you are frightened or to protect your eyes from something such as strong sunlight.
With a giant whoosh! the raft dropped over the edge. Nancy ________________ed her eyes shut and prayed.
_______________ is a type of plaster used for covering walls and decorating ceilings.
If you ________________ about something, you think about it, either because it interests you and you want to know more about it, or because you are worried or suspicious about it. I _____________red what that noise was. If you say that it is a ______________ that something happened, you mean that it is very surprising and unexpected. The _________________ is that Olivier was not seriously hurt. ________________ is a feeling of great surprise and pleasure that you have, for example when you see something that is very beautiful, or when something happens that you thought was impossible. I was expressing some amazement and ___________ at her good fortune. = awe