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#vocabulary
❇️ fade
/feɪd/
- verb/noun
🟣 Definition:
(verb)
to (cause to) lose colour, brightness, or strength gradually:
🔻Examples:
They arrived home just as the light was fading (= as it was getting dark).
The sun had faded the blue walls.
His anger faded away.
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#conversation
Phone Conversation
📍Common sentences used in Phone Conversation
📞 I'll call you back.
📞 I can't talk right now.
📞 Let me call you back.
📞 Thank you for calling!
📞 I'm quite busy right now.
📞 I called just this morning.
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#proverb
🟩 All that glitters is not gold.
Ⓜ️eaning: Appearances can be deceptive.
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🟨 sick and tired of something
Ⓜ️eaning: to be ve,y frustrated, annoyed, bored with or very unhappy about something.
⭐️ Examples:
He is sick and tired of listening to clients complaints.
I'm sick and tired of working the same tasks every day.
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#idiom
🟨 Behind the times
Ⓜ️eaning: expressing that something is not modern, old-fashioned, obsolete or out of date.
⭐️ Examples:
If you don't want to fall behind the times, read the newspaper every day.
If you think the world is flat, you are behind the times.
The marketing plan for their products is a little behind the times.
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#Merriam_Webster's Word of the Day:
December 30, 2023
arduous
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#vocabulary
❇️ courage
/ˈkɜr·ɪdʒ, ˈkʌr·ɪdʒ/
noun
🔵 Definition:
The quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery.
🔻Examples:
The soldiers fought with great courage.
She called on all her courage to face the ordeal.
In the olden days, courage was thought to come from the heart.
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American 🆚 British English
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#phrasal_verb
🟪 fire off
1⃣ fire off sth, fire sth off
🔸 to fire a bullet, bomb etc into the air:
The terrorists fired off several shots into the air.
The Mexicans have a tradition of firing off guns to welcome in the new year.
2⃣ fire off sth, fire sth off
🔸 to quickly write and send a letter or message to someone, especially an angry one protesting about something:
I fired off another furious e-mail to the editor.
The United States fired off a harshly worded protest, calling for international action.
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🟨 a roller coaster / a roller-coaster ride
Ⓜ️eaning: You can say an experience is a roller coaster, or a roller-coaster ride, if it involves many emotional highs and lows, or really good times alternating with really difficult times.
⭐️ Example: Eric writes about the roller coaster of rock and roll, with the highs of success and fame followed by the lows of drug addiction and depression.
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#vocabulary
❇️ treason
/ˈtriː.zən/
noun
🔵 Definition:
(the crime of) showing no loyalty to your country, especially by helping its enemies or trying to defeat its government:
In 1807, Burr was arrested and tried for treason, but he was acquitted.
They were tried and found guilty of treason.
🔷 Synonyms:
🔹 traitorousness
🔹 treachery
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Give sb the cold shoulder
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🔶 Synonyms for 'fade'
🔸 vanish
🔸 wear-off
🔸 atrophy
🔸 obliterate
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#quote
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
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#common_mistakes
❌ I arrived to Rome.
✅ I arrived in Rome.
❌ I arrived to the office.
✅ I arrived at the office.
❌ I went to home
✅ I went home
❌ I went to abroad
✅ I went abroad
🍃 arrive in cities, towns, provinces, countries... etc
🍃 arrive at small places such as buildings
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#reading
Reading Comprehension
Naval architects never claim that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely should have never had happened. It was well designed and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It had been thoroughly inspected the day of its fatal voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so quickly that most of those on board, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, had no chance to save themselves: Of those who managed to scramble overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of hypothermia before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea. The final death toll amounted to 912 souls. However, there were an unpleasant number of questions about why the Estonia sank and why so many survivors were men in the prime of life, while most of the dead were women, children and the elderly.
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📙 Write in ink, not with ink.
❌ Don't say: I've written the letter with ink.
✅ Say:I've written the letter in ink.
👉 Note 1: We use in when we are referring to the final work:
The drawing was done in charcoal.
