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TOEFL Vocabulary #Day6

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M Syahruzzaky Romadloni
M Syahruzzaky Romadloni

It is an excerpt of my book-to-be about improving students TOEFL vocabulary mastery. Currently, I am developing a language program that helps my students get engaged in TOEFL vocabulary questions, especially about guessing meanings in context.

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STUDY SKILL Sometimes you can guess the meaning of a word from the words around it, that is, the context. Identifying the part of speech also helps. Look at the example, rotate: Hurricanes rotate anti-clockwise around an eye. The word hurricanes helps you identify the part of speech. 1. What part of speech is rotate: a noun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb? The words anti-clockwise, around, help you guess the meaning. 2. What does rotate mean: get bigger, move in a circle, rain a lot? #Day6 Read this passage carefully. The end of life on Earth? Could a meteorite collision really mean the end of life on Earth? Read this to find out what happenswhen small meteorites collide with Earth, and just how much damage a big one could do. It weighedabout10,000 tons,enteredthe atmosphere ata speedof 64,000km/h and explodedover a city with a blast of 500 kilotons. But on 15 February 2013, we were lucky. The meteorite that showered pieces of rock over Chelyabinsk, Russia, was relatively small, at only about 17 metres wide. Although many people were injured by falling glass, the damage was nothing compared to what had happened in Siberia nearly one hundred years ago. Another relatively small object (approximately 50metresindiameter) explodedin mid-air over a forest region, flattening about 80 milliontrees.If ithadexplodedoveracity suchas Moscow or London,millionsof people wouldhave been killed. Read the passage again carefully. Guess the meaning of the underlined words. First identify the parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb). Then choose meanings from the box to complete the table. explosion roughly become flat late crash harm No Vocabulary Part of Speech Meaning Sentence 1 collide Readthisto findout what happens when small meteorites collide with Earth 2 damage what happens when small meteorites collide with Earth, and just how much damage a big one could do. 3 blast exploded over a city with a blast of 500 kilotons. 4 approximately Another relatively small object (approximately 50 metres in diameter) exploded in mid-air over a forest region 5 flatten Another relatively small object (approximately 50 metres in diameter) exploded in mid-air over a forest region, flattening about 80 million trees.

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TOEFL Vocabulary #Day6

  • 1. STUDY SKILL Sometimes you can guess the meaning of a word from the words around it, that is, the context. Identifying the part of speech also helps. Look at the example, rotate: Hurricanes rotate anti-clockwise around an eye. The word hurricanes helps you identify the part of speech. 1. What part of speech is rotate: a noun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb? The words anti-clockwise, around, help you guess the meaning. 2. What does rotate mean: get bigger, move in a circle, rain a lot? #Day6 Read this passage carefully. The end of life on Earth? Could a meteorite collision really mean the end of life on Earth? Read this to find out what happenswhen small meteorites collide with Earth, and just how much damage a big one could do. It weighedabout10,000 tons,enteredthe atmosphere ata speedof 64,000km/h and explodedover a city with a blast of 500 kilotons. But on 15 February 2013, we were lucky. The meteorite that showered pieces of rock over Chelyabinsk, Russia, was relatively small, at only about 17 metres wide. Although many people were injured by falling glass, the damage was nothing compared to what had happened in Siberia nearly one hundred years ago. Another relatively small object (approximately 50metresindiameter) explodedin mid-air over a forest region, flattening about 80 milliontrees.If ithadexplodedoveracity suchas Moscow or London,millionsof people wouldhave been killed. Read the passage again carefully. Guess the meaning of the underlined words. First identify the parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb). Then choose meanings from the box to complete the table. explosion roughly become flat late crash harm No Vocabulary Part of Speech Meaning Sentence 1 collide Readthisto findout what happens when small meteorites collide with Earth 2 damage what happens when small meteorites collide with Earth, and just how much damage a big one could do. 3 blast exploded over a city with a blast of 500 kilotons. 4 approximately Another relatively small object (approximately 50 metres in diameter) exploded in mid-air over a forest region 5 flatten Another relatively small object (approximately 50 metres in diameter) exploded in mid-air over a forest region, flattening about 80 million trees.