22 November 2008

Vocabulary Time

Earth-dwellers - city/town/cave, etc. dweller a person who lives in a city, town, cave, etc. So an earth-dweller is just someone who lives on earth. Palaeolithic Man Neolithic Man - Neo = New Mar - to spoil something, making it less perfect or less enjoyable. e.g. It was a really nice day, marred only by a little argument in the car on the way home. Fishing terminology: Fishing rod hook line and sinker bait [Idiom] If somebody accepts or believes something hook, line, and sinker, they accept it completely. I n other words, somebody that is gullible <-> skeptical.

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