ברוכים הבאים למילת היום!
בעמוד הטוויטר של וול סטריט תוכלו למצוא כל יום מילה חדשה באנגלית עם הפירוש שלה ודוגמה לשימוש במילה במשפט. אם פספסתם את המילים שפורסמו בטוויטר, או שאתם רוצים למצוא את כל המילים שפורסמו החודש בצורה מרוכזת – אתם מוזמנים להיכנס לכאן ולהתעדכן בכל מילות החודש.
אז איזה מילים יכתבו במאי? ניתן למצוא בטבלה מתחת או להרשם לטוויטר שלנו.
להצטרפות למילת היום בטוויטר של וול סטריט לחצו כאן.
| Date | Word | Part of Speech |
Meaning | Example | |
| 1 – May | anxiety | n. | intense uneasiness | When I heard about the car crash, I felt great anxiety because I knew you’d been driving on that road. | |
| 2 – May | dogged | adj. | determined, patiently insistent | Thanks to the doctor’s dogged persistence, a cure was found for Marcie’s condition. | |
| 5 – May | sycophant | n. | someone who praises and flatters for their own advantage | What Denis said about you wasn’t sincere; he’s a complete sycophant. | |
| 6 – May | refurbish | v. | to restore, to clean up | Instead of selling your old furniture, why not have it refurbished? | |
| 7 – May | reservoir | n. | an artificial lake used for storing water | People are not allowed to swim in the town reservoir. | |
| 8 – May | concise | adj. | brief and direct | Keep your instructions concise please, we don’t have much time. | |
| 9- May | kudos | n. | praise or reputation coming from one’s achievements | Although everyone in the team contributed to its success, all the kudos went to the captain. | |
| 12 – May | consensus | n. | an agreement of opinion | After many days of discussion, the committee finally reached a consensus. | |
| 13 – May | oblivious | adj. | unaware of, not knowing anything about | He keeps spending money; he seems to be oblivious to the debts which he’s building up. | |
| 14 – May | strenuous | adj. | needing great energy or effort | The police made strenuous efforts to find the missing child. | |
| 15 – May | comprehensive |
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complete, including everything | This is a comprehensive list of all the Chinese restaurants in the city. | |
| 16 – May | frivolous | adj. | of little importance, trivial paying attention to things of no importance | How can you talk about something so as fashion when the country is facing complete disaster? | |
| 19 – May | clandestine | adj. | secret | John and Sophie, who are both married, have been carrying on a clandestine affair for the past year. | |
| 20 – May | irrevocable | adj. | incapable of being taken back or reversed | The Bill of Rights is an irrevocable part of American law. | |
| 21 – May | proscribe | v. | to condemn, to make illegal | Smoking in bars and restaurants is now proscribed in most European countries. | |
| 22 – May | reciprocate | v. | to give something in return, to share (feelings) | I’m hopelessly in love with Samantha, but I’m afraid that she doesn’t reciprocate my feelings. | |
| 23 – May | usurp | v. | to take by force and without right | The army general tried to usurp control of the government. | |
| 26 – May | resilient | adj. | able to recover from bad luck or to deal with problems | Fortunately children are very resilient, and their able to survive the most appalling circumstances. | |
| 27 – May | delegate | v. | to hand over responsibility for something | The dean delegated the task of finding a new professor to a special hiring committee. | |
| 28 – May | lavish | adj. | generous, giving without limits | After a lavish wedding with hundreds of guests and the finest foods and wines, the couple went to the Seychelles for their honeymoon. | |
| 29- May | vestige | n. | a mark or trace of something lost or disappeared | There are vestiges of a 15th-century church in my garden. | |
| 30- May | exacerbate | v. | to make more violent, intense | The scary movie I saw last night exacerbated my fears of the dark. |
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