WORKSHEET #61.
Let’s practice some expressions from the
episode #61 of Dr. Jedidiah’s Diary!
1. Each time I listen to Karen Carpenter’s “Close to You”, I get the warm fu___________ at heart. (*meaning “feelings of comfort, affection, or happiness, often from nostalgic or kind acts”)
2. He is such a thr_______ and
sarcastic person who makes people nervous around him. (*meaning “lacking in
pleasing or attractive qualities; crooked; twisted”)
3. No one was
sold on his moon_________ ideas because they seemed impossible to
achieve. (*meaning “something that is an extremely ambitious, difficult, and
potentially revolutionary goal or project”)
4. Lia
brought the house down with her one-of-a-kind jokes at the stand-up comedy
show. I love the way she cr_____________ up the audience. (*meaning “to
burst into laughter (intransitive verb) or to make people laugh out loud
(transitive verb)” )
5. The currently impeached former president Yoon of South Korea and his wife had deceived the entire country by their grifting and boon_________. (*meaning “work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value”)
6. Marty grew
up to be a wonderful man with a heart of gold although he was born to a poor single
dad who led a h_______scrabble life. (*meaning “not having a lot of
money and needing to work a lot to eat and live”)
7. The ridiculously
high medical bills added an unbearable pec__________ strain, forcing the
family to seek financial assistance. (*meaning “financial difficulty/
hardships”)
8. The news
report used _____________endo to imply wrongdoing without making a
direct accusation. (*meaning “an allusive or oblique remark or hint,
typically a suggestive or disparaging one”)
9. She
has been pin_____________ pennies since she quit her work. (*meaning “to
be extra careful about how much money one spends”)
10. You’d
better not try Mariah’s signature ______________ whistle at the party. I
bet you won’t make it. (*meaning “the well-known high notes that American
pop singer Mariah Carey hits in her songs”)
11. Hank was kind
of small and thin, and some nasty classmates used to ta_____________ him
about his weakness. (*meaning “to make fun of/ to belittle/ to provoke
someone”)
12. The
entire town looks like a spooky set in a horror film, in which dense fog obnub______________
and dislimns the silhouette of the buildings and streetlights. (*meaning “to
darken, obscure, or make unclear, often with clouds or fog, but also mentally;
sentences using it describe literal cloud cover, mental confusion from
drink/emotion”)
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