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Monday, May 2, 2011
Idioms Quiz
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Saturday, April 30, 2011
You Could Have Heard a Pin Drop
You Could Have Heard a Pin Drop
Well, today's topic is an English idiom; that is You could have heard a pin drop.
You could have heard a pin drop is something that you say in order to describe a situation where there was complete silence, especially because people were very interested or very surprised by what was happening.
It's in the past form that is to point the action which had happened.
In simple words we can say that it was so quite that you could have heard a pin drop on the floor. Logically when a pin drops on the floor, the sound is usually unheard as a pin is too small to produce such a noise. A pin is a small piece of usually metal that's used to keep something in place like sticking a pieace of paper on your wooden board.
Example in sentence:
Margaret's presentation was very awesome; everybody was seriously watching her presentation. Honestly, you could have heard a pin drop when she talked in front. None seemed to make any noise as everyone wouldn't want to miss any points she mentioned.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
My Word of The Day, Clamp up
| */klæmp daʊn/ *phrasal verb *(clamp down on sth) |
What does it mean?
- to make a determined attempt to stop people from doing something bad or illegal
Indian security officials were concerned that BlackBerry's encrypted data could be used to coordinate acts against the state. They have clamped down on mobile phone operators in the wake of 2008 attacks that killed 166 people in Mumbai. The UAE, home to Gulf financial hub Dubai, said it would halt BlackBerry services until an "acceptable solution" was developed and applied.
---Yahoo News, ''BlackBerry users in UAE, Saudi may have services cut''
Etymology:
- Origin: 1350–1400; ME (n.) < MD clampe clamp, cleat; c. MLG klampe
Synonyms
- forbid , decline , prohibit , ban , clinch, clench, secure.
Antonyms
- Allow, admit, accept, permit
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
My Word of The Day, Trumped-up
| /ˌtrʌmptˈʌp/ adjective [before noun] |
What does it mean?
- Faked, fabricated or falsely manufactured. Usually in the phrase trumped-up charges referring to legal accusation made for illegitimate reasons
The junior prosecutor has already been removed, but Mr Anwar says her alleged affair with the male witness is evidence of a conspiracy against him.
"It just supports our contention right from the beginning that this is all a farce, a politically motivated trial, trumped-up charges," he told reporters.
"This is an additional fact or evidence to support our case, to show the prosecution is not and cannot be impartial. "Mr Anwar is accused of sodomising his former male aide, Mr Az lan, in 2008. He strongly denies the charge.
---BBC News, ''Malaysia to pursue sodomy case against Anwar Ibrahim''
Synonyms:
- trumped-up concocted, contrived, cooked-up (informal) fabricated, fake, false, falsified, invented, made-up, manufactured, phoneyor phony (informal) untrue
Antonyms:
- actual, authentic, bona fide, genuine, real, sound, true, veritable
Monday, August 16, 2010
My Word of The Day, Grievous
| ;/ˈgriː.vəs/ adjective *formal |
What does it mean?
- having very serious effects or causing great pain
Nadja Benaissa, 28, was speaking at the opening of her trial in the German city of Darmstadt."I am so sorry," Ms Benaissa told the court. However, she denied deliberately infecting anyone.
She faces a charge of grievous bodily harm for allegedly infecting one man. She has also been charged with attempted bodily harm for allegedly having sex with two other men who were not infected.If convicted, Ms Benaissa faces a prison sentence ranging from six months to 10 years. Quote from: bbc.co.uk
Etymology:
- c.1300, from Anglo-Fr. grevous (O.Fr. grevos ), from grief
Synonyms:
- afflicting, calamitous, damaging, distressing, dreadful, grave, harmful, heavy, hurtful, injurious, lamentable, oppressive, painful, severe, wounding, appalling, atrocious, deplorable, dreadful, egregious, flagrant, glaring, heinous, intolerable, lamentable, monstrous, offensive, outrageous, shameful, shocking, unbearable agonized, grief-stricken, heart-rending, mournful, pitiful, sorrowful, tragic
Antonyms:
- delightful, glad, happy, insignificant, joyous, mild, pleasant, trivial, unimportant
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
My Word of the Day, Pervert
| /pəˈvːt/ *verb [T] disapproving |
What does it mean?
