Here are the words for today: chart n. detailed map used to help navigation at sea, showing coasts, rocks, the depth of the sea, etc comprise v. have as parts or members; be made up of construct v. build (sth); put or fit together; form converse v. ~ (about sth); ~ (together) (fml ) talk [...]
Agur! (That’s “Hello” in Basque) Are you a bit bored with learning just English? Or maybe you are a world traveller or one of those brave and pioneering ESL teachers stationed in some remote part of the world. Or just someone like me who loves words! On this blog I bang on endlessly about my [...]
Here are today’s words. How are you doing? If you are do you go back and test yourself on what you have already learnt? How about writing some sentences – you can post them here in the comments below each Daily Words lesson. Wouldn’t it be great if people from around the world added good [...]
Here’s the words for Advanced CPE, CAE, ECPE, TOEFL and IELTS students as well as any others that want to make sure their vocabulary is top of the range. implicate v. ~ sb show that sb is involved in sth, esp a crime maximise [ maximize: ] vt. to make as high or great as [...]
This is rather sad but will be of interest to anyone who loves languages. The BBC reported today that the very last speaker of an Alaskan language called Eyak has died. Marie Smith Jones (picture above borrowed from the BBC story) was the mother of 9 children but none of them learned Eyak because when [...]
Oops! Missed a day! Perhaps I had better rename this Almost Daily Words…… I got busy with my artwork yesterday and was too tired to post last night. Probably something to do with the weather. There is a gale blowing here in the Greek Islands and my washing ended up all over the street today. [...]
