Third story: Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie.


Welcome again, dear reader.

In this blog you have the opportunity to find the most interesting words of this story .

Hope you can enjoy it and improve your vocabulary!


 Here's  the link of the third story if you want to read it:

Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie (at the end of the page, there´s a link for the second part of the story).



-New Vocabulary!


Curate [ kyoor-it ]

CURATE PRONUNCIATION

Noun: a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar. Any ecclesiastic entrusted with the cure of souls, as a parish priest.

"Laura married the curate."

Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie.


Statementes using Curate:

*For the next few years, he is said to have been a curate in London.

*His young curate, Father Gannon, was trying to wake him up.

*John was a curate 2 years ago.

*The curate in the town is very polite.






Motifs məʊtifs ]

MOTIFS PRONUNCIATION

Noun: a pattern or design.


"The heads of sphinxes appeared on the most unlikely pieces of furniture, there was a colossal bronze representing, he thought, Paul and Virginia, and a vast bronze clock with classical motifs of which he longed to take a photograph."

Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie.


Statements using Motifs:

*On some of my work there are simple impressed decorative motifs.

*Floral motifs are common in gift wraps.

*I want to buy something with flowers motifs.

*This carpet has good motifs.




Gaze ɡeɪz ]

Noun: a steady or intent look.


"Inspector Welch drew his chair a little nearer to the table and let his gaze wander from one to the other of the four people in the room."

Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie.


Statements using Gaze:

*His gaze shifted away from her.

*She met his gaze and smiled.

*He has a sexy gaze.

*She felt attracted by his gaze.







Shot shät ]

Noun: the act of firing a projectile.


"Miss Greenshaw’s head, in its battered straw hat, fell forward on her breast. She called up to Lou in a failing voice: “. . . shot . . . he shot me . . . with an arrow . . . get help. . . .”"

Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie.

 

Statements using Shot:

*I never shot a gun in my life.

*He shot the bird with his gun.

*He shot himself.

*She wanted to shot that big animal.







Faith [ feyth ]

FAITH PRONUNCIATION

Noun: confidence or trust in a person or thing. Belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion. The obligation of loyalty or fidelity to a person, promise, engagement, etc.


"It seems to me that perhaps you were meant to be there in that library on the first floor, looking out of the window so that you could be the key witness—someone from outside of irreproachable good faith—to fix a definite time and place for the murder."

Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie.


Statements using Faith:

*Don't lose faith in yourself.

*Your faith in him is touching, but totally naive.

*I admire my mom's faith.

*He wants to fortify his faith.








Shrubbery  [shrúberi]

SHRUBBERY PRONUNCIATION

Noun: is a little tree that is planted in the garden.


"The two men rounded the corner of the shrubbery."

Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie.


Statements with Shrubbery:

*I like seeing the shrubbery on the middle of the garden.

*You should plant more shrubbery in your house.

*The gardener clipped the shrubbery.

*An isolated mansion, surrounded by shrubbery and fences.








Thereabouts [derabauts]

THEREABOUTS PRONUNCIATION

Adverb: Something that is approximate.


"In eighteen-sixty or seventy or thereabouts."

   Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie.


Statements with Thereabouts:

*It took around three years to do it, or thereabouts.

*He lived in Managua for 30 years, or thereabouts.

*The tale of completed work for these twelve or fourteen years (1470-1483 or thereabouts) is thus very scanty.

*Up to the year 1650, or thereabouts, the Canon was still used as a text-book in the universities of Louvain and Montpellier.







Marble  [marbel]

Noun: is a type of very hard rock wich can be used in the statues or in the floor.


"A really incredible marble mantelpiece in the Italian manner."

Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie.



Statements with Marble:

*You should use marble for your statue.

*This floor is made with marble.

*Marble floors are beautiful.

*This statue is made of marble.







Manner [maner]

MANNER PRONUNCIATION

Noun: the way in wich something is done.


"A really incredible marble mantelpiece in the Italian manner."

Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie.


Statements with Manner:

*She stared at me in an accusing manner.

*She was elected in the normal manner.

*Obviously he thought her manner of dress was too casual.

*The manner in which the circulation of hot water takes place in the tubes is as follows…







Shrugged [shrogd]

SHRUGGED PRONUNCIATION

Verb: is the past simple and past participle of shrug, is when you close your shoulder to your head.


"Raymond shrugged his shoulders."

Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie.



Statements with Shrugged:

*He was too scared that he shrugged.

*She shrugged again and he noticed.

*Joe shrugged and then walked away.

*She shrugged and went back for an armload of wood.



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