Web www.englishdaily626.com   [ Movie Reviews | Common Sentences | Glossary of Correct Usage | High School Vocab | Questions & Answers | Sample Letters ] [ Movies Lines | Advertisements | Words Differentiation | Common Errors | Songs | Links ] <<Prev Train your ear Next>>     TOEFL Vocabulary   English Daily Conversation   Learn grammar by example   Learn American idioms       860.mp3 As he gets set to deliver a highly anticipated speech to the Muslim world about the US relationship with followers of Islam, President Barack Obama has been ____1____ King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Obama spoke of the two countries' long history of friendship. An airline industry official says automatic messages from the doomed Air France jetliner that went down in the Atlantic Sunday suggest the plane may have been ___2___ toward the ocean in pieces. However, another expert says although the messages may indicate the breakup of the plane, they don't explain why the plane went down. A Manhattan nightclub ___3___ has been convicted of first-degree murder in the 2006 slaying of a female graduate student. Darryl Littlejohn faces up to life in prison in the sexual assault and strangling death of Imette St. Guillen. A judge is muzzling Drew Peterson after the cop-turned-suspected killer recently phoned in ___4___ to a Chicago radio station. The judge ordered Peterson's attorney to give him a list of people he can call from jail without getting special permission in advance.       Answers   1. visiting with - to spend time talking with or staying with someone you know 2. plunging - fall suddenly and often a long way forward 3. bouncer - someone whose job is to stand outside a bar, party, etc. and either stop people who cause trouble from coming in or force them to leave 4. wisecrack - a remark which is intended as a clever joke, especially one which criticizes someone     800   801   802   803   804   805   806   807   808   809   810   811   812   813   814   815   816   817   818   819   820   821   822   823   824   825   826   827   828   829   830   831   832   833   834   835   836   837   838   839   840   841   842   843   844   845   846   847   848   849   850   851   852   853   854   855   856   857   858   859   860   861   862   863   864   865   866   867   868   869   870   871   872   873   874   875   876   877   878   879   880   881   882   883   884   885   886   887   888   889   890   891   892   893   894   895   896   897   898   899   900   901   902   903   904   905   906   907   908   909   910   911   912   913   914   915   916   917   918   919   920   921   922   923   924   925   926   927   928   929   ( Nov 20 ) Train your ear 1       Common English mistakes   Ancient Chinese stories   Learn English Proverbs   American Slang expressions

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