CHAPTER III: WORKSHEET #61 of Dr. Jedidiah's Diary

WORKSHEET #61.

Let’s practice some expressions from the episode 10 of Dr. Jedidiah’s Diary! 

  

1.      Each time I listen to Karen Carpenter’s “Close to You”, I get the warm fu___________ at heart. (*meaning “feelings of comfort, affection, or happiness, often from nostalgic or kind acts”)

 

2.      He is such a thr_______ and sarcastic person who makes people nervous around him. (*meaning “lacking in pleasing or attractive qualities; crooked; twisted”)

 

3. No one was sold on his moon_________ ideas because they seemed impossible to achieve. (*meaning “something that is an extremely ambitious, difficult, and potentially revolutionary goal or project”)

 

4. Lia brought the house down with her one-of-a-kind jokes at the stand-up comedy show. I love the way she cr_____________ up the audience. (*meaning “to burst into laughter (intransitive verb) or to make people laugh out loud (transitive verb)” )

 

5. The currently impeached former president Yoon of South Korea and his wife had deceived the entire country by their grifting and boon_________. (*meaning “work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value”)

 

6. Marty grew up to be a wonderful man with a heart of gold although he was born to a poor single dad who led a h_______scrabble life. (*meaning “not having a lot of money and needing to work a lot to eat and live”)

 

7. The ridiculously high medical bills added an unbearable pec__________ strain, forcing the family to seek financial assistance. (*meaning “financial difficulty/ hardships”)

 

8. The news report used _____________endo to imply wrongdoing without making a direct accusation. (*meaning “an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one”)

 

9. She has been pin_____________ pennies since she quit her work. (*meaning “to be extra careful about how much money one spends”)

 

10. You’d better not try Mariah’s signature ______________ whistle at the party. I bet you won’t make it. (*meaning “the well-known high notes that American pop singer Mariah Carey hits in her songs”)

 

11. Hank was kind of small and thin, and some nasty classmates used to ta_____________ him about his weakness. (*meaning “to make fun of/ to belittle/ to provoke someone”)

 

12. The entire town looks like a spooky set in a horror film, in which dense fog obnub______________ and dislimns the silhouette of the buildings and streetlights. (*meaning “to darken, obscure, or make unclear, often with clouds or fog, but also mentally; sentences using it describe literal cloud cover, mental confusion from drink/emotion”)