Dr. Jedidiah's Diary: WORKSHEET 38.

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”)