Friday, 30 January 2015

Words of the day (25/01/2015)

VOCABULARY

INTERVENE (VERB)
DEFINITION:
to become involved in a situasion in order to improve it.
EXAMPLE:
-  Ahmad intervened in the Spell it right competition to enhance his English skills.
-      To maintain that they must intervene is to betray ignorance of the elementary principles of prophetic interpretation.

FALTER (VERB)
DEFINITON:
To lose confident and determination.
EXAMPLE:
-    Most of the students falter during the exams is because they are less prepared for the exams.
-    Do not falter in the face of any enemy terror.

RAPPORT (NOUN)
DEFINITION:
A friendly relationship in which people understand each other very well.
EXAMPLE:
- We must have a good rapport with our parents.
-    At the personal level, I was able to develop close rapport with the other panelists.

PRECARIOUS (ADJECTIVE)
DEFINITON:
Not safe or not certain; dangerous.
EXAMPLE:
-      Don’t play on the hill because it’s precarious.
-      Despite our precarious position in the league at least we have a football club.

INTERROGATE (VERB)
DEFINITION:
To ask someone a lot of questions over a long period of time; especially in an aggressive way.
EXAMPLE:
-      The police was interrogating the accuse about the crime scene that occurred  at the Bukit Bintang.
-      We must interrogate what democracy means to the people.

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