WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER

listening:business daily
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/worldservice/meta/tx/dailybusiness_wed?nbram=1&nbwm=1&size=au&lang=en-ws&bgc=003399&ls=p557

vocabulary
1 abject
Toms company was bankrupt during the Great depression; then, he was in abject poverty
2 advocate
Some experts strongly advocate building more private colleges.
3 brutalthe
police have arrested the brutal sniper who commited Wednesday night s fatal shooting of a man at gas station just south of the nation s capital.
4 clumsy
you are so clumsy !look ! you are knocked over my cup of coffee again!
5 dignity
the dignity of the occasion was lost when he cut in with an unrefined joke
6 ferocious
the ferocious tiger tore the lamb apart with its teeth.
7 hound
the police are hounding him
8 idle
his words were just idle threats ; you do not have to take them too seriously
9 lavishhe
thought he would win her over by lavishing her with expensive gifts
10 nasty
i donot like the colour they have chosen for their new carpet- it looks really nasty