Vocabulary | Similar words/ English meanings | Sinhala meanings |
1. above 2. abrasion 3. abrasive 4. abreast 5. abridged 6. abroad 7. abrupt 8. abscess 9. abscond 10.absent-minded 11.absolute 12.absolve 13.absorb 14.abstain (from) 15.abstract 16.abstruse 17.absurd 18.abundant 19.abuse 20.abysmal | 1. at/to a higher point 2. injury caused by rubbing 3. coarse, scratchy, harsh 4. side by side 5. shortened 6. away from the home country 7. sudden" curt 8. pus filled boil 9. go away secretly/illegally 10.forgetful 11.complete 12.clear of blame or guilt 13.take in 14.refrain 15.immaterial, summary 16.hard to understand 17.ridiculous 18.plentiful 19.ill-treat 20.very bad, terrible, awful | 1) ඉහත, උඩින් 2) සීරීම 3) සිත රිදවන, අශිලාචාර, රළු 4) එක පෙලට, උරෙනුර 5) සංක්ෂිප්ථ 6) පිටරට 7) හදිසියේම 8) සැරව පිරුණු තුවාලයක් 9) නීති විරෝධිව හොරෙන් පැනයාම 10) නිතර අමතක වන සුළු 11) නිරපේක්ෂ, සම්පූර්ණ 12) පාපයකට/වරදකට සමාව දීම 13) අවශෝෂණය කිරීම 14) වැළකී සිටීම 15) සාරාංශයක්, මනෝභාවමය 16) සංකීර්ණ, අපැහැදිලි 17) විකාර 18) බහුල 19) අපයෝජනය, අපයෝජනය කිරීම 20) ඉතා දුර්වල, පහත්
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Words in context:
1) There is a film star living in the flat above mine.
2) The nurse put Band-Aids on the abrasions of the injured child.
3) No one likes abrasive people.
4) It’s dangerous to walk two-abreast on busy roads.
5) I read the abridged version of Anna Karenina.
6) Many people who go abroad lead very difficult lives.
7) The bus came to an abrupt stop when it ran out of fuel.
8) The doctor cleaned his patient’s smelly abscess and dressed it.
9) The finance manager of LTD Company has absconded with some company assets.
10) As we grow older, we become absent-minded.
11) What I’m telling you is the absolute truth. I was there when it happened.
12) The judge absolved the accused of all charges against her.
13) Cotton absorbs sweat better than synthetic materials.
14) Buddhists usually abstain from eating beef.
15) Peace and democracy are abstract ideas until we lose them.
16) Many books on Science subjects are full of abstruse topics.
17) The idea of my mother being a CIA agent is absurd. I refuse to believe it.
18) The hill country is abundant with beautiful scenery.
19) Some people abuse pain medicines given to critically ill people.
20) The performance of the national cricket team is quite abysmal. They lost the match.
Exercises:
1. Match the words with their similar words in Sinhala and English
Vocabulary | Similar words/ English meanings | Sinhala meanings |
1. above 2. abrasion 3. abrasive 4. abreast 5. abridged 6. abroad 7. abrupt 8. abscess 9. abscond 10. absent-minded 11.absolute 12.absolve 13.absorb 14.abstain (from) 15.abstract 16.abstruse 17.absurd 18.abundant 19.abuse 20.abysmal | 1. at/to a higher point 2. away from the home country 3. clear of blame or guilt 4. coarse, scratchy, harsh 5. complete 6. forgetful 7. go away secretly/illegally 8. hard to understand 9. ill-treat 10. immaterial, summary 11. Injury caused by rubbing 12.plentiful 13. pus-filled boil 14.refrain 15.ridiculous 16.shortened 17.side by side 18.sudden" curt 19.take in 20.very bad, terrible, awful | 1* ඉතා දුර් වල /පහත් 2* ඉහත, උඩින් 3* සාරාංශයක්, මනෝභාවමය 4* සැරව පිරුණු තුවාලයක් 5* සිත රිදවන, අශිලාචාර, රළු 6* සීරීම 7* සංකීර්ණ, අපැහැදිලි 8* සංක්ෂිප්ථ 9* වැළකී සිටීම 10* නිතර අමතකවන සුළු 11* නීති විරෝධිව හොරෙන් පැනයාම 12* නිරපේක්ෂ, සම්පූර්ණ 13* පාපයකට/වරදකට සමාව දීම 14* පිටරට 15* බහුල 16* එක පෙලට, උරෙනුර 17* විකාර 18* අවශෝෂණය කිරීම 19* අපයෝජනය, අපයෝජනය කිරීම 20* හදිසියේම
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2. Fill in the blanks with suitable words
1) As we grow older, we become …………….
2) Buddhists usually ……………eating beef.
3) Cotton ………..s sweat better than synthetic materials.
4) I read the …………….ed version of Anna Karenina.
5) It’s dangerous to walk two-……….on busy roads.
6) Many books on Science subjects are full of ……….topics.
7) Many people who go ……….. lead very difficult lives.
8) No one likes ………. people.
9) Peace and democracy are ………….ideas until we lose them.
10) Some people ………….pain medicines given to critically ill people.
11) The bus came to an …………stop when it ran out of fuel.
12) The doctor cleaned his patient’s smelly …………. and dressed it.
13) The finance manager of LTD Company has ………ed with some company assets.
14) The hill country is ……………with beautiful scenery.
15) The idea of my mother being a CIA agent is ………….. I refuse to believe it.
16) The judge …………….ed the accused of all charges against her.
17) The nurse put Band-Aids on the ………s of the injured child.
18) The performance of the national cricket team is quite ………. They lost the match against the Congo Republic.
19) There is a film star living in the flat ………….mine.
20) What I’m telling you is the ………….truth. I was there when it happened.
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