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Doctor Doctor!! # Specific Words

Doctors are everywhere, no matter which part of the world you are. but are all doctors same? Well, no.
Every doctor does specializes in a particular area and they are known by it.
Lets learn how to talk about doctors.

FEMALE TROUBLES?
He/she is responsible for treating the female reproductive and sexual organs. Who is he/she?
A GYNECOLOGIST
GYNECOLOGIST is make from two words-
Gyne-: woman
Logy-: science
HAVING A BABY?
This specialist is responsible for babies and takes care of the mother and baby during and after pregnancy.
A OBSTETRICIAN
OBSTETRICIAN is made of two words-:
Obstetrix-: midwife
Ician-: expert
IS THE BABY ILL?
Who should you go to when the baby is ill> may be he/she has chicken pox/meals/mumps. This specialist takes care of youngsters, babies after birth, watches their growth and development.
PEDIATRICIAN is made of the three words.
Paidos-: child
Iatreia-: medical healing
Ician-: expert
SKIN ISSUES?
Are you having pim[ples or rashes? Is your skin itching? Do you find strange changes in the skin? Or is there some major skin disease like impetigo, psoriasis or cancer? But how do you know what it is? who is going to cure it?
A DERMATOLOGIST
Derma-: skin
Logos- science
ARE YOUR EYES OKAY?
She/he cares about the disorders in your eyes like myopia or cataracts etc and prescribes glasses, performs surgery give drugs.
An OPHTHALMOLOGIST
HOW ARE YOUR BONES?
Have you had any bones fracture, slipped discs, clubfoot, curvature of the spine or issues in skeletal structure of your body? Where did you went? Bone doctor??
No, you will go to an ORTHOPEDIST
ISSUES OF HEART
Does your heart go pitter-patter? Well have you had any disorders of heart or circulatory system? Who did you referred to? A heart doctor?
Well, you must go to a CARDIOLOGIST
IS THE BRAIN WORKING FINE?
You go to this physician for creating any disorders of brain, spinal cord or the rest of the nervous system. Who is he/she?
A NEUROLOGIST

So, from now on, stop saying skin doctor or baby doctor. Use the right words and show the world who you are!
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Go Set A Watchman

Exactly 100 pages into Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, the illusions of Jean Louise Finch and several generations of idealists are shattered when, arranging her father’s pile of reading material on a visit home from New York, Jean Louise discovers a pamphlet called “The Black Plague.” She picks it up, reads it all the way through, then takes it “by one of its corners … like she would hold a dead rat by the tail” and throws it in the garbage.
“Jean Louise,” her aunt says, in response to her indignation. “I don’t think you fully realize what’s been going on down here.”
It’s an awakening that’s not so much rude as cruel: Maycomb County, Alabama, is now a different world from the one she grew up in, and To Kill a Mockingbird’s Atticus Finch, the paragon of the legal profession, the father figure and steward of the nation’s conscience, is revealed to be frail and flawed. He is, at 72, a rheumatic and unrepentant segregationist who believes with complete conviction that the white race is superior. “Jean Louise, have you ever considered that you can’t have a set of backward people living among people advanced in one civilization and have a social Arcadia?” he asks late in the book, to her horror. “Do you want Negroes by the carload in the our schools and churches and theaters? Do you want them in our world?”
The article has been taken from “The New Yorker ”.

VOCABULARY EXPLAINED

ILLUSIONS
Illusion is something that deceives by producing a false or misleading projection of something. “illusion of … are shattered” means what they thought it to be, it has turned out to be something else.
IDEALIST
Idealist here refers to the writers who treat subject imaginatively. So when the illusion of idealist are shattered, it means that the picture they had imagined is not true.
PAMPHLET
Pamphlet is a complete publication of about 80 pages stitched together and having a cover.
INDIGNATION
Indignation is a strong displeasure at something considered wrong or offensive. So, herein her aunt responds to her behavior of displeasure.
PARAGON
Paragon refers to someone of exceptional merit. So, “paragon of legal profession” means someone who is excellent in the legal profession.
STEWARD
Steward, here means a person who is in charge of something. “so steward of national conscience is a person responsible for the national conscience”.
CONSCIENCE
Conscience refers to the inner sense of what is right and what is wrong. “the national conscience” means what according to the nation as a whole is right or wrong!
FRAIL
Frail, here means, morally weak and easily tempted. In this context, it means that the person who was responsible for the nation’s conscience was himself morally weak.
FLAWED
Flawed is used to refer to someone who has imperfections.
RHEUMATIC
Rheumatic is a person with the disorder of the extremities or back, causing pain.
UNREPENTANT
Unrepentant is a person who shows no shame about his/ her actions.
SEGREGATIONIST
Segregationist is a person who supports the separation of the people depending on their caste, gender etc.
CONVICTION
Conviction here means strong opinion or belief. Here it means that the person had a strong belief that white race is superior.
CARLOAD
Carload refers to the number of people a car is carrying or it can carry. “Do you want Negroes by the carload in the our schools and churches and theaters?” means that do you as many Negros in the school as the car can carry.

