Episode 68 of Issue 6 'ISwear' - Selected English Listening and Practical Expressions Analysis

verb

1. have confidence or faith in

e.g. We can trust in God
Rely on your friends
bank on your good education
I swear by my grandmother's recipes

Synonym: trustrelybank

2. utter obscenities or profanities

e.g. The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street

Synonym: cursecussblasphemeimprecate

3. promise solemnly
take an oath

4. to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

e.g. Before God I swear I am innocent

Synonym: affirmverifyassertavowaverswan

5. make a deposition
declare under oath

Synonym: deposedepone

noun

1. the act of beating to windward
sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing

2. a stroke or blow

e.g. the signal was two beats on the steam pipe

3. a regular rate of repetition

e.g. the cox raised the beat

4. the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music

e.g. the piece has a fast rhythm
the conductor set the beat

Synonym: rhythmmusical rhythm

5. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

Synonym: metermetremeasurecadence

6. the sound of stroke or blow

e.g. he heard the beat of a drum

7. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart

e.g. he could feel the beat of her heart

Synonym: pulsepulsationheartbeat

8. a regular route for a sentry or policeman

e.g. in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name

Synonym: round

9. a member of the beat generation
a nonconformist in dress and behavior

Synonym: beatnik

10. a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies
has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations

noun

1. something superior in quality or condition or effect

e.g. a change for the better

2. the superior one of two alternatives

e.g. chose the better of the two

3. a superior person having claim to precedence

e.g. the common man has been kept in his place by his betters

4. someone who bets

Synonym: bettorwagererpunter

noun

1. refuge from danger or observation

e.g. he felt secure in his father's shadow

2. something existing in perception only

e.g. a ghostly apparition at midnight

Synonym: apparitionphantomphantasmphantasmafantasm

3. an indication that something has been present

e.g. there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim
a tincture of condescension

Synonym: tracevestigetincture

4. a premonition of something adverse

e.g. a shadow over his happiness

5. an unilluminated area

e.g. he moved off into the darkness

Synonym: darknessdark

6. an inseparable companion

e.g. the poor child was his mother's shadow

7. a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements

Synonym: tailshadower

8. a dominating and pervasive presence

e.g. he received little recognition working in the shadow of his father

9. shade within clear boundaries