MEANING:expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively;
| performing adroitly and without effort |
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): We must avoid facile recriminations about who was to blame.
MY EXAMPLE: my mother is facile to speak chinese.
OTHER: SYN: smooth, flowing, fluent; glib. 2. superficial. 3. bland, suave; urbane.
MEANING: if the time is ripe for something, it is a good time to do it or for it to happen.
GR. INFO: Adjective_ advanced
COLLOCATIONS: ripe old age, ripe for
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): British socialists were convinced that the time was ripe for fundamental social change.
MY EXAMPLE: the time is ripe for a new job
OTHER: idiom: live to a ripe old age; at the ripe old age of sth
syn: good, advance
WORD: grounded Sentence : The ALM was firmly grounded in linguistic.
MEANING: situated on or at, or adjacent to
GR. INFO: Verb—regular
COLLOCATIONS: ground out
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): fiction should be grounded in reality.
MY EXAMPLE: the democracy was grounded in chile.
OTHER: idiom: break ground, cut the ground from under
WORD: Fraught Sentence: the learner`s attempts to speak in the foreign language are often fraught with embarrassment.
MEANING: full of unpleasant things such as problems or dangers
GR. INFO: adjective
COLLOCATIONS: -
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): The negotiations have been fraught with difficulties/problems right from the start.
MY EXAMPLE: I did a task fraught with scare.
OTHER: idiom: fraught with
Syn: full of
WORD: hold Sentence: the cognitive domain holds yet others areas of interest for comparing first and second language acquisition.
MEANING: to have or contain something which you will experience or be able to contain something.
GR. INFO: Verb—Essential—irregular
COLLOCATIONS: hold water, hold court
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): Modern computers can hold huge amounts of information.
MY EXAMPLE: my notebook can hold lots of documents
OTHER: idiom: hold down the fort
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