ARTICLE 2 PRACTICE

WORD PHONETIC MEANING SYNONYM ANTONYM EXAMPLE

slouched /ˈslaʊtʃt/ to sit, blockhead, blunderer, dunderhe Stand up

stand, or ad straight Ann is always
walk with a slouching;
drooping she should
posture stand up
straight or
she'll get a
bad back.

shaggy /ˈʃægi/ covered Hairy, furry, rough Tidy,

with or combed Martin's
having shaggy hair
long, rough and beard
hair: made him
look quite
frightening.

Crank up /ˈkræŋk to set in Crab, misanthrope

^p/ motion or They will
invigorate never win
the match if
their offense
doesn't
crank up the
pressure a
bit.

Rampag a sudden Violence, disturbance, turmoil Piece, quiet,

e occurrence calm, The boss's
of violently serenity rampage left
/ˈræmpeɪdʒ reckless or everyone in
/ destructive the office
behavior feeling
shaken

Crane /ˈkreɪn/ to stretch stretch out, extend Fall, descend

(the neck) Daisy had to
as a crane crane her
does, esp. neck to see
to see the parade in
better the distance.

sprawlin /ˈsprɔːlɪŋ/ to be stretch out, spread out, flop, Limiting, We drove

g spread out extend restricting through the
or sprawling
distributed suburbs of
irregularly Cairo.
or
awkwardly
grove /ˈgrəʊv/ a small Stand, copse
wood or There is a
forest-like grove of
area, birch trees
 usually with over there.
no
undergrowt
h
lookout /ˈlʊkaʊt/ the act of watcher, sentinel, watchman careleness
looking out The
or keeping neighborhoo
watch d watch
made sure
there was
always
someone
acting as a
lookout after
the local
burglary.

shootout /ˈʃutˌaʊt/ a gunfight Struggle, battle royal Armony,

s that must agreement, The fight
end in peace ended in a
defeat for shootout in
one side or which one
the other. man was
injured.

toddler /ˈtɒdlər/ a child who Baby, child kid adult

has just The toddler
started to was playing
walk but in the
may be garden.
unsteady
on his or
her feet
slum /ˈslʌm/ a run-down Ghetto, shanty town, run-down
or dirty part neighbourhood Many people
of a city in
developing
countries still
live in slums

Hunched /ˈhʌntʃ to thrust Hunchback, curvature of the straight

over ˈəʊvər/ out or up in spine The
a hump; programmer
arch: hunched in
front of his
computer,
typing
quickly

Coup a highly Revolution, mutiny, achievment, failure

successful, accomplishment The
unexpected opposition
/ˈkuː/ act or faction
move staged a
coup,
unseating
the elected
 president.

Carving /ˈkɑːrv ˈaʊt/ to make or Reach, pretend, acquire, attain Fail, liberate, She's
out create (a lose succeeded in
career) carving out a
nice career
for herself in
marketing
shaky /ˈʃeɪki/ trembling; Nervous, insecure, tremulous Firm, After the
tremulous confident, accident,
steady Patrick made
his way to
the nearest
house on
shaky legs to
ask for help.
Truce /ˈtruːs/ a stopping Armistice, peace agreement, War,
of pause disagreemen The two
hostilities t, fight sides called a
for a truce
certain
period of
time by
agreement
of all the
warring
parties
eerie /ˈɪəri/ strange Spooky, creepy, disturbing The sound of
and the church
mysterious, bells seemed
so as to eerie in the
inspire awe dark
graveyard. I
suddenly
saw an eerie
blue glow in
the window
of the
abandoned
house