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05 May 2025 19:24

✍️ Word of the Day — raze 📎

Etymology
From the Old French raser, meaning to scrape or shave off. This is also the origin for Modern English's razor, a tool used for shaving.

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05 May 2025 18:14

🎧 Focus (listening)🎧

Benefits➕:
🎧 Improve your concentration while listening ;
🧠 Exercise your short-term memory ;
👂Become a more attentive listener .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to the recording carefully and then match the facts with the correct subjects. Make sure you can hear the tone clearly.

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04 May 2025 14:47

5️⃣

✅ HARD: What some people might do to the fridge late at night.
✅ MEDIUM: Anagram of arid (hint: to invade).
✅ EASY: A rhyme of maid (hint: to invade).

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04 May 2025 14:47

4️⃣

✅ HARD: It really makes waves.
✅ MEDIUM: Hair treatment that was popular in the 80s.
✅ EASY: Treatment that makes hair curly.

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04 May 2025 14:47

1️⃣

✅ HARD: Livestock lodgings.
✅ MEDIUM: Farm shelters.
✅ EASY: Big red farm buildings.

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04 May 2025 14:47

✅ Train your brain: Enjoy a quick mini puzzle packed with learning opportunities!
🧠 Keep your brain active: Expand your vocabulary and discover trivia about language, science, and geography.
🔍 Backed by research: Solving crossword puzzles can improve your cognition, problem-solving, and memory skills.

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Solve the crossword.

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04 May 2025 13:46

1️⃣0️⃣ ADVERB: in the manner of one side acting alone —

UNI — LATER — AL — EE
❌ ❌ ❌
PAN — NUL — ABLE — LY

✅ Answer: n unilaterally .
UNI (one or singly) + LATER (side or wide) + AL (relating to) + LY (in the manner of) = UNILATERALLY — in the manner of one side acting alone.

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04 May 2025 13:46

8️⃣ NOUN: act of being disloyal —

SUB — FID — ANT
❌ ❌
PER — VEST — Y

✅ Answer: n perfidy .
PER (to ill effect) + FID (trust or faith) + Y (characterized by) = PERFIDY — act of being disloyal.

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04 May 2025 13:45

6️⃣ VERB: to state as the truth —

DERM — VER
❌
A — IC

✅ Answer: v aver
A (to or toward) + VER (truth) = AVER — to state as the truth.

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04 May 2025 13:45

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Assemble the word.

4️⃣ NOUN: person who speaks many languages —

DUR — GLOT
❌
POLY — CENT

✅ Answer: n polyglot
POLY (many) + GLOT (language) = POLYGLOT — person who speaks many languages.

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03 May 2025 14:51

✍️ Word of the Day — perfunctory 📎

Etymology
From the Latin perfungi, meaning to carry out an action. The ending -ory can be used for adjectives.

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03 May 2025 11:38

kudos ❓

✅ 👏 kudos (acclaim) — recognition for an achievement 👏

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03 May 2025 11:36

barricade ❓

✅ ⛔️ barricade (barrier) — obstacle constructed to block passage ⛔️

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03 May 2025 09:47

👁‍🗨 Visualization (reading) 👁‍🗨

Benefits➕:
📖 Master new words and expand your vocabulary ;
🌄 Create visual memory cues to remember words .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Choose the picture that best represents the word.

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25 March 2025 14:30

SCAN THE ARTICLE 🔎
2️⃣ OF 3️⃣

❓ How long can the common hippo go without eating?

✅ Answer: Second paragraph: ... , a hippo can store two days' worth of food in its stomach and go up to three weeks without eating.

TIP: Scan in a spiral pattern, not top to bottom or left to right.

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05 May 2025 18:14

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to the recording carefully and then match the facts with the correct subjects. Make sure you can hear the tone clearly.

📌 Subjects:

⭕️ CAWDOR —

⭕️ EDINBURGH —

⭕️ STIRLING —

☑️ Facts:
Castle Rock ;
Castle Hill ;
17th century ;
St. Margaret's Chapel ;
largest banquet hall ;
Macbeth ;
Green Lady ;
ghost in blue dress ;
nine skeletons ;
Napoleonic wars ;
Green Lady ;

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04 May 2025 14:47

7️⃣

✅ HARD: Curlers' arenas.
✅ MEDIUM: Places for hockey players to train.
✅ EASY: Skaters' arenas.

