Vocab-ability Prefix–315 (semi__ = half) – A More Powerful Vocabulary (earn UpVotes with “Vocab Practice” exercise)

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MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Semicircle
    The rainbow formed a perfect semicircle that could be clearly seen from the horizon.
  2. Semiconscious
    After being hit on the head he was only semiconscious he could walk, but he tended to go in circles.
  3. Semidetached
    The building is a semi detached bungalow.

Good work!

My Vocab Practice

1.- One of the strategies that we use in my school from the preschool is to place the students in rows forming a semicircle. That way we have more visual contact with the students and more interaction with them!

2.-In the early hours of the morning, the phone rang and when I answered, I was so sleepy that I was semiconscious and I do not remember what I said.

3.- Their conversation was heard through the walls of their semidetached house despite the fact that they spoke in low voices.

Good work!

If you live in a semidetached house, just ask your neighbors what you said on the phone in the early hours of the morning. They probably heard you.... loud and clear!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE:

  1. semicircle
    We used to stay in a semicircle when we were playing that game.
  2. semiconscious
    After that car accident, he arrived semiconscious to the hospital.
  3. semidetached
    Their dreaming house was a semidetached one.

Good work!

Anyone who dreams of a semidetached house will suffer nightmares.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. The circumference of a semicircle is half that of a full circle.
  2. The drug made him semiconscious of the happenings around him.
  3. The semidetached bungalows are for sale.

Good work!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. I draw a semicircle on a paper with free hand.
  2. I feel semiconscious while get up in midnight.
  3. My house semidetached to my neighbor's house.

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Good work!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. The mathematics teacher told his students that they can simply divide the equation for a circle by two in order to derive the area of a semicircle.

  2. After the operation to remove a malignant tumour in the liver, my grandfather remained in a semiconscious state for about two days.

  3. The row of colonial semidetached houses in a quiet part of the city exuded rustic charm.

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Good work!

Colonialism sucks ... but you godda appreciate some of the rustic charm it leaves in its wake.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Semicircle
    In late summer night, we made big semicircle around the fire.

  2. Semiconscious
    Half an hour after I chewed my friend's mushrooms, I was only semiconscious.

  3. Semidetached
    My friend's single family dwelling house in Italy looks like a villa to me.

Please Re-Read rules #5 and #6. Then revise as necessary. Thanks.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Today we learn how to calculate area of a circle & semicircle.
  2. We saw to people fighting in he middle of the road and from first glance we can judge that both of them were semiconscious and they were influence of some drug.
  3. I ask my architec to change the semidetached design of the bungalows as on one from my family likes that.

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"MY VOCAB PRACTICE"

  1. The string sections of an orchestra are commonly arranged in a semicircle to enhance sound quality and effect.
  2. Doctor's were not able to get a clear medical history from the patient as he was only semiconscious when he arrived in the ambulance.
  3. Semidetached housing originated in the UK in the 1800's as a cost effective solution to meet the housing needs of rural farm workers.

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