Tutoring English, vocab is always important. The tutor mentions impassive. impassive: revealing no emotional response. I may’ve seen the word impassive more often in past decades than today. Yet, I observe impassivity in people more often now than then. Source: …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions execrable. execrable: very poor quality: very difficult to endure because it’s so bad. Source: Mish, Frederick C. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004. dictionary.cambridge.org
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions ineluctable. ineluctable: inescapable; unstoppable. eluctable may also be a word, but not everyone seems interested in saying so. Ineluctable is much easier to find. Source: wordsense.eu Mish, Frederick C. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions withy. withy: a flexible twig or branch, perhaps useful for improvising crafts. Source: Mish, Frederick C. (editor). Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004. collinsdictionary.com google search: withy
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions maladroit. maladroit(adj) : not skilled; lacking finesse. (Maladroit is opposite of adroit.) Source: Mish, Frederick C. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions anachronism. An anachronism is something (or someone) that’s in the wrong time period. If you have a movie set in 2004, but Jimmy Carter (in the movie) is President, that’s an …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions the word stevedore. stevedore: a person employed in moving cargo into or out from ships. Source: Mish, Frederick C. (editor). Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions tendentious. tendentious: indicating a point of view partial to one opinion; not objective. Some television shows are known for their tendentious coverage of news: viewers of one point of view might …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions perquisite. perquisite: an advantage that an employee receives from a job that is apart from the money they are paid. Free snacks and access to an on-site gym are examples of …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions factitious. Factitious means invented, but meant to be real or believed even so. A person may be trying to get a business up and running; if they say it exists before …