WORKSHEET #38
Let’s practice some expressions from the
episode #38 of Dr. Jedidiah’s Diary!
1. The leader of the party has tried to jaw______________
his party members into reaching an agreement. (*meaning “to
talk to them forcefully and persuasively, either to try to influence or
pressure them into a certain action, or to give them a long lecture or
reprimand”)
2. “The public we_________ is the ultimate
goal of our community” says the mayor. (*meaning “well-being, prosperity, or
happiness”)
3. When she had to say goodbye to her
beau, she cried a river inside as all of her p___________-up feelings of
sorrow overflowing. (*meaning “closely confined or held back”)
4. It was not Brian’s decision to keep
_________________ about (*meaning “to refrain from disclosing
information about something”) his boss’s involvement in the bribery case.
He was rail______________ into keeping his mouth shut. (*meaning
“to force somebody to do something”)
5. When the unbelievable rumor at the
church turned out to be true, some priests resigned, and others were de_____________
and jailed, and there were financial settlements with many victims. (*meaning
“deprive (someone) of professional status or membership of a prestigious group/
to remove someone from one's position in the church; synonyms: unfrock.
disinvest, divest”)
6. The doctor said surgery is a last
__________________ after all th tree possible treatments were tried. (*meaning
“a final course of action, used only when all else has failed”)
7. I don’t know exactly what it is or how
it feels to experience a nu______________ moment of meeting holy spirit
in life. (*meaning “supernatural; mysterious; appealing to the higher
emotions or to the aesthetic sense”)
8. The company promised that the
employees would be paid retro_______________, which meant they would
receive the extra money for hours already worked. (*meaning “with effect
from a date in the past”)
9. Loving someone is not something sor__________
(*meaning “dirty/ involving ignoble actions and motives; arousing moral
distaste and contempt”) or a sin that one needs to go
con________________ about in front of God, unless it leads to hurting someone
else. (*meaning “(within the Catholic
church) to confess one’s sins to a priest and seek forgiveness”)
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