- -to change something so that it is not what it was or should be, or to influence someone in a harmful way
- -to act illegally to avoid punishment or to get the wrong person punished
If so, argues Fry, then the Qwerty keyboard and its inventor could be accused of "conspiracy to pervert the course of language and to limit the speed of creativity and language input, endangering billions with repetitive strain injury". Quoted from: BBC.co.uk
Etymology:
c.1300 (trans.), "to turn someone aside from a right religious belief to a false or erroneous one," from O.Fr.pervertir, from L.pervertere "corrupt, turn the wrong way, turn about," from per- "away" + vertere "to turn". Replaced nativefroward , which embodies the same image. The noun is attested from 1660s, "one who has forsaken a doctrine or system regarded as true, apostate;" psychological sense of "one who has a perversion of the sexual instinct" is attested from 1897 (Havelock Ellis), originally especially of homosexuals.
Synonyms:
- deprave , corrupt, debauch, lead astray, spoil, warp, distort , misinterpret, twist, misrepresent, change, alter, spoil, garble
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
My Word of The Day, Aggravate
| /ˈæg.rə.veɪt/ *verb [T] |
What does it mean?
- MAKE WORSE
-to make a bad situation worse
-to make a disease worse - ANNOY
-informal: to annoy someone
=Stop aggravating me, will you!
Putin added that the situation was aggravated by the fact that some important regions would not be able to start the winter-sowing campaign.The weather outlook is little changed for this week, with a slight drop in temperatures forecast for later in the week. Quoted from:Reuters
Etymology:
1520s, from pp. adj. aggravate (late 15c.), from L. aggravatus , pp. of aggravare "to render troublesome, to make heavy". Earlier in this sense was aggrave . To aggravate has properly only one meaning -- to make (an evil) worse or more serious. [Fowler]Phrase aggravating circumstances is recorded from 1790.
Synonyms:
- add insult to injury, exacerbate, exaggerate, fan the flames of, heighten, increase, inflame, intensify, magnify, make worse, worsen, annoy
Antonyms:
- alleviate, assuage, calm, diminish, ease, improve, lessen, mitigate, smooth, assuage, calm, pacify, please
Sunday, August 8, 2010
My Word Of The Day, Dissipate
Dissipate
/ˈdɪs.ɪ.peɪt/ verb [I or T] formal
What does it mean?
;
- to (cause to) gradually disappear or waste
Example:
The well's suffocation coincided with the release of a federal report this week showing that only about a quarter of the oil lost to the leak remains in or along the shores of the Gulf, with the rest having dissipated or otherwise disappeared. The remaining 53 million gallons, though, would be enough alone to rank among the nation's worst spills. Quoted from:Yahoo! News
Etymology:
1530s, from L. dissipatus , pp. of dissipare "to spread abroad, scatter, disperse; squander, disintegrate," fromdis- "apart" ( seedis- ) + supare "to throw, scatter," from PIE *swep- "to throw, sling, cast" (cf. Lit.supu "to swing, rock," O.C.S. supo " to strew").
Synonyms:
- disappear, dispel, disperse, dissolve, drive away, evaporate, scatter, vanish
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Color Idioms
Color Idioms Quiz
Answer all the questions that related about Color Idioms in English. Fill each gap with the following list of idioms. Good luck!
| browned off | in the pink | see red | black and blue | walk on the green mile | off color |
| out of the blue | roll out of the red color | pink slip | green with envy | black sheep | ♪ ☺ ♫ |
- Jack is now such a............in the team since he behaved violently in the last match.
- Frank got........after being hit by Jack.
- The coach gets bit.........with the changed behaviour of Jack recently.
- The brawl came.........that the coach itself was shocked by this ashamed incident.
- Someone says that Jack was..........with Frank as his lovely girl friend was coveted by Frank
- The way coach and friends.........made Jack detest Frank.
- Jack looks......... as he's very depressed of what he had done.
- Jack could receive.........after some fans demonstrated their dislike of Jack's behavior and asked him to leave the club
- Due to the incident, Jack may..........of resignation.
