Monday's Assignment:
Please place the following words in sentences of your own. If you feel more creative, you can use them in a paragraph to clarify their meanings.
Drill/ Erstwhile/ insight/ outplacement/ liken/ gambit/ expectations/ shortcoming/ continuum/ pithy/ pertinent/ draw people out/ sales pitch/ stubborn/ nudged out.
Drill: Hala drills us how to pronunciation English verb.
ReplyDeleteEmpathy: I felt real deep empathy for my friend when he lost his wife.
Erstwhile: He greatly missed his erstwhile friends in China after he came to Canada.
Insight: The professor has great insight into the problems of current economy.
Outplacement: The company will provide outplacement support and good training.
Liken: We often liken a teacher to a candle in Chain, because they burn themselves but always light other people.
Gambit: His opening gambit is so successful in interview.
Continuum: You cannot separate one part of meaning from the continuum of his speaking.
Pithy: I enjoy reading his essays because they are compact and pithy.
Pertinent: The expert made some pertinent suggests to the project.
“Draw people out”: The speaker tried every approach to draw listeners out.
“Sales pitch”: He has a very clever sales pitch.
Stubborn: He is a stubborn child as a mule.
Nudged out: He nudged him out of the living room.
• Erstwhile : The Gallery of Egypt in Royal Ontario Museum includes erstwhile range of jewelry, artcrafts , cosmetics etc.
ReplyDelete• Outplacement : Most of the large companies are also provide the outplacement services.
• Insight : Surveys are conducted to get the insight of the customers.
• Pithy : Bob’s presentation is pithy and expressive.
• Gambit : You need a Opening Gambit for this website if you want to impress your boss.
• Liken : I often liken myself to being a friendly person.
• Expectations : They work, they're nice, but they haven't been fulfilling expectations.
• Shortcoming : If you don’t own the shortcomings , you can’t take the credit of successes.
• Continuum : Patients need continuum of care .
• Pertinent : The lawyer prepared for the court by studying all of the pertinent legal decisions.
• Drill : Drills can be used to practice rhythm and intonation.
• Stubborn : Chris is very stubborn , he sticks to one idea and he don’t want to try the new ones.
• Draw out : I tried to draw him out on this matter.
• Sales pitch : Mary should know how to deliver a good sales pitch.
• Nudge out : Some employees were nudged out due to their irresponsive behaviour.
Drill: The teacher drilled our class in pronunciation of English words.
ReplyDeleteErstwhile: She is my erstwhile friend.
Insight: Where do you get all of you insight from?
Outplacement: We have established a lot of outplacement center in Toronto.
Liken: Are we praising a person or not when we liken him to a tiger?
Gambit: A successful opening gambit is very important for an interview.
Expectations: We have great expectation of him.
Shortcoming: Everyone has his shortcoming.
Continuum: We must continuum strive for the success.
Pithy: Tom did a pithy presentation about his interview.
Pertinent: She had asked some pertinent questions.
Draw people out: You almost have to draw things out of people.
Sales pitch: His sales pitch was smooth and convincing.
Stubborn: The stubborn student finally began to buckle under.
Nudged out: The survey showed turnover jumped in China, which nudged out Singapore to take the No.3 spot.
Erstwhile my children were acting like monkeys.I should have expectations before they calmed down.
ReplyDeleteSometimes they were stubborn and my friends showed empathy towards me.My children's behavior were not pertinent.They were giggling and nudging each other.At that time I had to nudge them out to the park.Their shortcoming were restless.I drilled them every day and I still do it.
Erstwhile: Now I am going to English class.Erstwhile,I worked in as a programmer.
ReplyDeleteEmpathy: I didn’t get the job, my husband shows empathy to me.
Insight: I am living insight to the don mills station.
Drill: I bought the wall painting .so I put drill on my wall and the hang the paintings.
Drill: I drilled my daughter to complete her homework.
Out-placement: I will go to the join the IT training in the institute. They will arrange me out-placement to the company.
Liken: i did not liken the noise to that of a refrigerator.
Gambit: Gambits employed by the Wal-Mart
Continuum: Continuum of care.
Pithy: Pithy remarks of the principals.
Pertinent: My daughter asked me a lot of very pertinent math questions
Draw people out: fire alarm uses for to draw people out from the building
Sales pitch: your sales pitch begins with your first sentence
Stubborn: my kid is very stubborn to go the park daily.
Nudged out: I had to nudge out to my daughter to the crowd
Expectations: My expectation is to buy a car.
Drill: I need a good drill to drill me for improving my writing skill.
ReplyDeleteEmpathy: She has the empathy to work of art and put her emotional and intellectual feelings about artistic creation.
Insight:If you have the ability of insight, you can immediately understand children's problems and make a good communication with them.
outplacement: This a outplacement for him to find new job, provided by this company for him who is being let go.
liken: I liken dogs to the friends, because they are very faithful.
gambit;A good gambit always help us to access to the succeed.
expectations: Don't put so much expectations for the relationship, because nobody can control their emotion and it is easy to lost feeling to other suddenly with no reason.
shortcoming: Every body has shortcoming. we need to reduce them to make ourselves perfectly.
continuum: Language learning has continuum, you should to insist it as well as you can.
pithy: Making a pithy introduction for yourself is very important in your telephone interview.
pertinent: Can you provide pertinent statement to support your main viewpoint?
draw people out: Draw people out is a necessary ability for leaders to know what staffs are thinking about their jobs.
sales pitch: Do not just focus on the sales pitch about goods, you need to keep clamming to think about the function of the products.
stubborn:Having the ability to solve the stubborn problem for a company which means company can not leave you when difficulties are coming.
nudged out: I always been nudged by my son out of my principle to let him do what he would like to do.
I couldn't drill through those holes
ReplyDeleteBefore becoming rich players, these erstwhile players shared a room
I had an insight that Messi was going to be a great player
I wish that my former company had an outplacement services
I used to lken it to my former car
Sarah realized her gambit had paid off
I have high expectations for my son
The shortcoming Is not with our coach, it's with our players
Continuum of help
Mr Brown was not known for talking much, but whent he did say was always pithy
It would be pertinent to prepare a route plan before setting off on a journey
Firefighters know how to draw people out of a burning building