Academic 2: bean, below, bookcase, boring, brown

1. bean

– Part Of Speech: noun

– Meaning: An edible seed, typically kidney-shaped, growing in long pods on certain leguminous plants.

– Example:

a tin of beans
beans on toast
Occupation and instruction, without dullness, can be provided by giving the students a plot of ground for growing things in – not a bed for the bean seed only, but a miniature market garden.
About half the nation’s $629 million dry edible bean crop is grown in those two states and Michigan.
Despite my best efforts I have failed to consume 20 kg of pasta, 30 jars of peanut butter and 50 tins of beans in the last month.
There are also shell beans (lima, navy, kidney, mung, garbanzo and soya) that you can grow just for the bean seeds inside the pod.
These inhibitors are small proteins found in many plant seeds such as beans, a food regularly eaten by humans.
It differs in several ways from small, red, dry beans now grown, beginning with improved resistance to bean common mosaic viruses.

2. below

– Part Of Speech: preposition

– Meaning: At a lower level or layer than.

– Example:

At a lower level or layer than.
Just below the pocket was a stain
The blistered skin below his collar
Wendy recalls the excitement of going with her mother and aunt to a tearoom below street level and having an ice cream sundae and a fizzy drink.
One of the exhibits consisted simply of a couple of Post-It notes stuck to each other, hanging from the ceiling by a thread, a little bit below eye level.
Robb also had three stars and a pennant defining his rank painted below the windscreen.
The Taklamakan desert oasis of Turpan, at 154 metres below sea level, is the second lowest point in the world.
As we were driving through Calcutta, my friend pointed to a little shrine to a god embedded in a wall just below waist level.
Malingerer’s arm was low, but it never fell below shoulder level.
In the long run, the New Orleans area has a particular challenge, because much of the city lies below sea level.

3. bookcase

– Part Of Speech: noun

– Meaning: An open cabinet containing shelves on which to keep books.

– Example:

He had preserved them carefully in an old house, housing the books in 180 bookcases that went from floor to ceiling.
There are two leather black couches, lots of bookcases full with files, maps, books.
The rear wall was lined with huge bookcases and the mammoth desk and chair before it were cleared completely.
The walls were covered with ceiling high wooden bookcases filled with books.
Along the walls are bookcases filled with books he never knew existed.
This area would make an ideal reading or relaxation spot, as there is room to fit a set of bookcases and a sofa.
At the bookcase he opened the drawer and found it was filled with junk.
There were bookcases and shelves stretching across the other wall, and a massive stained old map of the old world.
These bulky albums are now spread across bookcases, cupboards, trunks, and attics.

4. boring

– Part Of Speech: adjective

– Meaning: Not interesting; tedious.

– Example:

I’ve got a boring job in an office
Looking for a way out of your boring and tedious job?
Most people are dreading it, convinced that the sessions will be tediously boring.
Australia is perhaps only weeks away from elections for a new federal government, yet we see the usual lacklustre, boring politics.
These jobs tend to be boring, repetitive, or physically hard.
Do I really want to spend my days doing tedious, exhausting, boring work?
But it was the same monotonous boring routine each day.
Tired of boring old beige or grey peripherals for your computer?
He becomes obnoxious, repetitive, boring, tedious.

5. brown

– Part Of Speech: adjective

– Meaning: Of a colour produced by mixing red, yellow, and blue, as of dark wood or rich soil.

– Example:

an old brown coat
she had warm brown eyes
Golden yellow and rich brown hues accompany fresh floral accents and ruggedly attractive iron light fixtures.
Ilaria was no longer a blue lush world but a dark yellow and brown wasteland.
Now awake and in charge of the day, he longed to be off, striding across the rich brown soil, out into the world, to explore.
Everything about it – the taste, the rich dark brown colour, the scent – was wonderful.
It consisted of three stuffed potato patties that had been coated in a slightly crunchy and tasty breading, and fried to a dark brown colour.
Nobody ever made a more straight drill or ploughed a field with such precision and he was at his happiest as he turned the rich brown soil followed by a flock of hungry gulls.

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