Monday, June 25, 2007

Vocabulary Finder - NuRul aka IfAh

1)Crouched

Meaning:

1. To stoop, especially with the knees bent: crouched over the grate, searching for his keys.

2.To press the entire body close to the ground with the limbs bent: a cat crouching near its prey.

3.To bend servilely or timidly; cringe.


Example: There I crouched on my hands and knees.

Vocabulary Finder - NuRuL aka IfAh

1) Swiftly


Meaning:

1.

moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship.

2.

coming, happening, or performed quickly or without delay: a swift decision.


Example : I’m moving swiftly ,down the ravine until I came to the sea cliffs.

Vocabulary Finder - NuRuL aka IfAh

1)Mesa

Meaning:

1.An area of high land with a flat top and two or more steep, cliff like sides.


Example: Our women were gathering at the edge of the mesa.

Vocabulary Finder - NuRuL aka IfAh

1)Kelp

Meaning:

1.

any large, brown, cold-water seaweed of the family Laminariaceae, used as food and in various manufacturing processes.

2.

a bed or mass of such seaweeds.

Example: The wide kelp that encloses our island and between the two rocks that guard Coral Cove.

Vocabulary Finder - NuRuL aka IfAh

1)GAZE

Meaning:

1.

to look steadily and intently, as with great curiosity, interest, pleasure, or wonder.


2.

a steady or intent look.

3.

at gaze, Heraldry. (of a deer or deer like animal) represented as seen from the side with the head looking toward the spectator: a stag at gaze.

Example: ‘While you gaze at the sea.’

Vocabulary Finder - NuRuL aka IfAh

1)CORMORANTS

Meaning:

1. Any of several large, widely distributed marine diving birds of the genus Phalacrocorax, having dark plumage, webbed feet, a slender hooked bill, and a distensible pouch.

2.A greedy, rapacious person.

Example:

‘Dolphins sit there, and gulls, and cormorants ,and otter,and whales too,but not clouds.’

Discussion Director - Syarifah Syafiqah

1)What makes you think that Karana have a long hair?

2)Why the people of Ghalas-at have 2 names-common and secret?

3)What is the purpose of Captain Orlov and his Aleuts hunters came to Ghalas-at?