VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)
Vocabulary
culprit / 罪é祸首 / the guilty person, the one responsible for doing the bad thing
the leak / to leak / to let a secret out to the public
mistress / side chick /Â the woman you love who isn’t your wife!
to allege / alleged / 宣称 / to accuse or say something did something – you aren’t sure that they did it – but you believe they did
e.g. Nickole alleged that it was Teacher Nicholas that stole her computer!
extort / blackmail / to get something from someone – usually money – and if they don’t give you the money – you will do something bad to them, or ruin their reputation
e.g. The magazine tried to extort Jeff Bezos.
e.g. They had naked photos of him so they tried to blackmail him.
I would like to eat the things I like / I want to be able to eat what I want when I want it
middle class / the people that are not rich, but not poor
e.g. The goal of most governments is to create a growing, big, healthy, middle class.
upper class / the rich people
e.g. When Trump cut taxes for the wealthy, the upper class benefited.
lower class /Â poor people
shrinking / getting smaller and smaller
e.g. The middle class in USA is shrinking.
cost-of-living / this is the average cost or price of things that you need to live (food, housing, transportation, medicine, educaiton)
surge / to go up quickly
if it’s changeable /Â it’s very volatile / it’s always changing, going up and down
trepidations / worries
stock / stock shares /
e.g. I bought 1000 shares of Huawei (stock).
to rally / is to come back and go higher after you were down
to upend / upended / to ruin, to spoil or to mess something up that was going be successful or to change something
e.g. I caught a cold and it upended my birthday plans.
Grammar
the color of them are very the same / the colors are all the same
my mom like cook / my mom likes to cook / my mom likes cooking
when I am young / when I was young
I keep my work life and personal life separate
Pronunciation
CALL-LEEGS / colleagues
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