To get the most from them, you should try to use them in sentences, or discuss them with friends. Writing something on Twitter or Weibo is a great way to practice!
- Tip: Use prefixes and suffixes. "pre-" means "before"; "post-" means "after." "-ness" makes a noun. "-ive" makes an adj. Bigger vocabulary!
- Proverb: Leave well enough alone. If everything is OK, don't try to change it. Now we say: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
- AcVoc [Academic Vocabulary]: occur (v): happen. "Where did your bike accident occur?" "Rain seldom occurs in the desert."
- Lit [Literature]: cyclops: member of a race of giants in Greek myth with one eye in the center of the forehead. One trapped Odysseus in "The Odyssey."
- Art: Whistler's Mother: a famous painting by James Whistler of his mother seated. Properly called "Arrangement in Grey and Black Number 1."
- Slang: You lost me: I don't understand what you said. "Could you repeat that? You lost me."
- Geog [Geography]: Yellowstone National Park: in Wyoming, USA; first national park in the world (1872). Famous for "Old Faithful" geyser, and for bears.
NOTES:
- Academic Vocabulary is the Academic Word List from Oxford University Press. This is "a list of words that you are likely to meet if you study at an English-speaking university."
- The Proverb, and the Literature, Art, and Geography words are from lists in the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. I wrote the definitions and examples myself.
- The Tip and Slang words are from my own lists, and I wrote the definitions and examples myself.
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