11/14 Notes 

‧Fate and fatal can’t be chosen, but destiny and destination can.

‧What is hypothesis?

→ A hypothesis is a statement that needs to be furthermore explained in details by providing the relative examples and contrasts to define better.

‧Generally speaking: an article would begin with a hypothesis, followed by three supportig paragraphs led by a respective topic sentence, and end up with a brief conclusion by re-emphasizing the issues discussed in the previous paragraphs.

Quotes

‧"Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind."-- By Douglas MacArthur    

‧”Our lives are defined by opportunities even the ones we miss. --From “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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Words of a day

11/10

‧exasperate (v.)

a.      Irritate intensely; infuriate

e.g.: This futile process exasperates prison officers.

‧shuck (v.) 

a.      Remove the shucks from maize or shellfish

e.g.: This dish contains oysters shucked and drained and wrapped in bacon slices and baked for 10 minutes in a hot oven.

‧agile (adj.)

a.      Able to move quickly and easily

e.g.: They are so agile when they move, thanks to their abundance of elastic muscles.

‧clandestine (adj.) 

a.      Kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit

e.g.: She deserved better than these clandestine meetings.

‧illicit (adj.)

a.      Forbidden by law, rules, or custom

e.g.: Drugs are illegal and illicit because they do incredible harm and no good whatsoever.

 

11/11

‧cumbersome (adj.) 

a.      Large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use; unwieldy

e.g.: The other possibility was that they were about to carry something heavy or cumbersome out of the room.

‧ fringe (v.) 

a.      Decorate (clothing or material) with a fringe

e.g.: This frame has a leather mat and hanging strap, and is fringed with scrap yarn.

‧ ornamental  (adj.)

a.      Serving or intended as an ornament; decorative

e.g.: Their walk had led them to a large ornamental fountain, and Fenikkusu sat upon its lip.

‧ porcelain (n.)

a.       A white vitrified translucent ceramic; china

e.g.: The unusually fine clay yielded a porcelain china that was translucent with a glass-like finish.

‧ vitrify (v.)

a.      Convert (something) into glass or a glass-like substance, typically by exposure to heat

e.g.: Glazes and paintings on pottery are vitrified by firing in the furnace.

 

11/12

‧translucent (adj.) 

a.      (Of a substance) allowing light, but not detailed shapes, to pass through; semi-transparent

e.g.: The thick, translucent slices were encased in a light batter that was appropriately oily.

‧interrogate  (v.)

a.      Ask questions of (someone) closely, aggressively, or formally

e.g.: He plays with the wording of questions or suddenly interrogates me about my private life.

‧stature  (n.) 

a.      A person’s natural height

e.g.: Colley has the height and physical stature to cause problems in any defence.

‧crawl  (v.)

a.      Move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground

e.g.: I leaned forward, crawling on my knees to a bottle of beer resting on the desk next to the door.

‧lag  (v.)

a.      Fail to keep up with another or others in movement or development

e.g.: They waited for Tim who was lagging behind.

 

11/13

‧mediocre  (adj.)

a.      Of only average quality; not very good

e.g.: He is an enthusiastic if mediocre painter.

‧ perpetuate  [v.] 

a.      Make (something) continue indefinitely

e.g.: A monument to perpetuate the memory of those killed in the war.

‧ guttural  [adj.] 

a.      (Of a speech sound) produced in the throat; harsh-sounding.

e.g.: It seemed the werewolf was on the verge of talking, but all that escaped its throat was a guttural growl.

‧purge  [v.]

e.g.: a.      Rid (someone) of an unwanted feeling, memory, or condition

Bob had helped purge Martha of the terrible guilt that had haunted her.

‧ blunt  [adj.]

a.      (Of a cutting implement) not having a sharp edge or point

e.g.: Use a really sharp knife. A blunt knife will ‘bruise’ the onion and let more juices out, therefore more tears.

 

11/14

‧ colonel  [n.] 

a.      A rank of officer in the army and in the US air force, above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier or brigadier general.

e.g.: Some of these officers are now lieutenant colonels and colonels in the Army Reserve.

‧ trail  [v.] 

a.      Draw or be drawn along behind someone or something

e.g.: I sighed as Pitcher waddled along, trailing slightly behind the others sometimes rushing to catch them up.

‧infrastructure  [n.] 

a.      The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise

e.g.: It is easy to integrate into existing wired networks and standard enterprise computing infrastructures.

‧ clout  [v.] 

a.      Hit (someone or something) hard

e.g.: If anyone clouts the ball harder than the midfielder you would not want to be on the receiving end.

‧ cajole  [v.]

a.      Persuade (someone) to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery

e.g.: He hoped to cajole her into selling him her house.