Precision [prı'sıʒən]
=>Noun
1. The state or quality of being precise.
2. Accuracy; exactness:
To arrive at an estimate with precision
3. Mechanical or scientific exactness:
A lens ground with precision
4. Punctiliousness; strictness:
Precision in one's bus
Read more…When they could see again, Chiang was gone.
As the days went past, Jonathan found himself thinking time and again of the Earth
from which he had come. If he had known there just a tenth, just a hundredth, of
what he knew here, how much more life would
One evening the gulls that were not night-flying stood together on the sand,
thinking. Jonathan took all his courage in hand and walked to the Elder Gull, who,
it was said, was soon to be moving beyond this world.
"Chiang..." he said a little nervously
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Jonathan kept at it, fiercely, day after day, from before sunrise till past midnight.
And for all his effort he moved not a feather width from his spot.
"Forget about faith!" Chiang said it time and again. "You didn't need faith to fly,
you needed to
Enfeeble [en'fi:bəl]
=>Verb (Enfeebled, Enfeebling) (Used with object)
To make feeble; weaken:
That bout of pneumonia enfeebled him.
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Empower [ım'paʋər]
=>Verb (Used with object)
1.
Read more…Demonstrate ['demən,streıt]
=>Verb (Demonstrates, Demonstrating, Demonstrated)
1. To show some thing clearly:
He demonstrates how to operate the machine.
2. To walk or stand in public with a group of people to show that you have strong feelings about so
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Read more…Stun [stʌn]
=>Verb (Used with object)
1. To deprive of consciousness or strength by or as if by a blow, fall, etc.:
The blow to his jaw stunned him for a moment.
2. To astonish; astound; amaze:
Her wit stunned the audience.
3. To shock; overwhelm:
The wo
Read more…In the days that followed, Jonathan saw that there was as much to learn about flight
in this place as there had been in the life behind him. But with a difference. Here
were gulls who thought as he thought, For each of them, the most important thing in
Read more…As reading is a good way to improve our English, I started to read with you my friends. But the book that we are reading now, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard David Bach, is having so many new vocabularies for me. I don’t know whether I go on r
This discussion is for voting about the stories which have been put in this group until now and you liked them more than all.
It will be in 3 parts:
A-Novel
B- Short story
C- Funny story
Please choose the story that you like more in each part. In this
Read more…Scree [skri:]
=>Noun
A steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain
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Airborne ['eərbɔ:rn]
=>Adjective
1. Carried by the air, as pollen or dust.
2. In flight; aloft:
The plane was a
Read more…So this is heaven, he thought, and he had to smile at himself. It was hardly
respectful to analyze heaven in the very moment that one flies up to enter it.
As he came from Earth now, above the clouds and in close formation with the two
brilliant gulls,
Jonathan Seagull spent the rest of his days alone, but he flew way out beyond the
Far Cliffs. His one sorrow was not solitude, it was that other gulls refused to believe
the glory of flight that awaited them; they refused to open their eyes and see. He
It is the first part of the story. What's your idea about that ?
Read more…Snag [snæg]
=>Noun
A small problem:
It’s the beautiful bike- the only snag is, it’s very expensive.
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Drab [dræb]
=>Adjective
1. Dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
2.
Read more…Streamlined ['stri:m,laın]
=>Verb (Streamlines, Streamlining, Streamlined ['stri:m,laınd])
1. To give something like a car or boat a long smooth shape so that it can go fast through air or water.
2. To make an origination or a way of doing things work
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It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. A
mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water and the word for Breakfast
Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge
and
Jagged ['dʒægıd]
=>Adjective
Rough, with a lot of sharp points:
Gagged rocks
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Updrafts [ʌpdræft]
=>Noun
The movement upward of air or other gas
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