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مشاهدة النسخة كاملة : Check your vocabulary - advanced


أحمد العبدالله
03-05-02, 08:45 pm
Asslam Alaikom

Here I'm giving you some words to use them in doing the excercise A

At the of end the lesson there are the meanings of these words, so try to do the excercise before checking the meanings.

The words are :

abound - technology - prognosticate - automaton - matron

A- Use the appropriate words:

1- The mayor refused to ______________as to his margin of victory in the election.

2- The time is approaching when human workers may be replaced by _______________.

3- A clever salesman will always ask a ______________ if her mother is at home.

4- The western plains used to _______________ with bison before those animals were slaughtered.

5- Man may be freed from backbreaking labour by the products of scientific _____________.
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B- Explain this idiom :

buy a pig in a poke.

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The meanings of the words:

abound : to exist in great numbers or quantities.

technology : scientific knowledge used in practical ways in industry, for example in designing new machines.

prognosticate : to say that a thing will happen in the future.

automaton : a person who behaves like a machine, without thinking or feeling anything.

matron: an older married woman.


Best wishes

Ahmad

الكيميائي
05-05-02, 01:54 am
احمدالعبدالله

Ohhhf..


The master ....




am acting like:1: <======== when I see your posts..


thanks


KIMO......