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Story of the Day: The Coffee Someone Paid For
Our “Story and Language Development” series is going on, bringing together meaningful stories, natural English, and vocabulary you can actually use in real life. It was one of those mornings when everything seemed to go wrong. Emma arrived at the small café ten minutes late, carrying a pile of papers that she had barely had…
Words of the Day: Possible & Feasible
Can something be “possible” without being “feasible”? Absolutely. Although “feasible” and “possible” are close in meaning, they are not quite interchangeable. “Possible” comes from Latin “possibilis”, from “posse”, meaning “to be able,” and refers to something that can happen or can be done. “Feasible” comes through French “faisable”, ultimately related to Latin “facere”, “to do…
Words of the Day: Contribute & Attribute
Have you ever noticed that “contribute” and “attribute” look remarkably similar, yet they point in rather different directions? Both come from the Latin verb tribuere, meaning “to assign, give, or bestow.” In “contribute”, the prefix con- carries the sense of “together,” so contribuere originally conveyed the idea of bringing or giving something together. In “attribute”,…
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