DIZZY WORDS (WORDS # 27)

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DECIDUOUS

Adjective – Deciduous trees lose all their leaves each fall. Trees that keep their leaves all year round are called evergreen.

Deciduous trees are generally beautiful, but each fall their leaves clutter the parks and sidewalks where they are planted

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DEBACLE

Noun (countable) – Something that fails completely in an embarrassing way

The celebration was a debacle, the expected guests did not arrive and the audio equipment failed!

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DISSEMINATE

Verb (transitive, formal) – To make something such as information or knowledge available to a lot of people

Nowadays the social media are powerful tools in the dissemination of news and trends 

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DUBIOUS

Adjective – Not sure about the truth or quality of something, or whether you should do something

I’m very dubious about his ability to do the job

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MY COMMENTS ON THESE WORDS

A pleasant collection of words! This time the list is relatively easy.

“Deciduous” is a well known word for every person who is interested in trees. We are all familiar with the activity of sweeping up the leaves from the ground, and maybe lighting bonfires to get rid of the piles of dead leaves we collect. Although these fires are frowned upon by ecologists!

“Debacle” is also a familiar word; we use it to describe something that flops in a really great way. I think the example provided above is very clear!

“Disseminate” is also a relatively common expression. I think the captions on “Trends” that appear on Twitter and Google+ are clear examples of social dissemination.

“Dubious” is not used so often, but in my opinion it is very descriptive. We can easily imagine a person making a dubious face! It is related to the concept of doubt. I will be dubious when I’m not sure of something!

There is good news for Spanish speakers! The words deciduo, debacle and diseminar all exist, sound and mean the same!

“Dubious” would relate to dudoso in Spanish. It doesn’t sound so similar; the other words are a better match.

So study up your words, they are all on the suggested lists for graduate entry tests.

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