Today’s EDITORIAL Vocab
📚Brazenly (adv)
Shamelessly
Naively
Flagrantly
Audaciously
📰 Discriminatory (Adj)
Biased
Prejudiced
Chauvinistic
Racist
📝 Obstinacy (Noun)
Stubbornness
Perversity
Tenacity
Rigidity
📖 Exemption (Noun)
Let off
Pardon
Amnesty
Reprieve
📚 Indigenous (Adj)
native
Local
Homegrown
Primordial
📝 Nexus (Adj)
Connection
Junction
Yoke
Node
📰 Lax (Adj)
Careless
Inexact
Laid back
Slack
✏️ Culpability (Noun)
Compulsion
Condemnation
Blame
Incrimination
📚 Tangled (Adj)
Complicated
Twisted
Uncombed
Ravelled
📖 mollify (Verb)
Appease
Calm
Soothe
Quieten
📚 Wrangling (Noun)
Dispute
Argument
Antipathy
Discord
📖 Insurgency (Noun)
Revolt
Uprising
Dissent
Jacquerie
📝 Obfuscate (Verb)
Confuse
Blur
Obscure
Confound
📰 Cumulative (Adj)
Collective
Amassed
Accretive
Additive
📚 Incorporated (Verb)
Include
Engulf
Embody
Took in
📖 Credulity (Verb)
Innocence
Simplicity
Blind Faith
Naivety
📚 Orchestrated (Verb)
Arrange
Concert
Symphonize
Coordinate
📰 Dreaded (Adj)
Ghastly
Horrible
Hideous
Atrocious
📚 Admonished (Verb)
Blow up
Lambaste
Rebuke
Chastise
Common Mistakes with -ing
Avoid + -ing.
❌Don’t say: You can’t avoid to make mistakes.
✔️Say: You can’t avoid making mistakes.
Enjoy + -ing.
❌Don’t say: I enjoy to play football.
✔️Say: I enjoy playing football.
Worth + -ing.
❌Don’t say: Is today’s film worth to see?
✔️Say: Is today’s film worth seeing?
Busy+ -ing.
❌Don’t say: He was busy to revise the exams.
✔️Say: He was busy revising for the exams.
Stop + -ing.
❌Don’t say: The wind has almost stopped to blow.
✔️Say: The wind has almost stopped blowing.
Risk + -ing.
❌Don’t say: We couldn’t risk to leave him alone.
✔️Say: We couldn’t risk leaving him alone.
Remember + -ing.
❌Don’t say: I don’t remember to have seen him.
✔️Say: I don’t remember seeing him.
Or:
✔️I don’t remember having seen him.
Practise + -ing.
❌Don’t say: You must practise to speak English.
✔️Say: You must practise speaking English.
Mind (object to) + -ing.
❌Don’t say: Would you mind to open the door?
✔️Say: Would you mind opening the door?
Go on (continue) + -ing.
❌Don’t say: The music went on to play all day.
✔️Say: The music went on playing ail day.
Finish + -ing.
❌Don’t say: Have you finished to speak?
✔️Say: Have you finished speaking?
Excuse + -ing.
❌Don’t say: Please excuse me to be so late.
✔️Say: Please excuse my being so late. Or Please excuse me for being so late.
