I jeered the kid after he fell on his face.
The crowd jeered the football player when he dropped an easy pass
prosperous?? People these days are more prosperous than 100 years ago.
A good example of a compound word is bookshelf.
(The idiom more or less means generally, literally, or practically.) With one candidate in jail, the election result was more or less predictable. As the oldest son, he was more or less responsible...