Headache is a countable noun. Headache= (i) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness: ‘The noise of traffic is a constant headache for me.’ (ii) pain in the head: ‘I woke up with a terrible headache.’ ‘My wife suffers from headache.’
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Be tried (put on trial) = be judged in a court of law: ‘He is being tried for the murder of his wife.’ ‘He was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment.’ Judge sb by a particular measure; to form an opinion about sb: ‘You should not judge people by their appearance.’
Origins – Plenty Of Rooms At The Top
The top of a mountain is called, as you know, the summit, a word derived from Latin summus, highest, which also gives us the mathematical term sum, as in addition. A consummate artist has reached the very highest point of perfection; and to consummate a marriage, a business deal, or a contract is, etymologically, to […]
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Rearrange the following seven sentences into the well-structured paragraph they originally formed. (Just to establish the context: in the book from which the paragraph is taken, the preceding paragraph had been discussing some of the differences between American and British pronunciation of vowel sounds.) As cues, attend not just to the sense of each sentence,but […]