#Similar_words

🟠 slick
🟠 slack

❇️ slick /slik/

- adjective

• smooth and slippery; smooth and glossy:

Cars were sliding off roads that were slick with rain.

❇️ slack /slæk/

adjective

• not tight, taut, or firm; loose:

These tent ropes are too slack - they need tightening.

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#proverb

🟩 Necessity is the mother of invention.

*Ⓜ️eaning:* The need for something forces people to find a way of obtaining it.

#saying #proverbs
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#proverb

🟩 Money begets money.

*Ⓜ️eaning:* If you have money you can make more money.

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#Merriam_Webster's Word of the Day:

February 15, 2024

enervate

verb 

/EN-er-vayt/

What It Means:

Enervate is a formal word used for situations in which someone or something is being sapped of physical or mental vigor, vitality, or strength. The verb is most common in the participial forms enervated and enervating, as in "children enervated by the summer afternoon heat" and "a tedious discussion we found completely enervating."

Example:

The person giving the lengthy toast seemed to be completely unaware of the degree to which he was enervating his audience.

ENERVATE in Context:

"Toward the end of Paved Paradise … [author, Henry] Grabar follows housing activists' efforts to legalize in-law apartments carved from single-family houses, in many cases from the garage. The mere fact of this movement epitomizes the underlying problem: Local regulations have blocked apartments while allowing parking structures because, for most of seven or eight decades, city planners got hung up on the wrong issue. The visionaries of Victor Gruen's day simply failed to foresee how the relentless promotion of parking spaces might enervate cities and crowd out other needs." — Dante Ramos, The Atlantic, 4 June 2023

Did You Know?

Do not let any haziness in your understanding of enervate cause you to be enervated. Confusion about this somewhat rare word is reasonable, and aided greatly by the fact that although enervate looks like a plausible product of the joining of energize and invigorate, it is actually an antonym of both. Enervate comes from a form of the Latin verb enervare, which literally means "to remove the sinews of," and figuratively means simply "to weaken." Enervare was formed from the prefix e-, meaning "out of," and nervus, meaning "sinew, nerve." So etymologically, at least, someone who is enervated is "out of nerve." Knowing this, you no longer need be unnerved by it.

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#Merriam_Webster's Word of the Day:
February 15, 2024

enervate#vocabulary
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#vocabulary

📍Miss, Mrs, Ms, Mr, Sir

❇️ Miss.

🔵 used in front of the family name of a woman who is not married to address her politely, to write to her, or to talk about her.

❇️ Mrs.

🔵 used before a married woman’s family name to be polite when you are speaking to her, writing to her, or talking about her.

❇️ Ms. /mɪz, məz/

🔵 used before a woman’s family name when she does not want to be called ‘Mrs’ or ‘Miss’, or when you do not know whether she is married or not.

❇️ Mr.

🔵 used before a man’s family name to be polite when you are speaking to him, writing to him, or talking about him.

❇️ Sir.

🔵 used when speaking to a man in order to be polite or show respect.

#noun
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#song_lyrics

Oh, misty eye of the mountain below
Keep careful watch of my brothers' souls
And should the sky be filled with fire and smoke
Keep watching over Durin's sons

If this is to end in fire
Then we should all burn together
Watch the flames climb high into the night

Calling out father oh
Stand by and we will
Watch the flames burn auburn on
The mountain side (high)

And if we should die tonight
Then we should all die together
Raise a glass of wine for the last time

Calling out father oh
Prepare as we will
Watch the flames burn auburn on
The mountain side
Desolation comes upon the sky

Now I see fire
Inside the mountain
And I see fire
Burning the trees
And I see fire
Hollowing souls
And I see fire
Blood in the breeze
And I hope that you remember me

Oh, should my people fall
Then surely I'll do the same
Confined in mountain halls
We got too close to the flame

Calling out father oh
Hold fast and we will
Watch the flames burn auburn on
The mountain side
Desolation comes upon the sky

Now I see fire
Inside the mountain
And I see fire
Burning the trees
And I see fire
Hollowing souls
And I see fire
Blood in the breeze
And I hope that you remember me

And if the night is burning
I will cover my eyes
For if the dark returns
Then my brothers will die
And as the sky is falling down
It crashed into this lonely town
And with that shadow upon the ground
I hear my people screaming out

Now I see fire
Inside the mountains
I see fire
Burning the trees
I see fire
Hollowing souls
I see fire
Blood in the breeze
I see fire
Oh you know I saw a city burning out (fire)
And I see fire
Feel the heat upon my skin, yeah (fire)
And I see fire (fire)
And I see fire burn on and on the mountain side

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#song

🎼 I See Fire

Song by Ed Sheeran

Learn English with music
#music
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#writing

📖 How to summarize a text

✳️ Step 1: Try to paraphrase the information to avoid plagiarism and increase understanding.

✳️ Step 2: Use your own words. Imagine you are telling a friend about a great movie you saw or a great book that you read. Speak in your own language, but be sure to use standard English, not slang.

✳️ Step 3: Go over each point the author uses to prove his  statement. Watch for topic sentences that back up his most important idea. These points form an outline that you can condense down into your summary.

✳️ Step 4: Pay attention to the detail. Examine if the author provides enough detail to support his thesis statement and supporting points. Tell what those details are while summarizing the reading assignment.

✳️ Step 5: Present your ideas in order.You would not talk about the author's supporting points without first talking about what those points are referring to.

✳️ Step 6: Substitute general words or phrases for long lists of items. For instance, if you see a list consisting of swimming, marathon running and beach volleyball, you might just write summer sports.

✳️ Step 7: Discard information from the reading assignment that seems redundant or trivial from your summary.

✳️ Step 8: Polish your summary. Make it more readable by adding transitions and smoothing awkward sentence constructions.

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