📚Efficient or effective?
👉Efficient and effective are adjectives.
📗We use efficient to describe something or someone that works in a quick and organized way:
🎈Example:
- The new online banking system offers a convenient and efficient way to check your account.
📕extract from a reference for someone applying for a job.
🎈Example:
- I have always known James to be highly competent and efficient in all aspects of his job
.
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📗We use effective to describe something that gives you the results you want:
🎈Examples:
▶️ Taking this tablet is a very effective cure for travel sickness.
▶️ In this light, the camera is more effective if you use the flash.
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👉Efficient and effective are adjectives.
📗We use efficient to describe something or someone that works in a quick and organized way:
🎈Example:
- The new online banking system offers a convenient and efficient way to check your account.
📕extract from a reference for someone applying for a job.
🎈Example:
- I have always known James to be highly competent and efficient in all aspects of his job
.
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📗We use effective to describe something that gives you the results you want:
🎈Examples:
▶️ Taking this tablet is a very effective cure for travel sickness.
▶️ In this light, the camera is more effective if you use the flash.
#Vocabulary
@gerammer
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📚Arise or rise or Raise?
📕📜ARISE
Arise means ‘happen’ or ‘occur’.
📗We use it with abstract nouns
🎈(e.g. problem).
The three forms
arise, arose, arisen.
▶️An opportunity arose and he decided to take the job in Brussels.
▶️A problem has arisen with my passport.
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📕📜RISE
✍Rise means ‘go up’.
The three forms
👉 rise, rose, risen
▶️ The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
▶️ Food prices have risen a lot in the last few months.
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📕📜RAISE
📗Raise must have an object, as it is a transitive verb.
It is a regular verb;
its three forms
👉raise, raised, raised
▶️ Raise your hand if you know the answer.
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📚Arise or rise or Raise?
📕📜ARISE
Arise means ‘happen’ or ‘occur’.
📗We use it with abstract nouns
🎈(e.g. problem).
The three forms
arise, arose, arisen.
▶️An opportunity arose and he decided to take the job in Brussels.
▶️A problem has arisen with my passport.
________________
📕📜RISE
✍Rise means ‘go up’.
The three forms
👉 rise, rose, risen
▶️ The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
▶️ Food prices have risen a lot in the last few months.
____________
📕📜RAISE
📗Raise must have an object, as it is a transitive verb.
It is a regular verb;
its three forms
👉raise, raised, raised
▶️ Raise your hand if you know the answer.
_________________________
#Vocabulary
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📚Synonyms.
🔴Skilful
good at doing something, especially something that needs special (ability) or (training)
🔴Talented
having a (natural ability )to do something well
🔴Accomplished
an accomplished writer, painter, singer etc is very skilful
🔴Gifted
having a natural ability to do one or more things extremely well.
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🔴Skilful
good at doing something, especially something that needs special (ability) or (training)
🔴Talented
having a (natural ability )to do something well
🔴Accomplished
an accomplished writer, painter, singer etc is very skilful
🔴Gifted
having a natural ability to do one or more things extremely well.
#Vocabulary
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📚IELTS Vocabulary
Health problems:
👉• addiction (addictions)
📗NOUN Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
🎈■ long-term addiction to nicotine.
👉• allergy (allergies)
📗NOUN If you have a particular allergy, you become ill or get a rash when you eat, smell, or touch something that does not normally make people ill.
🎈■ Food allergies can result in an enormous variety of different symptoms.
👉• cancer (cancers)
📗NOUN Cancer is a serious disease in which cells in a person’s body increase rapidly in an uncontrolled way, producing abnormal growths.
🎈 ■a cancer research charity .
👉• dehydration
📗UNCOUNTABLE NOUN 🎈You are suffering from dehydration if you lose too much water from your body.
🎈■ Cholera causes severe dehydration.
#vocabulary
@gerammer
Health problems:
👉• addiction (addictions)
📗NOUN Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
🎈■ long-term addiction to nicotine.
👉• allergy (allergies)
📗NOUN If you have a particular allergy, you become ill or get a rash when you eat, smell, or touch something that does not normally make people ill.
🎈■ Food allergies can result in an enormous variety of different symptoms.
👉• cancer (cancers)
📗NOUN Cancer is a serious disease in which cells in a person’s body increase rapidly in an uncontrolled way, producing abnormal growths.
🎈 ■a cancer research charity .
👉• dehydration
📗UNCOUNTABLE NOUN 🎈You are suffering from dehydration if you lose too much water from your body.
