tailieunhanh - word smart ii phần 2

Tham khảo tài liệu 'word smart ii phần 2', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 28 WORD SMART II A small connecting structure added to a building is often called an annex AN eks . Note carefully the pronunciation of both parts of speech. ANNUITY n uh NOO uh tee an annual allowance or income the annual interest payment on an investment any regular allowance or income The company s pension fund provides an annuity for its retired employees each receives regular payments from the fund. None of Herbert s books had been bestsellers but all of them were still in print and taken together their royalties amounted to a substantial annuity. The widow would have been destitute if her husband had not bought an insurance policy that provided a modest annuity for the rest of her life. ANTEDATE V AN ti day to be older than to have come before The root ante means before or in front of. To antedate is to be dated before something else. The Jacksons house antedates the Declaration of Independence it was built in 1774. Mrs. Simpson s birth antedates that of her daughter by twenty-four years. That is to say Mrs. Simpson was twenty-four years old when her daughter was born. ANTERIOR adj an TIR ee ur situated in front The children enjoy sitting dumbly and staring at the anterior surface of the television set. Your chest is situated on the anterior portion of your body. The anterior end of a snake is its head. The opposite of anterior is posterior. You are sitting on the posterior end of your body. Q U .C K Q U I Z 5 Match each word in the first column with its definition in the second column. Check your answers in the back of the book. 1 altercation a. something loathed 2. amass b. add 3. amid c. in the middle of 4. anathema d. annual allowance 5. ancillary e. heated fight 6. angst f subordinate 7. annex g. situated in front 8. annuity h. pile up 9. antedate i. anxiety 10. anterior j. be older THE WORDS 29 ANTHOLOGY n an THAHL uh jee a collection especially of literary works To anthologize an THAHL uh jyze a group of literary works or other objects is to collect .