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 …
Tutoring English, evolution of it is interesting. The tutor looks into the abbreviation of something. I saw an abbreviation for “something” today, for the first time. To confirm it, I looked it up on the Internet. There I found numerous …
Self-tutoring about words and their actual meanings: the tutor reflects about majority and minority. Perhaps one can say “the majority” in a more confident way than “the minority,” since there can be only one majority group (for a given opinion, …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions pert. I recall Pert shampoo appearing when I was in elementary school. I always wondered if pert is a standalone word. It turns out that pert can mean “bold”, “lithe”, or …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions suss. Me and the boys thought we had it sussed -Rod Stewart, “I Was Only Joking” I heard that lyric as a kid, and assumed sussed must mean “figured out,” but …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions copacetic. I first heard copacetic in the late 80s, on the west coast. I came to realize it meant “all right” or “as you’d hope.” I wondered whether it was slang …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions brinkmanship. brinkmanship: willingness to risk a worse outcome than losing the game would be, in order to win the game. Brinkmanship is a word I heard more often in the 80s …
Self-tutoring about sayings in English: the tutor mentions a new one. I still remember the 70s, and the fact that the saying “That’s a lot to unpack” was never used then. In fact, I can’t recall it being used until …
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