Story #3

 Greenshaw's Folly

By: Agatha Christie

 

In this story we find some interesting words and we want to share with you these and their meaning.

1. Unkempt (Adjective): If you describe something or someone as unkempt, you mean that they are untidy, and not looked after carefully or kept neat.

Pronunciation: /Uhn-kempt/

Example: https://vocaroo.com/12SYfcQHctHg

Sentence where we find the word:

“Unkempt locks of iron-grey fell wispily on her shoulders…”

Example sentences with this word:

• His clothes were unkempt and dirty.
• That house is unkempt on the outside.
• They were unwashed and unkempt.
• He needed a shave and his hair was unkempt.

2. Fellow (Adjective): You use fellow to describe people who are in the same situation as you, or people you feel you have something in common with.

(Noun): Your fellows are the people who you work with, do things with, or who are like you in some way.

Pronunciation: /Feh-low/

Example: https://vocaroo.com/1jNuNCgGYDbA

Sentence where we find the word:

“Handsome fellow, Harry Fletcher, but no good.”

Example sentences with this word:

• Yesterday, I went out with my fellows to eat.
• My dog has always been my fellow.
• She introduced me to some of her fellow students.
• He seemed like a decent fellow.

3. Toolshed (Noun): Is a small structure, as at the back of a house, where tools are kept.

Pronunciation: /Tul-shed/

Example: https://vocaroo.com/1dL8Om4CZIlj

Sentence where we find the word:

“Probably present in the toolshed already in the form of weed killer.”

Example sentences with this word:

• In my house the toolshed is big.
• My dad went to the toolshed for a screw.
• The toolshed and wellhouse are architecturally sympathetic to the house.
• In the end these six stood out from the rest, earning their spot in your toolshed.

4. Wages (Noun): It is a payment in exchange for work or services, especially that is made to workers by day, hour, week or piecework.

Pronunciation: /Way-juhz/

Example: https://vocaroo.com/165aOg6PzuYw

Sentence where we find the word:

“Cresswell she was going to leave her everything and so got out of paying her wages; and then she left her money to somebody else."

Example sentences with this word:

• He pays wages on time.
• The wages in my house are not enough.
• The palace artisans' wages were paid in gold coins.
• He was notorious for being anti-union and for paying low wages.

5. Clutching (Verb): If you clutch at something or clutch something, you hold it tightly, usually because you are afraid or anxious.

(Noun): If someone is in another person's clutches, that person has captured them or has power over them.

Pronunciation: /Kluh-chuhng/

Example: https://vocaroo.com/18Yw35HdrXDL

Sentence where we find the word:

“In due course she screamed and came staggering to the house clutching an arrow as though it had penetrated her throat.”

Example sentences with this word:

• She is clutching his hand tightly.
• They clutch the tube tightly because the bus is going very fast.
• Clutching the money to his chest, he hurried to the bank.
• He collapsed, clutching his stomach.

6. Bankrupt (Noun): Is a person who becomes insolvent or a person who is completely lacking in a particular desirable quality or attribute.

(Adjective): Is something exhausted of valuable qualities or reduced to a state of financial ruin.

(Verb): Is to reduce to bankruptcy.

Pronunciation: /Bang-kruhpt/

Example: https://voca.ro/1eUvzs5zCeDQ

Sentence where we find the word:

"He either went bankrupt or the next thing to it."

Example sentences with this word:

• The company is bankrupt.
• My finances are bankrupt with face-to-face classes.
• He went bankrupt after only a year in business.
• The recession has led to many small businesses going bankrupt.

7. Shrugged (Verb): Is to raise or draw in the shoulders specially to express aloofness, indifference, or uncertainty.

Pronunciation: /Shruhgd/

Example: https://voca.ro/1la0XVUBhfFe

Sentence where we find the word:

"Raymond shrugged his shoulders."

Example sentences with this word:

• She shrugged and said she didn't know anything.
• Everyone in the classroom shrugged when he asked if anyone had seen his notebook.
• She shrugged again and he read it.
• It should not be shrugged off as if it does not matter.

8. Sprawling (Verb): It means to lie down or sit with arms and legs extended.

(Noun): Is an irregularly spread or scattered group or mass.

Pronunciation: /Spraa-luhng/

Example: https://voca.ro/1eTIJ70shmoD

Sentence where we find the word:

"Miss Greenshaw looked up at the sprawling exuberance behind her."

Example sentences with this word:

• My family are sprawling on the floor to watch TV.
• My brother tripped and went sprawling into the table.
• Somewhere in this sprawling metropolis, there is a secret military laboratory.
• We pulled into a sprawling industrial complex.

9. Earsplitting (Adjective): Something or some sound that is distressingly loud or shrill.

Pronunciation: /Eer-spli-tuhng/

Example: https://voca.ro/1eimXkJZvqJJ

Sentence where we find the word:

"Miss Greenshaw raised two earth-stained fingers to her lips, suddenly produced an earsplitting whistle and at the same time yelled:"

Example sentences with this word:

• The volume of the music was earsplitting.
• She is giving an earsplitting scream.
• It was an earsplitting explosion.
• It is described as having a pure trumpet note of earsplitting volume.

10. Unacquainted (Adjective): It is not having experience or knowledge of something.

Pronunciation: /Uh-nuh-kwayn-tuhd/

Example: https://voca.ro/1c4Lsw5sb8B8

Sentence where we find the word:

"The inspector, unacquainted with the play Little Mary looked completely fogged."

Example sentences with this word:

• Everything that had to do with accounting was unacquainted to him.
• When I arrived in my neighborhood, I was complete unacquainted.
• Marta and Toni were unacquainted.
• All of the people in the group were previously unacquainted.

We hope these words are new and interesting for each of you, with nothing more to add, thanks for reading!