WORDS-3: Torture!

I've seen this word at an Advanced English block. The professor spelled and defined it amazingly. That is, for learning a word, it is crucial that listening regularly.

As a solution, you can record your own sound and listen it during a day, at library, at bus, something like this. In this way, I mention "listening frequently", it will lead to focusing on just a word. If you can gather attention to only a few things, learning becomes easier.

Torture! Let's pronounce it like you are exposed to a torture! What is torture? You must ask yourself frequently. What is torture?

To intentionally inflict pain or suffering on somebody



note: It is a useful way to learning that "using the word in different context in many times. You should try to build links, and bridges!

Academic Wordlists-1

Take care: to be cautious, careful, or prudent

Septuplet: one of a group of seven babies born at the same time

Minority: any subgroup that does not form a numerical majority

Suburb: rural area

Dweller: inhabitant or denizen

Concise: brief

Accomplishment: achievement

Gradually: slowly


note: It gathered from the book of "Themes For Today"

note2: Definitions are written as briefly. It may have different meanings in different contexts.

QUOTES-2 by Joseph Addison

Dou you know the name of "Joseph Addison"?. I have not heard this name. When I first saw it, it was so interesting. In my opinion, as an English language student, you should investigate him!




-Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

-Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

-Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

QUOTES-1 by Douglas Adams

Just read and cogitate! You should look for thick-written words.

-I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

-A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

-It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

-Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?



Note: Preparation students would remember the pattern of "it is a well known fact that". You should not use it in essays :)

A Useful Site For Vocabulary

You can use this website to improve your vocabulary skills joyfully. You can prepare some lists and share them on the social networks.

here

I'll write my lists. It may be useful for you.

see you.

WORDS-2: Stunning!

We will not use pictures to express the meaning. Just explaining will be more useful, then I will share some pics which can be described as "stunning"

- extremely beautiful and attractive

Examples:
- What a stunning film! I've not watched a film about the genocide so far.
- You're stunningly naive for a university student.


Photos:

(stunning macro photography)


(stunning cat)


(stunning photo manipulation)





note1: When I first use this word in a general context, my advanced english professor gave warning that stunning is a specific word and cannot used for all usages of "beautiful". Don't forget it!

WORDS-1 : Deadlock

there is a deadlock! no way to escape. If we can deny dictionaries and their often meaningless definitions, understanding words with simple pictures is too easy. Just conceive as this image when you hear our stunning word: deadlock!


note1: (It might be useful) For dictionaries, the meaning is " a situation in which agreement in an argument or idea cannot be reached because neither side will change its position.


note2: There is a stunning music group named "Deadlock", you can look for it.

see you!

Hello Everyone! Let's Start

English: the nightmare of college students! It may be an awful nightmare for university students too. Actually, if you have not enough English in high school years, it is normal. However, being unsuccessful should not be a fate. As you see, my English is not wonderful of course, but I have never ever see English as a "deadlock"!

Yeah, here, our first word to study: deadlock!

the meaning and examples will be shown at the next text.

see you

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