English || Week 6 ||

Mrs Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat Vocabulary   Name:Shakira

Find meanings for these words to help you understand the text:

lucrative     Producing a great deal of profit

ambitious   A strong desire to achieve something

parlay   turn an initial stake or winnings from a previous bet into (a greater amount) by gambling

hypertension   Abnormally high blood pressure

benzedrines    Trade mark for amphetamine

tranquillisers A sedative to make people sleep

deterred Discourage someone

premature a baby that is born early

disillusionment  A feeling of disappointment when something isn't as good as you thought it was

deceitful: Guilty of or involving deceit

lecherous  Offensive sexual desire

cuckold  The husband of an adulteress

manoeuvre  a movement or series of moves requiring skill and care

flabbergasted Surprise

humiliated Someone making you feel shy in a bad way

fatuous Silly and pointless

solace Comfort or consolation

Vigorous Strong healthy and full of energy

alibi  A claim or piece of evidence

lurking  Remaining hidden to wait to ambush someone or something

encumbered  restrict or impede

discreet  Careful and prudent in one’s speech or actions

consoled   Comfort someone in a time of need

ravishing  Delightful entrancing

wizened   shrivelled or weakened with age

Voluptuous  curvaceous and sexually attracted (women)

Phlegmy  the one of the four humors

bicuspids  a tooth with two cusps

caries  decay or crumbling with a tooth and bone

perforations  a hole made by boring or peircing

prognathous  having a projected lower jaw or chin

caricature  a picture or description

invariably  in every case or every occasion

plumage  a birds feathers collectivitly

magnanimously  generous in forgivng an insult and injury

Draw the following to show you understand the labels.

A monstrous spouse

A scoundrel

A Pawnshop

Find 20 compound words in the story e.g.pawnbroker

1)hypertension                             2)overwork                     3)cleanliving

4) notebook                            5) underclothes                   6)lifetime

7)   afternoons                          8) goodnaturedly                    9)background

10) without                          11)  cardboard                 12)something

13) overlooked                          14)herself                   15)someone

16)pocketbook                           17) weekend                  18)suitcase

19) pennib                          20)horseradish