Tham khảo tài liệu 'mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 9', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 344 DICTION Usage The verbs wake waken awake and awaken are alike in meaning but differentiated in usage. Each has transitive and intransitive senses but awake is used largely intransitively and waken transitively. In the passive voice awaken and waken are the more frequent was awakened or wakened by his call. In figurative usage awake and awaken are the more prevalent He awoke to the danger his suspicions were awakened. Wake is frequently used with up the others do not take a preposition. The preferred past participle of wake is waked not woke or woken When I had waked him I discovered that the danger was past. The preferred past participle of awake is awaked not awoke He had awaked several times earlier in the night. wake2 wak n. 1. The visible track of turbulence left by something moving through the water the wake of a ship. 2. The track or course left behind anything that has passed Every revolutionary law has naturally left in its wake defection resentment and counterrevolutionary sentiment. C. Wright Mills . in the wake of. 1. Following directly upon. 2. In the aftermath of as a consequence of. Probably Middle Low German wake from Old Norse vok a hole or crack in ice. See wegw- in Appendix. Informative introductions to special dictionaries and reference works in general can be found in The Basic Guide to Research Sources edited by Robert O Brien and Joanne Sod-erman New American Library 1975 Reference Readiness A Manual for Librarians and Students second edition Linnet Books 1977 or A Guide to Library Research Methods by Thomas Mann Oxford University Press 1987 . Here we are interested only in one kind of special dictionary the thesaurus or dictionary of synonyms. Syno- IMPROVING YOUR VOCABULARY DICTIONARIES 345 may be inferred from other evidence weg-2 refers to a list of Indo-European roots contained in an appendix following the word list. Indo-European is the name given to the mother language of English and most other .
