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Yogi2005 Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Help with vocab needed

0 hello, 02br
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00could you help me with the following sentences? my suggestions are in bold. 02br
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001. The collection was 50p short and we ............... .................. the difference. (2 words) 02br
002. The newspaper had a ..................... day on hearing the scandal. 02br
003. The robbery went .............01b00off02b00 without ........... ..............01b00a hitch02b00. 02br
00b) The robbert went .............01b00down02b00 without ......... ...........01b00a problem02b00. 02br
004. I took ........................ ........................... and started my own business.(2words) 02br
005. He ................ ................. at the news conference (announced he was a gay). (2 words) 02br
006. It ...............01b00came02b00 up ...............01b00in02b00 conversation (appeared) 02br
007. I am giving it up since I no longer ............. ..........01b00have churning02b00 stomack for it. 02br
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0 Hi yogi, 02br 02br 00I like to take a stab at this. 02br 02br 001. made up 02br 002.

— Julielai

  • 0 Hi yogi, 02br 02br 00I like to take a stab at this.
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  • made up 02br 002.
  • field 02br 003.
  • Off and a hitch sound good to me 02br 004.
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0 Hi yogi, 02br
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00I like to take a stab at this. 02br
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001. made up 02br
002. field 02br
003. Off and a hitch sound good to me 02br
004. Don't have a clue 02br
005. came out 02br
006. sounds good 02br
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0 thank you julie, you helped me a lot. 02br
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00I've been thinking about #4. 02br
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00What do you think about 01b00 "I took the strain and ....."02b00 in #4? 0-
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0 Dear Yogi, 02br
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004. I took «a risk» and started my own business.(2words) 02br
007. I am giving it up since I no longer «have the» stomack for it. 02br
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00Churning is not right. Stomack is stomach. 02br
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00Have a nice weekend, 02br
00Goldmund 0-
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0 Hi goldmund, 02br
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00You're right about #7. I didn't look at the blanks carefully. (Not the first time I've done that) 0-
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0 Also, for 4: took a chance, took some initiative, took his/your/etc. advice, ... 0-
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0 How about 'took the plunge' for #4? 0-
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0 Lovely! Then you can illustrate the difference between two very similar idioms: 02br
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00I took the plunge and started my own business, which soon took a dive! 0-
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0 The sentence continues. 02br
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00".....took a dive mainly because I took a million-dollar bath in the investment made without testing waters. I had fantasied making a big splash, making all those words of advice roll down like water off a duck's back. Their words simply didn't sink in. Now I'm in hot water." 0-
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0 Is it time to throw some cold water on you? 02br
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00I enjoyed that beautiful flood of words. You just kept going quite swimmingly! (I was a little surprised that, this being about business, you didn't pull in the idea of monetary liquidity!) 02br
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00CJ 0-
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