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<2007.04.26> #2 article

 


charade 자주 쓰는 단어로 별 것도 아닌데 정신을 빼 놓는 것을 말한다.


cha|rade  /S@rA:d% AM -reId/ 

 


1N-COUNT  usu sing  disapproval




If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone.

I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade...

The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality.



2   N-UNCOUNT




Charades is a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase.



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chores 허드렛일


chore  /tSO:r

   


1N-COUNT  usu sing




A chore is a task that you must do but that you find unpleasant or boring.

She sees exercise primarily as an unavoidable chore...



2   N-COUNT  usu pl




Chores are tasks such as cleaning, washing, and ironing that have to be done regularly at home.

My husband and I both go out to work so we share the household chores.



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er|rand  /er@nd/ 

   


1N-COUNT




An errand is a short trip that you make in order to do a job for someone, for example when you go to a shop to buy something for them.

She went off on some errand...



2   PHRASE  V inflects




If you run an errand for someone, you do or get something for them, usually by making a short trip somewhere.

She was forever running errands for her housebound grandmother...



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