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VOCABULARY Nº 4


TOWERING comes from the word TOWER. Towers are high, so towering is an adjective that says that something is high.

• New York has lots of towering buildings


ROSE, emerged, past tense of the verb to rise

• The sun rises at 5:30 in the morning.


TIP, top, the highest part of something

• The tip of that mountain is full of snow, it is too dangerous to ski there.


PLENTY, as much as or more than is needed

• There are plenty of eggs to make a delicious cake covered in chocolate.


THICK, opposite of thin

• This book is too thick to be read in only one week.


ASH, powder produced by something burning

• She hates when her husband leaves the ashtrays full of ash.


GROANED, a sound produced by someone or something

• The motor of my old car began to groan before breaking down.


GROUND, solid surface of the Earth

• The ground is shaking because of a heavy truck.


SHOT, past tense of the verb to shoot

• The horse suddenly stopped running and the rider was shot over its head.


SUCH, it is usually used to emphasize something

• There was such a commotion that everyone stood there without saying anything.


INLET, small bay

• There’s a beautiful seaside in that inlet.


WAVE a long body of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore.

• To be a good surfer you need good waves.


SHORE, coastline

• I like walking next to the shore.

TIDAL, adjective related to the word tide

• There’s a tidal harbor in England, in which the tide rises and falls with a difference of many meters between them.


BULGE, irregular swelling that increases in volume and speed.

• When there’s full moon, the tidal bulge increases.


MIGHT, could, past tense of May, it’s a modal verb with the same meaning of the modal verb can (to express possibility).

• This medicine might have cured your cough, if you had taken it. (past tense)

• This medicine might cure your cough.

• They rushed to high ground where they might find shelter.


SHELTER, protection

• People usually take shelter from the rain, getting under a tree.


POUND; thump

• The guns of the soldiers pounded the walls of the fort.


BLAST, explosion

• We heard a big blast beyond those hills.


SHALLOW opposite of deep

• Babies learn to swim in shallow water.


STAGGERING

• The earthquake hit that country with staggering power.


MIGHT, great power

• The last flood we had, hit the land with an awful might.



FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE WORDS OF THE VOCABULARY Nº 4

Be careful, in many sentences more than one word may be used.


1. There are________________ of ________________buildings in Japan.

2. The gigantic________________ hit the___________ with
____________ ________________
.

3. There are many sea animals that live in____________ waters.

4. After the volcano’s eruption there was a____________ layer of ___________

.

5. The__________ began to___________ in a very amazing way.

6. They__________ see the surfer on the__________ of the wave.


7. It was____________ a _____________that thousands of tiny

pieces


Were into the sky.

8. There’s a_________________________ in which the tide

changes dramatically.

9. When the huge waves dashed, they ______________the

sea with fury.

10. Before the earthquake, the __________began to .

11. In England, people got under_____________ every time bombs were dropped during air raids.

Explanation:

plenty/towering

blast/ground/staggering/might

shallow

thick/ash

waves/rise

might/tip

such/blast/shot

bulge

pound

ground/groan

shelter

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C.Remove the word "was."

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