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1Cast

The fishmen cast the net into the sea.

The fishermen cast their nets into the sea.

The snake will cast the skin every year.

Every year the snake casts off its skin.

The sun cast the long shadow into the lawn

The sun cast long shadows across the lawn.

The director cast me as a mad scientist.

The statue of the horse is cast of bronze.

This statue of a horse was cast in bronze.

A cast list

Members of a play.

Members of the cast.

2forecast

He forecast confidently there will be an increase in sales .

He confidently forecast a big increase in sales.

Do you listen to the weather forecast every morning ?

3visual

The building give a visual impact to people.

The building makes a tremendous visual impact.

4vision

She has a good vision.

She has good vision.

We need a leader with a good vision to the party.

We need a man of vision as leader of the party.

He has a vision of himself as a rich businessman

He had a vision of himself as a rich businessman.

There was so much traffic that I am afraid I will be late for the plane.

There was so much traffic that I had vision of missing my plane.

5visible

Most of stars will not visible to the naked eye.

Most stars are not visible to the naked eye.

There will be clearly visible to see the supress of the economy in the street.

Signs of economic decay are clearly visible in the streets.

He still not visible .

He showed no visible sign of emotion.

6invisible

Germs is invisible into the naked eyes.

Germs are invisible to the naked eyes.

7insight

He is a writer of a good insight.

He is a writer of great insight.

I hope you have an insight of the difficulties we face.

I hope you have gained some insight into the difficulties we face.

8aspect

Do you think of the problem in every aspect?

Have you thought about the problem from every aspect?

The house southern aspect.

The house has a southern aspect.

He is a man of a fierce aspect.

He is a man with a fierce aspect.

9prospect

She has a bright prospect.

There will not a peaceful prospect in immediate time.

There is no immediate prospect of peace.

The lake has a good prospect.

The prospect of the lake is delightful.

Thousands of the people swap into the area prospect the gold.

Thousands moved to the area to prospect for gold.

I will meet a prospective buyer today.

I am meeting a prospective buyer today.

He is concerned about the prospective change in the laws.

He is worried about prospective changes in the law.

10outlook

He has a pracital outlook .

He has a practical outlook on life.

Most western societies has liberal in ideas .

Most western societiets are liberal in outlook.

The job market is bleak in outlook.

The outlook for jobs is bleak.

There were a pleasant outlook through the valley

The house has a pleasant outlook over the valley.

11spectator

Many spectator watched the baseball game.

12respective

They will be seen as scientists in different areas.

They are recognized specialists in their respective fields.

13perspective

We should treat the problems from every perspectives.

We should see this issue from a different perspective.

Talking to others can help us deal with own problems.

Talking to others can help to put your own problems into perspectives.

The artist use perspectives to confuse vision.

The artist plays with perspectives to confuse the eye.

14standpoint

He wrote the essay from the government standpoint.

He wrote the essay from the standpoint of the government.

15suspect.

I suspect the gas will leak

I suspect a gas leak.

I suspect her motives of offering help to others.

I suspected her motives in offering to help.

He is the prime suspect in this case.

Suspicion

I have a suspicion that she is not telling the truth.

I have a sneaking suspicion that she is not telling the truth.

I had a serious suspicion that we will find a wrong station.

I have a horrible suspicion that we are come to the wrong station.

16suspicious

They were suspicious of their behaviour and they call the police.

They became suspious of his behaviour and contacted the police.

Do you notice his behaviour have some suspicious ?

Didn’t you notice anything suspicious in his behavior?

You have serious suspicious heart

You have a very suspicious mind.

17dubious

I am still dubious of her motives.

I remain dubious of her motives.

His background is dubious.

The result is still dubious.

18skeptical

I am skeptical of their chance of winning.

I am rather skeptical about their chance of winning.

19echo

She shouted “hello”,and then listened to the echo.

She shouted “hello” and listened for the echo.

He echoed his wife for everything

He is his wife’s echo.

Their voice echo in the empty room

Their voices echoed in the big empty hall.

They echoed their leader every word.

They echoed every word of their leader.

20vocal

Togue is one of the vocal organ .

The tongue is one of the vocal organs.

He always vocal in critism for the government policy.

He has been vocal in his criticism of the government’s policy.

21verbal

She is only in verbal promise.

She only gave a verbal promise.

The people of applying this job should have good verbal skills.

The job applicant must have good verbal skills.

Verbal nune

A verbal noun

22dictate

The manager dictate a letter to the cleck.

The manager dictated a letter to his cleck.

Don’t dictate me to do this thing.

Do not dictate to me to do that.

Now,we have qualifications of command this request.

We are now in a position to dictate our own demands.

He is always action follow this dictates.

He always follows the dictates of common sense.

Dictator

The dictator have a very skills .

A dictator must have a firm hand.

23dictation

Dictation makes me sore throat.

Dictation makes my throat sore.

Teachers give us two listening dictation today.

The teacher gave us two dictations today.

24predict

The economists predict there will be an increase in flating.

The economists predicted an increase in the rate of inflation.

Prediction

He make the prediction that the flation will be an increase .

He made a prediction that there will be an increase in the rate of inflation.

25rack

A luggage rack

Wash the plates and then put the plates into the rack to dry.

Wash the dishes and then put them in the plate rack to dry.

She racked with the pain.

26log

He put the log into the fire again.

He threw another log on the fire.

The captine will keep log of

The captain keeps a log.

The police log all phones.

The police log all phones calls.

The pliot has 1000hours flight log.

The pilot has logged 1000 hours in the air.

Logging needs passwords.

You need a password to log on.

27rod

As the saying goes:the spare the rod,the spoil the child

As a saying goes,”spare the rod and spoil the child.”

28pillar

He fall asleep leaned against the pillar.

He fell asleep leaning against a pillar.

The director is a pillar of our company.

29timber

A timber mechant.

His job is fire the timber.

His job is to fell timber.

30lumber

The house is made of lumber.

A majority of elepants passed with the lumber steps.

A herd of elephants lumbered by.

My parents went out and my sisters should lumber me.

When my parents go out ,my sisters gets lumbered with me.

31jungle

The rule of jungle.

The law of the jungle.

Tingers appeared in the Asia jungle.

Tigers are found in the dense jungle of Asia.

The paper has jungle advertisements.

The paper is a jungle of ads.

The city appeared as the jungle,nobody has the safety.

The city is a jungle where no one is safe.

32pose

The clients pose a common cense at the wedding.

At the wedding ,the guests posed for a group photograph.

The high oil cost pose the serious trouble in the industry.

The high oil poses serious problems for industry.

He put a problem in the news conference.

He posed a question at the news conference.

The thieves posed a aspect of workers.

The gang posed os workmen.

He put a relaxed pose to photo.

He adopted a relaxed pose for the camera.

This concern only put a pose.

This show of concern is just a pose.