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July 22, 2008

Well, well... I've been absent from this blog for too long :( Not that I stopped learning English words, it's just that all of them are connected with Math, and it's no use giving definitions in English. Besides, I don't think anyone except myself is interested in learning Math terminology.

But I need to post someting... so I'll gather all the words I've been learning recently without definitions.

Here we go:

contraction
refinement
incompatible
(non-)adjacent
distinct
pairwise
to denote
to be inferior to, to yield to
to be uniquely determined
to retain
residual
to constitute
saturation
to traverse
hence


May 25, 2008

to unravel = 1) to undo or untangle (something tangled or knotted)
                         2) to explain or solve

I think it sounds really good: "I will unravel this mystery"

11:31 AM Jun 15 2008

Marsei11e

Marsei11e
Russian Federation

i'll try to keep it in my mindLaughing

April 28, 2008

Here is another interesting word I've learned recently:

to elope = to run away with intention of getting married


According to Wikipedia, "Today the term "elopement" is colloquially used for any marriage performed in haste or in secret with no guests; it is even sometimes used for well-attended and elaborately-planned marriages which occur away from home."

I think it's really interesting: there's no such word in Russan, for example.

If I ever get married, I'll make my wedding an elopement in some sense :)