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Language V PROOF by David Auburn
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CAN YOU GUESS THE MEANINGS OF THESE WORDS?
Vocabulary: Act 1 CAN YOU GUESS THE MEANINGS OF THESE WORDS?
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Haphazard Rumpled Tantalizing Gibberish Filthy
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Squiggles Giddy Wonk Dilbert Chip away
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What do they mean? Haphazard: Adj. (5)
Characterized by lack of order or planning; irregular; chance; random. Rumpled: Adj.(5) irregular or untidy.
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Tantalizing: Adj. (10) Arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach. Gibberish:Adj. (15) Unintelligible or nonsensical talk or writing.
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Filthy: Adj. (18) Covered or smeared with filth; disgustingly dirty. Squiggle: Noun(20) A small wiggly mark or scrawl.
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Giddy: Adj.(41) Feeling silly, happy, and excited. Wonk: noun(16) Someone who works really hard and is very serious.
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Dilbert. (16) is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams.
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Chip away: phrasal verb (37)
To reduce or make progress on something incrementally.
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GUESSING GAME
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Haphazard Lack of intelligence. Lack of order or planning.
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Tantalizing: Arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable. Arousing horror; shock or dismay.
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Chip away To eat chips. To reduce or make progress on something.
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Wonk Someone who works really hard and is very serious. Someone who is quite eccentric.
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Squiggle A small insect similar to ants. A small wiggly mark or scrawl.
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Contest Using the words we’ve just reviewed, try to make as many sentences as you can to describe the following pictures. You can use each word only once.
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