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Dajes Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Best word that fits the sentence
What is the best solution? Are all my solutions correct?
Native speakers, please help!
1. Passengers who wish to ALIGHT or LEAVE or DESCEND at the next station should travel in the front four coaches.
I'd pick 'leave'.
2. The runner with the injured foot FLASHED or LIMPED or TRUNDLED across the finishing line.
In my opinion 'limped'
3. Kate spent the morning RAMBLING or STROLLING or CRAWLING along the sea-front.
Strolling?
4. The road was icy, and I SKIDDED or SLIPPER or SKATED over.
Slipped?
5. I managed to CREEP or SLINK or STRUT up to the burglar before he noticed me.
Creep?
6. After the meal we LOUNGED or LOITERED or LINGERED over our coffees for an hour or so.
Lounged?
Native speakers, please help!
1. Passengers who wish to ALIGHT or LEAVE or DESCEND at the next station should travel in the front four coaches.
I'd pick 'leave'.
2. The runner with the injured foot FLASHED or LIMPED or TRUNDLED across the finishing line.
In my opinion 'limped'
3. Kate spent the morning RAMBLING or STROLLING or CRAWLING along the sea-front.
Strolling?
4. The road was icy, and I SKIDDED or SLIPPER or SKATED over.
Slipped?
5. I managed to CREEP or SLINK or STRUT up to the burglar before he noticed me.
Creep?
6. After the meal we LOUNGED or LOITERED or LINGERED over our coffees for an hour or so.
Lounged?
Top answer
I would choose 1. alight 2. limped 3.
- I would choose 1.
- alight 2.
- limped 3.
- strolling 4.
- skidded 5.
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9 Answers
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I would choose
1. alight
2. limped
3. strolling
4. skidded
5. slink
6. lounged
1. alight
2. limped
3. strolling
4. skidded
5. slink
6. lounged
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dajes 1. Passengers who wish to ALIGHT or LEAVE or DESCEND at the next station should travel in the front four coaches.
I'd pick 'leave'. So would I, but "alight" is probably right. I don't use public transportation much.
2. The runner with the injured foot FLASHED or LIMPED or TRUNDLED ac
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GG,
On reflection, you're right about creep (slink is usually said of animals stalking their pray) but l think that lounged still fits better than lingered, don't you?
On reflection, you're right about creep (slink is usually said of animals stalking their pray) but l think that lounged still fits better than lingered, don't you?
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Thank you very much for both of your responses, it really helped me a lot.
Based on my own research, here are the solutions for the two sentences at issue:
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I managed to creep /slink/strut up to the burglar before he noticed me.
According to Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 8, both creep and slink are acceptable to use for a human being's movem
Based on my own research, here are the solutions for the two sentences at issue:
--1--
I managed to creep /slink/strut up to the burglar before he noticed me.
According to Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 8, both creep and slink are acceptable to use for a human being's movem
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My options are:
1) Leave
2) Limped
3) Rambling
4) Skidded
5) Creep
6) Lingered
1) Leave
2) Limped
3) Rambling
4) Skidded
5) Creep
6) Lingered
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We use "I" to refer to our car, so yes, we say things like "On the drive home, I was skidding all over the road."
But it's still a bad question, I think.
But it's still a bad question, I think.
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dajesThe road was icy, and I SKIDDED or SLIPPER or SKATED over.Over what? The sentence makes no sense to me with any of the three choices. I count this a bad sentence created by a well-meaning non-native speaker. Perhaps they thought you could slip over the way you can fall over, or maybe they meant "cross the road" by "go over the road", but then you would n
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Ships are used to _________cargo across the ocean.
A. Ferry
B. Fertilize
C. Infer
D.refer
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