Vocab-ability Suffix–325 (__al = adjective suffix) – A More Powerful Vocabulary (earn UpVotes with “Vocab Practice” exercise)

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My Vocab Practice

1.- The hallaca, the salad and the ham bread are typical Christmas dishes of my country.

2.- The next competition will be at the regional level and there will be a representation of athletes from all states.

3.- People say that he was subjected to a brutal beating by the kidnappers, who left him alive by chance.

4.- I like to participate in ideological discussions about life after life and to know what people know and feel about it.


Good work!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. typical
    She had the typical behaviour for living alone in the woods for the past 10 years.
  2. regional
    The regional dialects from Romania are so different that we barely understand each other when we met.
  3. brutal
    My first boyfriend had a brutal behaviour in our relationship.
  4. ideological
    Some scientists have minimized the significance of ideological elements.


Good work!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. The spear and the sword are typical weapons used by practitioners of Chinese martial arts.

  2. The regional director of the fast food chain oversees 50 restaurants in the state of California.

  3. After the protest against totalitarian rule was brutally suppressed by the regime, a 72-hour curfew was imposed in the nation's capital.

  4. The Cold War from 1947 to 1991 was essentially a manifestation of the ideological divide between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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MY VOCAB PRACTICE:

  1. Typical:
    It was the tail-end of the Halcyon days, right before the disruptive weather that wasn't typical for this time of year came whipping through at speeds of 1oo mile an hour winds, followed by rain that could turn into ice and kill a man, followed by lightning and thunder storms that shook the ground.

  2. Regional:
    The regional pet barked at the tree because it saw it move a centimeter.

  3. Brutal:
    They were particularly brutal during mating season and he could always tell which bird would go up against the more experience to challenge for the mating position.

  4. Ideological:
    The Vice Roy tapped his finger on the chair's bar, his ideological ideas not playing out as expected and he's about to lose half of what he built because he failed to listen to his council.


Good work!

Hope you're enjoying the pleasant spring weather these days!!

It has actually been raining here, which is very unusual for this time of year.

How's the weather there? Any major changes that you've noticed?

One of my freewrite piece got me into a curie showcase (not out yet). Part of how that piece came out was from some of the vocab words. 8-)

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. A typical day of a corporate employee who work in Kuala Lumpur and commute by a car involves at least 20 minutes of being stuck in the traffic jam.
  2. Our new friend who moved here could not understand certain words that my group of friends use because some of them are regional slang words.
  3. The poor animals were killed in brutal ways in the slaughterhouse.
  4. The political party was divided because some of the members with ideological differences refused to work together.

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Good work!

p.s. Being stuck 20 mins in a traffic jam aint bad. In New Delhi, it can be hours. Even in Toronto, 1-hour jams are not uncommon.

Thank you! That can be so frustrating and inconvenient especially during emergencies. I'm glad that it doesn't happen as often here except during peak times in certain areas.

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MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. It's typical of him to always come late.
  2. We usually hold our regional meeting in the middle of the year.
  3. The soldier used a very brutal force on the civilian.
  4. The fracas was caused by ideological difference.

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MY VOCAB PRACTICE:

  1. The typical Scottish bridegroom always wears a kilt on his wedding day.

  2. England has many regional varieties of cheese.

  3. Game of Thrones can be brutal in it's blood-letting.

  4. The Republicans have an ideological attachment to tax cuts even if it leads to budget deficits.


Good work!

And Republicans, like most politicians, have ideological attachments to many weird and untenable beliefs.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Typical: It is typical for any country to have it's own armed forces.

  2. Regional: There was a time in Nigeria where we had regional Police.

  3. Brutal: The security forces in Nigeria are very brutal.

  4. Ideological: The ideological setup of the police in America is different from that of Nigeria.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE:

  1. It's typical of Mr. Joseph to shake his legs while urinating.
  2. Regional economics is becoming less effective in addressing the issues of economic inequality as seen with ECOWAS.
  3. Some arm robbers are brutal in their operations, leaving their victims disfigured for life.
  4. There's an ideological movement known as 'Financialization' whereby most enterprises are likely to issue credit cards by the year 2020.


Good work!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Typical:
    Figure 2 displays a typical segment of both signals.
  2. Regional:
    Recovering the underlying function f inside its different regions of smoothness.
  3. Brutal:
    The weather was brutal – hot and humid.
  4. Ideological:
    Both are lost to the ideological ' construction' of selfhood, exceptional or otherwise.

Number 4 is plagiarized. I did not check, but I believe Numbers 1 and 2 are also plagiarized.

DO NOT plagiarize. That's wrong, and seriously frowned upon on Steemit.

For these Voc Practice exercises, please compose YOUR OWN sentences.

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