Monday, April 21, 2008

Building Vocab.

I . Conclusively

From: Seattle Times

Meaning : adv. very sure , fateful

Ex. None has shown conclusively that there's more than a chance association.



II. Frequrntly

From : My Psychology Book

Meaning : adv. often, always

Ex. I frequently imagined a steep descent.



III. Ignorant

From : My Psychology Book

Meaning : adj. Not knowing something.

Ex. I was ignorant



IV. Shot in the dark

From : http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/shot+in+the+dark.html

Meaning : If you have a shot in the dark at something, you try something where you have little hope of success.

Ex. This SAT test is kind of shot in the dark for Tom.

7 comments:

水0℃冰 said...

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kalvin huang said...

I think your Psychology book are very useful that u can find a lot of vocabularies from.

Thanks for sharing.

Good job

akina said...

from your Psychology Book~
is it difficult, a lot of vocab?
thanks for sharing~
nice job~ ^^

♥K♥ said...

i knew the 2nd and 3rd one's meaning but i did not know that 1st one's meaning!!!!

Anonymous said...

Psychology!!! very conscious things...sometimes, unconscious...hahaha!!!
Frequrntly !!! good word! thank you

thuy said...

I think so...Your pychology book is a good book for U can improve your English skills. Thanks!!!!!!! Have a nice day!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

One thing that's nice about "shot in the dark" --- there's still risk involved, even if you don't know what the result will be...