Dr. Jedidiah's Diary: WORKSHEET #35.

WORKSHEET #35

Let’s practice some expressions from the episode #35 of Dr. Jedidiah’s Diary!   

 





    1.   As an educator, I am always thrilled and pleased to get children’s ______less questions in class. They are truly pure and simple!

(* meaning “without skill/ finess/ effort/ pure and simple”)

 

    2.   I told my friend to so________ up before she confessed how she felt inside about him. Drunk-dial one’s ex is never a good idea. (*meaning “to become less drunk”) 

 

    3.   The profiler had to identify and analyze the serial killer’s Modus O________________ when the criminal took the victims’ lives. (*meaning “Latin phrase meaning "mode of operating" or "method of operating". It refers to a person's habitual way of doing something”)

 

    4.   His attempts to dwarf his archrival designer’s kit___________ style by his new classic designs didn’t work at all. (*meaning “art, writing, design, or object etc. of a shallow kind, calculated to have popular appeal or to be appreciated in an ironic or knowing way”)

 


5.   Sam is such a bla_________ mouth (*meaning “a person who talks too much”) whose never-ending stories are no more than groundless jabber______________ (*meaning “meaningless speech/ writing”).  

 

    6.   Everybody knows that he is a quid_____________ (*meaning “a person who seeks to know all the latest news or gossip= busybody”) and they never let him know their secrets.

 

    7.   Bob was terribly st______________ and wasted at the tavern. (*meaning “drunk/ tipsy”)

 

    8.   This Tex-Mex restaurant is one of my favorite _____________outs. (*meaning “a place where one frequently spends one's spare time”)

 

    9.   You should take back your vulgar word, Jack! How could you call that man a fa_________ in public? Shame on you and your dirty tongue! (*meaning “an insulting and contemptuous term for a male homosexual”)

 

    10. It took Jill forever to get d______________ up for the wedding reception. (meaning “To dress oneself or another in formal or ostentatious clothing as if for a special occasion”)


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