Making your writing more interesting

oppressive

Click the card to flip 👆

1 / 16

Terms in this set (16)

(adj)
(of the weather) extremely hot and unpleasant and lacking fresh air
e.g. There was a kind of _____________ heat and I knew there would be a storm.

(adj)
(of the weather) not bright, with a lot of clouds
synonym= overcast
e.g. It was a ______, grey day.

(adj)
(of a building, room, etc.) warm in an unpleasant way and without enough fresh air
e.g. a _________ room
e.g. It gets very hot and _________ in here in summer.

(verb)
die through lack of air
e.g. Many dogs have _________d in hot cars.

(verb)
walk nervously/angrily in one direction then back again
e.g. She __________d up and down outside the room.

creep (crept, crept)

(verb)
to move slowly, quietly and carefully, because you do not want to be seen or heard
e.g. I _______ up the stairs, trying not to wake my parents.

(verb)
stop for a moment
e.g. Anita _______d for a moment, then said: 'All right'.

(verb)
to hit something hard many times, especially so that it makes a loud noise
e.g. Someone was _________ing at the door.

strike (struck, struck)

(verb)
[transitive] (not used in the progressive tenses) (of a thought or an idea) to come into somebody's mind suddenly
e.g. An awful thought has just ________ me.

(verb)
to walk somewhere in a slow relaxed way
e.g. People were _________ing along the beach.