motivatoin Flashcards
knack
-a skill or an ability to do something easily and well:
a knack for remembering faces
She has the knack of making people feel comfortable.
There’s a knack to using this corkscrew.
to buzz
-to make a continuous, low sound such as the one a bee makes:
[I can hear something buzzing.]
-to be busy and full of energy:
[He predicts that Logan Airport will be buzzing as usual - or almost as usual -
as [Thanksgiving nears.
[The place was buzzing (with excitement).
[Reporters were buzzing around, trying to get the full story.
-be buzzing = to be very excited and happy:
embrace
-to accept something enthusiastically:
[This was an opportunity that he would embrace.
*-to hold someone tightly with both arms to express love, liking, or sympathy, or when greeting or leaving someone:
[She saw them embrace on the station platform.
[He leaned over to embrace the child.
*-to include something, often as one of a number of things:
[Linguistics embraces a diverse range of subjects such as phonetics and stylistics.
revelation
-the act of making something known that was secret, or a fact that is made known
[a moment of revelation
[His wife divorced him after the revelation that he was having an affair.
[Shocking revelations about their private life appeared in the papers.
come as/be a revelation
-to be an extremely pleasant surprise:
[This book came as a complete revelation to me.
musing
muse
-to think about something carefully and for a long time:
[I began to muse about/on the possibility of starting my own business.
contemplate
-to spend time considering a possible future action, or to consider one particular thing for a long time in a serious and quiet way:
+ -ing verb
[I’m contemplating going abroad for a year.
[They were contemplating a move to California.
[It’s too awful/horrific/dangerous to contemplate.