0322 Flashcards
FOMO
fear of miss out
YOLO
you only live once
carpe diem
He is an example of living life of carpe diem way, so happy everyday.
Latin: “pluck the day” or “seize the day”
procrastinator
I am a procrastinator, won’t finish my hoework until last day.
creed
The Creed
To respect people with different political creed is not easy.
creed /kriːd/ noun [countable] 1 a set of beliefs or principles Marxism has never been weaker as a political creed. a religious creed people of all colours and creeds
the Creed
a formal statement of belief spoken in certain Christian churches
the Creed
• Thus it could not compete with Lancashire, and rigid protection of the home market became the creed of all Catalan industrialists.
• Far into the next century, Du Bois lost support of many black church people when he espoused the creed of Marxism.
• I still can not go to a service, nor say the Creed.
• The former depicted the royal coat of arms, texts from the scriptures, the Creed, or the Lord’s Prayer.
• Surely they must have some doubts, made some mental reservations to the creed they so confidently recited morning and night.
kick the bucket
I don’t want to give up, unless I kick the bucket.
kick the bucket
old-fashioned to die – used humorously
kick the bucket
• If Primrose was in a black mood she would like as not kick the bucket over.
• Jinny was so startled that she nearly kicked the bucket over.
• When I kick the bucket you’ll be able to live on my life insurance.
A common theory is that the idiom refers to hanging, either as a method of execution or suicide. However, there is no evidence to support this.
punctuate
puncture
Their small discussions are occationally punctuated by a big laughter.
2 [transitive] literary to interrupt something, especially when this is repeated
punc‧tu‧ate /ˈpʌŋktʃueɪt/ verb
1 [transitive] to divide written work into sentences, phrases etc using commas, full stops etc
2 [transitive] literary to interrupt something, especially when this is repeated
The silence was occasionally punctuated by laughter.
punctuate
• Danoff’s resignation punctuated a decade of tremendous change at the museum.
• Clare had led Carolyn along endless humming corridors, whose walls were punctuated by closed doors.
• The path turned inland and met the road to Sandweg which cut through arable land, punctuated by low, brooding barns.
• An air of helplessness and despair spread about, punctuated by stirrings of an uglier mood.
• Periods of punctuated equilibrium are equally visible in human history.
• As Carol Jackson moved about in the kitchen she could hear the steady burble of conversation, punctuated every so often by a laugh.
• President Nixon punctuated his Watergate tapes with obscenities.
Origin punctuate (1600-1700) Medieval Latin past participle of punctuare, from Latin punctum; → POINT1
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punc·tu·ate | \ ˈpəŋk-chə-ˌwāt \
punctuated; punctuating
Definition of punctuate
transitive verb
1: to mark or divide (written matter) with punctuation marks
2: to break into or interrupt at intervals
the steady click of her needles punctuated the silence
— Edith Wharton
3: ACCENTUATE, EMPHASIZE
intransitive verb
: to use punctuation marks
haggle
As you’re walking, sound washes over you, the steady thrum of human activity, people talking in a dozen different languages, chatting, haggling, arguing.
Tourists are haggling with the street vendor over the price of souvenirs.
hag‧gle /ˈhæɡəl/ verb [intransitive]
to argue when you are trying to agree about the price of something
haggle over
tourists haggling over the price of souvenirs
haggle with
Ted was haggling with the street vendors.
—haggling noun [uncountable]
→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
haggle
• If you go to a street market, you’d better be prepared to haggle.
• Go to the best studio your budget will allow and remember that studios will often drop their price if you haggle.
• My colleague was not prepared to haggle.
• Otherwise they will have barely tried life under Maastricht before their mandarins must start haggling again.
• The haggling among scientists continued, and seeing the project in disarray, Congress eventually cut off financing for the Mohole Project.
• Merchants haggled in New York and Philadelphia.
• The passenger haggled over the fare before she got into the taxi.
• We came to the rooming house where Dean haggled with Camille.
• But this man wasn’t haggling with him.
• My mother used to spend hours haggling with the market traders.
haggle over
• I hate having to haggle over prices.
bargain2 ●○○ verb [intransitive] to discuss the conditions of a sale, agreement etc, for example to try and get a lower price bargain for workers bargaining for better pay bargain over They bargained over the level of wages. bargain with women bargaining with traders
Bargain and haggle are similar in meaning to negotiate for price reduction. The only difference between them is the bargain seems to be polite and softer between parties while price negotiation, where as, the term haggle means to have negotiation leads to little bit harsher and impolite manner.
hostel
There were a couple of hostels, giant projects built by the government for housing migrant workers.
1 a place where people can stay and eat fairly cheaply
2 a youth hostel
3 a place where people who have no homes can stay
henchman
Then there was Mazi, Bongani’s henchman.
hench‧man /ˈhentʃmən/ noun (plural henchmen /-mən/) [countable]
a faithful supporter of a political leader or a criminal, who is willing to do illegal things or use violence
Origin henchman (1300-1400) hengest “male horse” ((12-14 centuries)) (from Old English) + man
