#vocabulary Centenarian — someone who is a 100 years old or m | IELTS | IBROHIM

#vocabulary

Centenarian — someone who is a 100 years old or more

To tease something out
— to try to get information or understand a meaning that is hidden or not clear:
It took me a while to tease the truth out of him.

Famish — to suffer from extreme hunger or to make someone suffer from extreme hunger: Repeated crop failures almost famished them.

Reap(C2) the benefits — to get something, usually something good, as a result of your actions or other people's actions: She studied every evening and reaped the benefit at exam time.

To fine-tune something — to make very small changes to something in order to make it work as well as possible:
She spent hours fine-tuning her speech.

consecutive (C2) —
Consecutive events, numbers, etc. follow one after another without an interruption:
This is the fifth consecutive weekend that I've spent working.

To stave sth/sb off (ph v)
to stop something bad from happening, or to keep an unwanted situation or person away, usually temporarily:
We were hoping to stave off these difficult decisions until September.

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