- Jack's mates.........of the incident and encourage other to take positive thing of it.
- After a week of intensive care, Frank's now........
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Vocabulary Quiz (Theme: Book)
Vacabulary quiz (theme: book)
Fill in the blanks using the word in the following list! Good luck!
| anonymity | publisher |
| reserved | printed |
| blurb | catalogue |
| acknowledge | index |
| low priced edition | reserved |
| Author |
- No one knows that the.........of the book is Andy Suvy. He intentionally uses...........because he doesn't want to be a popular person.
- All right..........prevents a book from being reproduced without permission of the............
- The experts estimate that the book was..........in 1890s.
- A good writer usually............any help he has got from other people in his books or essays.
- The........of the popular book finally released their............to public with main aim is to attract students and colleges' interest in reading books
- Read the........first whether it's good or not before deciding to buy the book so that it is worth for you.
- The readers of book sometimes refer to the...........when they want to find particular terms in a book.
- If you are confused where the books you are looking for located, you can ask the shopkeeper to get the...........of th books.
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Friday, August 6, 2010
My Word of The Day, Audacious
Audacious
/ɔːˈdeɪ.ʃəs/
| adjective
What does it me?
- Willing to take risks or to do sth shocking
Example:
According to The Mirror, Martin Broughton, part-time Liverpool Director of Sale, is to meet with Kenny Huang later this week in order to discuss his audacious plans to buy Liverpool FC.The Chinese businessman, head of a mega-rich Asian consortium is hell-bent on buying the club.He initially approached RBS about buying the debt that Hicks and Gillette incurred to buy the club but has now agreed to engage with Barclays Capital, who are in charge of the sale of the club, and with Chairman Broughton. Quoted from: here
Etymology:
1540s, "confident, intrepid," from L. audacia "daring, boldness , courage," fromaudax "bold, daring," from audere "to dare." Bad sense of "shameless" is attested from 1590s. L.audax also had a good and a bad sense and could mean "audacious, rash, foolhardy."
Synonyms:
- adventurous, bold, brave, courageous, daredevil, daring, dauntless, death-defying, enterprising, fearless, intrepid, rash, reckless, risky, valiant, venturesome, assuming, brazen, cheeky, defiant, disrespectful, forward, fresh(informal) impertinent, impudent, insolent, in- your-face(Brit. slang) pert, presumptuous, sassy (U.S. informal)shameless
Antonyms:
- careful, cautious, cowardly, frightened, guarded, prudent, timid, unadventurous, unenterprising, deferential, gracious, tactful, unassuming
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Thursday, August 5, 2010
My Word of The Day, Ensue
Ensue
/ɪnˈsjuː/
verb [I] formal
What does it mean?
- to happen after something else, especially as a result of it
- happen after or as a result of another event
Example:
Locally the focus has been on the actions of dissident republicans in encouraging young nationalists onto the streets. But in England many fail to understand why tradition should justify any Orange parade proceeding down a route where trouble might ensue.Quoted from:bbc.co.uk
Etymology
late 14c., from O.Fr. ensivre "follow close upon," from L.L. insequere , from L. insequi "to pursue," from in- "upon" + sequi "follow".
Synonyms:
come after, come next, follow, issue, proceed, result, stem, succeed.
Antonyms:
Antecede, come first, forerun, go ahead of, go before, introduce, lead, pave the way, precede, usher
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Phrase Verbs about Money Quiz
Fill the gap of each sentence with appropriate phrasal verbs according to the meaning given. You can check the answers inside the boxes. Good luck!
- Two businessmen have offered to _______ the club. (to do something or to help someone out of trouble, especially financial problem)
- pay back
- get by
- bail out
- use up
- The bank forces the club to_____all the debt in in a week to go. (to return money owed to someone)
- get by
- pay back
- bail out
- save up
- He likes to_____ his money for he thinks that he will need it a lot in the future. (to keep money for a large expense in the future)
- bail out
- get by
- use up
- save up
- He used to_____his money so that he is now so poor. (to use all of sth so that there is none left)
- save up
- use up
- dip into
- pay off
- Students often have to_____ their pockets for buying new school books. (to spend part of saved money)
- dip into
- run into
- pay back
- pay off
- He has to_____all his debt or he will be put in jail.(to give all your the money you owe them)
- pay over
- pay off
- pay in
- pay attention
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Wheater Idioms
Answer the following qustions that're all about weather idioms in English. You can check the answers inside the boxes. Good luck!
