2011年10月1日土曜日

W6 Vocab blog

consume


1. use up


2. I consumed hours in reading.


3. synonym: spend, use (up), 
    antonym: save


4.Ex1: The missionary is so consumed with passion that he travels to the remote areas to advocate the love from God. → feeling full of passion 


Ex2: Parents should be fair to their children, or the one who gets less attention may be consumed with jealousy.
→ children will be possessed with jealousy


invest


1 investor = an individual who commits money to investment products with the expectation of financial return.


2 The government invested millions of dollars in the new communication system.


3 synonym: devote, supply, entrust
  antonym: divest


Ex1: The chairperson invested the CEO with all the powers to remake the corporate culture.
→make CEO have all the power


  Ex2: A family partnership invests the heir of the current chairperson the power to take over the company after the current chairperson steps down.
→installed the heir as the next chairperson 

reinforce

1 to strengthen 

2 synonym: boost, multiply, strengthen, increase
  antonym: weaken, subtract

3 reinforcement

4 They reinforced the barriers with logs. 




3 件のコメント:

  1. Hello cutie pie.

    Your explanation of conaume and invest (exampl) is clear to understand. it was hard to explain the defference between ex.1 and ex.2 for me!! I'm still confused.
    I hope you help me to understand more on Monday.

    thanx, sayuri

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  2. hey:))) It was hard for me too! As i wrote on saori's, it was very confusing so hope we can discuss this tomorrow..!

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  3. Hi Minami,
    your blog is well organized. Good job. Let's talk about your question tomorrow.

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