Word of the day: Endowment / Interesting Facts About English

Word of the day

Endowment: doação, dotação, dote, dom

Synonyms: aptitude, bent, talent, faculty, flair, genius, gift, head, knack

“ The hospital's endowment was established by a local family.”

“ The college has a large endowment.”

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Interesting Facts About English

In English, the @ symbol is usually called "the at sign" or "the at symbol".

If we place a comma before the word "and" at the end of a list, this is known as an "Oxford comma" or a "serial comma". For example: "I drink coffee, tea, and wine."

Some words exist only in plural form, for example: glasses (spectacles), binoculars, scissors, shears, tongs, gallows, trousers, jeans, pants, pyjamas (but note that clothing words often become singular when we use them as modifiers, as in "trouser pocket").

The shortest complete sentence in English is the following. "I am."

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat" meaning "the king is helpless".     (www.englishclub.com)

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Take the fall

Take the fall: levar a culpa, ser preso por um crime que outros cometeram, aceitar responsabilidade por algo (especialmente no lugar de alguém)

“Walt and Tony pulled the job off together, but Tony took the fall.

“You did it, and I won't take the fall!”

“The team's general manager takes the fall when the team loses but gets a lot of credit when they do well. (thefreedictioinary.com)

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Word of the day: Meager LAG / LEG

Word of the day

Meager:  magro,  escasso, atraso, retardamento, demora

Synonyms: exiguous, hand-to-mouth, light, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, skimp

“Every morning he eats a meager breakfast of toast and coffee.”

“We'll have to do the best we can with this year's meager harvest.”

“She came to this country with a fairly meager English vocabulary, but she is learning more words every day.”

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LAG  / LEG

Lag:  retardo, atraso, demora, ficar atrás, retardar-se, ir devagar, demorar-se, atrasar-se, tardio, retardado

 “Many federal agencies also lag in submitting relevant records to the system.”

Leg:  perna, pé (de mesa, cama etc.), cano (de bota), parte de roupa que cobre as pernas, suporte, trecho de um percurso

“My leg hurts.”

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Jet lag: fadiga de voo: sensação de cansaço que as pessoas têm após longas 

horas de voo, especialmente quando chegam a um lugar com grande diferença de fuso 

horário

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Word of the day: Humdrum / It comes as a surprise

Word of the day

Humdrum: pessoa ou coisa maçante, enfadonha, monotonia, monótono, enfadonho, estúpido

Synonyms: arid, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, boring

“She liked the movie, but I thought it was humdrum.”

“…another humdrum day at the office…”     (www.merriam-webster.com)

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It comes as a surprise,  as a shock, as a  disappointment/ as a relief etc.

-é uma surpresa / choque / desapontamento / lembrete, alívio etc.

“It came as no surprise that Jane left her husband.”

(Não foi uma surpresa que Jane abandonou seu marido.)

“It comes as a relief to learn that he’s still alive.”

(É um alívio saber que ele ainda está vivo

(Conversação em Inglês:Frases e Expressões Úteis- Flávio Cruz)

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Word of the day: Surmise / Interesting Facts About English

Word of the day

Surmise: conjetura, suposição, imaginação, cismo, suspeita, imaginar, supor, conjeturar, suspeitar

Synonyms:  guess, shot, supposition, conjecture

“My surmise is that the couple's “good news” is the announcement that they are going to have a baby.”

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Interesting Facts About English

The only planet not named after a god is our own, Earth.. The others are, in order from the Sun, Mercury, Venus, [Earth,] Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is "rhythm"

There are only 4 English words in common use ending in "-dous": hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and tremendous.

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Word of the day Ascribe

Word of the day

Ascribe: designar, referir a, atribuir, imputar

Synonyms: accredit, credit, attribute, chalk up, impute, lay, put down

“ …ascribed their stunning military victory to good intelligence beforehand…” (www.merriam-webster.com)

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Ascribe: designar, referir a, atribuir, imputar

Synonyms: accredit, credit, attribute, chalk up, impute, lay, put down

“ …ascribed their stunning military victory to good intelligence beforehand…” (www.merriam-webster.com)

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Word of the day Flutter

Word of the day

Flutter: esvoaçar, palpitação, agitação, vibração, confusão, excitação, taquicardia, tremular, flutuar, bater as asas, esvoaçar, estar irrequieto,  palpitar,  bater irregularmente

Synonyms: dance, dart, flick, flicker, flirt, flitter, flit, zip

“The bird was fluttering its wings.”

“Leaves fluttered to the ground.”

“The breeze made the curtains flutter.”

“She nervously fluttered around the office.”

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