Accurate English With Faizan

21/06/2025

Alhamdulillah, one of my students is making excellent progress!

04/05/2025

risible / RIZZ-uh-bul /

𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 is a formal word used disapprovingly to describe things that deserve to be mocked or laughed at.

➡️ Although the teachers derided the students’ slang as risible nonsense, the same had been said about their own generation’s lingo.

25/02/2025

rough (like uff in buff)
cough (like off in scoff)
drought (like ow in cow)
though (like o in no)
thought (like aw in saw)
through (like oo in woo)

Enough.

05/01/2025

cerulean / suh-ROO-lee-un /

➡️ He grins to appease me and reaches into his pocket and pulls out a cerulean fountain pen, marbled and sparkling. It reminds me of the sea on a calm day. ‘It was my grandfather’s,’ he explains. ‘He gave it to me, and now I am giving it to you.’

30/12/2024

➡️Tawdry decorations cluttered the tiny house.

15/11/2024

cachet (ka-SHAY)

➡️ His research in Antarctica gave him a certain cachet among other scientists.

14/11/2024

14/11/2024

➡️ But in his speech today he sounded like a poor old tired and raddled political camp follower, still protesting his virtue—a virtue that no one wants to take from him.

12/06/2024

The conjunction 'yet' expresses a contrast.

Thus, the first sentence below makes no sense because expensive dresses are usually luxurious.

👎🏽The dress was 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲, 𝘆𝗲𝘁 luxurious.
👍🏽The dress was 𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲, 𝘆𝗲𝘁 luxurious.

10/06/2024

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