Learn whole vocabulary with me.

[Englishuser]

Hi,

Are you sure you are all using the same dictionary?

All the best

EU

[princess]

abdicate v. to give up a throne or authority

King Edward VIII abdicated in 1936.

.

Well I am painting a jellyfish, I would better come here to add one because I think it's useful for my *futural* kids XD
_________________
Life is milk and cookies.

[Mister Micawber]

.
Where's your word, English User?

My OED is too heavy, so I am using my Webster's Collegiate, which is ready to hand.

Abecedarian (n): one learning the rudiments of something (as the alphabet).

Abecedarians was a nickname given to certain extreme Anabaptists, who regarded the teaching of the Holy Spirit as all that was necessary, and so despised all human learning and even the supposed power of reading the written word.

A
.
_________________
Canadian-American native speaker
who teaches English for a living at Mister Micawber's
ESL cafe: Interview with Mister Micawber

[lost_soul]

Mister Micawber, thanks for correcting me !

aberrant (adj) means astray, off the course

A rocket on an aberrant course hit the town and blew every building off the face of the earth.

[corrected by LS]
_________________
Alex

A native speaker of Russian

[Yankee]

aberration

the act of departing from the right, normal or usual course

Cancer is an aberration of normal cell division and development.

(a)


Hi LS

A more typical way of saying what you wrote above would be
Thanks for correcting me.

By the way, can you spot the spelling aberration in your previous post?
.
_________________
Amy
.
ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English

[Tom]

[lost_soul]

Hi, Amy,

Yeah, I just looked through my previous post and discovered to my horror that I had managed to misspell the word aberrant in 2 places

abeyance (noun)
a state of vagueness, uncertainty

I am in abeyance as to whether they'll elect me president of the US or not.
_________________
Alex

A native speaker of Russian