Thursday, April 17, 2008

Weekly Vocabulary April 18

1. Word / Phrase:Establishment

Meaning:an organization founded and united for a specific purpose

Context:These two hotels are both excellent establishments.

2. Word / Phrase:Morose

Meaning:showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

Context:Kurk thoutht her morose and uncompanionable.

3. Word / Phrase:inhospitable

Meaning:1. unfavorable to life or growth;

Context:the the barren inhospitable dessert; inhospitable mountain areas.

4. Word / Phrase:imprint

Meaning:a distinctive influence; a concavity in a surface produced by pressing;

Context:We imprint our ideas onto our children.

5. Word / Phrase:spanner

Meaning:a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt

Context:I'll need a spanner to change the back wheel.

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