The document is a passage from a novel set in Malaysia that uses some Malay words. It provides definitions for 8 Malay words used in excerpts from the novel:
1) mee - noodles
2) kuali - cooking pan
3) kedai - shop
4) kampong - village
5) chai - tea
6) moloko - milk
7) sladky - sweet
8) slooshied - heard
It also defines 4 additional words from another excerpt: millicents - police, pooshkas - guns, devotchka - girl, and rozzes - policemen
The document is a passage from a novel set in Malaysia that uses some Malay words. It provides definitions for 8 Malay words used in excerpts from the novel:
1) mee - noodles
2) kuali - cooking pan
3) kedai - shop
4) kampong - village
5) chai - tea
6) moloko - milk
7) sladky - sweet
8) slooshied - heard
It also defines 4 additional words from another excerpt: millicents - police, pooshkas - guns, devotchka - girl, and rozzes - policemen
The document is a passage from a novel set in Malaysia that uses some Malay words. It provides definitions for 8 Malay words used in excerpts from the novel:
1) mee - noodles
2) kuali - cooking pan
3) kedai - shop
4) kampong - village
5) chai - tea
6) moloko - milk
7) sladky - sweet
8) slooshied - heard
It also defines 4 additional words from another excerpt: millicents - police, pooshkas - guns, devotchka - girl, and rozzes - policemen
The document is a passage from a novel set in Malaysia that uses some Malay words. It provides definitions for 8 Malay words used in excerpts from the novel:
1) mee - noodles
2) kuali - cooking pan
3) kedai - shop
4) kampong - village
5) chai - tea
6) moloko - milk
7) sladky - sweet
8) slooshied - heard
It also defines 4 additional words from another excerpt: millicents - police, pooshkas - guns, devotchka - girl, and rozzes - policemen
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In Time for a Tiger, a novel set in Malaysia, Anthony Burgess uses some Malay words.
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out their meanings. He watched with pleasure the food-sellers swirling the frying mee around in their kualis over primitive charcoal fires.... Ibrahim, watching the swirling mee in thekuali, had suddenly remembered his wife.... Fatima had tracked him down and tried to hit him with a kuali in the mess kitchen. They were sitting in a kedai in the single street of Gila, acting, it seemed, a sort of play for the entire population of the town and the nearest kampong. So now, this smiling winter morning, I drink this very strong chai with moloko and spoon after spoon after spoon of sugar, me having a sladky tooth. Then we slooshied the sirens and knew the millicents were coming with pooshkas pushing out of the police auto-windows at the ready. That little weepy devotchkahad told them, there being a box for calling the rozzes not too far behind the Muni Power Plant. 1. It is snowing today __ there are no buses and I can't come to school.
A because B but C so D whereas
2. Andrea watched the football match _______ her country's team was playing.
A so B but C because D whereas
3. The England team won the match ________ the other team had very good players.
A so B but C because D although
4. In classroom G we have a view of the road _______ in classroom E we have a view of the garden.
A so B because C whereas D that's why
5. Marco wrote his homework very quickly ___ he didn't make any mistakes.
A so B but C because D that's why
6. It is Sunday today. __________ the school is closed.
A But B Because C Whereas D That's why
7. Maria is only fourteen years old __ she isn't allowed to go into the pub. (The minimum age is eighteen.)
A so B but C because D although
8. Mazen didn't eat anything at the party ________ he was very hungry.
A so B whereas C because D although
9. Bristol has two football stadiums _______ Bath has a rugby stadium.
A so B because C whereas D that's why
10. _______ the Spanish team won the match, all the Spanish students were happy.
A So B Because C That's why D Whereas
Word Meaning mee a kind of food - noodles kuali a cooking pan kedai Shop kampong Villaje