Wholeheartedly, Sofia 🇺🇸🇮🇹

Heyyyyy, мы возвращаемся 🥳

Хотим сделать более информативное пространство, а не просто списки слов, поэтому делитесь ниже для чего учите английский, какая ваша конечная цель? А мы будем делиться полезными ресурсами и советиками 🔥

🧶Spellbound = having your attention completely held by something, so that you cannot think about anything else

The children listened to the story spellbound

He held hid audience spellbound

🧶Fortuitous = (of something that is to your advantage) not planned, happening by chance

The timing of the meeting is certainly fortuitous

The collapse of its rivals was a fortuitous opportunity for the company

🧶Bolster = to support or improve something or make it stronger

More money is needed to bolster the industry

She tried to bolster my confidence by telling me that I had special a talent

🧶Morale = the amount of confidence felt by a person or group of people, especially when in a dangerous or difficult situation

Collocations: high morale, good/ bad for moral, boost morale

A couple of victories would improve the team's morale enormously

His tasks are extremely difficult: policing, and keeping up the general morale of everybody concerned

🧶piecing something together = to create something by joining the separate parts of it together or by joining different things together

The ancient skull has been pieced together from fragments

The police are collecting clues in order to piece together the details of the day she died

🧶Inoculate = to introduce something such as bacteria, a virus, or a fungus into an animal or plant as part of an experiment or to encourage it to grow there

My children have been inoculated against polio

Louis Pasteur inoculated an 8-year-old boy with cowpox and then exposed him to smallpox to test his theory

Unfortunately, age does not inoculate against a broken heart

🧶Volitional = acting as a result of a decision or choice; done because someone has decided or chosen to do it

mental processes over which we have volitional

The complaints alleged volitional acts rather than accidental occurrences

With love, MeowEng🧡

🧶pervade = when qualities, characteristics, or smells pervade a place or thing, they spread through it and are present in every part of it

The movie is a reflection of the violence that pervades our culture

The influence of the early jazz musicians pervades American music

🧶invigorating = making you feel healthier, less tired, and more energetic

an invigorating swim/run

These yoga postures are invigorating and good for balance

🧶scribbled = to write or draw something quickly or carelessly

The baby's just scribbled all over my new dictionary

I'll just scribble Dad a note to say we're going out

With love, MeowEng🧡

upheaval = a great change, especially causing or involving much difficulty, activity, or trouble

I'm not sure it's worth the upheaval of moving to gain just a little more space

Yesterday's coup brought further upheaval to a country already struggling with famine

arbitrary = based on chance rather than being planned or based on reason

arbitrary decision-making

Did you have a reason for choosing your destination or was it arbitrary?

infuse = to fill something or someone with emotions or quality

The pulling down the Berlin Wall infused the world with optimism

The arrival of a group of friends on Saturday infused new life into the weekend

fume = to be very angry

The whole episode left me fuming at the injustice of it all

Attest = to show, say, or prove that something exists or is true

Thousands of people came out onto the streets to attest their support for the democratic opposition party

Couples must attest to being in a committed relationship

Indispensable = necessary

We need to educate the public about the wonder and the indispensability of nature

The newspaper once had an aura of indispensability

Incessantly = in a way that never stops, especially when this is annoying or unpleasant

She talked incessantly about the most trivial things

He checks his phone incessantly

astutely = in a way that shows someone is able to quickly understand a situation and see how to get an advantage from it

They took over the company and astutely transformed it into a tech giant

She astutely observed that invisible black ice on a paved surface is not, by its nature, obvious or easy to see

MeowEng ❤️‍🔥

Mayhem = a situation in which there is little of no order or control

🫐With 20 kids running around and only two adults to supervise, it was complete mayhem

vicariously = in a vicarious way (= experienced through the activities of other people)

🫐People like to vicariously experience that kind of danger

infinitesimal = extremely small

🫐The amounts of radioactivity present were infinitesimal

🫐Even in infinitesimal amounts, this poison can kill you

frolic = to play and behave in a happy way

🫐A group of suntanned children were frolicking on the beach

🫐it was all fun and frolic until it began to pour down with rain

MeowEng

Attest = to show, say, or prove that something exists or is true

✅Thousands of people came out onto the streets to attest their support for the democratic opposition party

✅Couples must attest to being in a committed relationship

Indispensable = necessary

✅We need to educate the public about the wonder and the indispensability of nature

✅The newspaper once had an aura of indispensability

Incessantly = in a way that never stops, especially when this is annoying or unpleasant

✅She talked incessantly about the most trivial things

✅He checks his phone incessantly

astutely = in a way that shows someone is able to quickly understand a situation and see how to get an advantage from it

✅They took over the company and astutely transformed it into a tech giant

She astutely observed that invisible black ice on a paved surface is not, by its nature, obvious or easy to see

MeowEng🐱

Fleetness = the ability to run or move quickly

✅They relied on their excellent eyesight and fleetness if foot

✅He was saved only by the fleetness of his team

Inhibition = embarrassment

✅After a couple of drinks he lost his inhibition and started talking and laughing loudly

✅She was determined to shed her inhibitions and have a good time

Enticing = tempting, alluring

✅an enticing smile
an enticing job offer

versatile = able to change easily from one activity to another or able to be used for many different purposes

✅He's a very versatile young actor who's as happy in highbrow dramas as he is in TV comedies

With love, MeowEng🐱

Exhilarating = making you feel very excited and happy

an exhilarating walk in the mountains

An exhilarating sense of new beginning swept through him

At the end of the race I was exhilarated

Contrived = far-fetched

His excuse sounded a bit contrived

Dumbfounded = so shocked that you cannot speak
Synonym: thunderstruck

He was dumbfounded by the allegation

What to do with these swords?

1. Open Cambridge Dictionary (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/) and check how to use them one more time.
2. Find some examples form a website YouGlish (https://youglish.com/)
3. Watch the whole video to practise listening and to find more unknown words

cogent = persuasive and well expressed (about an argument or opinion)

✅He makes a cogent argument for improving early childhood education

✅Her writing combines fluency and cogency

✅His decision was prudent and timely

prudent = careful and avoiding risks
Synonym: cautious

✅It's always prudent to read a contract carefully before signing it

candor = the quality of being honest and telling the truth, especially about a difficult or embarrassing subject

✅"We really don't know what to do about it," she said with surprising candor.

unsightly = not attractive

✅He had undone the buttons of his shirt, exposing an unsightly expanse of white flesh

✅The garden was full of unsightly weeds

With love, MeowEng🐱

Treacherous = not loyal

✅Vargas plays the part of a treacherous aristocrat who betrays his king and country

Regurgitate = to repeat information without understanding

✅It doesn't help you to to regurgitate what is already on the application form

Verbatim = in a way that uses exactly the same words as were originally used

✅While you don't want to repeat information from the application form verbatim in your essay, it is usually a good idea to have some continuity between the form and your essay

weed out = to get rid of

✅The first round of interviews only really weed out the very weakest applicants

Zeal = great enthusiasm or eagerness

✅a zeal for learning