- When you know that something is about to go horribly wrong, but hasn't just yet, then you are in:
- Right as rain
- Rainy day
- Quiet before the Storm
- Storm in a teacup
- Only one of the following idioms is really about the weather. Which one?
- under a cloud
- every cloud has a silver lining
- Face like thunder
- it's raining cats and dogs
- 'The class room was in mess; the teacher suspected John as the culprit as none would like to be responsible for it. In this case, John can be described that he is:
- under the weather
- under a cloud
- a storm in a teacup
- under the sun shines
- If a problem becomes far greater than it really is, it can be described as:
- a great thunder
- a storm in a teacup
- twisting in the wind
- a storm in the sun
- ' John has defied his promise to return the money he borrowed from Shanty; it makes her very angry with him. Shanty can be described as though she has:
- nose like sun
- mouth like storm
- fingers like star
- face like thunder
- When I'm in trouble, my friend gives me advice that it is always possible to get something positive out of a situation, no matter how unpleasant, difficult or even painful it might seem. What is the right idiom to express my friend's advice?
- every rose has its thorn
- When it rains, it pours
- every cloud has a silver lining
- Sail close to the wind
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My Word Of The Day, Envisage
Envisage
Envisage: /ɪnˈvɪz.ɪdʒ/ verb [T] ( US also envision) slightly formal
What does it mean?
- To imagine or expect something in the future, especially something good
- To form a mental picture of something or someone you have never seen
Example:
"I can envisage a day where in the north-west of England we have a Premier League school where a number of clubs have their boys. | Quoted from: Reuters
Etymology:
1820, from Fr. envisager "look in the face of," from en- " cause to" visage "face."
Synonyms
- conceive (of), conceptualize, contemplate, fancy, imagine, picture, think up, visualize anticipate, envision, foresee, predict, see
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My Word of The Day, Divulge
Divulge
/daɪˈvʌldʒ/ verb [T]
What does it mean?
- sth (to sb) (formal) to give sb information that is supposed to be secret; to make something secret known
Example:
Lady Gaga has admitted that she takes cocaine, describing her usage as "occasional". In an interview with US magazine Vanity Fair, the singer divulged that she used the drug "maybe a couple of times a year". However, the 24-year-old Poker Face singer discouraged her fans from copying her. ✽ Quoted from: ✽ BBC News
Etymology:
mid-15c., from L. divulgare "publish, make common," from dis- "apart" (see dis- ) + vulgare "make common property," fromvulgus "common people"
c.1300, "divulge, reveal, disclose," from O.Fr. descovrir " uncover, unroof, unveil, reveal, betray," from L.L.discooperire , from L. dis- "opposite of" (see dis- ) + cooperire "to cover up" (seecover ). At first with a sense of betrayal or malicious exposure (discoverer originally meant "informant"); the meaning "to obtain knowledge or sight of what was not known" is from 1550s.
Synonyms:
Reveal , tell, make known, disclose, let drop, give away, let slip show, unwarp, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, break, give away, let out
Antonyms:
Conceal, hide, keep secret
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Monday, August 2, 2010
My Word Of The Day, Savvy
Savvy /ˈsæv.i/
Noun, adjective (informal)
My word of the day is ''savvy''. What does it mean?
- noun [U] (informal): practical knowledge or understanding of sth: political savvy
- adjective (savvier, savviest) (informal, especially NorthAmE): having practical knowledge and understanding of sth
Example:
The researchers are the first to admit the findings are not terribly scientific -- Twitter users tend to be tech-savvy, live in large cities and are a fraction of the total population -- but according to the results they have potential as a tool for providing real-time analysis of critical issues.Quoted from:Reuters ↑↓
Synonyms : shrewdness , practicality, knowledge, perception, understanding, know-how
Antonym : ignorance
Etymology:
savvy: 1785, as a noun, "practical sense, intelligence;" also a verb, " to know, to understand;" W. Indies pidgin borrowing of Fr.savez(-vous)? "do you know?" or Sp. sabe (usted) "you know, " both from V.L.*sapere, from Latin. sapere "be wise, be knowing" (seesapient ).
