Words with Interesting Etymologies

... familiar acquaintance, to one who engages in idle talk, to the talk itself. 139 CHAPTER 33 Words with Interesting Etymologies cmp04.qxd 7/21/05 12:27 PM Page 139 Both are legal terms. The former is ... are more words to describe people who fall on the wrong side than on the other. Here we look at five such words. scrofulous (SKROF-yuh-luhs) adjective 1. Of, pertaining to, or affect...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 16:20

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 06:20

... becloud, especially with or as with drink. muffle v. To deaden the sound of, as by wraps. mulatto n. The offspring of a white person and a black person. 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions ... articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word, or a group of words. emphatic adj. Spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word, or set o...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 12:15

... 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions – Amass an Ivy League Vocabulary! EASY 7-CD Edition: All you have to do is listen 15 minutes a day for 4 weeks to absorb 5000 words. + FREE Memory ... 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions – Amass an Ivy League Vocabulary! EASY 7-CD Edition: All you have to do is listen 15 minutes a day for 4 weeks to absorb 5000 words. + FREE M...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:15

... mesmerize v. To hypnotize. 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions – Amass an Ivy League Vocabulary! EASY 7-CD Edition: ... articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word, or a group of words. emphatic adj. Spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word, or set of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 03:16

... synonymous words could be understood as the words or phrases with the same denotative meaning in a certain language and interchangeable in some contexts. II. Sources of synonyms II.1.Borrowings Many words ... etc… -remembering the synonymous words that everybody knows, do not use the words the listeners or readers do not know and do not understand. -using synonymous words when a...

Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 13:38

... field of words or lexical and semantic field of words is the whole words can be classified into sets according to their meaning. The following set of words is a lexical field, because all the words ... meaning of speech, words to communicate well. 5. Lexical and semantic field of words Many linguists have given out their own definition about lexical and semantic field of words...

Ngày tải lên: 15/04/2013, 15:11

... When you do something gracefully, you do it with elegance and beauty. A ballerina dances gracefully. happily When you do something with pleasure or joy, you do it happily. She ... places. napkin After you eat, you can clean your face with a napkin. nectarine A nectarine is a sweet, juicy fruit with smooth skin; it is related to the peach. noodle...

Ngày tải lên: 16/04/2013, 23:27

... Nên tôi nghĩ rằng ngoài việc sử dụng một số bài Play with words sau khi dạy từ mới, thì giáo viên có thể biến bài viết trong phần Play with words thành một bài nghe nhỏ khiến các em tò mò, muốn ... suy nghĩ nh vậy tôi đà dạy phối hợp phần Play with words với những bài dạy đọc, dạy nghe, dạy ngữ pháp để khám phá những mặt tích cực của phần Play with words này, tôi đà thử nhiều...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2013, 21:51