"The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates", by Stephen King

 Although

Pronunciation: /ɔːlˈðəʊ,ɒlˈðəʊ/

Grammatical classification: conjunction 

Meaning: 1. in spite of the fact that; even though. 2. however; but.

Original sentence: "She’s fresh out of the shower when the phone begins to ring, but although the house is still full of relatives (…)"

Examples:

1. Although the room was crowded, it was easy to find each other. 

2. I had studied, although I still failed the test. 

3. We had fun on the rain, although we got sick. 

4. Although I don't really understand his motives, I don't judge him. 

Thwacking

Pronunciation: /θwak/

Grammatical classification: verb

Meaning: strike forcefully with a sharp blow.

Original sentence: "(…) her wet hair thwacking unpleasantly on the back of her neck and bare shoulders."

Examples:

1. He was thwacking the wall for no reason. 

2. The sound of her thwacking distracted me. 

3. The boys were thwacking tennis balls around the house.

4. She was thwacking them on the back.

Shrewish

Pronunciation: /ˈʃruːɪʃ/

Grammatical classification: adjective

Meaning: bad-tempered or aggressively assertive (typically used of a woman).

Original sentence: "In her normal voice, this might have come out sounding shrewish (…)"

Examples:

1. They tended to get shrewish. 

2. He had such a shrewish attitude towards me. 

3. She was a shrewish person in general. 

4. Mary is not that shrewish all the time, I promise. 

Wayward

Pronunciation: /ˈweɪwəd/

Grammatical classification: adjective

Meaning: 1. difficult to control or predict because of willful or perverse behavior. 2. being headstrong or unpredictable.

Original sentence: "-a mother scolding her wayward eleven-year-old who’s come late to the supper-table yet again-"

Examples:

1. He had always been a wayward kid. 

2. She's got a wayward soul, and you can't change it. 

3. They were all wayward children, maybe that's why they got along so well. 

4. His wayward behavior made the situation even worse. 

Brooch

Pronunciation: /brəʊtʃ/

Grammatical classification: noun

Meaning: an ornament fastened to clothing with a hinged pin and catch.

Original sentence: "Annie stands in the living room with the phone to her ear and her free hand touching the brooch above her left breast, (…)"

Examples:

1. He had gotten her a silver brooch for her birthday. 

2. That's such a gorgeous brooch! Where did you get it?

3. Can you help me with the brooch, please?

4. She had a beautiful collection of brooches. 

 Wreckage 

Pronunciation:  /ˈrɛkɪdʒ/

Grammatical classification: noun

Meaning: the remains of something that has been badly damaged or destroyed. 

 

Original sentence: '' Her husband crawled from the wreckage of the burning plane'' (''...''). 

Examples: 

1. He looked at the wreckage of the building. 

2. There was wreckage of the plane in the mountain. 

3. There were many wreckage of destroyed houses provoked for the war. 

4. She could see the wreckage faraway her house. 

Fault 

Pronunciation:  /fɔːlt,fɒlt/

Grammatical classification: noun

Meaning: an unattractive or unsatisfactory feature, especially in a piece of work on in a person's character. 

Original sentence: Also ''This isn't my fault, don't let them blame it on me.'' He says that, too. 

 

Examples: 

1. He finally accepted that it was his fault. 

2. She said that it wasn't her fault. 

3. The judge said that he hadn't had the fault. 

4. They realized that their friends had had the fault of the that night's accident. 

Autumn 

Pronunciation:  /ˈɔːtəm/

Grammatical classification: noun

Meaning: the season after summer and before winter, in the northern hemisphere from September to November and in he southern hemisphere from March to May. 

 

Original sentence: '' During the autumn of that year, with the blackened remains of the apartment building the jet crashed into still closed off from the rest of the world by yellow police tape '' (''...''). 

Examples: 

1. The best season to travel to Canada is autumn. 

2. She enjoys the season when is autumn. 

3. I like to see the leaves of the trees when is autumn. 

4. Without a doubt,  my favorite season of the year is autumn 

Lungs 

Pronunciation:  /lʌŋ/

Grammatical classification: noun

Meaning: each of the pair of organs situated within the ribcage, consisting of elastic sacs with branching passages into which air is drawn, so that oxygen can pass into the blood and carbon dioxide be removed. 

Original sentence: ''He has caught her on the exhale and her lungs feel as flat as sheets of paper.'' 

