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: Listen to music, and sing along. Words are easier to remember in sentences, especially with rhythm and rhyme.
- Proverb: Once bitten, twice shy: When we've had a bad experience with someone or something, we are less comfortable with it next time.
- Academic Vocabulary: virtual: only a little different from. "My son is a virtual genius on piano." Also used for digital versions of things.
- Literature: Promised Land: area of land that God promised to Abraham and his descendants. Considered to be Israel, conquered many years later.
- Art: renaissance: a time when art and learning were revived in Europe in the 14th-17th centuries. Also, any "rebirth" of art or learning.
- Slang: Nice shot: compliments shooting in video games or basketball. Also, good photography. A: "Look at my picture." B: "Ooo, nice shot!"
- Geography: Santa Fe Trail: important 19th-century route from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Largely replaced by the railroad.
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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