The get-together Blog

Wednesday 1st March

Back to the Oceania after the holiday break, we worked on an article from the Daily Mail entitled : "Mussolini the insatiable"

 

a stiff
pieces of flesh
rag = torchon ou chiffon
rug = tapis
besotted
ever since
to go for a spin
running boards
recklessly
to be smitten
to scramble
to take a potshot
to take potluck
to be aghast
to gush
to be in awe
appalling
blacksmith
wordsmith
craft
tantamount 'as good (as); equivalent in effect (to): his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt.

[C17: basically from Anglo-French tant amunter to amount to as much, from tant so much + amunter to amount])


rape
sift
likely
to grab
to weep
to sulk
to seek, sought, sought
to sink
out of wedlock
to beg
a sheaf, sheaves

 

See you next Wednesday, sametime, same place.

 

Gary