tick    

1.Your job is to tick the names of those present at the meeting. 

2.She ticked off the items on the memo.(项目)

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rhyme     

1.You can't rhyme “sleep”with “feet”.

2.He was teaching Helen a little rhyme.

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convey    

1.This train conveys over one thousand passengers every day.

2.Please convey my gratitude to her.  

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nursery     

1.The babies were bawling（啼哭） in the nursery.

2. This is a well-known nursery rhyme.

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contradictory    

1.As contradictory as this sounds, I have firsthand experience of its truth.

2. Each of us lives a life of contradictory truths. We are not one thing or another.

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diamond    

1.It was a large diamond, but it had a flaw. 

2. A diamond is a shape with four straight sides of equal length where the opposite angles are the same, but none of the angles is equal to 90°

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pattern    

1.She pricked out the design from the pattern. 

2.She quilted the surface of the jacket with a new pattern. 

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cottage    

1. I saw a cottage nestling in the woods.

2. He treated his friends in his country cottage. 

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sparrow   

A sparrow may be small but it has all the vital organs.

The sparrow crossed the lawn in a series of hops.

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run out of    

1. We ran out of coal,and had to burn wood.

2.If she continues drawing on the reserve（储备金） at the current rate, she will run out of funds by 2012 – the year of her diamond jubilee（钻石婚纪念）.

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tease    

1. He teased Mary with a jest.

2. He teased me mercilessly about going Hollywood.

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salty    

1. The soup is not sufficiently salty.

2. The dish is too salty.

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endless    

1. The endless noise is driving me crazy. 

2. Children seem to be endued with endless vitality.

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minimum    

1.This will take a minimum of one hour.

2.This is the minimum quantity we require. 

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translation   

1. Try to catch the elusive （难以捉摸）charm of the original in translation.

2. I have to pick out its meaning with the help of an English translation. 

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branch    

1. He rived a branch away from the tree.

2. They have decided to close that branch down. 

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sorrow     

1. The writer expresses her sorrow in her music.

2. At last she keened her sorrow to me. 

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bare     

1.The top of the hill was bare.

2. The army would try to hold the western desert with a bare minimum of forces.

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librarian    

1. The new librarian is a friend of mine. 

2. She put the novel on the library desk, and the librarian checked it in.

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forever    

1. I think that we will live together forever.

2. Victory will remain with us forever. 

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section    

1. This section of the country is drizzly in the winter.

2. This section of the road is so norrow that there are bound to be traffic jams now and then.

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diploma    

1. The master diplomaed him a high school diploma. 

2. If you have a lot of knowledge and practical experience in yourfield but no diploma to show for it.

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blank    

1. Put a word in each blank to complete the sentence.

2. We could put some of the pictures over on that blank wall over there.

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compass    

1. Use your compass to bisect an angle.

2. We had to rely on a compass and a lot of luck to get here.

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bride    

1. All the eyes were riveted on the bride.

2. The bride and groom drink “cross-cupped wine” from one another's glasses. 

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bridegroom    

1. Many gifts were showered on the bride and bridegroom. 

2. At the wedding party， the bride and the bridegroom expressed that they would live in harmony and mutual respectand grow old together. 

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championship    

1. The two teams are vying for the championship. 

2. They chaired her round the field when she won the world championship. 

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darkness    

1. As night came,the house faded into darkness. 

2. The child keeps by his mother in the darkness.

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warmth     

1. They fell a lack of warmth in his exceeding formal congratulatory speech.

2. Of one accord, they went out of their room to enjoy the warmth of the sun. 

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scholarship      

1. The student decide to lay down the scholarship.

2. I want to take advantage of your lifetime of scholarship.

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pianist        

1. They fashioned him into a fine pianist.

2. He is now being coached by a famous pianist.

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violinist     

1. Rose's father was a talented violinist.

2. The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.

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load       

1. He drove by with a big load of hay.

2. Some of these chairs have flattened feet which spread the load on the ground.