Word of the Day

Word of the Day

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Word of the Day episodes

  • What gives?
    • You've been acting weird all week. What gives?
    • OK, what gives, Sarah? You've been in a bad mood all day.
    • Not even thirty minutes after leaving the shower, my head starts itching. What gives?
    • Hey, what gives? My computer just shut off on its own!
      • Music: Four Cluster by Blue Dot Sessions
      3 min
    • Lisa strung me along for months.
      • She's been promising to pay back the money for six months, but I think she's just stringing me along.
      • He strung her along for years, saying he'd marry her and divorce his wife.
      • The student succeeded in stringing even his teachers along with his tales of family hardships.
        • Music: Timid Luxor by Blue Dot Sessions
        3 min
      • Flat beer
        • Your beer looks a little bit flat.
        • If you don't put the top back on that bottle of beer, it will go flat.
        • That champagne must have gone flat by now.
        • The soda was warm and had gone flat.


          • Music: Matamoscas by Blue Dot Sessions
          3 min
        • A bad case of baby fever
          • This time last year I had baby fever so bad, it was ridiculous.
          • A year after we married, I got a bad case of baby fever.
          • Baby fever is strongest in women at younger ages, and decreases as they age. For men, however, likelihood of baby fever increases with age.


            • Music: Zulia Conspiracy by Blue Dot Sessions
            Nine Count by Blue Dot Sessions
            3 min
          • Why don't you pop in?
            • I just popped in to say hello.
            • Maybe we'll pop in after the movie.
            • Why don’t you pop in and see us this afternoon?
            • He popped in for two minutes.


              • Music: Borough by Blue Dot Sessions
              2 min
            • Stick up for what you believe.
              • Stick up for your little sister, OK? That's your job.
              • She taught her children to stick up for themselves at school.
              • Stick up for what you believe.
              • Thank you for sticking up for me back there. It just felt like everyone was against me.


                • Music: Valantis by Blue Dot Sessions
                2 min
              • It's her loss.
                • If she doesn't want to come to the party, it's her loss.
                • Well, if he doesn’t want to come, it’s his loss.
                • If they don't find me interesting that's their loss.
                • Your loss.


                  • Music: Quindi by Blue Dot Sessions
                  2 min
                • Vibing out to music.
                  • When I’m depressed, I put on my fancy headphones and vibe out to my favorite songs.
                  • I usually vibe out to some music on the way to work.
                  • This morning, I saw a video of a guy drinking cranberry juice and just kind of vibing out to a Fleetwood Mac song.


                    • Music: Spinning Meter by Blue Dot Sessions
                    3 min
                  • I'm going to drop yoga.
                    • Many students dropped the class.
                    • I’m going to drop yoga.
                    • I dropped German (= stopped studying it) when I was 14.


                      • Music: Orejitas by Blue Dot Sessions
                      3 min
                    • I don't like fibbing, but . . .
                      • He fibbed about the price of the new suit.
                      • I don't like fibbing, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings by saying his gift was awful.
                      • Most of us have fibbed once or twice about being proficient in Excel or PowerPoint to get a job.
                      • I have to admit I told a fib when I said I enjoyed the movie.
                        • Music: Noe Noe by Blue Dot Sessions
                        3 min

                      About Word of the Day

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                      Learn to use the words you already know in new ways to sound more like a native speaker of English.