Advanced English Skills

Slang of the Day | Vocabulary | EnglishClub beat box to create rhythmic percussive sounds with your mouth, especially when accompanying rhymes or rapping ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Phrasal Verb of the Day | Vocabulary | EnglishClub decide against to decide not to do something you were thinking of doing, or not to choose something or someone you were thinking of choosing ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Word of the Day Word of the Day: prolix This word has appeared in one article on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Idiom of the Day take a bawling out To receive a very severe rebuke, chastisement, or scolding (from someone). Watch the video ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Word of the Day proscribe Definition: (verb) Command against. Synonyms: disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, veto, interdict. Usage: They are proscribed by federal law from owning guns. Discuss ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Wordsmith.org: Today's Word opsomania noun: An excessive longing for a particular food. ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day deliquesce Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for October 29, 2025 is: deliquesce • \del-ih-KWESS\  • verb Deliquesce can mean "to dissolve or melt away" or, in reference to some fungal structures (such as mushroom gills), "to become soft or liquid with age or maturity." // The mushrooms deliquesced into an inky fluid. See the entry > Examples: "He would mould his figures in full in wax, then take a hot knife and—like a metaphysical surgeon—cut away triangles, rhomboids, flaps and scraps, until only a latticework was left. These new shapeshifting figures comprised more gaps than joins: bodies in the delicate, arduous process of shedding their skins, scattering into metal petals, being eroded and deliquesced. Things were freshly able to pass through these painstakingly hard-to-cast bronzes: light, air, sight." — Robert Macfarlane, Apollo, 1 May 2025 Did you know? Deliquesce comes from the prefix de- ("from, down, away") and a form of the Latin verb liquēre, meaning "to be fluid." Things that deliquesce, it could be said, turn to mush in more ways than one. In scientific contexts, a substance that deliquesces absorbs moisture from the atmosphere until it dissolves in the absorbed water and forms a solution. When plants and fungi deliquesce, they lose rigidity as they age. When deliquesce is used in non-scientific contexts, it is often in a figurative or humorous way to suggest the act of "melting away" under exhaustion, heat, or idleness, as in "teenagers deliquescing in 90-degree temperatures." ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Slang of the Day | Vocabulary | EnglishClub queeny effeminate ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Phrasal Verb of the Day | Vocabulary | EnglishClub turn away If someone turns you away, they don't allow you to enter a place. ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Word of the Day Word of the Day: repertory This word has appeared in 154 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Phrasal Verb of the Day | Vocabulary | EnglishClub lead up to If a period of time or a series of events leads up to a particular event, it happens just before it. ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Idiom of the Day stuffed to the gills Completely full; teeming; having no room to spare. Watch the video ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Word of the Day pulsate Definition: (verb) Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion. Synonyms: quiver, beat. Usage: The city pulsated with music and excitement during Carnival. Discuss ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Wordsmith.org: Today's Word partocracy noun: Government or rule by a single political party. ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day menagerie Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for October 28, 2025 is: menagerie • \muh-NAJ-uh-ree\  • noun Menagerie refers to a collection of animals kept especially to be shown to the public, as well as a place where such animals are kept. It can also refer figuratively to any varied mixture of things. // The aviary featured a menagerie of exotic birds. // The space is eclectically furnished with a menagerie of flea market finds. See the entry > Examples: “The creatures are usually found hanging from phones or handbags ... or clutched as a kind of pet. They come in a menagerie of more than three hundred collectible forms. They can be matched to a personal style or mood: pink fur for when you’re feeling flirty; glowing red eyes for a bit of an edge ...” — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025 Did you know? Back in the days of Middle French, ménagerie meant “the management of a household or farm” or “a place where animals are tended.” When English speakers adopted menagerie in the 1600s, they applied it specifically to places where wild and often also foreign animals were kept and trained for exhibition, as well as to the animals so kept. This second meaning was eventually generalized to refer to any varied mixture, especially one that includes things that are strange or foreign to one’s experience. ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Slang of the Day | Vocabulary | EnglishClub lardass an overweight person, esp. one with large buttocks ➖ @EngSkills ➖

Word of the Day Word of the Day: neophyte This word has appeared in 46 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? ➖ @EngSkills ➖