Vocabulary
Learning Activity 2

2-1: Best Meaning

These nine groups of sentences are from Medevac: December 24th 1986. Write down your own meaning for the bold word and then use a dictionary to find the best meaning for the word. Write down the meaning from the dictionary and compare your meaning to it.

1. Three years in the North have made her a little cynical.
   Your meaning
   
   
   Dictionary meaning
   
2. She sees Orion through the pilot’s window. To the west the stars are obscured by cloud, but she is more concerned with the cramp in her leg than the weather.
   Your meaning
   
   
   Dictionary meaning
   
3. Something’s going on. Maybe it’s the morphine. But intuition tells her that this is not so.
   Your meaning
   
   
   Dictionary meaning
   
4. “Helluva lot safer inside than out. If the engine quits.”
   “Ever happen to you?”
   “Once.” He doesn’t elaborate.
   Your meaning
   
   
   Dictionary meaning
   
5. Difficult to hold a conversation over the clatter of the engine. Her patient is oblivious.
   Your meaning
   
   
   Dictionary meaning