Progressive English Skills

12 Mar 2024 20:34

#idiom

Be into something

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Progressive English Skills

09 Mar 2024 13:18

#Similar_words

🟠 slick
🟠 slack


❇️ slick /slik/

- adjective

• smooth and slippery; smooth and glossy:

Cars were sliding off roads that were slick with rain.


❇️ slack /slæk/

adjective

• not tight, taut, or firm; loose:

These tent ropes are too slack - they need tightening.


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Progressive English Skills

06 Mar 2024 20:45

#proverb

🟩 Money begets money.
 
Ⓜ️eaning: If you have money you can make more money.

#saying #proverbs
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

06 Mar 2024 20:45

#proverb

🟩 Many hands make light work.
 
Ⓜ️eaning: Sharing work makes work easier.

#saying #proverbs
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Progressive English Skills

03 Mar 2024 05:45

#vocabulary

❇️ fragrant

 /ˈfreɪ.ɡrənt/

- adjective

🟢 Definition:
Having a pleasant smell or aroma.


🔻Examples:

The flowers of about 27% of species were known to be fragrant, and 32% not fragrant.

It was a smell the memory of which lingered with one as if it were a fragrant perfume.


🔷 Synonym: scented


#synonyms
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Progressive English Skills

28 Feb 2024 22:29

#idiom

🟨 a raw deal

Ⓜ️eaning: If you think that you got a raw deal, you think you weren't treated fairly or as well as other people.

⭐️ Examples:

Doctors in small hospitals in country towns get a raw deal. They earn less, and usually work longer hours, than doctors in big-city hospitals.

If it wasn't for the transport workers union, drivers would still be getting low wages and a raw deal all around.


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Progressive English Skills

17 Feb 2024 21:49

#vocabulary

❇️ prone

/prəʊn/

- adjective

🟢 Definition:
Likely or liable to do, get, or suffer from something.


🔻Examples:

For all her experience as a television reporter, she was still prone to camera nerves.

Regulation, however comprehensive and widely ratified and implemented, is unlikely to prove highly successful since it is prone to enforcement deficit.

Years of logging had left the mountains prone to mudslides.


🔷 Synonyms:

🔹 liable
🔹 susceptible


#synonyms
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Progressive English Skills

16 Feb 2024 22:59

#Merriam_Webster's Word of the Day:

February 15, 2024

enervate

verb 

/EN-er-vayt/


What It Means:

Enervate is a formal word used for situations in which someone or something is being sapped of physical or mental vigor, vitality, or strength. The verb is most common in the participial forms enervated and enervating, as in "children enervated by the summer afternoon heat" and "a tedious discussion we found completely enervating."


Example:

The person giving the lengthy toast seemed to be completely unaware of the degree to which he was enervating his audience.


ENERVATE in Context:

"Toward the end of Paved Paradise … [author, Henry] Grabar follows housing activists' efforts to legalize in-law apartments carved from single-family houses, in many cases from the garage. The mere fact of this movement epitomizes the underlying problem: Local regulations have blocked apartments while allowing parking structures because, for most of seven or eight decades, city planners got hung up on the wrong issue. The visionaries of Victor Gruen's day simply failed to foresee how the relentless promotion of parking spaces might enervate cities and crowd out other needs." — Dante Ramos, The Atlantic, 4 June 2023


Did You Know?

Do not let any haziness in your understanding of enervate cause you to be enervated. Confusion about this somewhat rare word is reasonable, and aided greatly by the fact that although enervate looks like a plausible product of the joining of energize and invigorate, it is actually an antonym of both. Enervate comes from a form of the Latin verb enervare, which literally means "to remove the sinews of," and figuratively means simply "to weaken." Enervare was formed from the prefix e-, meaning "out of," and nervus, meaning "sinew, nerve." So etymologically, at least, someone who is enervated is "out of nerve." Knowing this, you no longer need be unnerved by it.


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Progressive English Skills

11 Feb 2024 20:38

#idiom

FOR SALE 🆚 ON SALE

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Progressive English Skills

04 Feb 2024 21:28

#vocabulary

📍Miss, Mrs, Ms, Mr, Sir


❇️ Miss.

🔵 used in front of the family name of a woman who is not married to address her politely, to write to her, or to talk about her.


❇️ Mrs.

🔵 used before a married woman’s family name to be polite when you are speaking to her, writing to her, or talking about her.


❇️ Ms. /mɪz, məz/

🔵 used before a woman’s family name when she does not want to be called ‘Mrs’ or ‘Miss’, or when you do not know whether she is married or not.


❇️ Mr.

🔵 used before a man’s family name to be polite when you are speaking to him, writing to him, or talking about him.


❇️ Sir.

🔵 used when speaking to a man in order to be polite or show respect.


#noun
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Progressive English Skills

02 Feb 2024 09:48

#IELTS_ENERGY

IELTS Energy 1349: IELTS Grammar- Different FROM or Different THAN?

January 23, 2024

Would you say IELTS is different from other exams?
Alternatively, would you say it’s different than other exams?
Today we’ll answer this tricky grammar question.
We’ll share a pro tip about which one you should always use on IELTS.

#IELTS
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Progressive English Skills

29 Jan 2024 05:15

#vocabulary

❇️ swamp

 /swɒmp/ 

- noun/verb

 🔵 Definition:
(noun)
an area of very wet, low-lying land, usually with a growth of wild plants.

🔻Examples:

The road passes through numerous swamps, but there are no large rivers to be crossed.

The ceaseless deluge had turned the small front yard of the cottage into a swamp.

The picture changes in times of drought, when access to the swamps for food and water becomes necessary to support the elephants.


