Asslam Alaikom
Here I'm giving you some words to use them in doing the excercise A
At the of end the lesson there are the meanings of these words, so try to do the excercise before checking the meanings.
The words are :
abound - technology - prognosticate - automaton - matron
A- Use the appropriate words:
1- The mayor refused to ______________as to his margin of victory in the election.
2- The time is approaching when human workers may be replaced by _______________.
3- A clever salesman will always ask a ______________ if her mother is at home.
4- The western plains used to _______________ with bison before those animals were slaughtered.
5- Man may be freed from backbreaking labour by the products of scientific _____________.
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B- Explain this idiom :
buy a pig in a poke.
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The meanings of the words:
abound : to exist in great numbers or quantities.
technology : scientific knowledge used in practical ways in industry, for example in designing new machines.
prognosticate : to say that a thing will happen in the future.
automaton : a person who behaves like a machine, without thinking or feeling anything.
matron: an older married woman.
Best wishes
Ahmad
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