WORD of the Week 2

1) T0 win (somebody) over (transitive verb)= apprivoiser

Amy won John over with her beautiful smile.



THE RIDICULOUS WORD OF THE WEEK


FLIBBERTIGIBBET- irresponsible, silly or gossipy person.

In Jane Austen's Novels, the average women of the Victorian era is portrayed as some sort of flibbertigibbets; she only concerned herself with the gossip of the town.

THE DINNER PARTY

The New Yorker Magazine: Get to Know it!

A wonderful resource for reading English text and listening to English Audio clips is the website of my favorite literary magazine, called the New Yorker.

A particularly intriguing slide-show and audio clip about Japanese Art has been featured this week. If interested, you can check out the link below and post any comments/questions regarding English grammar or anything else that has piqued your interest.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2011/03/28/110328_audioslideshow_japan

Enjoy!

WORD of the Week

Prescience: (noun) knowledge of events before they take place
Synonym: Foresight

In context (en contexte):

A few years later, she enrolled at Columbia University and was soon writing, directing and displaying prescience when it came to casting



Please feel free to post your own sentences using this new vocabulary word.

(Veuillez creer vos propres phrases en utilisant ce nouveau mot de vocabulaire.)