Unit 7 When Lightening Struck Words and Expressions综合教程一.doc

Unit 7 When Lightening Struck Words and Expressions 1. lightning: n. a powerful flash of light in the sky caused by electricity passing from one cloud to another or to the earth, usu. followed by thunder e.g. He runs as fast as lightning. Collocation: be struck by lightning: be hit by lightning e.g. The tower has been struck by lightning. Derivation: lightning: adj. 2. jolt: n. a sudden rough shaking movement e.g. Residents felt the first jolt of the earthquake at about 8 a.m. Derivation: jolt: v. Comparison: jolt, jerk jerk: a sudden quick movement Practice: 1) The train moved off with a ________ (jerk) 2) I felt every _________ of the bus. (jolt) 3. swerve: n. the act of turning aside e.g. The car made a sudden swerve to avoid the dog. Comparison: swirl: the act of turning around quickly in a circular movement Derivation: swerve: v. 4. unbolt: v. unlock; release the bolts of (a door, for example) e.g. The shopkeeper unbolted the door and let the customers in. Comparison: unbolt, untie untie: undo the knots in something or undo something that has been tied Antonym: bolt 5. scramble: v. climb up or over something with difficulty, using your hands to help you e.g. The boys scrambled over the wall. Collocations: scramble up/down/back, etc. e.g. We scrambled up a rocky slope. Synonym: climb Derivation: scramble: n. 6. lunge: v. make sudden forceful forward movements of the body, often to make an attack e.g. He lunged at me with a knife. Comparison: lunge, lung lung: one of the two organs in your body that you breathe with e.g. Smoking can cause lung cancer. Derivation: lunge: n. 7. stricken: adj. very badly affected by trouble, illness, unhappiness, etc. e.g. Supplies of medicine were rushed to the stricken city. Collocations: be stricken by/with e.g. The area was stricken with/by a fatal disease. poverty stricken: very poor panic stricken: filled with sudden terror grief stricken: filled with grief and sorrow Comparison