✔️ RINKS

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04 May 2025 14:47

6️⃣

✅ HARD: Brings home, in a way.
✅ MEDIUM: Deserves.
✅ EASY: Anagram of nears (hint: merits).

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04 May 2025 14:47

4️⃣

✅ HARD: Capital on Santiago Island.
✅ MEDIUM: Capital off the coast of Africa.
✅ EASY: Capital of Cape Verde.

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04 May 2025 14:47

1️⃣

✅ HARD: Catchy song, conversationally.
✅ EASY & MEDIUM: A rhyme of cop (hint: catchy song).

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04 May 2025 14:12

✍️ Word of the Day — mendicant 📎

Etymology
From the Latin mendicare, meaning to beg or ask for charity. The word shares a root with the Latin mendicus, meaning beggar.

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04 May 2025 13:46

9️⃣ NOUN: quality of goodwill or charitableness —

DEMO — VOL — ENCE
❌ ❌
BENE — TOX — OLOGY

✅ Answer: n benevolence .
BENE (good) + VOL (wish or will) + ENCE (action or quality of) = BENEVOLENCE — quality of goodwill or charitableness.

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04 May 2025 13:45

7️⃣ NOUN: imagined place that is extremely bad —

DYS — DICT — IA
❌ ❌
PRE — TOP — IC

✅ Answer: n dystopia .
DYS (not normal) + TOP (place) + IA (territory or world) = DYSTOPIA — imagined place that is extremely bad.

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04 May 2025 13:45

5️⃣ ADJECTIVE: using more words than needed —

VERB — ATE
❌
TEMPOR — OSE

✅ Answer: adj verbose
VERB (word) + OSE (full of or having) = VERBOSE — using more words than needed.

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04 May 2025 13:25

🆒 Word Parts (reading) 🆙

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Choose the correct word part matching the definition. Later, choose one word part from each column to build the defined word.

Benefits➕:
📖 Develop a more varied and complex vocabulary ;
💠 Learn the most important word parts in English ;
🔐 Decode the meaning of unfamiliar words .

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03 May 2025 11:38

turbid ❓

✅ 🐾 turbid (muddy) — muddy or opaque 🐾

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03 May 2025 11:37

gargantuan ❓

✅ 🌎 gargantuan (huge) — extremely big 🌎

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03 May 2025 09:49

aperture ❓

✅ 🕳 aperture (opening) — small opening, especially in a camera 🕳

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25 March 2025 14:30

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3️⃣ OF 3️⃣

❓ What does "hippopotamus" mean in Ancient Greek?

✅ Answer: First paragraph: While the name "hippopotamus" in ancient Greek means "river horse," ... .

TIP: Scan in a spiral pattern, not top to bottom or left to right.

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25 March 2025 14:30

SCANNING

HIPPOS

AFRICA'S GIANT WATER DWELLERS

Native only to Africa, the hippopotamus comes in two very distinct species: the massive common hippo and its smaller, endangered cousin, the pygmy hippo. While the name "hippopotamus" in ancient Greek means "river horse," their closest mammalian relatives are actually whales and dolphins.

To protect their thin-skinned hides from dehydration, common hippos cool off in rivers and lakes for up to 16 hours a day and can stay fully submerged for fives minutes without breathing. At dusk, they go on land to graze on short grasses and reeds, consuming about 80 pounds of food in one evening. In the event of a shortage, a hippo can store two days' worth of food in its stomach and go up to three weeks without eating.

Unlike pygmy hippos, which only weigh a few hundred pounds, common hippos are one of the largest land mammals, with males weighing upwards of four tons. Only elephants and white rhinos are known to exceed them in size. And while common hippos are generally seen as non-violent because they lack predators, they do engage in territorial standoffs with one another and can inflict mortal injuries with their huge tusks.

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