🎈■ Cholera causes severe dehydration.
#vocabulary
@gerammer
📚Word of the day:
👉pol·ter·geist
\ˈpōl-tər-ˌgīst\
noun
📗 a ghost that makes
strange noises and causes objects to move
📗[noun] a spirit or force that moves furniture and throws objects around in a house
🎈Example:
We thought a poltergeist was knocking dishes off the shelves, but it turned out to just be vibrations from passing
trains.
#vocabulary
@gerammer
👉pol·ter·geist
\ˈpōl-tər-ˌgīst\
noun
📗 a ghost that makes
strange noises and causes objects to move
📗[noun] a spirit or force that moves furniture and throws objects around in a house
🎈Example:
We thought a poltergeist was knocking dishes off the shelves, but it turned out to just be vibrations from passing
trains.
#vocabulary
@gerammer
📚Word of the day
👉corrode
[verb] If metal corrodes, or if something corrodes it, it is slowly damaged by something such as rain or water
📗Synonym: erode, deteriorate
📕Antonyms: build, construct
🎈Example:
Engineers found that the structure has been corroded by moisture.
#Vocabulary
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👉corrode
[verb] If metal corrodes, or if something corrodes it, it is slowly damaged by something such as rain or water
📗Synonym: erode, deteriorate
📕Antonyms: build, construct
🎈Example:
Engineers found that the structure has been corroded by moisture.
#Vocabulary
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📚 DIFFERENT Ways OF Walking 🚶
1. Stroll 👉 Walking in a Relaxed way For Pleasure.
2. Wander 👉 Walking without any Direction or Aim.
3. Stride 👉 Walking Quickly with Long Steps.
4. March 👉 Special Walking for Military Forces such as Soldiers.
5. Hike 👉 Walking for Long Distances in the Countryside or the Mountains.
6. Tiptoe 👉 Walking on your Toes Quietly.
7. Wade 👉 Walking through Water.
8. Stagger 👉 Walking in an Unsteady way because you are Drunk or Injured.
9. Limp 👉 Walking with Difficulty because one Leg is Painful or Injured.
#Vocabulary
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1. Stroll 👉 Walking in a Relaxed way For Pleasure.
2. Wander 👉 Walking without any Direction or Aim.
3. Stride 👉 Walking Quickly with Long Steps.
4. March 👉 Special Walking for Military Forces such as Soldiers.
5. Hike 👉 Walking for Long Distances in the Countryside or the Mountains.
6. Tiptoe 👉 Walking on your Toes Quietly.
7. Wade 👉 Walking through Water.
8. Stagger 👉 Walking in an Unsteady way because you are Drunk or Injured.
9. Limp 👉 Walking with Difficulty because one Leg is Painful or Injured.
#Vocabulary
@gerammer
📚Synonyms.
🔴Skilful
good at doing something, especially something that needs special (ability) or (training)
🔴Talented
having a (natural ability )to do something well
🔴Accomplished
an accomplished writer, painter, singer etc is very skilful
🔴Gifted
having a natural ability to do one or more things extremely well.
#Vocabulary
@gerammer
🔴Skilful
good at doing something, especially something that needs special (ability) or (training)
🔴Talented
having a (natural ability )to do something well
🔴Accomplished
an accomplished writer, painter, singer etc is very skilful
🔴Gifted
having a natural ability to do one or more things extremely well.
#Vocabulary
@gerammer
📚IELTS Vocabulary
Health problems:
👉• addiction (addictions)
📗NOUN Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
🎈■ long-term addiction to nicotine.
👉• allergy (allergies)
📗NOUN If you have a particular allergy, you become ill or get a rash when you eat, smell, or touch something that does not normally make people ill.
🎈■ Food allergies can result in an enormous variety of different symptoms.
👉• cancer (cancers)
📗NOUN Cancer is a serious disease in which cells in a person’s body increase rapidly in an uncontrolled way, producing abnormal growths.
🎈 ■a cancer research charity .
👉• dehydration
📗UNCOUNTABLE NOUN 🎈You are suffering from dehydration if you lose too much water from your body.
🎈■ Cholera causes severe dehydration.
#vocabulary
@gerammer
Health problems:
👉• addiction (addictions)
📗NOUN Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
🎈■ long-term addiction to nicotine.
👉• allergy (allergies)
📗NOUN If you have a particular allergy, you become ill or get a rash when you eat, smell, or touch something that does not normally make people ill.
🎈■ Food allergies can result in an enormous variety of different symptoms.