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How Noise Became Music # Vocabulary For IELTS

HOW NOISE BECAME MUSIC

We live in the loudest of times. It all began about twenty years ago, when new digital technologies started to radically alter the way music was made, refined, and shared. It suddenly became fairly easy to endow songs with a more aggressive presence: with a click of the mouse, you just made it all—especially the quiet parts—louder. Since then, there’s been a debate over the effects of the “loudness wars” on our ability to appreciate nuance, particularly the dynamic range between loud and soft that, in the parlance of audiophiles, gives music the room to “breathe.” As musicians from Iggy Pop to Christina Aguilera began making their music as thunderous as possible, our standards and preferences gradually changed. Loudness has won. We have come to crave music that is garish, punchy, and, according to the anti-loudness partisans, poorly engineered. But now that we listen to music everywhere—often in a semi-distracted state, across a range of devices and settings—it should come as no surprise that artists want their music to come pre-coated with a glossy immediacy. First impressions matter. Why not insure that you can’t be ignored?

how noise became music vocabulary for ielts

how noise became music vocabulary for ielts

VOCABULARY EXPLAINED

RADICALLY
Radically means fundamentally or in a completely basic manner.
ALTER
Alter means to change or become different or modify it.
ENDOW
Endow means to equip something. Here it means, that songs are equipped with aggressive sounds, that is the songs made are more aggressive now.
AGGRESSIVE
Aggressive refers to something that is vigorously energetic. An aggressive music means something that energizes you.
NUANCE
Nuance is used to refer to slight difference or variation in color or tone. So here it says it wants to find whether you can tolerate slight difference in loud and soft music.
PARLANCE
AUDIOPHILE
Audiophile refers to a person who is interested in a
THUNDEROUS
Thunderous is anything that produces thunder or thunder like noise.
GARISH
Garish refers to anything that is glittering or showy or may be vulgar.
PUNCHY
Punchy means confused.
PARTISANS
Partisans are non-conformist or sectarians.
IMMEDIACY
Immediacy is closeness.

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Spread Like Wild Fire

If you have the will to achieve, your success story will spread like wild fire! Read more and find out what does it means.

GET A WIGGLE ON
SENTENCE-: Stop being lethargic get a wiggle on or else we will be late.
MEANING-: get moving or hurry
SPREAD LIKE WILD FIRE
SENTENCE-: often gossips spread like wild fire
MEANING-: spread with great speed
A WILD GOOSE CHASE
SENTENCE-: Don’t be foolish, stop this wild goose chase.
MEANING-: search for something unattainable
WHERE THERE IS A WILL , THERE IS A WAY
SENTENCE-: if you have ever decided on a goal, remember, where there is a will, there is a way.
MEANING-: if you have determination, obstacles will pass soon
KEEN AS MUSTARD
SENTENCE-: That girl you seen standing in the hall of fame, she was keen as mustard.
MEANING-: extremely eager or enthusiastic
KEEP OPEN HOUSE
SENTENCE-: mahatma Gandhi always kept an open house
MEANING-: provide general hospitality
YOU CAN’T KEEP A GOOD MAN/WOMAN DOWN
SENTENCE-: No matter how hard someone tries, remember, you can’t keep a good man/woman down.
MEANING-: a competent person will always fight back after every set back
A DIFFERENT KETTLE OF FISH
SENTENCE-: Don’t apply the general rules to her, she is a different kettle of fish.
MEANING-: a different matter or type of person from the one previously discussed
A KICK AT THE CAN
SENTENCE-: this is your chance, you can either kick at the can or kick yourself.
MEANING-: an opportunity to achieve something
KICK THE BUCKET
SENTENCE-: life is like either you achieve your goals or kick the bucket.
MEANING-: die
KICK SOMEONE WHEN THEY ARE DOWN
SENTENCE-: if you kick someone when they are down, don’t expect to rise yourself.
MEANING-: cause further misfortune to a person who is already suffering

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