ESTUDO DE INGLS

VOCABULRIO Lawn: n. a piece of grass kept mown and smooth in a garden, park, etc. Moan: n. & v. --n. 1 a long murmur expressing physical or mental suffering. 2 a low plaintive sound of wind etc. 3 a complaint; a grievance. --v. 1 intr. make a moan or moans. 2 intr. colloq. complain or grumble. 3 tr. utter with moans; lament. Moaner (n.) moanful (adj.) moaningly (adv.). Shriek: v. & n. --v. 1a. intr. utter a shrill screeching sound or words esp. in pain or terror. 1b. (foll. by of) provide a clear or blatant indication of. 2a. tr. Utter (sounds or words) by shrieking (shrieked his name). 2b. indicate clearly or blatantly. --n. a high-pitched piercing cry or sound; a scream. Shriek out = say in shrill tones. Shriek with laughter = laugh uncontrollably. Shrieker (n.). Stumble: v. & n. --v. 1 intr. lurch forward or have a partial fall from catching or striking or misplacing one's foot. 2 intr. (often foll. by along) walk with repeated stumbles. 3 intr. make a mistake or repeated mistakes in speaking etc. 4 intr. (foll. by on, upon, across) find or encounter by chance (stumbled on a disused well). --n. an act of stumbling. Sprawl: v. & n. --v. 1a intr. sit or lie or fall with limbs flung out or in an ungainly way. 1b tr. spread (one's limbs) in this way. 2 intr. (of handwriting, a plant, a town, etc.) be of irregular or straggling form. --n. 1 a sprawling movement or attitude. 2 a straggling group or mass. 3 the straggling expansion of an urban or industrial area. Sprawlingly (adv.) Ichor: n. 1 (in Greek mythology) fluid flowing like blood in the veins of the gods. 2 poet. bloodlike fluid. 3 hist. a watery fetid discharge from a wound etc. Ichorous (adj.) Trudge: v. & n. --v. 1 intr. go on foot esp. laboriously. 2 tr. traverse (a distance) in this way. --n. a trudging walk. Trudger (n.) Saunter: v. & n. --v intr. 1 walk slowly; amble, stroll. 2 proceed without hurry or effort. --n. 1 a leisurely ramble. 2 a slow gait. Saunterer (n.) Stroll: v. & n. --v intr. saunter or walk in a leisurely wayl. --n. a short leisurely walk (go for a stroll). Nag: v. & n. --v. (nagged, nagging) 1a tr. annoy or irritate (a person) with persistent fault-finding or continuous urging. b intr. (often foll by at) find fault, complain, or urge, esp. persistently. 2 intr. (of a pain) ache dully but parsistently. 3a tr. worry or preoccupy (a person, the mind, etc.) (his mistake nagged him). b intr. (often foll. by at) worry or gnaw. --n. a persistently nagging person. Nagger (n.) Naggingly (adv.) Gnaw: v. (past part. gnawed or gnawn) 1a tr. (usu. foll. by away, off, in two, etc.) bite persistently; wear away by biting. b intr. (often foll. by at, into) bite, nibble. 2a intr. (often foll. by at, into) (of a destructive agent, pain, fear, etc.) corrode; waste away; consume; torture. b tr. corrode, consume, torture, etc. with pain, fear, etc. (was gnawed by doubt). 3 tr. (as gnawing adj.) persistent; worrying. Gnawingly (adv.) Swath: n. (also swathe) (pl. swaths or swathes) 1 a ridge of grass or corn etc. lying after being cut. 2 a space left clear after the passage of a mower etc. 3 a broad strip.

Wan: adj. 1 (of a person's complexion or appearance) pale; exhausted; worn. 2 (of a star etc. or its light) partly obscured; faint. 3 archaic (of night, water, etc.) dark, black. Wanly (adv.), Wanness (n.) Poignant: adj. 1 a painfully sharp to the emotions or senses; deeply moving. 2 arousing sympathy. 3 sharp or pungent in taste or smell. 4 pleasantly piquant. Poignance (n.), poignancy (n.), poignantly (adv.) Beard: n. & v. --n. 1 hair growing on the chin and lower cheeks of the face. 2 a similar tuft or part on an animal (esp. a goat). 3 the awn of a grass, sheath of barley, etc. --v. tr. oppose openly; defy. Bearded (adj.), beardless (adj.) Ledger: n. 1 a narrow horizontal surface projecting from a wall etc. 2 a shelflike projection on the side of a rock or mountain. 3 a ridge of rocks, esp. below water. 4 Mining a stratum of metalbearing rock. Ledged (adj.), ledgy (adj.) Trickle: v. & n. --v. 1 intr. & tr. flow or cause to flow in drops or a small stream (water trickled through the crack). 2 tr. come or go slowly or gradually (information trickles out). --n. a trickling flow. Steep: adj. & n. --adj. 1 sloping sharply; almost perpendicular (a steep hill; steep stairs). 2 (of a rise or fall) rapid (a steep drop in share prices). 3a (predic.) colloq. (of a demand, price, etc.) exorbitant; unreasonable (esp. a bit steep). b (of a story etc.) exaggerated; incredible. --n. a steep slope; a precipice. Steepen (v. intr. & tr.), steepish (adj.), steeply (adv.), steepness (n.) Notwithstanding: prep., adv., & conj. --prep. in spite of; without prevention by (notwithstanding your objections; this fact notwithstanding). --adv. nevertheless; all the same. --conj. (usu. foll. by that + clause) although. Shrill: adj. & v. --adj. 1 piercing and high-pitched in sound. 2 derog. (esp. of a protester) sharp, unrestrained, unreasoning. --v. 1 intr. (of a cry etc.) sound shrilly. 2 tr. (of a person etc.) utter or send out (a song, complaint, etc.) shrilly. Shrilly (adv.), shrillness (n.) rebuke mettle girdle lame tarnish wrinkling fopperies profligacy reverie gauze unheeded gourd rattle rapt enthralled canvas gasping whirring fluttering bewildered

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