👉• cancer (cancers)
📗NOUN Cancer is a serious disease in which cells in a person’s body increase rapidly in an uncontrolled way, producing abnormal growths.
🎈 ■a cancer research charity .
👉• dehydration
📗UNCOUNTABLE NOUN 🎈You are suffering from dehydration if you lose too much water from your body.
🎈■ Cholera causes severe dehydration.
#vocabulary
@gerammer
📚Word of the day:
👉pol·ter·geist
\ˈpōl-tər-ˌgīst\
noun
📗 a ghost that makes
strange noises and causes objects to move
📗[noun] a spirit or force that moves furniture and throws objects around in a house
🎈Example:
We thought a poltergeist was knocking dishes off the shelves, but it turned out to just be vibrations from passing
trains.
#vocabulary
@gerammer
👉pol·ter·geist
\ˈpōl-tər-ˌgīst\
noun
📗 a ghost that makes
strange noises and causes objects to move
📗[noun] a spirit or force that moves furniture and throws objects around in a house
🎈Example:
We thought a poltergeist was knocking dishes off the shelves, but it turned out to just be vibrations from passing
trains.
#vocabulary
@gerammer
📚The difference between dish and food:
📕Dish:
A specific type of prepared food.
a vegetable dish this dish is filling and easily made
🎈Example:
Shakespearea dish fit for the gods.
📕Food:
👉(uncountable) Any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
🎈Example:
The innkeeper brought them foodand drink.
👉(countable) A foodstuff.
🎈e.g, This shop stocks many hundreds of different foods.
👉(uncountable) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
🎈Example:
The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought.
🎈Example:
Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
#vocabulary
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📕Dish:
A specific type of prepared food.
a vegetable dish this dish is filling and easily made
🎈Example:
Shakespearea dish fit for the gods.
📕Food:
👉(uncountable) Any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
🎈Example:
The innkeeper brought them foodand drink.
👉(countable) A foodstuff.
🎈e.g, This shop stocks many hundreds of different foods.
👉(uncountable) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
🎈Example:
The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought.
🎈Example:
Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
#vocabulary
@gerammer
📚Difference between care for and care about
📗Care about someone/something means they matter to you/have value to you/to have them be important to you.
📕1. Don't say "isn't caring, isn't caring for," especially in this meaning.✖️
📕2. Only stative, no progressive form. ✔️
🎈Ahmad is only interested in himself and doesn 't care about anyone else.
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📗1. Care for = look after; dynamic use.
🎈Who's caring for the children while you're both on holiday?
(= looking after; dynamic use)
📗2. You can care for someone, and often it indicates romantic love, but it's much more low-key and non-committal than saying 'I love you' to say 'I care for you'.
📗3. You can say "I don't care for Bollywood", meaning you don't like them, but we
🎈would never say "I care for Bollywood" meaning you do.
#vocabulary
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📗Care about someone/something means they matter to you/have value to you/to have them be important to you.
📕1. Don't say "isn't caring, isn't caring for," especially in this meaning.✖️
📕2. Only stative, no progressive form. ✔️
🎈Ahmad is only interested in himself and doesn 't care about anyone else.
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📗1. Care for = look after; dynamic use.
🎈Who's caring for the children while you're both on holiday?
(= looking after; dynamic use)
📗2. You can care for someone, and often it indicates romantic love, but it's much more low-key and non-committal than saying 'I love you' to say 'I care for you'.
📗3. You can say "I don't care for Bollywood", meaning you don't like them, but we
🎈would never say "I care for Bollywood" meaning you do.
#vocabulary
@gerammer
📚Confusing words
👉continually / continuously
📗Continuously means something happens without stopping,
without interruption:
🎈 A waterfall has water continuously falling over the edge of a cliff.
🎈 Your heartbeat and breathing are continuous.
📗Continually means something happens frequently/repeatedly.
🎈A wife might continually remind her forgetful husband to take out the trash - meaning she reminds him multiple times.
🎈If you have an old car, it might continually break down - it breaks down very frequently.
#Vocabulary
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👉continually / continuously
📗Continuously means something happens without stopping,
without interruption:
🎈 A waterfall has water continuously falling over the edge of a cliff.
🎈 Your heartbeat and breathing are continuous.
📗Continually means something happens frequently/repeatedly.
🎈A wife might continually remind her forgetful husband to take out the trash - meaning she reminds him multiple times.
🎈If you have an old car, it might continually break down - it breaks down very frequently.
#Vocabulary
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