Sunday, July 23, 2006

These are new words about "The LION, the WITCH and the WARDROBE"

1. shaggy → a lot of hair

2. odd-looking → if you describe someone or something as odd-looking, you think that they look strange or unusual.

3. splendid → very good

4. bad-tempered → not very cheerful and gets angry easily.

5. chap → a man or boy; a fellow

6. anyway → used as a sentence connector or when resuming an interrupted piece of dialogue: and so

7. passage → a route through; a corridor, narrow street, or channel.

8. creepy → slightly scary; spooky; eerie

9. stag → an adult male deer, especially a red deer. a small stocky burrowing mammal with a short tail and short powerful legs, especially a European species with white fur on its head and two broad black stripes running from behind its ears to the tip of its muzzle.

10. apart → in or into pieces

11. grumbling → to complain in a bad-tempered way

12. meantime → the time or period in between; the intervening time

13. wireless → a radio.

14. spare → kept for occasional use

15. looking glass → old use a mirror

16. moth-ball → a small ball of camphor or naphthalene that is hung in wardrobes, etc to keep away the CLOTHES MOTH

17. rub → to apply pressure and friction to something by moving one’s hand or an object backwards and forwards over its surface

18. rubber → any of various natural or synthetic polymers characterized by their elasticity, strength and resilience, obtained from the latex of certain plants, especially the rubber tree, or manufactured artificially from petroleum and coal products.

19. enormous → extremely large; huge

20. stoop → to bend the upper body forward and down

21. extremely → very high, or highest, in degree or intensity.

22. queer → strange or unusual.

23. prickly → covered with or full of prickles

24. snowflake → any of the single small feathery clumps of crystals of frozen water vapour that make up snow

25. inquisitive → over-eager to find out things, especially about other people’s affairs.

26. glimpse → to see something or someone momentarily

27. lamp-post → a tall post that supports a streetlamp

28. pitter-patter → the sound of pattering, with this sound

29. glossy → smooth and shiny. superficially attractive. said of a magazine:printed on glossy paper.

30.neatly → tidy; clean; orderly

31.trailing → drag or be dragged loosely along the ground or other surface

32.beard → the hair that grows on a man’s chin and neck

33.parcel → something wrapped in paper, etc and secured with string or sticky tape; a package

34.Faun → Roman mythol a mythical creature with a man’s head and body and a goat’s horns, hind legs and tail

35.gracious → kind and polite

36.pointed → having or ending in a point

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