English SA2 REVIEW

• Portfolio : a record of achievements and skills.
• Exclusive : only few can afford.
• Appalled : to think something is terrible.
• Sole : complete, undivided
• Restricts: limits
• Resent : be angry or upset at
• Petrified : very frightened
• Motivate : make you want to do something
• Sloppy : careless & messy
• Plaque : a panel, usually displayed on walls.
• Oddity : Strangeness
• Activate : to turn on
• Perturbing : worrying
• Relishing : really enjoying
• Unflustered : calm
• Tress : a lock of hair
• Feeble : weak
• Gnarled : rough and bumpy
• Fortune : luck
• Treacle : a thick syrup containing sugar
• Winding : patting a baby's back to get rid of trapped wind
• Ploughing : used metaphorically to mean cutting through the water
• Seductive : attractive
• Neigh of our steeds : sounds of horses neighing
• Canvas : a type of fabric
• Blizzard : an intense snow storm
• Crevasse : an open crack
• Snare : trap
• Unguessable : not being able to be guessed or imagined
• Floundering : struggling to get up
• Mellow : soft, smooth
• Gross inequality : massive gaps between the rich and the poor
• Scourges : things which cause huge sufferings
• Accumulation : a build up of something
• Apartheid : a political system in South Africa which favored the white people
• Solidarity : acting together, staying firm
• Consigning : putting something away, to get rid of it
• Eradicated : got rid of
• Colons ( : ) a punctuation mark that introduces or points to other directly related text.
• Colon ( : ) example:

  • She kept repeating: "I really want that ferrari!"