1. Analyze the use of the new words in the sentences.
1. We were unable to establish proof of her innocence.
2. Marcus winked at me knowingly.
3. They stood hugging on the platform.
4. Mayor Dixon praised the efforts of those involved in the rescue.
5. She grasped his hand and pulled him towards her.
6. 
I was about to get undressed when there was a knock on the door.
7. 'Don't go!' he begged.
8. Ragged posters hung on the walls.
9. 
The children were all so shabby and hungry.
10. He wrote a letter naming the people whom he suspected.
11. Are there any decent restaurants around here?
12. It is almost certain that our offer will be rejected.
13. His conception of the world is a very strange one.
14. She quickly snapped her handbag shut.
15. He hesitated a moment, and then knocked on the door.
16. 
Jack's novels are well constructed with strong characterizatio n and a fine prose style.
17. He made only a fleeting reference to his resignation.
18. She caught a fleeting glimpse of him as he rounded the corner.
19. He put down his book with a slight frown.
20. Her teachers attributed her learning difficulties to emotional problems
21. 
Your dislike of water is perhaps due to a subconscious fear of drowning.
22. This isn't the appropriate time to discuss the problem.
23. I praised them in my stilted German.
24. 'Wow!' Bill exclaimed. 'You look beautiful!'
25. What do you think of a man who neglects his wife?
26. She blurted out his name, then gasped as she realized what she'd done
27. He knocked a couple of nails into the door.
Think of the words that fit the definitions below.
1. A green-blue color__________________
2. Preserved in vinegar or salt water______
3. A dingy place or object is rather dark in an unpleasant way and often
looks dirty_______ _____
4. Information or evidence that shows that something is definitely true
or definitely exists________
5. Unpleasantly___________
6. The end of a book, play, or series of events, when everything is explained ____________
7. Not colorful or interesting____________
8. The feeling that a situation is so bad that nothing you can do will
change it________________
9. Stilted movements or words are not relaxed and natural _____________
10. 
The number of copies of a newspaper or magazine sold each day,
week etc__________
11. Crushed oats (=a type of grain), used in cooking__ ____
12. The key for opening the lock of an outer door from the outside _________
13. 
A type of poetry that has a regular pattern of sounds but does not
have lines that rhyme_____________________
14. Continuing for only a very short time__ _________
15. Torn and dirty____________
16. To speak in a way that shows you are not comfortable, relaxed, or confident __________
17. Someone who tells secrets about ones own country to a country that is ones
enemy_____________
Choose the correct definition for each word.
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To snap, to disgrace, to stroke, to tug, to neglect, to fumble,
