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#5 What Makes a Good Life?

Link:  Click here! Six words that you may be interested in... First line: the word. Lines with this color: definition. Last line: example sentence. Blue words are for extended learning. 1.  hindsight The ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened. It is easy to criticize others when you have the benefit of hindsight . 2.  downright Extremely or very great (especially of something bad). Completely or thoroughly. Some of these statements are misleading and some downright mendacious. 3.  exceedingly To a very great degree Explicit presidential discourse on policy issues was exceedingly rare. 4.  persistence The fact that someone or something persists. Many theoretical and empirical papers provide support for the inclusion of some unemployment persistence in a macroeconomic model. 5.  sophomore A student studying in the second year of a course at a US college or high school. Of the students enrolled in introductory classes, 21.5% were freshmen , 23.9% were so
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#4 My thoughts on the talk: Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator (TED Talk)

Link of the talk:  Click Here! 1. Do you procrastinate sometimes?     Frankly, if someone tells you that he or her never procrastinates, you'd better think twice before taking their words, because EVERYONE procrastinates! As of frequency, I am in  procrastinating mood roughly 80% of the time. Personally, I do not consider it a big deal since I still finish everything before the deadline. 2. What are some of the things you procrastinate on?     I procrastinate pretty much everything, especially those relating to academic projects. Term papers, group presentations, these are the things that I procrastinate the most. Besides, I also put off reviewing courses till the very last week before the exam. What a procrastinator I am! 3. What are the strategies you can use to combat procrastination?     My answer to this question is: No strategies. Yes, you heard it right. To me, no strategies is the best strategy. For those who still cannot take it in, basically you procrastinate something wh
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#3 COVID: One Year On

1. COVID: One Year On  Link 2.Vocabularies: (1) pandemic Despite having an established biomedical infrastructure from quarantine camps to hospitals, the colonial state found itself unprepared to face this pandemic . (2) epidemic We conjecture that antibodies lacking in durability have become prevalent in the population resulting in the disappearance of large epidemics since 1992. (3) take hold She was determined not to let the illness take hold again. (4) wimpy As small and wimpy as they were, still they weren’t afraid to get on the back of a wild animal. (5) sheer The hard work, ingenuity and sheer intellect that went into many of these studies is indeed impressive, and well demonstrated by such extended illustration. (6) kick in It's only when you have responsibilities that the fear kicks in . (7) genome In biology and genetics, a genome is the particular number and combination of certain chromosomes necessary to form the single nucleus of a living cell. (8) take stock (of)
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#2 English Learning Podcast

Name of the podcast? "6 Minute Vocabulary" provided by BBC World Service Link to the podcast https://player.fm/series/6-minute-vocabulary-1301619 ( Link ) What is the podcast about? The podcast covers a wide variety of vocabularies used in our daily lives  —  from onomatopoeia to compound adjectives  —  probably 90% of the day-to-day words are comprised in each episode. Not only the vocabularies themselves are discussed but the lexical rules are also involved in the podcast, like hyphenation and affixes. There are currently 43 episodes, and all of them are helpful to those who want to improve their daily speaking or essay writing. Subscribe for more weekly updates! Why do I recommend this podcast? To start with, I must say that I am overwhelmed by this podcast. At first, I thought it would only offer limited help to English learners since it is only 6 minutes long. But the truth is, during the 6 minutes, I have either learned or reviewed lots of vocabularies through the allur
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#1 Greetings

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Hi, my name is Welly Huang! I was born on September 27th, 1999. I graduated from the Department of Applied English of NTCUST, and am currently studying in the Department of Finance of NTUB. In my free time, I play games, read novels, and run my own YouTube channel. English and Japanese was my former major, but now my major is Finance. Currently, I am applying for the Fall 2021 undergraduate transfer to The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. I was raised in American Education System (kind of), and have yearned for a chance to enroll in the world's top universities. If you have any English-related questions, feel free to contact me via my personal FB or Line account! FB: https://www.facebook.com/scanire.zc
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