Word of the Day - Theology
Theology - th iy oh l ax jh iy The study if the nature of God I studied Theology at University Definition noun the field of study and...
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Word of the Day - Relevance
Relevance - r eh l ax v ax n s The relevance or state of being closely connected or appropriate I could not see the relevance of his...
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Word of the Day - Characteristic
Characteristic - k ae r ih k t ax r ih s t ih t k a distinguishing trait It was characteristic of him to open the door for her....
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Word of the Day - Population
Population - p oh p y uw l ey sh ax n All the inhabitants of a particular town The population of Southampton is now over 300,000...
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Word of the Day - Constraint
Constraint - k ax n s t r ey n t to confine We couldn’t open negotiations with the other company because of the constraint of our...
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Word of the Day - Investment
Investment ih n v eh s t m ax n t putting money into some project or venture to make a profit I am going to make an investment in your...
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Word of the Day - Multiplexing
Multiplexing m ah l t ih p l eh k s ih ng is a way of sending many signals over a comms link at the same time We can more efficiently...
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Word of the Day - Withering
Withering w ih dh ax r ih ng To make someone feel humiliated to lose the freshness of youth, as from age (often followed by away). I gave...
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Speaking Better English - Alliteration
Alliteration is when words start with the same sound: Sometimes these are in tongue twisters She sells sea shells on the sea shore...
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Word of the Day - Gazette
Gazette g ax z eh t A Journal or Newspaper I read in the Hemel Gazette that the weather for the next month was to be wet and windy...
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Word of the Day -Serendipity
Serendipity s eh r ax n d ih p ih t iy A Happy or Lucky Accident - something unexpectedly good happened Definition Noun an aptitude for...
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Word of the Day - Sequestration
Sequestration s iy k w eh s t r ey sh ax n Every year on April 22nd we celebrate Climate Day and we talk about words that are particular...
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Speaking Better English - Antonomasia
An Antonomasia is a literary term in which a descriptive phrase is used to replace a person’s name. An Antonomasia can range from a...
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Speaking Better English - Anecdote
An anecdote is a very short story about some real person or a real event that happened to the speaker. The idea of this story to make the...
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Speaking better English - Adage
An Adage is a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth. Adages provide us with simple guidelines with which to live. In...
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Speaking better English - Merisms
Dictionaries define a merism as a reference to something by its polar extremes, as in "we searched high and low" For example I searched...
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Speaking better English - Clichés
A Cliché is what you write or say when you can't think of a new way to express an old idea. A Cliché is a tired phrase or an old way of...
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Speaking better English - how to cope with words you haven't met before
How to cope with words you haven't met before is a big problem in English because the ways that words are spoken do not always reflect...
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Speaking Better English - Paying Attention to the Stressed Sounds
When you listen to people speaking English , you start to notice that they stress certain sounds in words. Sometimes in different...
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Speaking better English - Synecdoches
What is a synecdoche? It is a figure of speech in which, most often, a part of something is used to refer to its whole. Let's have a look...
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