REVIEW KEY - vocabulary

These are the answers for the exercises from Francisco Nakajima's review. If you are curious about him, check his website. Very inspiring. Let's go:

1 - stage manager
2 - stunt man
3 - stunt
4 - martial arts
5 - dull
6 - tarantula
7 - practical joke
8 - whopee cushion
9 - catastrophe
10 - bloody
11 - backfire
12 - bowling
13 - bad sport
14 - beat
15 - strangle
16 - do something with one's bare hands
17 - approval
18 - stamp of approval
19 -win one's stamp of approval
20 - feature
21 - misfortune
22 -role model
23 - set the scene
24 - live broadcast
25 - broadcast
26 - proper
27 - backstage
28 - newscaster
29 -tick away
30- cue
31 - indisposed
32 - spokesman
33 - doomed
34 - subsidize
35 -misguided
36 - fake
37 - host
38 -make something up
39 -run
40 - to do wheelies
41 -buildup
42 - struggle or attempt
43 - stack
44 - sunset
45 - sunrise
46 -to push something over
47 - thud
48 - failure
49 - mannequin
50 - roll it
51 - make believe
52 - live
53 -to start with
54 - get into it
55 - spot
56 - molt
57 - virgin
58 - unable or memorable
59 -originally
60 - participant/ contestant
61 - nebulae
62 - outer space
63 - gibberish
64 - give away
65 -to get one's breath
66 - sweat
67 -figure
68 - to be taken aback
69 -unsettling
70 - smoothly or no curves
71 - auditor
72 - gipsy
73 -to be dying
74 - hot water
75 - word has it
76 - station wagon
77 - a lemon
78 - seminar
79 - pedant
80 - to boast/to brag
81 - accomplish
82 - observation deck
83 - hot wire
84 - juvenile correction center
85 - nightmare
86 - showtime
87 - conductor
88 - toasted
89 - dressing room
90 - bother or bores the heck out of
91 - doze off
92 - vulture
93 - hover
94 - principal
95 -assumption
96 -thereby
97 -aside
98 - crippling
99 -to lie
100 - peer
101 -profound
102 - accent or speech pattern
103 - standart
104 -sub-par
105 - radio
106 - airliner
107 -midair
108 - tangy
109 -wacky
110 - freak
111 - bask
112 - to be in spotlight
113 -new found
114 - forbid/ban
115 - fitness
116 -fraud
117 - bound for
118 - inevitable or unavoidable
119 -poorly
120 - feature
121 - famished
122 - to rid or to do away with something
123 - a role model
124 - glutton
125 - deceive or to exploit
126 - delight
127 - climatologist
128 - twister, tornado, hurricane
130 - famine
131 - plague
132 - foresee
133 - blessing
134 - widow
135 - widower
136 - shoot down
137 - bail out
138 - get in touch

NEWSPAPER HEADLINES - LESSON 137

Linking words to their definitions or examples. That's the purpose of this exercise, although you can also work on the layout of your article, like giving it a nice picture that really illustrates it. Do your best for you and the future generations.

headline 1

STARSHIP RADIOS AIRLINER

Alien voice saves jet from close encounter of the worst kind - A midair collision!

On a flight bound* for Stalingrad, the pilot of a Soviet airliner with 168 passengers aboard spotted a giant alien spaceship coming right at his plane. A collision the two appeared unavoidable until a radio message sent from the spaceship instructed the pilot how to avoid danger. In that same message the spaceship claimed it was unable to change its course.

*In "bound", see for "bound for"

headline 2

Mermaid EATEN by hungry fishermen!

Scientific find of century turned into tangy dinner!

After catching a mermaid-like creature with poorly defined but recognizable human features three famished South Korean fishermen cooked it and ate it.

Scientists who later saw pictures of the creature, thought it was a tragedy the mermaid ended up in the fishermen's stomachs instead of in a science lab. The scientists said they could have learned a lot from studying the creature.

headline 3

Old Saint Nick is BAD for your kids, say health nuts - WACKY FITNESS FREAKS WANT SANTA CLAUS BANNED.

Australian (number 1) health enthusiastics Peter and Myra Cordovan are starting a movement to do away with (number 14) Santa Claus. The Cordovans say that Santa Claus is a bad role model for children because he is an overweight gluton who smokes too much, never shaves, and sits around doing nothing all year round. The Cordovans feel that Santa Claus should be replaced by the image of someone who promotes health and fitness.

headline 4

"Missing" 27-inch man basks in spotlight

The world's smallest man, 27-inch Nelson de la Rosa was reported missing by his patron Awilda Vega who feared he had been kidnapped. Vega thought de la Rosa's childhood friend Rafael Tavares had kidnapped him in order to make money exhibiting him. When de la Rosa reappeared a day later he told the police he'd left on his own free will because he felt he was at times being exploited. At a press conference that same day, de la Rosa was interviewed and asked to pose for photos. The world's smallest name seemed delighted by the attention he received.

headline 5

Genious or fraud? Either way, forecaster calls newfound fame "a curse"

John Browning, a 72-year-old climatologist, has made and continues to make accurate projections on when natural disasters such as storms, tornadoes, and volcanic eruptions will happen. He also makes projections on when revolutions, famines and plagues will happen as a result of those natural disasters. Although he is a controversial figure (number 9) in the scientific community, Browning claims his projections are based on scientific research. However, he says that being able to foresee disasters is more of a curse than a blessing because he knows many lives will be lost.

headline 6

Letters help reader find family of Vietnam hero

The widow of a Vietnam vet, James Bradley, sent two letters, on two different occasions, to Ann Landers nationally syndicated column. In the first letter, she explains that on Nov. 20, 1967, a plane carrying James Bradley and Capt. John Murray Martin was shot down in Vietnam. Although James Bradley managed to bail out and write a letter home describing what happened that day, he was later killed in action. Capt. Martin was mistakenly listed as missing-in-action.

In her first letter, Mrs. Bradley says for years she has been trying unsuccessfully to get in touch with the Martin family to tell them what really happened to Capt. Martin.

In the second letter, Mrs. Bradley says that the entire Martin family read her first letter and got in touch with her the same day it was published. The Martins said that although they had hoped Capt. Martin might still be alive, the news, painful as it was, came as a relief.