Archive for English vocabulary
Exhilaration
- exhilaration [n] : exhilarated feeling / delight, excitation
Finally, I can visit Japan 3 weeks later! It’s so great! 
I have lots of things I want to do in Japan!
New vocabulary
- As is : Retail shops sometimes reduce prices because the products have some problems, like blems and marks.
ex.
A: What are we gonna do this cabinet? It has a broken drawer.
B: We can reduce the price and sell it. Can you write 30% off and as-is on the tag?
New vocabulary
- a recurring problem : a problem which keeps occurring from time to time.
recur [v]
ex. It’s actually a recurring problem. We’ve had same problems, especially in Winter. The owner has to fix it now!
New vocabulary
- Clearance
Cl-ea-r-ance
- Layaway [otorioki]
Customers pay 50 % to keep products.
“Would you like to put it on layaway?”
- Quotation [mitsumori]
“We should give a quotation to a customer so that we can follow up later.”
Vocabulary for IELTS
I got a new partner to improve IELTS skills together!
I’ve been waiting for a long time for it. It’s called ‘Check Your English Vocabulary for IELTS’. 33 people had hold it when I booked. I will develope my vocabulary with this book within this month!!
It lookes useful. I especially like the last half pages which explain specific vocabulary for each topics, such as Health, Environment, and so on.
On the next officail test, I really want to get 8.0 somewhere on 4 subjects.
