the English language Jhon Humphrys narrates his disappointment contra the generation of “Thumbspeak”. In the fragment “ I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language”‚ he says that searching words in the dictionary is one of the enjoyments of life‚ before the Oxford English Dictionary decides to change approximately sixteen thousand words in the new edition‚ because according to the editor “ we live in a world where we cant stop to make one more key stroke”. Humphrys fear was that the new generations
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Since I don’t want to be here I just am writing this up because I need to have a speech done tomorrow on this and I can’t find out what extacy is about so I will just sit here and write Extacy is an illegal synthetic‚ or designer‚ drug. Designer drugs mimic an already illegal drug by slightly altering the chemical composition. Extacy is also called MDMA (Extacy)‚ which stands for methylenedioxymethamphetamine. The amount of MDMA (Extacy) needed to get "high" is close to the toxic dose. Extacy
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CHECK YOUR VOCABULARY FOR ACADEMIC ENGLISH THIRD EDITION by David Porter A & C Black London www.acblack.com For Ana Rita First edition published 2001 Second edition published 2003 This third edition published 2007 by A & C Black Publishers Ltd 38 Soho Square‚ London W1D 3HB © Copyright A&C Black Publishers Ltd 2007 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the permission of the publishers. A CIP entry for this book is available
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undertake these five steps‚ let’s look at what is culture shock and what causes it. By knowing what it is and where it comes from‚ will help you identify it more easily and help make your international move a little easier. The online Oxford Dictionary defines culture shock as disorientation experienced when suddenly subjected to an unfamiliar culture or way of life. This is a good summary; however‚ let’s break it down a bit further. When you move to a new country‚ everything is unfamiliar; weather
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White Pollution According to Oxford English Dictionary‚ the pollution means "spiritual or moral corruption (4th cent)‚" but the meaning of "white pollution" is very different. For people who does not know Chemistry very well and people who is not recycling‚ they will not have a idea what is white pollution. In addition‚ they will not know how harmful the white pollution is to the Earth. Actually‚ the white pollution means that the plastic things‚ like plastic bottle‚ plastic bags‚ plastic silverware
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Hyponymy The term HYPONYMY is of recent creation‚ which has not found its way to some small dictionaries yet. But the notion of meaning inclusiveness is not new. For example‚ the meaning of desk is included in that of furniture‚ and the meaning of rose is included in that of flower. In other words‚ hyponymy is a matter of class membership. The upper term in this sense relation‚ i.e. the class name‚ is called SUPERORDINATE‚ and the lower terms‚ the members‚ HYPONYMS. A superordinate usually
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One of the biggest problems in schools that administration faces is student’s truancy. Truancy‚ according to the American Heritage Dictionary‚ is the act or condition of being absent in school without permission. When students are absent from school‚ they have more limited opportunities to learn. Youth that are frequently truant are most likely to drop out of school; thus they are likely to experience instability in career paths‚ unintended pregnancy‚ higher rates of unemployment‚ and lower lifetime
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least 3 pair of homophones from the dictionary and write the meaning in group Educational Emphases: Multiple Intelligences Visual-spatial‚ Intrapersonal‚ Interpersonal‚ Verbal-linguistic‚ Musical Thinking Skills Critical and creative thinking skills‚ Making association Moral Value Use the words that have good meaning in your communication Language Content: Vocabulary pair‚ pear‚ hi‚ high‚ for‚ four‚ see‚ sea Teaching aids/ Resources: Oxford English dictionaries‚ word cards‚ drawing block‚ task
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entirely different definition. Although words may have an established meaning‚ as time goes by‚ that meaning may change‚ perhaps into something that is completely irrelevant. The Rise of the Ratchet As originally defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a ‘hunting dog’ or ‘the barrel of a gun’ the word ratchet was once commonly associated with the ‘mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.’ Many have used this meaning
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The United States of America‚ the melting pot‚ was built on the immigration of millions. People from vast backgrounds traveled to America with the hope of starting over in a new‚ open‚ and accepting place. What if‚ however‚ this was not the experience they received upon migrating into the US. During the 1920s immigrants from specific areas in the world were not openly received. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were both Italian immigrants who were treated unjustly for their beliefs. Sacco and
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