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L WORDS AND PHRASES FOR V/VA VOCE DRILL

Note. —This Appendix gives the and therefore does not in translation of the text.

Primary and ordinary meanings of words, very case supply the best word to be used in the

AI nouns to be given with the definite or indefinite article to show the gender.

Abbreviation. sg, = “something.” e Page worps WORDS PHRASES k.

1 formerly the jacket to make both ends meet F a parish the cap at the hours of divine service He the vestry-board the chaplet to kneel on the bare stone 3 2 the burial a pair of spec. twice every three times the bier tacles most of the time . the trestle the sentry-box exactly at seven o'clock a squall 3 the ticket- the paying in, to SWwarm with people window deposit to stop one's ears 4 the savings- a shop soles with hobnails É bank a fellow to moisten 4 the faith a pinch of snuff to make a market-penny (of commonplace, to stammer Cooks) trivial heavy to Carry totryto Speak in a low voice to exoavate, to Stammer out a Prayer search 5 the gossip the mercy with hands stained with blood a murderer the nest to be frank and sincere a working to hire (a work- to walk by some One's side mason man) 6 to save up, Spare to be hard UP to send one's Savings to some

one

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elsewhere a widow

indifferent, poor

CNT

to guess

to feel, experience

all the same

8 to slip

drunkenness

to blush at . .

totryto.,

to roam about

to draw, sketch

the drunkard

a cheap eating-

vaulted

to betake one's self to . .

at once, directly talised

a clock

the ladder

a bubble

the cab

to resemble

14 the market hollow sickly, weakly

15 a gesture the basket the handle

16 just now cod-liver oil to swallow

17 to moan, groan to pout, sulk a blister-plaster to cure, heal

18 the pavement the orders, in-

structions

the husband

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