savvy [sav-ee]

adj. well-informed, experienced
n. practical understanding

• I have no political savvy.
• A savvy shopper handles money well.
• He is computer savvy.
• He was savvy when he asked about the global financial crisis.
• I want to be sentence savvy.
• The company has a technical savvy team.

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The Brilliant Experiment

Vocab

Cheer- a shout of encouragement
deaf- could not hear

Once there was a student who was doing his research at school. His study was about spiders.

He and his team gathered around the table and they placed the spider there. Spiders have 8 legs. They took one leg and they said, “Crawl, crawl!” and the spider crawled.

They took the other legs and did the same thing. Everytime they take one more leg, they’d cheer, “Move, Move!” The spider could move but it’s getting slower.

Until they took the 7th leg and they shouted, “Crawl, crawl!” The spider crawled but not much.

They took the last leg and they shouted, “Crawl, crawl!” But the spider did not move. They encouraged the spider again and said, “Move, Crawl! You can do it.” But the spider didn’t move.

So the student researcher said, “I conclude that when spiders lose all of their legs, they are not able to HEAR, they become deaf.”

haha..

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Unlucky salesman

Vocab:

door to door
demo
sales talk
mes
everything is under control
plugging
brown out

There was a salesman who went door to door to offer their new model of vacuum cleaner. He was looking for a house where he could do his demo. He came to a house of a middle-aged woman and he started his sales talk.

S: “Madam, try our new model of vacuum cleaner. Whatever kind of dirt you may have at home, our power cleaner could fix it.”

W: OK

S: “Ok, I’ll demonstrate.”

The salesman started to take the garbage from the kitchen and place it on the floor. He also added dirt, dust and every disgusting thing that he’d find in the house.

W: “Wait! what are doing.”

S: “Don’t worry Ma’am, everything is under control.”

S: “I’m going to EAT all of this mess, if our power cleaner would fail to clean this up. I swear, promise I’m going to eat it all.”

W: “For a minute please because I’m going to get something in the kitchen.”

Then the woman came back with a spoon while the salesman was plugging the cleaner.

S: “What is that for.”

W: “Start eating all of those dirt because we didn’t have electricity since yesterday. We had a brown-out.”

haha…

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enquiry [en-kwahy r-ee]

n. also inquiry
investigation to seek out the truth
interrogation, a question

• The NBI is currently holding an enquiry regarding the crime.
• He was called for an enquiry to answer the allegations.
• You can enquire online for more details.
• We will be holding a Congressional inquiry to solve the case.

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