VOCABULARY UNIT 4 LESSON 1

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VOCABULARY UNIT 4 LESSON 1

• The Clever Daughter-in-Law

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riddle

• it is a NOUN
• a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question
  posed as a problem to be solved or guessed
• Synonym mystery, puzzle, question
• Example
• The riddle of the Sphinx is very famous.

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clever

• it is an ADJECTIVE
• Mentally quick and original
• Synonym bright, cunning
• Antonym senseless
• Example
• A clever person finds the answer to a problem
  very quickly.

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daughter-in-law

• it is a NOUN
• The wife of one's son
• Example
• Jims parents really like his new wife, their new
  daughter-in-law.

His parents
wife and husband
daughter-in-law
Mother and father-in-law
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father-in-law

• it is a NOUN
• The father of one's husband or wife .
• Example
• Jane will name her son after her father-in-law.

wife and husband
His parents
daughter-in-law
Mother and father-in-law
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lantern

• it is a NOUN
• A decorative casing for a light, often of paper
• Example
• People use lanterns when they dont have
  electricity to see where they are going.

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to be missed

• it is a VERB
• Synonym To be without
• Example
• When she moved to another country her friend
  called her to tell her that she missed her, she
  wanted her to come back.

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lovely

• it is an ADJECTIVE
• very pretty or attractive .
• Synonym beautiful
• Antonym ugly
• Example
• Those babies are so cute! Arent they lovely?

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shocked

• it is an ADJECTIVE
• struck with fear
• Synonym dismayed, horrified
• Antonym fearless
• Example
• The people were shocked when they heard that the
  king was dead.