Monday, September 22, 2014

Lesson 257--Drag:useful vocabulary



 
The word drag has several interesting and useful meanings

 
drag (verb):  when something is too heavy to carry, you pull it across the floor or ground.
 
Gwen was not strong enough to lift the box, so she dragged it into her room.
The man wouldn't move, so the police dragged him away.

 
drag (verb):  to inhale on a cigarette.

Even though he had quit, Evan took an occasional drag from Tim's cigarettes.
Can I have a drag of your cigarette.

 
drag (noun):  unfun, boring, uninteresting, dull, tedious thing; a hassle.

The party was such a drag that everyone left.
Everyone though Nick had become such a drag.
Getting homework on a Friday is such a drag.

 
drag (verb): to seem to take a long time.

The class started to drag and the students became restless.
The summer classes seem to drag more than the winter classes.


There are some other useful words with drag.  I encourage you to look them up

drag race
drag queen
drag the object (computers)

 

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