Wholeheartedly, Sofia 🇺🇸🇮🇹

🧶 Essence = the basic or most important idea or quality of something; importance
rus: сущность

The essence of his argument was that education should continue throughout life
Yet change is the very essence of life

🧶 Delusion = belief in something that is not true
rus: заблуждение

He is under a delusion that counting calories helps him loosing weight

🧶 Battered = damaged or hurt
rus: избитый

battered furniture
He was battering on the door with his fists and howling

🧶 Resurrect = revive; to bring back to life
rus: воскресать

Almost all Christians believed that Jesus was resurrected from the dead

🧶 Inertia = lack of activity

Fight against inertia!

🧶 Propel = to push or move something somewhere
rus: приводить в движение

a rocket propelled through space
If the team won the next two games, they would be propelled into the number one ranking in collegiate football

Learning new words with this book🧡

🧶 Poignant = causing or having very sharp feeling of sadness

The photograph awakens poignant memories of happier days

It is especially poignant that he died on the day before the wedding

🧶 Somber = serious, sad and without humor or entertainment

a somber atmosphere
a somber voice/face
I left him in a somber mood

🧶 Ominous = suggesting that something unpleasant is likely to happen

There was an ominous silence when I asked whether my contract was going to be renewed

🧶 Retaliate = to hurt someone

The terrorists retaliated against the government with a bomb attack

Today's a word of the day is abash

🧶 Abash = to embarrass someone or make them feel uncomfortable

Her elder cousins abashed her by commenting on her shyness

The fact that they seem to wish to get rid of him did not abashed him at least

🧶 Abashed = embarrassed

He said nothing but looked abashed

🧶 Unabashed = without any worry about possible criticism or embarrassment

an unabashed critic of Congress

She is to this day unabashed in her patriotism

🧶 Unabashedly = in an unabashed way

an unabashedly romantic story

There is no way for you not to remember this word)🦊

🧶 Malice = the wish to harm or upset other people
rus: злоба, злой умысел

There certainly wasn't any malice in her comments

I bear him no malice

Her crime was malicious and with malice aforethought

An employee would have to prove an employer acted out of malice in order to sue

🧶 Demonic = wild and evil
rus: демонический

He had a demonic gleam in his eye

🧶 Strew = to spread things in an untidy way over a surface
rus: усыпанный, разбросанный

They marked the end of the war by strewing flowers over the graves of 18 000 soldiers

strew flower petals

🧶 Redeem = to make something seem less bad
rus: искупить

He was an hour late, but he redeemed himself in her eyes by giving her a huge bunch of flowers

🧶 Attest = to show, say or prove that something exists or is true
rus: подтверждать, свидетельствовать

The decline in sales attests to the fact that the product is out of date

A piece of advice from 50 Successful IVY LEAGUE Application Essays🧡

🧶 Hackneyed -> a hackneyed phrase or idea has been said or used so often that it has become boring and has no meaning

a hackneyed plot

Oana's essay opens with a fresh perspective on a theme that is often overused and can easily become hackneyed — love

🧶 Penultimate = second from the last

In her penultimate paragraph, Oana relates her long process of learning Spanish to her "ambitious and aggressive spirit"...

🧶 Regurgitate -> if you regurgitate facts, you just repeat what you have heard without thinking about it

It is better to end the essay in a way that seems fresh, rather than regurgitating what has already been said

People are just regurgitate what they see on TV

🧶 Unabashedly = in an unabashed way (= without any worry about possible criticism)

Be unabashed in your personal statement!!!

Greeks are people who are unabashedly enthusiastic about uncool things

The resources we use for our challenge:

🧶 Cambridge dictionary - the most popular and useful dictionary. Be sure to look at all the explanations for a word + synonyms and antonyms.

Example:
Delicate = fragile = breakable - хрупкий

🧶 A website with clippings from movies/videos which helps to learn a phrase or a word in context.

🧶 We Google words and read articles with topics related to them. Watch YouTube and tik-tok videos to memorize words faster!

🧶 We analyze all parts of speech of a singular word (verb, noun, ect).

Example:
aware - осведомлённый ;
awareness - осведомлённость.

🧶 We write mini stories using new words.

Our results in 3 days:
Anne: 115/1000
Sonya: 83/1000

Put reactions and add your words in the comments🧡

Today we are not only learning new vocabulary, but also increasing our listening skills

🧶 Linger
1) = to continue to exist

Collocation: (something) is still lingering

- How is your cold?
- Unfortunately, it is still lingering

2) = to take longer than usual to leave

Some customers linger for a while after the shop closed

🧶 Dole out = to give something, usually money, to several people
* dole out sth / dole sth out

Calts dole out $22.5 million for kicker Matt Gay
( heel that we use "million" but not "millions" according to the rules of advanced English grammar )

Should political parties be allowed to dole out freebies?

🧶 Pinpoint = to find out or say the exact position in space or time of something

Can you pinpoint our location on the map

Doctors cannot pinpoint the cause of our illnesses

🧶 Plague = to cause worry, pain, or difficulty to someone or something over a period of time

My athletic career has been plagued by back injuries

Watch for more new verbs 🧡

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9IOamy4BGg

🧶 Inequity = the fact that a situation is not fair
rus: несправедливость

inequity in the healthcare system
gender inequity in the classroom

🧶 Strife = violent or angry disagreement
rus: борьба

20 years of civil strife have left the country's economy in ruins
What are the prospects for overcoming the strife between the Christians minority and Muslim majority?

🧶 Complacency = a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder
rus: самодовольство

We are finally making a profit, but there is no reason for complacency

🧶 Despondency = the quality of being unhappy
rus: уныние

A mood of despondency had set in
There is a general air of despondency about the state of out democracy

🧶 Adulation = very great admiration or praise for someone
rus: лесть

As a born performer, she loves the excitement and she loves the adulation

The second part of the words from Consciousness: The Final Frontier

In the nick of time -> used to indicate that something was done just in time

✅We arrived in the airport in the nick of time just as our flight was being called

✅The paramedics arrived in the nick of time and saved the person's life

✅I took my roast beef out of the oven in the nick of time. A few minutes later, it would have been burnt

Jump through hoops -> used to indicate a difficult or challenging task

✅I had to jump through hoops to get all this is paperwork done on time. It was a really challenging time

✅The candidate had to jump through hoops to get the job, but it was worth it in the end

Throw in the towel -> used to indicate giving up or admitting defeat

✅I'm going to throw in the towel. I really can't work this out (can't solve a math problem)

It is not rocket science = it is not difficult

✅Cooking an omelette is not rocket science. You break a few eggs, whisk them with some ingredients and voila!