Friday, August 21, 2009

Vocabulary building

1WORD: forsake/forsook/forsaken
MEANING: To leave someone, speacially when you should stay because they need you.
GR. INFO: Verb—transitive—irregular
COLLOCATIONS:
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): God will never forsake you.
MY EXAMPLE: I will not forsake my students.
OTHER: idiom:

2WORD: forswear/forswore/forsworn
MEANING: To promise that you will not do or possess something.
GR. INFO: Verb—transitive—irregular
COLLOCATIONS:
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): A monk forswearing all possessions
MY EXAMPLE: an alchoholic forswears drinks
OTHER: idiom:

3WORD:down
MEANING: depressed
GR. INFO: adjective
COLLOCATIONS:
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): "prices are down"
MY EXAMPLE: I got down
OTHER: idiom: go down the tubes

4WORD: neck
MEANING: the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body
GR. INFO: noun
COLLOCATIONS:
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): "the horse won by a neck"
MY EXAMPLE: my neck hurts
OTHER: idiom: hang someone by the neck

5WORD: cheat
MEANING: deprive somebody of something by deceit
GR. INFO: verb—transitive-regular
COLLOCATIONS:
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"
MY EXAMPLE: I cheated wy workers
OTHER: idiom: Cheats never prosper

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