The adj. is first recorded 1905, from the noun.streetwise; 1965, from street + wise (adj.) "smart, savvy."
Sunday, August 1, 2010
My Word of The Day, Complacent
Complacent
/kəmˈplei.sənt/ adjective disapproving
What does it mean?
- Too satisfied with yourself or with a situation, so that you do not feel that any change is necessary; showing or feeling complacency
synonyms:Proud, pleased, satisfied, content.
antonym: anxious
Example:
"We are scaling back the number of vessels offshore but we are not stopping cleanup operations by any means," he said. "We are not complacent about this at all."
taken from: Reuters, Sat, 31 JulEtymology:
1650s, "pleasing," from L. complacentem (nom. complacens ) "pleasing," prp. ofcomplacere "be very pleasing". Meaning "pleased with oneself" is from 1767.
Let's Learn Phrases
Let's Learn Phrases
Let's learn phrases with words about scool, university, learn, and teach.
Read the phrases and what they mean. Do you know which word goes in the blank? Is it school, university, learn, or teach?
*You can find the answers inside the boxes. Learn something new and good luck!
- Learn something in the..... of hard knocks. >Learn something after difficult or unhappy experience.
- .......something off by heart. >Repeat something from memory (and perhaps not understand it).
- ......... one's grandmother to suck eggs. > Give advise to somebody about thing when they already know more than you.
- Live and....... >You say this when you discover something very surprising.
- Tell tales out of ......... > Tell secrets or spread rumours.
- ....... of live. > all the experiences that you have in your life.
- ......... of thought > a set of ideas which group of people have about subject.
- ........... your lesson. > not do something again after a bad experience.
- ......... somebody a lesson. > make somebody experience something bad that will improve their behavior in the future.
- ......... run > when parents drive children to and from school.
- From the old ......... > traditional and old-fashioned.
Learn Vocabulary
The way to study vocabulary
Well, vocabulary is actually essential in learning English especially for EFL learners. The more you know vocabulary the better you understand the language. Since we're child, we first introduced to vocabulary when our parents tried to teach us language. They often acquainted us with simple words like, mother, father, eat, etc. in which it's intended to make us familiar with those words and trying to imitate them all. This is actually the natural way of learning language.
Many English learners usually find difficulty in trying to comprehend the language; they think that they fail in grammar, tenses, etc. However, to me, as English learner, one of the reason in why we often fail to understand or use the language is vocabulary. We don't understand the language is not because we don't understand the grammar or anything else but rather we don't know and have enough vocabulary to understand the language. Remember that words are signs that have meaning in alternating the communications; thus, vocabulary hold very significant points on the way we learn language.
here are the best ways of studying vocabulary
- Try to memorize at least 5 new words a day. It's very helpful in dealing with the numerous words in English. By doing this, we can enrich our vocabulary so that we can understand and use the language fully and fluently.
- Write your own dictionary. When you work with your new daily words, write it in your notebook and it will look like your own vocabulary. It's very useful to solve the problem in case you forget your words.
- Practice to use the words in the context. It is very needed for you will lose all your words as you never practise them. It's impossible to memorize a lot of words without practicing it; believe, you will lose them.
- Reread your words when you have leisure time. Did you know that one of the best way of memorizing words or sentences is reading them repeatedly. So that's what the advertisers put their banners in readable area with simple words in order to make people who see it, read it repeatedly so that people familiar with the brands.
- Try to take tests. It's very helpful in order to assess how far you have mastered the words. You can test your vocabulary skill in the website like vocabulary.com or in BBC or vocabulary.co.il. There are many more out there that offer free vocabulary tests.
If you want to enrich your vocabulary, here you can get it as I post new words everyday, so stay tuned.
Good luck with your English!
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