Word of the Week

Choose a word you have learned recently or you like for some reason and share it with the rest of the students. It could also be a phrase, phrasal verb, idiom, etc.

I find phrasal verbs fascinating, so my word for this week is actually several words: to talk someone out of something.


I love the expression "the nitty-gritty of something".

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7 comentarios:

  1. Ana1 de septiembre de 2011, 15:22

    I've learned recently the word "nincompoop" whose meaning is a foolish or stupid person. I read it by chance while I was looking another word in the dictionary and it seemed to me funny.

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  2. Elena2 de septiembre de 2011, 2:55

    Thanks, Ana, for inaugurating the comments section in several pages.
    I've always found the word humungous (US humongous)very funny.

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  3. CMed27 de septiembre de 2011, 22:44

    I like "thingamajig" which is used when you forget the name of something, check it out:
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=thingamajig
    There are more like "thingamabob":
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=thingamabob!
    Have fun learning!

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  4. Elena4 de octubre de 2011, 13:27

    And what about "jamboree"? I love the way it sounds, it could be a musical instrument, but is it?

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  5. Gustavo24 de octubre de 2011, 10:36

    Some days ago I was reading a news about Joaquin Sabina in an American website. Maybe you know he's on tour in the USA. While I was reading a word caught my atention, it was “duende”. Obviously It's a spanish word, but I liked how they used it trying to define Sabina as a modern poet, who has a peculiar power to use common words, from the coloquial language, to compone marvellous songs. Could we hear something like “you have duende” in American Films?.....
    On the other hand, one of my favourite words is Stamina, which has different meanings but all of them are positives.

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  6. Ana28 de octubre de 2011, 10:36

    I love Sabina too. It's curious how American people have used the word "duende" to define him. It sounds better to say that he has "duende" because in English you must write more words (with a certain magical quality) according to the dictionary. The lyrics of his songs are so genuine and authentic that he may certainly be considered as a modern poet.
    As an example one of his songs:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEUTsrAbLHE

    One expression I like is "(be)on tenterhooks"

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  7. Anónimo9 de noviembre de 2011, 12:50

    As a curiosity, my proposal is the word "purty". When you think that you know how to spell a word, metathesis!

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/purty

    Manolo 5º

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