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Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions obdurate. obdurate (adj): refusing compromise; unaccommodating to a different point of view. Source: Mish, Frederick C. (editor). Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.
Self-tutoring about diet and lifestyle: the tutor mentions the calories in a large egg. I’m permanently dieting: the way I do so is to avoid carbohydrates. (I’m not recommending this; it’s just what I do.) Therefore, I eat eggs. Apparently, …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions nascent. nascent: new; freshly in existence, and growing. Source: dictionary.cambridge.org
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions crepuscular. crepuscular: most likely to be observed just before dark or at pre-dawn. Source: collinsdictionary.com
Self-tutoring about literature: the tutor begins about the fantasy genre. Of course I read as a kid, but not voraciously like some I knew. I recall many who each always had a book at the very front of their desk, …
Self-tutoring about car preferences: the tutor mentions an interesting comparison. Supposedly, around three percent of new cars in the US have manual transmissions, but in Europe, 80% do. Interesting, eh? Source: blog.getmyparking.com
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions the idea of direct object. A direct object receives an action, but doesn’t participate. In the sentence He washes the apple., the direct object is the apple. Making it a pronoun, you’d say He …
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions notre and nôtre. Sometimes, the presence of an accent changes a word’s meaning in French. For instance, notre is a possessive adjective meaning our. However, nôtre is a possessive pronoun meaning ours. Nôtre is …
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions a practical difference between jusqu’Ã and jusqu’Ã ce que. In French, jusqu’Ã and jusqu’Ã ce que both mean “until.” The difference is that jusqu’Ã means “until [a noun]” while jusqu’Ã ce que means “until …
Self-tutoring about French expressions: the tutor mentions je m’attends. Je m’attends means I expect. The infinitive form is s’attendre. However, it’s not necessarily used as often in French as I expect is in English. Source: french.kwiziq.com