Tutoring academic subjects, meanings are so important. The tutor shares ideas about the meaning of schema. schema: a description of a particular subset of reality. The schema will include members of that reality and their properties. It will also include …
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Home computer use can lead to constant self-tutoring. The tutor reflects about bookmarks. In The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost arrives at a fork where he must pick one road to travel. Looking down each as far as he can, …
Reading leads to more self-tutoring: the tutor reveals what he just learned: radar is an acronym. RADAR: RAdio Detection And Ranging In this context, ranging apparently means determining the detected object’s range, or distance away. Source: Mish, Frederick C. (editor). …
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Tutoring English, new vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor brings up the word picayune. picayune(adj): not worth consideration. The chef measured a teaspoon of salt from her palm, asserting the difference between it and that from a measuring spoon to …
Tutoring English, new words are great discoveries. The tutor shares his discovery of lukewarmly. Commonly known, lukewarm is an adjective that means somewhat warm – perhaps a little above room temperature. Today I’ve discovered the related adverb, lukewarmly:
Tutoring English, you might research diverse topics. The tutor shares some findings about pantheism. Pantheism: (1) The world view that identifies God as the laws of nature. (2) The belief that God is, in fact, the Cosmos. Most nature-centred religions …
Tutoring English, new vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor shares the meaning of wassail and its holiday connection. wassail (verb): to celebrate with drinking In the Yule celebrations, people would not only wassail each other, but also crops and trees. …
Tutoring English, conventions are important. The tutor brings up one he was curious about. As far as I can determine, timewise, the two acronyms AD and CE have the same meaning. However, their literal meanings are different: AD anno domini: …
Tutoring English, I love to define words I’ve heard but don’t yet use. The tutor defines prognosticate.
Tutoring English, new definitions are always interesting. The tutor mentions a definition of eidolon. eidolon: an image that represents a specific person, entity, or conception, or else its idealized form. Source: Mish, Frederick C, editor. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, …