Examples: 

1. Unfortunately his lungs stopped working.  

2. Lungs are organs very important in our organism. 

3. Lungs are the center of our respiratory system. 

4. Lungs helps us to can breathe. 

Belief

Pronunciation: /bɪˈliːf/ 

Grammatical classification: noun

Meaning: an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof. 

Original sentence: (''...'') '' now almost ninety but alert and with a firmly held belief in the afterlife.''

Examples: 

1. Everyone have different beliefs. 

2. He has a different belief that her mom. 

3. She respect their beliefs.  

4. The belief in God is so necessary in our lives. 

"The Picture of Dorian Gray", by Oscar Wilde

Unkind

Pronunciation: /ʌnˈkʌɪnd/

Grammatical classification: adjective

Meaning: inconsiderate and harsh to others.

Original sentence: "He says unkind things that give me pain, Harry."

Examples:
1. You tend to be so unkind sometimes.
2. He made an unkind remark. 
3. She was really hurt by his unkind attitude.
4. Don't be so unkind to the kid!

Sailor

Pronunciation: /ˈseɪlə/

Grammatical classification: noun

Meaning: a person whose job it is to work as a member of the crew of a commercial or naval ship or boat, especially one who is below the rank of officer.

Original sentence: "My new life as a sailor will keep me away from England for many years,' he said"

Examples:

1. He always wanted to be a sailor. 

2. They are on their way to become sailors. 

3. I could never be a sailor, I get seasick.

4. You need a strong stomach to be a sailor. 

Crowded

Pronunciation: /ˈkraʊdɪd/

Grammatical classification: adjective, verb

Meaning: 1. (of a space) full of people, leaving little or no room for movement; packed. 2. (of a number of people) fill (a space) almost completely, leaving little or no room for movement.

Original sentence: "The theatre was crowded and noisy, (…)"

Examples:

1. I've never liked crowded spaces. 

2. The club was completely crowded.

3. She felt so crowded that she couldn't breathe.

4. Concerts are usually very crowded.

Lent

Pronunciation:/lɛnt/

Grammatical classification: verb

Meaning: grant to (someone) the use of (something) on the understanding that it will be returned.

Original sentence: "(…) he picked up a book that Lord Henry had lent him."

Examples:

1. I've lent her many of my books. 

2. He lent his bicycle to his friend.

3. A lot of English words are lent from other languages.

4. I need the money I lent you a month ago, please. 

Opium

Pronunciation: /ˈəʊpɪəm/

Grammatical classification: noun

Meaning: a reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, used illicitly as a narcotic and occasionally in medicine as an analgesic.

Original sentence: "There he knew places where he could get opium (…)"

Examples:

1. That man is addicted to opium.

2. Opium poppy fields are huge around here. 

3. They smoke opium almost every day. 

4. The doctors used a bit of opium to calm her pain. 

Portrait 

Pronunciation: / pôrtrət /

Grammatical classification: noun

Meaning: a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders. 

Original sentence: '' In the centre of the room there was a portrait of a very beautiful young man.'' 

Examples: 

1.  I made a portrait of you, my dear. 

2. That portrait is wonderful. 

3. This portrait is the most beautiful that I have seen. 

4. My grandmother gave me a portrait of her so I'll always remember her.  

Hide

Pronunciation: /hʌɪd/ 

Grammatical classification: verb 

Meaning: put or keep out of sight.

Original sentence: '' I think that you're probably a very good husband, but you like to hide your true feelings.''

Examples: 

1. She had to hide a gift for her sister's birthday.

2. He was playing hide and seek and hid behind a tree. 

3. She hides in her room when there are visitors. 

4. My mom always hides the candy of the children. 

Youth

Pronunciation: /juːθ/

Grammatical classification: noun 

Meaning: the period between childhood and adult age. 

Original sentence:'' But you, with your face and your youth, there's nothing that you cannot do.'' 

Examples: 

1. Youth is the best stage of life. 

2. Enjoying the youth with your friends is beautiful. 

3. My mom told me in her youth she met my father and they fell in love. 

4. Without a doubt I will have the best memories of my youth. 

Gun

Pronunciation: /ɡʌn/

Grammatical classification: noun 

Meaning: a weapon incorporating a metal tube from which bullets, shells, or other missiles are propelled by explosive force, typically making a characteristic loud, sharp noise. 

Original sentence: '' Then he saw the gun in the man's hand.''

Examples: 

1. Do not touch that gun, it  can be dangerous. 

2. This gun is the key piece of the crime.  

3. He put his gun to her head. 

4. The police found a gun in his car. 

Shoot

Pronunciation: /ʃuːt/

Grammatical classification: verb 

Meaning: kill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow. 

