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English Vocabulary and Etymology

11/26

week11

*vocabulary

  • get out of something

1)avoid
to avoid doing something that you do not want to do, or to escape responsibility for something
for example:If I can get out of going to the meeting tonight, I will.


2)stop
to stop doing an activity
for example:I used to work out every day, but I’ve gotten out of the habit.
Lately I've gotten out of reading novels.
Hey, get out of the way (= move), I want to put these boxes there.

idiom:Get out off hand = beyond control


  • Verbal abuse

Verbal abuse /reviling /verbal bullying is described as a negative defining statement told to the victim or about the victim, or by withholding any response, thereby defining the target as non-existent. If the abuser does not immediately apologize and retract the defining statement, the relationship may be a verbally abusive one.

In schools and in everyday life, a person may indulge in verbal abuse — bullying (which often has a physical component) to gain status as superior to the person targeted and to bond with others against the target. Generally the bully knows no other way to connect emotionally with others.


  1. e--- out of number

Enormous,extra,enormity

Enormous

enormity(n)

1)size

very great size or importance
for example:Nobody fully understands the enormity and complexity of the task of reviving the country's economy.
I don't think you realize the enormity of the problem.

2)evil act

formal an extremely evil act or the quality of being extremely evil


  • Mag ---big,huge

Magnanimous,magnificent,magnification,magnifier

magnification(n):

the process of making something look bigger than it is

for example:a magnifying glass

Magnification of the leaf allows us to see it in detail.

These binoculars have x10 magnification (= they magnify ten times).


a magnifier


a magnificent scenery






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