Working with Words

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strenuous (adjective) requiring or involving the use of great energy or effort.

The truck required strenuous effort from the digger to tow it out of the mud.

exacerbate (verb) -  to make (pain, disease, emotion) more intense.
                            - to exasperate or irritate (a person).

The boy exacerbated the injury by continuing to play.
The girl exacerbated the situation by continuing her poor behaviour.

vary - (verb) to change what you do, what you wear, your behaviour

Tom would vary the route he walked to school each day.
Jimmy likes to vary the choice of clothes he wears so he is not happy wearing a uniform.

immaculate - (adjective) looking the best it or you can be

The room looked immaculate after the class had tidied and cleaned.


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  1. Words we have discussed.
    mottled, engulfed, ballast, subsequently, leeward.

    Your challenge is to use these words in conversation.

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    1. the mottled old man was engulfed in fire on a ballast boat on the leeward side of the island with the palm trees that were also leeward on the island.

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    2. The mid aged mans face was engulfed with lots of mottled wrinkles because of the leeward side of the tree on the ballast on the boat.

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    3. The building was engulfed in flame and when it emerged it hab become mottled.

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  3. The old man with a mottled face chopped down a tree from the leeward side with a hatchet then got on a boat because the ballast had been engulfed in flame and he was a fire man.

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