Original sentence: '' If you move, I'll shoot you.'' 

Examples: 

1. He shot her many times, that was terrible. 

2. He often shoot on air on Christmas. 

3. He shot the poor deer.

4. The police told the robbers to lower their guns or they were going to shoot them .

"The Bridal Party", by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Innocuous 

Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɒkjʊəs/ 

Grammatical classification: Adjective

Meaning: not harmful or offensive.

Original sentence: "(…) and cursed a Greek tout who followed him with a half-displayed packet of innocuous post cards warranted to be very dirty indeed." 

Examples:

1. She was very innocuous-looking.

2. His comment was innocuous.

3. Their actions seemed perfectly innocuous at the time.

4. The message was pretty innocuous.

Shabby

Pronunciation: /ˈʃabi/

Grammatical classification: adjective

Meaning: 1. in poor condition through long use or lack of care.

2. (of behavior) mean and unfair.

Original sentence: "Caroline had lost faith and begun to see him as something pathetic, futile and shabby, outside the great, shining stream of life toward which she was inevitably drawn."
Examples:
1. The house looked old and shabby.
2. She was wearing a shabby sweater.
3. The treatment they got at the hotel was very shabby.
4. He gave me a shabby coat.

Brusque

Pronunciation: /brʊsk,bruːsk,brʌsk/

Grammatical classification: adjective

Meaning: abrupt or offhand in speech or manner.

Original sentence: "(…) ; brusque because Mr. Curly’s clothes were a little shabby."

Examples:

1. His tone was brusque when he answered the phone. 
2. She got a brusque response. 
3. They all had brusque attitudes. 
4. He had many problems because of his brusque manners. 

Rouge

Pronunciation: /ruːʒ/

Grammatical classification: noun, verb, adjective

Meaning: 1. a red powder or cream used as a cosmetic for coloring the cheeks or lips. (noun)

2. color with rouge. (verb) 3. (of wine) red. (adjective)

Original sentence: "She was pale beneath her rouge; there were shadows under her eyes."

Examples:

1. She had a dab of rouge on each cheek. 

2. They were wearing way too much rouge. 

3. My rouge has stained my cheeks. 

4. We rouged her face before the party.

Qualm

Pronunciation: /kwɑːm,kwɔːm/

Grammatical classification: noun

Meaning: an uneasy feeling of doubt, worry, or fear, especially about one's own conduct; a misgiving.

Original sentence: "“I could kill him without a qualm,” he said pleasantly, (…)"

Examples:

1. He has no qualms about lying.

2. She tried to put her qualms aside. 

3. Do you have any qualms about this?

4. They said they ha no qualms about selling the product. 

Maudlin

Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːdlɪn/

Grammatical classification: adjective

Meaning: self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental.

Original sentence: "He carried them around with him in the form of photographs and packets of correspondence and a liking for a maudlin popular song called “Among My Souvenirs.”"

Examples:

1. She had a very maudlin attitude. 

2. He gets pretty maudlin after a few drinks. 

3. They all got very maudlin over the speech. 

4. The book had a beautiful and maudlin story. 

Preposterous

Pronunciation: /prɪˈpɒst(ə)rəs/

Grammatical Classification: adjective

Meaning: contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous.

Original sentence: "(…), and as they were no longer in the twenties, this preposterous mélange, (…)"

Examples: 

1. It was such a preposterous suggestion.

2. The whole idea was preposterous and completely ridiculous. 

3. Your plan is preposterous, but I think we can make it work.

4. I don't believe a word of your preposterous story!

Gobbles

Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒb(ə)l/

Grammatical classification: verb

Meaning: eat (something) hurriedly and noisily.

Original sentence: "— within five years the man gets out, or else the girl gobbles him up and you have the usual mess."

Examples:

1. He gobbles his food every day.

2. Don't gobble your food!

3. There's no need to gobble up that sandwich.

4. She always gobbles her food like there's no tomorrow.

                                   Engagement                              

 

 Pronunciation: inˈɡājmənt

Grammatical Classification: noun

Meaning: It is a formal agreement to get married. 

Original sentence: '' It was a double shock to Michael, announcing, as it did, both the engagement and the imminent marriage''. 

