Vocab A
lasting for a long time, as in an illness
What does chronic mean?
a feeling of being grateful for something
someone has done
What is appreciation?
a group of animals or plants whose
members are similar and can breed
together to produce young animals or
plants
What is a species?
looking at items in stores without buying them
What is "window shopping"?
Fill in the missing words.
If she hadn’t missed so many classes, she _____ ______ passed.
would have
part of a machine or a set of parts that does a particular job
What is mechanism?
sad and without hope, also a type of music
What is the blues?
(adj.) large and heavy
What is massive?
This idiom means being undecided - usually between two major options.
What does "on the fence" mean?
Fill in the missing words.
If I _____ ______ (study) hard, I would have passed the test.
had studied
to improve
What does enhance mean?
a slow love song
What is a ballad?
a strong public reaction against
something
What is backlash?
This idiom means to have an opportunity to start your career
What does "get your foot in the door" mean?
Fill in the missing words.
If the weather had been good, we _______ ______ ______ (go) water skiing.
would have gone
blocked from view, such as when the moon blocks the sun
What does eclipsed mean?
to push or throw something very hard so
that it moves through the air very quickly
What is catapult?
capable of being touched; real, concrete
What is tangible?
destroy a relationship with bad behavior
What does "burn bridges" mean?
What is the structure for 3rd conditional sentences? Name both parts of the sentence.
If + past perfect / would + have + past participle
If you had studied, you would have done better on the test.
Past Perfect = had + past participle
A scientist who studies human development and culture
What is an anthropologist?
a quality in the way someone speaks, produced
when the air used to speak passes through their
nose as well as their mouth
What is a twang?
to give human qualities to an animal or
non-human thing
What is anthropomorphize?
repeated effort that produces no results, only frustration
What does "hitting your head against a wall" mean?
If you _____ ______ (get) up earlier, you would ______ _______ the earlier bus.
had gotten, have caught