Frank McCourt
Vocabulary
Grammar
Idioms
Miscellaneous
100
City where he was from
What is Limerick
100
Feeling that you are alone
What is abandonment
100
ing form of a verb
What is gerund
100
to feel like you have a great pain inside you, especially in your soul
What is tormented
100
to fight against something, to overcome
What is struggle
200
Prize he won
What is Pulitzer
200
to wish or hope for something
What is yearned for
200
infinitive form of read
What is to read
200
synomym of falling apart
What is dilapidated
200
antonym of labourious
What is 'not difficult'
300
University he went to
What is New York
300
feel embarrassed
What is shame
300
you can put an infinitive after these adjectives
What is free, able or hard
300
antonym of hopeful
What is defeated
300
gerund form of compete
What is 'competing'
400
School he taught at
What is Stuyvesant High School
400
to have little of everything especially food
What is meager
400
you use a gerund as the object after these kinds of verbs
What are enjoy, acknowledge, recall
400
to succeed against all adversity
What is 'against all odds'
400
two word meaning that is the opposite of 'struggling'
What is 'felt free'
500
Part of New York where he worked in
What is Manhattan
500
in very bad poor condition
What is dilapidated
500
you use a gerund after these kinds of prepositions
What are of, in, for, about
500
to see life from someone else's perspective
What is 'in her shoes'
500
You can use this as the subject of a sentence
What is gerund
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