Examples:  

1. I have an engagement with my English's classes. 

2. Mary's dad has lots of engagements in his job. 

3. April has an engagement in the afternoon because it's the birthday of her friend Alexa. 

4. My little sister wants a dog but she says that is a big engagement to take care of him. 

                                       Hollow                                          

Pronunciation: hälō

Grammatical classification: adjective

Meaning: having a hole or empty space inside.

Original sentence: '' At first Michael was afraid and his stomach felt hollow''. 

Examples: 

1.  The tree had an enormous hollow in its stem and the squirrels slept there. 

2. The bird made her nest in a hollow tree. 

3.I feel a hollow  in my stomach because I didn't eat anything all day.

4.There's a new movie in cinema called '' Hollow ''.

                                                                                          Scented                                                    

                       

 Pronunciation: ˈsen(t)əd

 Grammatical classification: adjective 

 Meaning: having a pleasant strong smell, usually because a       pleasant-smelling substance has been added to it. 

 Original sentence: "who was in love with his fine, sharp profile   and his pleasant buoyancy, scented the hard abstraction that had   settled over him". 

Examples:  

1.The car was very scented.

2.The flowers were red, scented and so beautiful. 

3.The candles scented  the house and the smell was very nice. 

4.Scented candles are a good option for romantic dinner. 

                                                                        Faded                                                                     

 

Pronunciation: /feɪd/ 

Grammatical classification: adjective

Meaning: less bright in colour than before. 

Original sentence: ''he sympathetically stared for a while at a faded panorama of battlefields in a tourist-office window and cursed a Greek tout who followed him with a half-displayed packet of innocuous post cards warranted to be very dirty indeed''. 

Examples: 

1. My pants are old and very faded. 

2.All the memories with him have faded. 

3.The smile in her face and her eyes in love, slowly faded.  

4. The original color in this picture faded.

                                                                       Fear                                                                           

Pronunciation: fir

Grammatical classification: noun

Meaning: an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain or harm. 

Original sentence: ''But the fear stayed with him, and after a while he recognized it as the fear that now he would never be happy''. 

Examples: 

1.The little girl had a lot of  fear. 

2.I could see the fear in his face.

3.While I was watching that horror movies with my friends I had lots of fear.   

4.They understood her fear. 

                                                                          Season                                                                                                

Pronunciation: sēzən

Grammatical classification: noun 

Meaning: each of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours, resulting from the earth's changing position with regard to the sun.

Original sentence:'' He had met Caroline Dandy when she was seventeen, possessed her young heart all through her first season in New York''. 

Examples: 

1. She said it was a good season to travel. 

2. I like this season because I love winter. 

3. I think the best season to travel is in fall.

4.I love the Christmas season because I  spend more time with all my family.  

                                                                  Woundedness                                                                                    

Pronunciation: wuːn.dɪdnes

Grammatical classification: adjective

Meaning: the quality or state of being wounded. 

 

Original sentence:'' She saw through to his profound woundedness, and something quivered inside her, died out along the curve of her mouth and in her eyes''. 

Examples :

1.His heart had woundedness for many reasons. 

2.He made himself a woundedness for accident.  

3.Woundedness are difficult to heal. 

4.They made me a woundedness in my heart with their bad comments about me.

                                                                       Shadows 

Pronunciation:ˈSHadōs

Grammatical classification: noun 

Meaning: a dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface. 

Original sentence: '' there were shadows under her eyes''. 

Examples: 

1. There was a shadow in the wall. 

2. The shadow of the moon was there in my bedroom. 

3. I saw a shadow in the evening and I had a lot of fear. 

4. They looked at their shadows on the floor. 

                                                                              Ushers 

Pronunciation: /ˈʌʃə/

Grammatical classification: noun 

Meaning: a person who shows people to their seats, especially in a cinema or theatre or at a wedding.

Original sentence: ''Against the bar a group of ushers was being photographed, and the flash light surged through the room in a stifling cloud''.

Examples: 

1. The churches' ushers are very respectful. 

2. Michael is an usher in the theater. 

3. James works in a bank, he is the usher there. 

4. Mary and Stephanie were the ushers in Elena's wedding. 

                                                                                   Tide 

Pronunciation: tīd

Grammatical classification: noun

Meaning: the alternate rising and falling of the sea, usually twice in each lunar day at a particular place, due to the attraction of the moon and sun. 

Original sentence: ''there was a rising tide of laughter and occasional bursts of song''. 

Examples: 

1. I love to go to the sea and look at its tide. 

2. The tide of the sea gives me peace.  

3. Last night that I went to the sea , the tide was very strong.  

4. The tide of the sea was calm today.