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#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”)
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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