Dienstag, 23. November 2010

A little dictionary

Words I didn´t know:
  • tiptoe: It´s a part of the foot, you can use to be bigger than you are if you´re not standing on it. (my explanation)
    • On the tips of the toes (from the dictionary)
  • to embrace: to embrace is, if you put your arms around somebody.
    • to enfold in the arms; to clasp and hold fondly
  • to drag: to pull the sled behind you through the snow.
    • to pull along the ground by main force
  • eagerness: If you want something very much, you have the eagerness to do it.
    • the noun for eager is eagerness. Eager means: Excited by an ardent desire to attain, obtain, or succeed in anything; keen, ardent, vehement, impatient.
  • to accompany: If you go with somebody to the doctor, you accompany him.
    • to go with, escort, attend as a companion; to live with.
  • despairingly: You don´t understand the homework. You´re sitting despairingly in front of it.
    • Adv. of despairing: Hopeless, desperate.
  • avarice: It´s, if you can´t share something.
    • an excessiv craving after wealth; greediness of gain.
(154 words)

1 Kommentar:

  1. I found it very good, because the explanations are easy to understand.

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