The Farmer and the Stork – Learn English with fairy tales from Aesop’s Fables with a podcast and vocabulary practice Source: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube. A farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowed lands and caught a number of cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he…
Sympathetic 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 36 /ˌsɪm.pəˈθet.ɪk/ (adj) Sympathetic definition showing care and attention to the sufferings of other people, concerned, kind, compassionate, caring, sensitive, considerate, understanding, empathetic, benevolent – in accord, approving, supportive, agreeing, congenial, amiable, friendly, affable, agreeable Sympathetic in context When someone special to your friend has passed away, it is…
Confine 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 31 /kənˈfaɪn/ (verb) Confine definition to restrict or limit someone or something, restrain – to enclose someone or keep them in by force, hold in, imprison, incarcerate, trap, jail, hold captive, impound, hedge in, detain, lock in, quarantine Example Meaz Nour-Eldin was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant on charges…
Temperate 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 34 /ˈtem.pər.ət/ (adj) (of weather conditions) neither very cold nor very hot, mild, moderate, pleasant, clement, agreeable – (of behavior or personality) controlled and calm, self-controlled, restrained, reserved In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions…
The Ass and His Purchaser – An English fairy tale by Aesop with a podcast and list of vocabulary to practice English with short stories and fairy tales Source: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube. A man wished to purchase an ass, and agreed with its owner that he should try out…
Mercury and the Workmen – learn English with fairy tales from Aesop’s Fables with a podcast and vocabulary list Source: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube. A workman, felling wood by the side of a river, let his axe drop by accident into a deep pool. Being thus deprived of the means…
Monarch 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 27 /ˈmɒn.ək/ (noun) a king or queen, potentate, ruler, sovereign, crown, emperor, empress, imperator, tsar, prince, princess This is a list of Portuguese monarchs who ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal, in 1139, to the deposition of the Portuguese monarchy and creation of the Portuguese Republic…
Traitor 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 37 /ˈtreɪ.təʳ/ (noun) a person who betrays his own country or friends, perfidious person, double-dealer, treacherous person, betrayer, double agent, turncoat, spy, back-stabber, deserter, conspirator, renegade, defector, collaborator Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. A person who commits treason is known…
Matrimony 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 25 /ˈmæt.rɪ.mə.ni/ (noun) the condition or state of being married, union, wedlock, nuptials, marriage, married state, monogamy, wedding In celebrating the sacrament of Holy Matrimony, many people proclaim the communion of love between the spouses and ask God’s blessing on the new couple that their nuptial union might be…
Verse 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 30 /vɜːs/ (noun & verb) any short line of a poem or song, verse line, group of lines in a piece of writing, a piece of writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, poetry, rhyme, blank verse – stanza, canto, unit The literary device verse denotes a single line of…