American Accent

Vídeo:  American Accent

Saying: A bad penny always turns up

A bad penny always turns up

"pessoas más acabam aparecendo ou voltando"

A night on the town / out on the town

A night on the town / out on the town :  (sair) para um jantar ou show, para um clube, ( sair) para se divertir

“Let's go out for a night on the town. We haven't been out for ages.”

“It's quite common for businessmen to take their colleagues out on the town.”(www.englishclub.com)

Word of the day: Swindle

Swindle: engano, fraude, lograr, enganar, fraudar, calotear, obter fraudulentamente.

Synonyms: beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, flimflam rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, fleece, thimblerig

”Hundreds of people were swindled out of their savings, and all they had to show for it were fake land deeds.”(www.merriam-webster.com)

Word of the day: Gloze

Gloze: lisonja, lisonjaria, adulação, aparência enganosa, lisonjear, adular, encobrir com palavras

Synonyms / definition: to minimize or to explain away, to use flattery, to make an explanation, to shine brightly,  comment, flattery, pretense.

^{“Anthony Blunt was exposed 20 years ago, there were some who tried to gloze his conduct."
(Geoffrey Wheatcroft; Her Russia Right or Wrong; The Spectator (London, UK); Sep 18, 1999.)}
“He tried to gloze over his drinking problem by noting that he had never done drugs.”(www.merriam-webster.com)

American Presidents

THE TALLEST president was Lincoln at 6'4"; at 5'4", Madison was the shortest.


FOURTEEN PRESIDENTS served as vice presidents: J. Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore, A. Johnson, Arthur, T. Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman, Nixon, L. Johnson, Ford, and George Bush.


VICE PRESIDENTS were originally the presidential candidates receiving the second-largest number of electoral votes. The Twelfth Amendment, passed in 1804, changed the system so that the electoral college voted separately for president and vice president. The presidential candidate, however, gradually gained power over the nominating convention to choose his own running mate
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Word of the day: Solace

Solace:  consolo, conforto.  consolar, confortar

Synonyms: assure, cheer, console, reassure, comfort, cheer, consolation, relief, comfort

“Her presence was a great solace for me.”

 “Counselors did their best to solace the bereaved children.”

“I solaced myself with a book while I waited for the bus.”(www.merriam-webster.com)