English

Question 1

Daytime

Answer 1

n.
/ˈdeɪ.taɪm/

COLLOCATION
IN THE daytime/ DURING THE daytime

SENTENCES

• the whether is boiling during the daytime, but it is better at nights
• people nowadays usually sleep in the daytime and are awake at night
• the company only has a daytime customer support
• I think no flight in Kurdistan airports are during the daytime

SYNONYMS AND DIFFERENCES
- sometimes DAY and DAYTIME can be used interchangeably. But DAY have a broader meaning. for example: it used to describe the 24 hour period, and for eras (during the WWII days).

Question 2

Words to describe severity of whether/rain/snow

Answer 2

mild/moderate/heavy RAIN/SNOW

mild/moderate/severe WEATHER

Question 3

Mist/Misty

fog/foggy

Answer 3

تەمومژ
تەماوی

COLLOCATION
heavy/dense/thick fog
lift+fog (remove the fog/confusion) - cleared (SYN.)
covered/enveloped with mist/fog

SENTENCE

• the whether was FOGGY during the DAYTIME, followed by a HEAVY RAIN at night
• accidents usually doesn’t happen in MISTY weather, but it is a bit more dangerous when it is FOGGY
• It was a DENSE FOG but fortunately it LIFTED/CLEARED/ CLEARED AWAY quickly
• my thoughts were enveloped with fog, but after talking to her it lifted

DIFFERENCE
both have the same meaning, but fog is way denser than mist. in mist, u can see more than 1km away, but in fog less than 1km.

METAPHORIC MEANING
FOGGY:
- His biography is foggy
- My future in this country is foggy that is why I want to migrate
-   I have some foggy memories of Sabin

MISTY
ڵێڵ
misty can be used to describe wet eyes full of tear so that the vision is blurred
- I noticed her misty eyes when he left
- her eyes were misty when she received the reward

Question 4

damp

Answer 4

DAMP (n. v.)
slightly wet in a non-pleasant way
شێدار

COLLOCATION and PHRASES
damp sth down/dampen sth down (to lessen or stop fire)

SENTENCES

• It was FOGGY in the daytime and cool and DAMP at night
• We used to DAMP the floor to cool down the house because we didn’t have any air conditioner
• The heavy rain DAMP the wildfires DOWN in South Kurdistan
• My clothes are still Damp
• Dampness irritates me a lot

Question 5

Frost

Answer 5

FROST (n. v.)
- زوقم

+ a period of very cold weather in which frost forms

• there will be some frosts in Raniyah this year
• I remember the frost in which my cat died

+ v.
مێشکردنی پرچ
- I wanna frost my hair

+ to cover cake with cream
- we frosted the cake with vanilla cream frosting

Question 6

hot
boiling
stifling
tropical
humid
muggy

Answer 6

BOILING
\+ often used in combination with HOT. 
- BOILING HOT weather
\+ it could also be used to describe how u feel in a boiling weather
- I'm boiling in this room

STIFLING:
+ very hot weather that makes it hard to breath
- stifling heatwave
- stifling room

+ Stifling comes from the word stifle, which means suffocating sb/or being unable to breath because there is no air Hence, stifling could also mean to prevent something from happening, being expressed or continuing

• I stifled my anger
• She couldn’t stifle her tears as her eyes were misty
• the Kurdish parties stifle democracy

TROPICAL
+ very hot weather
- the weather here is tropical

MUGGY
+ humid hot air
- the weather in northern Iran is extremely muggy

Question 7

thaw

Answer 7

+ Defrost
it means coming out of frozen state (frozen meat thaws but doesn’t melt)
- the ground is thawing in few days
- the snow has thawed

+ a warm weather in which frost and snow thaw
- the spring thaw is late this year

+ [in relationships] to become friendlier

• our relationship was frosty, but it is thawing already
• working against the Kurds led the two countries to a thaw

Question 8

- Overcast (/ˈəʊ.və.kɑːst/)
Words to describe rain
- shower
- heavy rain (rains heavily)
- downpour (pour down)
- torrential rain

Answer 8

OVERCAST
when the sky is cloudy so that it is not sunny and bright
SHOWER n.
ڕێژنەباران
- don’t go, it is only a shower
- multiple showers during the week
- the weather forecast predicts rain showers for tomorrow

DOWNPOUR:بارانی بەلێزمە

• it is pouring down right now
• in a typical day in london, you go out to a great sunny weather and even before you notice it is a downpour

TORRENTIAL RAIN
/təˈren.ʃəl/
ترێنشەڵ
- very heavy rain

Question 9

Gentle breeze
Strong/high wind
gale

Answer 9

GENTLE BREEZE
شنەبا

GALE n.
GALE-FORCE adj. (it is the same meaning but this one is adjective)
ڕەشەبا

Gale-force winds make the city unpleasant to live