Monday, August 8, 2022

"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 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. h...