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English Audio Request

Inna_G
309 Words / 1 Recordings / 1 Comments
Note to recorder:

It's for studying words. Please, make a pause after every part to give me a possibility to answer before you tell me the answer. Comments would be good too. Thank you so much!!!

When they say 'God bless you!'
to sneeze

syn. for 'inseparable'
indivisible

talisman
amulet

Are you joking?
Are you kidding?

a brightness
a glitter

to shine
to glow = to blaze

baseball...
bat

not ready, eager, or prepared to do something
unwilling = reluctant ≠ eager

everybody knows about it
obvious = evident

to be appropriate
to match = to correspond

construct (a building, wall, or other upright structure)
to erect = to put up

give the meaning of
to define; ex: You can define the word ‘difficult’ as ‘not easy’.

the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid
evidence = proof

a bag for carrying books and papers
a briefcase

the remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form
a fossil

having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities
arrogant = vain = self-righteous

a fishing boat used for trawling
a trawler

not inviting or attractive; unwholesome
unappetizing

used as an example
specimen = pattern = sample

in relation, comparison, or proportion to something else
relatively; ex: relatively large

a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals
species

not capable of being imagined or grasped mentally; unbelievable
inconceivable = incomprehensible = incredible

blameworthy
reprehensible

died out animals
extinct animals

very big
giant = huge = enormous = gigantic = tremendous

an elongated, fast-swimming mollusk with ten arms
squid

dead body
a corpse

a bird's horny projecting jaws
a beak

a large toothed whale with distinctive black-and-white markings
a killer whale = orca

discover or identify the presence or existence of
to detect

a snake a serpent

give reasons or cite evidence in support of an idea
to argue

a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed
a queue = a line

Recordings

Comments

Inna_G
Dec. 7, 2012

Thank you very much, Graham! I do appreciate your unceasing help :|

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