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Progressive English Skills

23 Jan 2024 20:38

#Similar_words

🔷 contiguous
🔷 contagious


❇️ contiguous /kənˈtɪg yu əs/

- adjective

• in close proximity; next to each other:

The Southern Ocean is contiguous with the Atlantic.


❇️ contagious /kənˈteɪ dʒəs/

adjective

• spread from one person or organism to another by direct or indirect contact:

The infection is highly contagious, so don't let anyone else use your towel.


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Progressive English Skills

19 Jan 2024 23:31

#phrasal_verb

🟪 fix with

fix sb with a look/stare/gaze etc

🔸 to look at someone very directly and for a long time, especially in an angry way:

Alison paused and fixed Guido with an irritated look.

As soon as I came in, my mother fixed me with an angry stare.


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Progressive English Skills

12 Mar 2024 20:34

#idiom

Get a grip

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Progressive English Skills

06 Mar 2024 20:45

#proverb

🟩 Necessity is the mother of invention.
 
Ⓜ️eaning: The need for something forces people to find a way of obtaining it.

#saying #proverbs
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Progressive English Skills

06 Mar 2024 20:45

#proverb

🟩 Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
 
Ⓜ️eaning: If you get married too quickly, you may spend all your life regretting it.

#saying #proverbs
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Progressive English Skills

05 Mar 2024 10:33

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IELTS speaking test.

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Progressive English Skills

01 Mar 2024 05:28

#preposition

The use of on and in for vehicles

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Progressive English Skills

27 Feb 2024 21:05

#phrasal_verb

Phrasal Verbs With Sleep


🟪 Sleep off

🔸 to recover from something by going to sleep:

After the party he needed to sleep off the excessive drinking.


🟪 Sleep over

🔸 to spend one or more nights in a place other than one's own home:

Two friends will sleep over this weekend.


🟪 Sleep through

🔸 to keep sleeping even when it's noisy:

I can sleep through thunderstorms without waking up.


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Progressive English Skills

23 Feb 2024 09:44

#common_mistakes

❌ She is wearing blue jeans pants.
✅ She is wearing blue jeans.


❌ Last night I didn’t keep my diary.
✅ Last night I didn’t write anything in my diary.


❌ He made a world record.
✅ He set a world record.


❌ The class’s students are 55.
✅ There are 55 students in the class.


❌ I don’t even understand my mind.
✅ I don’t even understand what I was thinking.


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Progressive English Skills

17 Feb 2024 20:57

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16 Feb 2024 22:59

#Merriam_Webster's Word of the Day:
February 15, 2024

enervate

#vocabulary
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Progressive English Skills

09 Feb 2024 09:39

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Progressive English Skills

03 Feb 2024 22:15

#vocabulary

❇️ scamper

 /ˈskæm.pər/

- verb/noun

🟣 Definition:
(Verb)
To run hastily with quick light steps, especially through fear or excitement (Like a small animal or child).

🔻Examples:

I know of few things more beautiful than rabbits scampering across the fields fairly late in the evening.

He scampered up the outer staircase and disappeared into the hall.

🔶 Synonyms:

🔸 scuttle (out)
🔸 sprint


#synonyms
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Progressive English Skills

29 Jan 2024 05:15

#synonyms

🔷 Synonyms for 'swamp'

🔹 bog
🔹 morass
🔹 quagmire
🔹 marsh
🔹 fen


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Progressive English Skills

26 Jan 2024 09:33

#reading

Reading Passage

Data from the Pioneer spacecraft of NASA apparently prove the theory that the high surface temperature of Venus is due to an atmospheric greenhouse effect caused mainly by a blanket of carbon dioxide. Such a greenhouse effect is created when energy in the form of sunlight easily passes through a planet's atmosphere, warms its surface, and is converted to heat radiation that is then held in by the atmosphere from top to bottom. Venus has a relatively thin atmosphere like the Earth's, but Venus' atmosphere consists of more than ninety percent carbon dioxide, compared to less than four percent in that of the Earth. Because of its higher percentage of carbon dioxide, Venus' atmosphere traps much more heat radiation than does the Earth's. Thus, the Venus studies are believed to be important to the understanding of possible adverse effects on the Earth's agriculture that could result from the long-term use of fossil fuels, which add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

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Progressive English Skills

19 Jan 2024 23:31

#phrasal_verb

🟪 fizzle out

🔸 (informal) to gradually become less strong, less successful, or less serious, and then end or disappear, often in a disappointing way:

The rebellion fizzled out after a couple of weeks.

She's still very young, so I'm hoping that their romance will eventually fizzle out.

✴️ SIMIlAR TO: peter out


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Progressive English Skills

18 Jan 2024 21:18

#song_lyrics

Couldn't save you from the start
Love you so it hurts my soul
Can you forgive me for trying again
Your silence makes me hold my breath
Oh time has passed you by

Oh, for so long I've tried to shield you from the world
Ooh, you couldn't face the freedom on your own
Here I am left in silence

You gave up the fight
You left me behind
All that's done's forgiven
You'll always be mine
I know deep inside
All that's done's forgiven

I watched the clouds drifting away
Still the sun can't warm my face
I know it was destined to go wrong
You were looking for the great escape
To chase your demons away

Oh, for so long I've tried to shield you from the world
Oh, you couldn't face the freedom on your own
And here I am left in silence

You gave up the fight
You left me behind
All that's done's forgiven
You'll always be mine
I know deep inside
All that's done's forgiven

I've been so lost since you've gone
Why not me before you?
Why did fate deceive me?
Everything turned out so wrong
Why did you leave me in silence?

You gave up the fight
You left me behind
All that's done's forgiven
You'll always be mine
I know deep inside
All that's done's forgiven

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