Basic English Words - 850 - Charles Kay Ogden
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ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION
ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION A person who loves money and hates spending it, is a A. spendthrift ______ B. miser ______C. philanthropist ______D. capitalist. The family was known for its wealth and greatness of heart . The word that can be used in the place of the underlined phrase is: A. generosity ______B. courage ______C. affluence ______D. prestige One word for ‘a person who has been appointed or selected to attend a conference’ is: A. ambassador ______ B. delegate ______C. representative ____D. messenger A person who is slow in learning is termed as: A. dullard ______B. bad ______C. lazy ______ D. dunce. A book with blank pages on which pictures or paper cuttings are stuck is known as a: A. plain book ______B. paint book ______C. drawing book ______ D. scrap book. A FEW MORE EXAMPLES A silly person _____________Goose A person who lives a wandering life ________ Vagabond Social position or rank _____________________Status Someone who knows a lot about the subject ___Scholar Deeply re
TONGUE TWISTERS
TONGUE TWISTERS An expression that is difficult to articulate clearly "'rubber baby buggy bumper' is a tongue twister" Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper Where’s the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked? Betty bought a bit of butter, but the butter was bitter So Betty bought a bit better butter To make the bitter butter better butter. A wright has no right to write the rites of a Church. She sells sea-shells on the sea shore. Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you, If you trouble trouble trouble will trouble you. Sunshine Susie sat in solitude and isolation sighing and singing sad songs. A fly flew past Flo’s flat, and a fly flew past fat Flo Is the fly that flew past fat Flo, the same fly that flew past Flo’s flat ? A glasgow glazier’s glorious gleaming green glass gasglobes. A glowing gleam glowing green. A jester from Leicester went to see Esther, But
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