Word study: dictionary to especially - Paper 1

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Word A - disastrous: causing great damage or a very bad result. Compare disaster and disastrous: the e in disaster is lost in disastrous. Model: 'The story's disastrous flood changed the village's plans.' Word B - embarrass: to make someone feel awkward or self-conscious. Embarrass has double r and double s. Model: 'The presenter did not want to embarrass a nervous volunteer.' Practise from memory; check. Repeat another day.