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Perfect Stranger Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
Vocab question no. 33 - courthsip/hanky-panky/advances
Hello again,
Could you help me finish up this sentence?
He was bitterly disappointed when she rejected his ____
a) courtship
b) hanky-panky/hankey-pankey/hanky-pank
c) flirtation
d) advances
e) wooing
I think some of them might be old-fashioned, archaic... or used in fiction only...
Thanks
Could you help me finish up this sentence?
He was bitterly disappointed when she rejected his ____
a) courtship
b) hanky-panky/hankey-pankey/hanky-pank
c) flirtation
d) advances
e) wooing
I think some of them might be old-fashioned, archaic... or used in fiction only...
Thanks
Top answer
I would use "advances" or (more seriously) marriage proposal
- I would use "advances" or (more seriously) marriage proposal
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Thanks. Could you please tell me why the other words would not be chosen?
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Rejection is a one-time event. It works best with an object that represents an event, not a process.
Hanky-panky requires two people. If she rejects it, it implies that he is unfaithful with another woman.
Courtship could work, but that is a process or set of ritual steps leading to engagement.
Wooing is quaint and old-fashioned. It is more used as a verb (woo), not a noun.
Hanky-panky requires two people. If she rejects it, it implies that he is unfaithful with another woman.
Courtship could work, but that is a process or set of ritual steps leading to engagement.
Wooing is quaint and old-fashioned. It is more used as a verb (woo), not a noun.
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