VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)

Vocabulary

culprit / 罪é­ç¥¸é¦– / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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