"The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates" by Stephen King.
Thwackring
- Type of word: Noun
- Pronunciation: /θwæk/ (US)
- Meaning: The short, loud sound of something like a stick hitting a surface.
- Taken from the following sentence:
"Her wet hair thwacking unpleasantly on the back of her neck and bare shoulders."
- Sentences:
1. Yesterday Denis was thwacking something near the house.
2. Miriam was thwacking Elian's wrist while she was distracted.
3. Gustavo told Karol that someone thwacking his boxes.
4. He's thwacking the table at this moment.
Wreckage
- Type of word: Noun
- Pronunciation: /rɛkɪdʒ/ (US)
- Meaning: A badly damaged object or the separated parts of a bad damage object.
- Taken from the following sentence:
"Her husband crawled from the wreckage of the building plane (and the burning apartment building the plane hit, don't forget that.)"
- Sentences:
1. The city was wreckage after the earthquake.
2. The car was wreckage by the accident.
3. They found his house wreckage when they return.
4. The dogs were found in the wreckage.
Wreckage
- Type of word: Noun
- Pronunciation: /bɑːr.ɡɪn/ (US)
- Meaning: Something on sale at a lower price than the true value.
- Taken from the following sentence:
"Then the ringing stops and recorded voice offers to sell her New York Times at special bargain rates that will not be repeated"
- Sentences:
1. I bought this jacket in a bargain.
2. The shoes you like are in the bargain.
3. The Last Saturday's bargain was the best.
4. Emir got his bike in a bargain.
Wrapping
- Type of word: Noun
- Pronunciation: /rapɪŋ/ (US)
- Meaning: Paper or soft material used to cover or enclose something.
- Taken from the following sentence:
"Anne goes to the extension on the bed-table, wrapping a towel around her."
- Sentences:
1. She took the cellophane wrapping off the box.
2. They personalize their Christmas Gifts with Crochet Wrapping.
3. The therapist will perform the wrapping with elastic bandages for every residual limb length.
4. She makes her wrapping paper from colorful magazines.
Lousy
- Type of word: Adjective.
- Pronunciation: /ˈlouzē/ (US)
- Meaning: Very poor or bad; disgusted.
- Taken from the following sentence:
"Lots of others have been trying, we're lousy with cell phones, but no luck."
- Sentences:
1. My sister is a lousy student.
2. A lot of the time I felt lousy but went anyway.
3. We are not doing a lousy job.
4. In your restaurant there is lousy service.
Mutter
- Type of word: Verb.
- Pronunciation: /ˈmədər/ (US)
- Meaning: Saying something in a low or barely audible voice, especially in case of dissatisfaction or irritation.
- Taken from the following sentence:
"Once more in that I’m-scolding-myself voice (impossible to believe she will never hear it again after today; impossible not to believe), he mutters, “It would have been so simple just too...well, nevermind."
- Sentences:
1. One or two of you start to mutter.
2. When he disappeared, people began to mutter.
3. The most important thing is not to mutter anything.
4. You mutter only stupid things.
Hesitant
- Type of word: Adjective.
- Pronunciation: /'hɛzɪt(ə)nt/ (US)
- Meaning: When someone has doubts about something or someone.
- Taken from the following sentence:
"sounding uncharacteristically hesitant and unsure of himself"
- Sentences:
1. He is hesitant about how the class is.
2. Their clients won't hesitate about it.
3. I feel hesitant about his words.
4. You are too hesitant about the price.
Dampening
- Type of word: Adjective.
- Pronunciation: /dæm.pənɪŋ/ (US)
- Meaning: the act of making something slightly wet.
- Taken from the following sentence:
"her wet bottom dampening the sheet beneath her."
- Sentences:
1. Could you dampening this rag?
2. The baby is dampening his diaper.
3. Don't eat soup in your bed, you are going to dampening the sheet.
4. You should dampening the rag, the dust is hard to clean.
Chuckles
- Type of word: Verb.
- Pronunciation: /ˈtʃʌk(ə)l/ (US)
- Meaning: It is a way to laugh quietly.
- Taken from the following sentence:
"He chuckles as if this is funny."
- Sentences:
1. She is chuckle at my joke.
2. I can hear his annoying chuckle.
3. Your chuckle is funnier than the joke.
4. My chuckle is weird.
Widowhood
- Type of word: Noun.
- Pronunciation: /ˈwɪd.oʊ.hʊd/ (US)
- Meaning: The state of being widow or widower.
- Taken from the following sentence:
"about ten past three, on the third afternoon of her widowhood."
- Sentences:
1. I think the widowhood is something very sad.
2. She must feel so scared about widowhood.
3. The first day of widowhood is the worst.
4. He doesn't want to marry for fear of widowhood.




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