Dr. Jedidiah's Diary: WORKSHEET #36.

WORKSHEET #36

Let’s practice some expressions from the episode #36 of Dr. Jedidiah’s Diary!  

1.   Usually he was brevi_______________, but he went into great detail when describing his favorite books. (*meaning “of a person, speech, or style of writing) using very few words; concise”)

 

    2.   The soi-d________________ righteous people, who fight for justice, called prosecutors are no more than a cesspool of corruption. (*meaning “calling oneself thus; self-styled; so-called or pretended”)

 

    3.  People in this residential area are frequently disturbed by the racing cars in the wee hours that flo______________ the city ordinance of noise. (*meaning “to openly disregard a law or regulations”)

 

    4.   My heart breaks witnessing the sufferings and pain of people in GAZA. Parents who lost their children have been letting out a __________ every night and day. (*meaning “to cry high-pitched cry of pain, grief, or anger”)

 

    5.   Make sure not to let your relationship with your significant other go unchecked before it ends up being completely bo_____________. (*meaning “carried out badly or carelessly”)

 

    6.   The state maintains a penit________________ at Carson City and an insane asylum at Reno. (*meaning “a prison for people convicted of serious crimes”)

 

7.   My 6-year-old son was scared at the Halloween decoration, which was the huge Grim _______________ standing with a scythe. (*meaning “personification of death in the form of a cloaked skeleton wielding a large scythe”)

     

    8.   Jeff felt dr_________________ both physically and emotionally after 1 year of custody battle with his ex-wife. (*meaning “to feel worn out; exhausted; wiped out”)

 

    9.   It could only be justified by a case of force ____________ure such as the President having a heart attack. (*meaning “an event with superior or irresistible force or an event that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled”)

    

    10.  It was the saddest scene in the film where the single dad was holding back tears while he was reading a somber ele_______ at his son’s funeral. (*meaning “a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead”)

 

    11. We are awaiting the results of the medical exa____________ and any autopsy that may be performed. (*meaning “a medically qualified public officer whose duty is to investigate deaths occurring under unusual or suspicious circumstances, to perform postmortems, and to initiate inquests”)

 

12. I keep my last conversation with my ailing father in his final delirious days recorded on my cell phone. I still get emotionally ______________ and burst out into tears each time I replay his weak voice. (*meaning “full of strong, raw, uninhibited emotion”)

 

        13. The electric chair's role on the stage of history was brief, displaced by _________________ injection. (*meaning “an injection administered for the purpose of euthanasia or as a means of capital punishment”)