Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Vocabulary

phlegm – “flem” – the stuff in your throat / lungs that you want to get out

he didn’t have serious symptoms

she lost her sense of smell 

I have a bone to pick with you – I’m not happy with you

to take sth with a grain of salt – think for yourself instead of taking what sb says 100% as a fact

placate you – to say nice things to try to make sb happy

perplexed – confused
perplexing – confusing

a number of sth / a large number of things / a large amount of things

speak it out – say it / speak
eg. I had the confidence to say it / to speak

economics

Meetings bore (v) me… they’re so boring! I am always bored during meetings.

exercise is very tiring for me… I am tired when I finish working out. Running really tires (v) me out.