Learn Vocabulary and Take Test:: The Dear Departed 1 and 2

I. Compound Adjectives

 Read the following sentences from your text and notice the underlined words.

 1.       Henry and Mrs. Slater stagger in with a pretty, old-fashioned bureau.

 2.       Mrs. Slater rose briskly at length in a business-like tone.

 3.       His bright eyes twinkle under his heavy, reddish-gray eye brows.

 4.       I’ll not be quiet. Oh, I call it a double-faced behaviour.

     The underlined words in the above four sentences are ‘compound adjectives’ in hyphenated form. A compound adjective is an adjective that comprises more than one word. Hyphens are used to link the words together to show that they constitute one adjective.

 Make compound adjectives choosing one word from list ‘A’ and another word from list ‘B’ and fill in the blanks with them.

 

List ‘A’	List ‘B’	Compound Adjective
clear	last	eg. clear-sighted
new	sunk
cold	hair
four	blood
curly	day
well	star
half	read
five	lay
peacock	blue
long	sight

Go through the meanings and take the test:

Clear-sighted : thinking clearly and sensibly

New-laid : (of an egg) recently laid

Cold-blooded : without emotion or pity; deliberately cruel or callous

Four-day : a period of four days time

Curly-hair : having hair which is curly and twisting

Well-read : having a lot of knowledge from reading widely; knowledgeable

Half-sunk : damaged and not in a working condition

Five-star : having five stars in a grading system in which this denotes the highest standard

Peacock-blue : a greenish-blue colour like that of a peacock's neck

Long-lasting : enduring or having endured for a long period of time