WIDOW = woman 👩 whose spouse has died

WIDOWER = man 👨 whose spouse has died

DOWAGER = widow 👩 holding property 🏡🏢 from her dead spouse

#vocabulary

❤️[Heart]❤️

1-It would break my mother's heart to leave Saudi Arabia and work in the USA.
(break her heart = make her extremely sad)

2-I left the country with a heavy heart.
(a heavy heart = great sadness).

3-I loved my country with all my heart and soul.
(With heart and soul = very much; completely)

4-I am a man with a heart of gold.
(Heart of gold = very kind character)

5-I can still recite the poems I learned by heart at school.
(by heart = in such a way that I can say it from memory)

6-I haven't got a heart of stone.
(Heart of stone = very cruel character).

7-My heart was in my boots as I waited for news of the accident.
(sb's heart is in his/her boots = feel sad or worried)

8-Now, don't lose heart. Keep trying.
(Lose heart = lose courage or confidence)

9-I hope that you will take heart from what I told you today.
(take heart = feel encouraged)

#expressions

Reckless = rash; careless

Don’t be a *reckless* driver! 🌲💥🚗

Feckless = incompetent; ineffective

The manager fired the *feckless* worker.

#vocabulary

For diseases,

“endemic” = in a small area;

“epidemic” = widespread;

“pandemic” = universal. 🌏

They get worse in alphabetical order.

#vocabulary

The past tense of “dive” is *dived* or *dove*: Jo *dived*/*dove* from her boat. ⛵️

But for “drive,” 🚘

drived → ❌

*drove* → ✔️

#Grammar

Don’t use ALTHOUGH and BUT in the same sentence:

Although Jo is mean, but she is still my friend. → ❌

Delete one or the other.

#Grammar

Hot English Magazine # 172: September 2016

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