Sunday, October 3, 2010

F PERIOD - Three words!

Post three words from the reading this weekend you didn't understand along with their definition.

8 comments:

  1. expatriate- living in foreign land; foreign

    fowl- bird of any kind

    quivered- to shake or move with slight trembling

    The second two words I have a heard of them before but have not been able to start frequenly

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  2. ironical:humorously sarcastic or mocking

    splendidly:in an impressively beautiful manner

    ashamed:feeling shame or guilt

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  3. shallow: not having much distance between the top or surface and the bottom.

    saloon: a bar where alcoholic drinks were sold in the western US and Canada in the past.

    bulky: (of a thing) large and difficult to move or carry

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  4. shame:a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong of foolish behaviour.
    miserable:(of a person)wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable.
    horse-chestnut:a deciduous tree with large leaves of five leaflets,conspicuous sticky winter buds, and upright conical clusters of white,pink,or red flowers.

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  5. mattock :(noun)an instrument for loosening the soil in digging, shaped like a pickax, but having one end broad instead of pointed.

    fern:
    –noun
    any seedless, nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, of tropical to temperate regions, characterized by true roots produced from a rhizome, triangular fronds that uncoil upward and have a branching vein system, and reproduction by spores contained in sporangia that appear as brown dots on the underside of the fronds.


    gill:–noun
    the respiratory organ of aquatic animals, as fish, that breathe oxygen dissolved in water.

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  6. irony: the amusing or strange aspect of a situation that is very different from what you expect.

    tackle: the equipment used to do a particular sport or activity, especially fishing.

    buckwheat: small dark grain that is grown as food for animals and for making flour.

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  7. simian (adj.)- of or pertaining to an ape or monkey.

    mattock (n.)- an instrument for loosening the soil in digging, shaped like a pickax, but having one end broad instead of pointed.

    expatriate (n.)- a person who has left their native country and is currently living in a different one.

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  8. expatriate: (verb) to banish a person from his or her native country.

    moraine: a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay. A deposit of such material left on the ground by a glacier.

    mattock: (noun)
    an instrument for loosening the soil in digging, shaped like a pickax, but having one end broad instead of pointed.

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