Carrie
Carrie felt the drag of desire for all that was new and pleasing in apparel for women. She noticed too, with a touch at the heart, the fine ladies who elbowed and ignored her. Carrie was not familiar with the appearance of her more fortunate sisters of the city. Neither had she before known the nature and appearance of the shop girls with whom she now compared poorly. Where ever she encountered the eye of one it was only to recognize in it a keen analysis of her own
position dash–her
individual shortcomings of dress and that shadow of manner which she thought must hang about her and make clear to all who and what she was. A flame of envy lighted in her heart. She realized in a dim way how much the city
held dash–wealth,
fashion,
ease dash–every
adornment for women. She longed for dress and beauty with a whole heart.
Retell the main events from the story Through the Tunnel, by Doris Lessing, as Jerry might tell them to his best friend when he returns from vacation.
"My mother and I went abroad for vacation, to a beautiful beach. But, guess what? On the first day there, I discovered a much interesting place. It was a wild beach, so different from the one we were on. I begged my mom to let me go there and she finally did, although I think she was not very convinced. Anyway, I did! I went there! You wouldn't believe how wonderful it was. I met some local boys there that could dive through a hole in a wall of rocks under the water. They went through the hole and came out in a different beach! And I tried! At first, it was hard, I had to prepare my lungs, it took me a few days to do it properly. Besides, you know how my nose always bleeds when I push myself so hard... It didn't matter to me, my mom was not happy with this. But I really wanted to do it! So I kept trying until, the day before coming back, I finally managed to do it. I was so happy!
When I got back home and told my mother she asked me not to do it again, she seemed worried and I agreed not to do it anymore. I just feel happy I could do it once and I am so proud! I loved this vacations!
What about your vacations? Have you had fun?"
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"Able" means "having the ability to do something". Making it a verb with "en-" makes it mean "giving someone/thing else the ability to do something" - as you can see, the prefix just takes the base word and flips it around.
Take a look at "enact". The base word, "act" as a noun means "a deed" or "thing done", but adding the prefix makes a verb, flipping it around - "creating/making a thing done" (more specifically a law or bill)
Finally, "endanger". It follows the pattern - the base means "something that could cause harm", making it a verb flips it to "to put something into a situation that could cause it/them harm".
These aren't necessarily the dictionary definitions but that's the basics of what it's trying to get at