Wednesday, October 27, 2010

vocabulary #4 and 5

Commotion- n- noisy confusion disturbance- The karaoke with max volume and a terrible singer can cost commotion.

Foundered- v- broke down- A good reason to not do homework is: "my computer foundered"

Ruin- n- great damage, devastation- the ruin of nuclear bomb had made thousands of Japanese people die.

Inert-  adj- not moving- Trees are inert




Negotiation- n- process of reaching an agreement- Negotiation between Vietnam and China is if Chinese people attack Vietnamese fisher mans, Vietnam will tell that US can drop a bomb in China.

Innumerable-adj- too many to be counted- grass of a savanna is innumerable

Boundaries-n- place that one thing end and another begins- year 2000 is the boundaries between century XX and XXI.

Descendants- n - all later generations- I'm descendants of my Grandparents.

1 comment:

  1. Some of these need some more context: inert, and foundered.

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