Here’s a list of more words you always have to look up Bemused Bemused is so close in sound to amused that they have blended together in usage, but they started as very different ideas: bemused originally meant “confused” or “bewildered,” a meaning stemming from the idea of musing or thinking carefully about something, which…
Here’s a list of some words you always have to look up so you can improve your vocabulary Nonplussed There’s so much going on with nonplussed. First of all, if non- means “not” (nontoxic) or “unimportant” (nonissues), what is being negated? What is the opposite of being plussed? It turns out that nonplus comes from…
If your language learning hasn’t peaked, and this title piques your interest, take a peek at this list of commonly confused words. Accept/Except These two words may confuse people because they’re homonyms (i.e. they sound alike) but they are in fact different words with different meanings. Accept is a verb meaning “to receive (something offered)…
How do we use ‘be due to’? Let’s talk about another expression with ‘be’: ‘be due to‘. We use ‘be due to‘ to talk about something that’s scheduled or planned for the future. Usually it’s some kind of official timetable or something that has been arranged. It’s often used with verbs like ‘start‘, ‘finish‘, ‘leave‘…
Once you learn these rare but wonderful words, use them in conversation. 1. Biblioklept Definition: one who steals books Biblioklept is, in at least some sense of the word, fairly useless. It is two syllables longer than book thief. It is also unlikely to be understood by some portion of the people with whom you…
Hello everyone! For today’s mini lesson, let’s talk about the passive infinitive. The passive infinitive is ‘be + past participle’. We can use it in the same places as the normal infinitive to show a passive meaning. USE We can use the passive infinitive after verbs that usually take ‘to + infinitive‘. We can use the…
Hello everyone! For today’s mini lesson, let’s talk about how to use ‘by’ and ‘with’ to say how something is done. We can use both ‘by + verb+ing’ and ‘with + noun’ to explain how we do something. BY We usually use verb+ing with ‘by’. ‘By’ is used with an action. Examples: • He opened…
Свидание: 16 февраля 2023 года. Любовь — это сила, которая движет миром, наполняет нас энергией и заставляет видеть лучшую сторону жизни. Но есть любовь, которая невозможна, потому что на нее не отвечают взаимностью, потому что она запрещена или платонична. Именно поэтому возник День невозможной любви, который отмечается 16 февраля. На протяжении всей нашей жизни, особенно…
Datum: Dienstag, 14. Februar 2023. Der Valentinstag, auch bekannt als Valentinstag oder Tag der Liebe und Freundschaft, wird jedes Jahr am 14. Februar gefeiert. Die Feier katholischen Ursprungs ehrt die guten Werke, die der Heilige Valentin von Rom zur Verteidigung der emotionalen Bindungen und der Liebe vollbracht hat. Valentinstagsgeschichte. Valentine war ein christlicher Mönch, der…
Datum: 3. Oktober 2023. Jeden 3. Oktober wird in Ländern wie Argentinien, Bolivien, Kolumbien, Kuba, Ecuador, Paraguay, der Dominikanischen Republik, Uruguay und Venezuela die Arbeit von Zahnärzten gefeiert. Es ist so, dass am 3. Oktober 1917 die Latin American Odontological Federation (FOLA) in Santiago de Chile gegründet wurde, als sich einige Fachleute trafen, um einige…