Friday, 13 February 2015

Words of the day (12/2/2015)

VOCABULARY

ENCUMBER (VERB)
Definition: to weight someone or something down, or to make it different for someone to do something.
Example:
-          Today, thankfully, women tennis players are not encumber by long, heavy skirts and high-necked bloused.

PINION (VERB)
Definition: To hold someone, especially by the arms, to prevent them form moving.
Example:
-          He was pinioned to the wall by two men while another man repeatedly punched him.

ERRATIC (ADJECTIVE)
Definition: not regular, uncertain or without organization in movement or behaviour.
Example:
-          He drove in an erratic course down road.
-          She can be very erratic, one day she in friendly, the next day she’ll hardly talk to you.

ETERNAL (ADJECTIVE)
Definition: Lasting forever or for a very long time.
Example:
-          The company I engaged in the eternal search for a product that will lead the market.

CONVENTIONAL (ADJECTIVE)
Definition:
Tradisional or ordinary.
Describe weapon which are not nuclear, or method of fighting a war do not involve nuclear weapons.
Example:

-          I find his art rather dull and conventional.

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