Dora writes her letters in green ink.
👉 Note 2: When we are referring to the instrument used, we use “with”:
The children are learning to write with a pen.
Helen prefers to paint with a thin brush.
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#idiom
🟨 up in arms about something
Ⓜ️eaning: expressing that you are very angry or upset about something.
⭐️ Example:
The local residents have been up in arms about the tax increase.
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#Merriam_Webster's Word of the Day:
December 30, 2023
arduous
adjective
/AHR-juh-wus/
What It Means:
Arduous is an adjective used to describe something that is very difficult or strenuous.
Example:
The gorgeous waterfall at the top of the mountain was worth the arduous hike.
ARDUOUS in Context:
“And with [hockey player, Patrice] Bergeron now enjoying the retired life after 19 seasons spent with the Bruins, the six-time Selke Trophy winner acknowledged that [Zdeno] Chara has already tried to recruit him for some arduous training.” — Conor Ryan, Boston.com, 21 Nov. 2023
Did You Know?
Arduous isn’t the type of word one expects to hear in a folk song—it’s a bit too formal—but strenuous work and difficult journeys are the stuff of many a classic tune. Take “The Wayfaring Stranger,” for an example, a somber song about life’s travails performed by everyone from singer and activist Paul Robeson to country star Emmylou Harris: “I know dark clouds will gather o’er me / I know my pathway’s rough and steep.” Such a lyric gets at the dual literal/figurative nature of arduous, which comes from the Latin adjective arduus, meaning “high,” “steep,” or “difficult.” For quite a while after appearing in English in the mid-1500s, arduous hewed closely to the figurative “strenuous” or “difficult” sense until poet Alexander Pope invoked steepness when he wrote of “those arduous paths they trod” in his 1711 work “An Essay on Criticism.” To pen such a work at the age of 23, and in heroic couplets no less, must have been an arduous challenge indeed, but like the wayfaring stranger seeking a brighter land, Pope had his eyes on the prize.
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🔷 Synonyms for 'courage'
🔹nerve
🔹spunk
🔹valor
🔹audacity
🔹derring-do
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#phrasal_verb
🟪 fire up
1⃣ fire up sb, fire sb up (USUALLY PASSIVE)
🔸 to make someone become very excited, interested, or angry:
By the time we went into the contest we were all fired up with enthusiasm.
Uncle George always had terrific stories that fired up our imagination.
2⃣ fire up sth, fire sth up
🔸 (informal, especially AmE) to make something start to burn, for example a cigarette or something you are going to cook on:
Millions of Americans are preparing to fire up their barbecues on Labor Day weekend.
✴️ SIMILAR TO: light up
3⃣ fire up sth, fire sth up
🔸 (informal, especially AmE) to make an engine, computer etc start to work:
Mercer fires up the 52 horsepower engine and lifts off from the main runway.
✴️ SIMILAR TO: start up
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#phrasal_verb
🟪 fire back
🔸 to quickly and angrily answer a question or remark:
(+ at) The Japanese government has fired back at its critics.
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#Similar_words
🟠 rug
🟠 rag
❇️ rug /rʌɡ/
noun
• a floor covering of thick woven material or animal skin, typically not extending over the entire floor:
(Compare carpet.)
an oriental rug.
The rug we bought for the living-room has a beautiful red and gold pattern.
❇️ rag /ræɡ/
noun/verb
(noun)
• a piece of old cloth, especially one torn from a larger piece:
I keep these rags for cleaning the car.
They were dressed in rags (= in old, torn pieces of clothing).
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Items of clothing
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AMERICAN VS BRITISH
Food-related words
🇺🇸 chips | 🇬🇧 crisps
🇺🇸 sausage | 🇬🇧 banger
🇺🇸 popsicle | 🇬🇧 ice lolly
🇺🇸 French fries | 🇬🇧 chips
🇺🇸 takeout | 🇬🇧 takeaway
🇺🇸 eggplant | 🇬🇧 aubergine
🇺🇸 shopping cart | 🇬🇧 shopping trolley
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