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The Tale of Tom Tit Tot with Notes

11/17/2011 Bassima Alansary 0 Comments

Hello World... I love reading English Fairy Tales and I like to make notes about the difficult vocabulary.

Today I will put a list of notes about the tale of Tom Tit Tot, Click here to get the link for the tale

So let us read the notes and I hope they are will help you with your English learning, and make you understand the tale.



- Malice: the wish to harm or upset other people.

   with malice aforethought: to illegally harm someone with malice aforethought is

to have thought about it and planned it before acting.


- Twirl: to (cause to) give a sudden quick turn or set of turns in a circle.


              EX: "She danced and twirled across the room"



- Passage: (also passageway) a usually long and narrow part of a building

with rooms on one or both sides, or a covered path which connects places



- Shriek: a short, loud, high cry, especially one produced suddenly as an expression of a powerful emotion.



- Skeins




- Victuals: Food and drink.

That is all for today, but of course I will put more notes for the other tales, so you better keep an eye on the blog.



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