Raymond's Run Questions

1. To foreshadow is to predict something or to give a hint of what is to come.
Example: I foreshadowed I was going to win the football tournament because the score was 5:1

2. It is different than an inference is a educated guess whilst a foreshadowing is  to predict something or to give a hint of what is to come.
But inferences and foreshadowing are also the same because they both mean making a guess with the information given.

3. Swanky:
They had porches and pillars and four or five steps going up to their front doors, and it was obvious that once upon a time they had been very swanky residences.

Congenial:
On the other hand, a pub would be more congenial than a boardinghouse.

Rapacious:
The name itself conjured up images of watery cabbage, rapacious landladies, and a powerful smell of kippers in the living room.

Dither:
After dithering about like this in the cold for two or three minutes, Billy decided that he would walk on and take a look at The Bell and Dragon before making up his mind.

Compelling:
BED AND BREAKFAST, BED AND BREAKFAST. Each word was like a large black eye staring at him through the glass, holding him, compelling him, forcing him to stay where he was and not to walk away from that house, and the next thing he knew, he was actually moving across from the window to the front door of the house, climbing the steps that lead up to it, and reaching for the bell.

Compulsion:
The compulsion or, more accurately, the desire to follow after her into that house was extraordinarily strong.

Dotty:
The old girl is slightly dotty, Billy told himself.

Dainty:
“Dear me,” she said, shaking her head and heaving a dainty little sigh.

Tantalizing:
There is nothing more tantalizing than a thing like this that lingers just outside the borders of one's memory

Linger:
There is nothing more tantalizing than a thing like this that lingers just outside the borders of one’s memory.


Emanate:
Now and again, he caught a whiff of a peculiar smell that seemed to emanate directly from her person.

Malevolent: Not in the story

Naive: Not in the story

Gullible: Not in the story

Beguiling: Not in the story

Swanky: I saw some really swanky clothes at the shopping mall.

Congenial: The book was very congenial.

Rapacious: The pig was very rapacious when the food came that night.

Dither: I dithered if the maths question was correct.

Compelling: The bully was compelling me to taste the rotten cheese.

Compulsion: The compulsion of saying something in class was irresistible.

Dotty: I went dotty when a dear jumped up over me from a bush.

Dainty: The cake that had taken weeks was dainty.

Tantalizing: The king was tantalizing on how to defeat the Greeks.

Linger: The dogs kept lingering about our trash bin.
Emanate: The school bully emanated at the group of boys.
Malevolent: The boys hade lots of malevolent at their headmaster for caning them.
 Naive: The babysitter was very naive at looking after kids
Gullible: My friend is very gullible because he trusts me.
Beguiling: The witch from the cottage across the rapids was very beguiling.