5000 Vocabulary List for Visiting Scholars in the USA - Page 616
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Word
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Type
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Used in a Sentence
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Synonym
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turn
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verb
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You must turn the knob.
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rotate
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verb
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You should now turn the page.
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go to next
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verb
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She turned into a good employee.
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evolved
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verb
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The cold turned the water into ice.
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change or transform
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tutor
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noun
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The tutor helped him learn faster.
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instructor
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verb
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He was tutored in English.
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coached
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twelfth
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adj.
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It was the twelfth day of rain.
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ordinal 12
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twelve
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adj.
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Twelve men decided his fate.
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12
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twentieth
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adj.
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He was the twentieth man to quit.
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ordinal 20
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twenty
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adj.
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We have had twenty days of frost.
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20
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twice
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adv.
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He went twice to the movie this week.
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two times
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twilight
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noun
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The city looked pretty in the twilight.
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just after sunset
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noun
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He was in the twilight of his career.
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towards the end
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