Vocabulary related with: "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.

Portrait

• Type of word: Noun
• Pronunciation: /pɔːtrət/ (US) 
• Meaning: A painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders.

• Taken from the following sentence:

"Why won't you exhibit Dorian Gray's portrait in an art gallery?"

• Sentences:

1. He bought a portrait in a garage sale.
2. The Mona Lisa is a famous portrait.
3. I took some art classes, but I can't do a portrait yet.
4. She has a portrait of herself in her house.

Dug

• Type of word: Verb ("Dug" is the past and participle of "Dig".)
• Pronunciation: /dʌɡ/ (US)
• Meaning: When you used a tool to make a hole in some surface.

• Taken from the following sentence:

"Then the hate inside him exploded, and like a wild animal, he ran towards Basil, and

dug the knife into the artist's neck, again and again, and again."

• Sentences:

1. I dug a hole in the backyard.
2. My mom dug a space to plant flowers.
3. He dug trying to find gold.
4. The miner dug and found oil.

Drip

• Type of word: Verb
• Pronunciation: /drɪp/ (US)
• Meaning: Let fall or be so wet as to shed small drops of liquid.

• Taken from the following sentence:

"He could hear nothing - only the drip, drip of blood onto the floor"

• Sentences:

1. The ceiling has a hole and water drips there.
2. The drip of rain relaxes me.
3. I can't drip eye medicine.
4. The dripping sound was scary.

Frightening

• Type of word: Adjective
• Pronunciation: /fraɪ.tən.ɪŋ/ (US)
• Meaning: When it gives you that feeling of fear.

• Taken from the following sentence:

"It was a frightening book, full of strange ideas and dangerous dreams-dreams that slowly became real for D o r i a n r."

• Sentences:

1. This movie was frightening for me.
2. Last Saturday I watched a frightening series.
3. Those were the five minutes more frightening of my entire life.
4. That movie was frightening for you.

Fetch

• Type of word: Verb
• Pronunciation: /fɛtʃ/ (US)
• Meaning: To go to another place to get something or someone and bring it, him, or her back.

• Taken from the following sentence:

"Dorian sent his servant to fetch the things that Campbell needed, and the two men waited silently."

• Sentences:

1. He is fetching the computer in the bedroom.
2. They fetch the soccer ball.
3. Carmen fetches her mother´s wallet.
4. Enoc is fetching his notebook.

Amused

• Type of word: Adjective.
• Pronunciation: /əˈmjuːzd/ (US)
• Meaning: Expressing that you think something is funny.

• Taken from the following sentence:

"Lord Henry was amused."

• Sentences:

1. Ana and Carlos were amused yesterday.
2. The game was amused.
3. They were amused in the cinema.
4. Sofia was amused playing with Alex.

Wondered

• Type of word: Verb.
• Pronunciation: /ˈwʌndɚd/ (US)
• Meaning: It is a word that is normally used to ask yourself or ask for information indirectly.

• Taken from the following sentence:

"Dorian looked at the older man, and wondered about him."

• Sentences:

1. So, I've always secretly wondered.
2. She wondered why such marriages were not invalidated.
3. I've wondered how things were with you.
4. I wondered if you might consider it.

Unhappily

• Type of word: Adverb
• Pronunciation: /ʌnˈhapɪli/ (US)
• Meaning: It is the emotion of not being able to be happy because something or someone is missing.

• Taken from the following sentence:

"Dorian, Dorian!' said Basil unhappily."

• Sentences:

1. Unhappily, such days do not come too often.
2. Remember, carefully made you unhappy.
3. I can't stay unhappy for too long.
4. Figures he'd be unhappy anywhere.

Shining

• Type of word: Adjective
• Pronunciation: /ˈʃʌɪnɪŋ/ (US)
• Meaning: That something or someone is resplendent.

• Taken from the following sentence:

"Dorian was excited and his eyes were shining."

• Sentences:

1. For one shining moment, we were just kids.
2. It features a valley in bloom and shining sun.
3. He has set a shining example with his model behavior.
4. That is a beautiful and shining expanse of water.

Upstairs

• Type of word: Noun
• Pronunciation: /ʌpˈstɛːz/ (US)
• Meaning: That something or someone is at the top of a place.

• Taken from the following sentence:

"She danced out of the room, and her mother and brother could hear her singing as she ran upstairs"

• Sentences:

1. You can find me upstairs.
2. She was upstairs with another guy.
3. Upstairs there is a corpse.
4. What's going on upstairs, is there too much noise?

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