2023-01-23 06:40:56
#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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