Tutoring English, you’re bound to encounter hilarities connected with vocabulary. The tutor recalls one from his childhood. In elementary school, my sister had more friends than I. Importantly, she attracted a greater variety of friends. With some of them she …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions putative. putative: generally thought: commonly supposed. Christ’s putative birthday is December 25. Source: Mish, Frederick C (editor). Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions abate. abate: to lessen or cease. Please abate your morning latenesses. Source: Mish, Frederick C. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions furbish and refurbish. Not always, in English, can you put re- in front of a word, yet retain the same meaning. It can be done, however, with furbish. Furbish can mean …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions bemuse. Bemuse is a great word: it’s short, seldom used, yet very specific. When you bemuse someone, you puzzle them: they are left wondering either what you said, or else why. …
Tutoring English, you might hear a new word. Is it new? The tutor investigates. Recently, I heard the word recency for the first time. Is recency even a word, and if so, is it new? Well, it’s in my 2004 …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions mentation. mentation: thinking; using one’s mind. Source: merriam-webster.com
Self-tutoring about English: the tutor mentions a discovery. hellion: a very difficult, chaotic person I’ve known the term hellion for years, yet thought it wasn’t a real word, but just one someone had made up and caught on locally. After …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always important. The tutor brings up the word deterministic. deterministic: predictable in that the same input will lead to the same output. Deterministic is opposite to stochastic. Stochastic means randomness applies, so the output of a …
Tutoring English, new, simple words are always interesting. The tutor mentions froward. froward:contrary: defiant When I saw froward I thought it was a misprint. Yet, “forward” wouldn’t have made sense, so I looked it up. It’s a great word I’ve …