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#5 What makes a good life?

 

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 1. millennial: a person who was born around the time of the millennium, that is around the year 2000
💬Millennials have grown up with the internet and can't imagine a world without it.
2. hindsight: the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened
💬In hindsight, it would have been better to wait.
3. alcoholism: the condition of being an alcoholic
💬Alcoholism cost me my job, my health, and finally my family.
4. schizophrenia: a serious mental illness in which someone cannot understand what is real and what is imaginary
💬He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
5. octogenarian: a person who is between 80 and 89 years old
💬In summary, the women, especially the octogenarians and septuagenarians, proceeded from familiar routines, both when they went food shopping and when they cooked.
6. buffer: something or someone that helps protect from harm
💬I bought a house as a buffer against inflation.

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#3 Covid: One year on

Link to podcast:  6 Minute English, Covid: One year on VOCABULARY-1 1. pandemic :  a dangerous disease that infects many people at one time 💬 What can be done to prevent a bird flu pandemic ? 2. take hold :  to become strong; to be established 💬The economic recovery is just beginning to take hold now. 3. wimpy :  not strong, brave, or confident 💬I was too wimpy to be a boxer so I decided to be a musician. 4. sheer :  used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is; nothing except 💬 The suggestion is sheer nonsense. 5. kicks in :  to start to have an effect or to happen 💬It takes half an hour for the medication to kick in . 6. genome :  the complete set of genetic material of a human, animal, plant, or other living thing 💬Billions of dollars will have been poured into the human genome project.
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