Assignment:Look up 5 words that you don’t quite understand in the monolingual dictionary.
1. decent
e.g. Are there any decent restaurants around here?
2. butcher
e.g. Many western countries raise and butcher a large number of beef cattle.
3. trim
e.g. It is possible to trim off any blank area after printing .
4. voila
e.g. Come back to your seat , put your glasses back on and voila.
5. prank
e.g. I got a phone call this afternoon . l think it was a prank call.
Neat! You can even put "part of speech" and "definition of the word" when you write your vocabulary notes, Joy.
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