12ELA List 6 POS 2021-2022

We don't want to see a 1984 Orwellian type situation where neighbours are reporting on neighbours.

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• adjective

• verb

• adverb

He has a niggling hip injury, which has troubled him on and off over the past year.

• noun

• adjective

• verb

• adverb

This policy has turned out to be an abject failure.

• noun

• adjective

• verb

• adverb

His character was largely destroyed by the report and his career as a distinguished voluntary public servant was brought to an ignominious end.

• noun

• adjective

• verb

• adverb

The judge clearly agreed that nothing could be more contemptible than to use school children as part of an election campaign.

• noun

• adjective

• verb

• adverb

Some of the arguments in favour of shutting the factory are questionable and others downright spurious.

• noun

• adjective

• verb

• adverb

There are lots of really sordid apartments in the city's poorer areas.

• noun

• adjective

• verb

• adverb

Each man carried a rattle to attract attention and a short truncheon for self-protection.

• noun

• adjective

• verb

• adverb

This forlorn industrial town has very high unemployment.

• noun

• adjective

• verb

• adverb

To say that they are "dissembling deliberately" means that they are deliberately lying.

• noun

• adjective

• verb

• adverb