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Do you want to learn some English vocabulary?

Every once in a while, you might want to check with your vocabulary while studying English. Here I am giving you sentences with blanks so that you can complete by filling in with proper words to make sense of each, using the given hints.

 






1.   After a long nap, he found himself wake___________ (*meaning wide awake) deep into the night.

 

2.   Joe always follows the weather forecast to learn about the air quality day in and day out. He’s worried about his asthma since there will be a huge ha____________ (*meaning sandstorm) throughout the next couple of weeks in his neck of the woods.

 

3.   Gabrielle Zevin is one of my favorite authors who makes the profundity of _________cape (*meaning essence or inner nature of someone/ something) in life easy to understand.

 

4.   People in South Korea are fed up with the Constitutional Court’s long-__________-out (*meaning protracted; lasting a very long time) process of verifying the impeachment of the President Yoon.

 

5.   I am trying to get the world news updates more from legitimate news outlets rather than social media det_________ (*meaning any disintegrated material or debris).

 

6.   No matter what, trust yourself and your la____________  ability (*meaning present but not visible; existing as potential) to forge ahead in life.

 

7.   Let’s just stop all these petty______________ (*meaning insignificant or petty) arguments! They’re only stalling the investigation!

 

8.   Whoa! Check out these guys from America’s funniest home video!! How are they so good at bir___________ (*meaning spinning/rolling) the log?

 

9.   A: So, how was the movie?

 

B: Hmmm…..let me just say in Merry Poppins’ way. I felt the movie was super_____________________lidocious! (*meaning extremely good or wonderful, which was created from Disney film Merry Poppins)

 

10.       I love this painting in your dining room. It looks like Ely__________ (*meaning paradise/ Heaven)

 

 







Answer Keys

    1.  wakerife

    2.  haboob

    3.  inscape

    4.  long-drawn-out

    5.  detritus

    6.  latent

    7.  pettifogging

    8.  birling

    9.  supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

   10.              Elysium

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