COCA Exercises

Mesmerizing	Adjective		The characteristics or properties of something or someone that attract people’s attention		This video is a slow burn, but it's mesmerizing. This stick insect, painstakingly extruding itself from its egg, is an individual (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/08/27/watch-this-a-gigantic-stick-insect-pries-itself-out-of-a-tiny-egg/) We took 30 minutes to do each round. The process was absolutely mesmerizing. Even one of the most compulsively loud and talkative boys managed to  nearly touch (http://www.alexawebermorales.com/2012/11/how-i-survived-in-an-improvised-shelter-in-the-shadow-of-mt-shasta/)	Example 1: Her performance is so mesmerizing that everyone gives her a standing ovation. Example 2: Her beautiful and mesmerizing eyes makes him fall in love.
Quell	Verb	To subdue, to suppress something, to stop something especially by using force		He’s been unable to quell his wife’s suspicions. In this century, however, such criticisms have been quelled by the enormous prestige of standard modern logic, which is considered inviolate.		Example 1: the police quelled the protest quickly after it broke out in violence. Example 2: The manager coldly quells his opinions.
Far-fetched	Adjective	Very unlikely to be true, difficult to believe.		The recent finding of mosaic patients indicates that this possibility is not far-fetched. Cambridge English Corpus		In the beginning, I thought that the plan of building up a thousand-bed temporary hospital within a week was far-fetched.