WORKSHEET #31
Let’s practice some expressions from the
episode #31 of Dr. Jedidiah’s Diary!
1. Teddie is a chicken who always b_________ out on his commitment when he feels intimidated. (*meaning “to leave someone or something behind/ to depart or to abandon someone or something”)
2. Jeremy hoped ___________ hope that Judith
will come back to him. (*meaning “to hope without any basis for expecting
fulfillment”)
3. ______________ tight, hon. I’ll be
right back in 5 minutes. (*meaning “to wait patiently or hold on. It is used
to ask someone to wait for a moment or for instructions”)
4. I found myself enamored by his witty responses
to my questions and his one-of-a-kind charming bon_____________. (*meaning
“geniality/ friendliness/ vonviviality”)
5. Her susp____________________ sounded
so sad to me, and it made me lost for words. (*meaning “the act of sighing
or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration”)
6. American film director Jordan Peele's “Us”
is about the doppelgängers who are forgotten and tet___________ to their
surface population, created by a failed government experiment to control people.
The film uses the metaphor to argue that Americans' misplaced fear of the
"other" blinds them to the problems they themselves are perpetuating
and the suffering they've created just beneath the surface. (*meaning “fastened
or restrained or connected to…..”)
7. The ICE agents attacked the city _______________long
and arrested all the anti-government protesters out there. (*meaning “recklessly/ without pause or delay”)
8. His neighborhood is full of curm____________
and termagants who are mean, stubborn, and very ill-tempered. (*meaning “a
person who is ill-tempered, old, cranky, grumpy”)
9. Your doctor might call it post__________________
sleepiness, whereas you call it food coma. (*meaning “after a meal”)
10. We
have no time for shilly-_________________ now. It is time to make a
decision. (*meaning “to hesitate or to be wishy-washy” it could be used as a
verb or an adjective”)
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