
Thẩm Tâm Vy, August 22, 2020 ENGLISH CONFUSABLE WORDS - 09
ENGLISH CONFUSABLE WORDS – 09 cry, shout, yell If you cry or cry out, you call out loudly usually because of a strong emotion such as unhappiness, excitement, or fear. - ‘Come on!’ he cried. - I heard Amy O’Shea cry out in fright. If you shout, you speak in an extremely loud voice. You may shout in order to be heard in a noisy place, or because you are angry or excited. - I was very happy and shouted, ‘Thank you!’ to him but he only smiled and waved his hand. - They turn their radios on and shout across the room to one another. - That made Clarissa very angry indeed. She shouted, ‘You make me sick!’ If you shout at someone, you talk angrily to them in a loud voice. - She sсагсе1y glanced at the poor man; just shouted at him for polling her lovely evening. - The negotiators shouted at each other across the table. If you yell, you call out loudly, either using words or just making a noise. People usually yell because they are excited, angry, or in pain. - I threw back my head and yelled ‘Help!’ - I yelled out in pain and fell off the wall. - ’Get out of my office!’ yelled Mr Morris. If you yell at someone, you shout loudly at them, usually because you are angry. - If she caught us eating, she would yell at us, and sometimes she told the boss. - I yelled at Richard to hang on. cure, heal, recover, recovery When a doctor or a treatment cures a patient or a disease, or cures a patient of a disease, the patient gets better. - He took the boy to a special doctor and had his eye infection cured. - Dr Bachius went in for acupuncture, and had once cured Mrs Burdock of migraine for a whole week. A cure is a medicine that cures a disease. - Nobody would deny the value of the work being done to find a cure for SARS-COVID 19. - This seems to be a possible cure for AIDS. When an injury such as a cut or a broken leg gets better, you say that it heals or that it is healed. - I waited there six weeks, not knowing whether the leg would heal or not. - This ointment should heal the cut in no time. If you say that someone heals a sick person, you mean that they make them better, usually by unconventional methods known as ‘alternative medicine’. - Give the Lord a chance, Ginny. He healed my leg. He can heal your mother’s blood. - He had been miraculously healed of his illness.
When a sick person recovers, recovers from an illness, or makes a recovery, they get better. - In time Johnnie recovered, thankfully without any permanent damage. - How long do people take to recover from sickness ofthis kind? - He made a quick recovery, but the operation hadn’t been as successful as hoped. custom [phong tục, tập quán], habit [thói quen, nền nếp] Ạ custom is something that people in a community do because it is a tradition, or because it is considered the right thing to do in society. For example, in Britain, celebrating Christmas and Shaking hands are customs. - Harvest Festival, ’I said firmly, ‘is a good old Christian custom.’ - I’m a stranger in this country, I don’t know the customs that well. - They had done all that their religion and family customs had required them to do. You can also say that it is someone’s custom to do something when it is something they usually do. This is a fairly literary use. - She had risen at half past six as was her custom. A habit is something that you do regularly, often without thinking why you do it. Habits can sometimes be irritating or pointless. - His tongue moistened his top lip. It was a habit of his. - She has a bad habit of mumbling. - I can’t help it, I always tell everybody everything, it’s a terrible habit, it really is. deny, refuse If you deny something, especially something that someone says, you say that it is not true. [chối không làm gì] - He denied that there was any needfor drastic reform. - This allegation was denied repeatedly by Government spokesmen. - I don’t deny that art is political. If someone denies you something you need or want, …
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