Vocab-ability Numbers–371 (dec = 10, ten) – A More Powerful Vocabulary (earn UpVotes with “Vocab Practice” exercise)

Each daily “Vocab-ability 1x1” post has 2 main features, as follows:  

One “Vocab-ability” entry

By spending 5 minutes reviewing today’s “Vocab-ability” entry (below), you can learn the vocab roots and many high-level English words.    

One “Vocab Practice” exercise (for UpVotes

By spending another 10–15 minutes, you can practice using today’s words by composing your own sample sentences. Your practice efforts will be rewarded with UpVotes.     (See “Vocab Practice” rules and notes below)    Today’s “Vocab- ability” entry

With this ‘Mini-Guide,’ you can identify the components in the “Vocab-ability”  entry above.

(To facilitate your quick reference, the ‘Mini-Guide’ has been minimized. For the full "Guide to Entries," right-click here.)

      Introduction – For "Intro to Vocab-ability," right-click here
      Guide – For full "Guide to Entries," right-click here
      Index– For "Index" to all Chapters and Sections, right-click here

Note re Copying each Entry

Each separate post in the “Vocab-ability”  series consists of one entry (one text-box). To use any of these “Vocab-ability”  entries for your personal study or in any classroom, you can download them by clicking and dragging the text-box that you want to use, and then print them out.  

Note re Free Use 

Please feel free to download the above text-box, copy it, print it out, and distribute it for any and all educational purposes. If “Vocab-ability”  helps you or your students to increase your English vocabulary, it will have served its purpose.   
(I hold the copyright to the original “Vocab-ability” guide, which was published in 2002. I hereby grant free use of all the material contained in this post and in all other “Vocab-ability” posts on Steemit).

Sort:  

MY VOCAB PRACTICE:

  1. It took the poor old man a decade to seek financial help from his step-son!
  2. I think Usain Bolt is one of the few athletes with the potential to excel at a decathlon.
  3. The month of december always gladdens my hearts, as I look forward to our family's annual reunion.
  4. Coral reefs are being decimated by chemical waste flushed into the ocean by irresponsible companies.


Good work! And thanks for participating in the Vocab Practices exercises. Hope to see you in Round 2.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. It was the most strange sensation I felt the first time I was old enough to tell a story of something that happened to me over a decade ago.

  2. She loved track and field events so much that it became her dream to win a decathlon, so she trained endlessly for years until her coach finally agreed that she was ready to compete professionally.

  3. When I was a child my Dad found a puppy abandoned on the side of the road, clearly no more than six or seven weeks old, but as we didn't know his exact birth date we decided to give him the entire month of December to mark the occasion.

  4. A couple of mischievous, trouble-makers started lighting spot fires for fun, little did they know they would soon be responsible for the fire that would decimate their home town.

Posted using Partiko Android


Good work! And thanks for participating in the Vocab Practices exercises. Hope to see you in Round 2.

My Vocab Practice

1.- My favorite decade was definitely the 80's.

2.-I have a friend who would love to participate in a decathlon, in fact, they live preparing for it.

3.-In Venezuela we celebrate the month of December with Gaitas and carols and at the table you can not miss the traditional hallaca.

4.- The number of visits to the museum has decimated since they took the replica of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the biggest attraction.


Good work! And thanks for participating in the Vocab Practices exercises. Hope to see you in Round 2.

My Vocab Practice:

  1. If you upvote posts subsequently on Steemit, your SP power will decrease swiftly.

  2. December is the beginning month of the winter to me.

  3. Fans of Beşiktaş, the Turkish football team, has the world decibel record at 132 at a football stadum.

Posted using Partiko Android


Good work! And thanks for participating in the Vocab Practices exercises. Hope to see you in Round 2.

Coin Marketplace

STEEM 0.21
TRX 0.26
JST 0.040
BTC 101120.17
ETH 3683.12
USDT 1.00
SBD 3.16