Welcome Class!

This is our class blog for this semester. You will each post 10 sentences every day, 50 sentences each week. These sentences are sentences that you find somewhere on the internet. They may not be sentences someone else has already posted to this blog. The sentences should not be a definition, but they should be informative about what the word means and how the word is used. For example, consider the sentence "I am a firefighter." This sentence doesn't tell us anything about what the word means. Now look at the sentence, "A firefighter has to be strong and quick enough to pull people out of burning buildings." This sentence tells us what a firefighter does, but it does not say, "A firefighter is a person who puts out fires and rescues people from burning buildings." This last sentence is a definition.

I would also like you to post a translation of the word into your native language if one has not already been posted. Be sure to label which language you are translating. For example, your comment would look like this:

Spanish: bombero
A firefighter has to be strong and quick enough to pull people out of burning buildings.

If you are posting a sentence, you need to click on the "# comments" link beneath each word post.

1.1 Analyze

Word	Pronuciation	Definition	Related Forms
analyze	/ˈæn.əl.aɪz/	(transitive) If you analyse something, you study it carefully to understand it, often to see what it is made of.	analyzer analysis analyst analytic analytical analytically

1.2 Approach

Word	Pronuciation	Definition	Related Forms
approach	/əˈprəʊtʃ/	1. (transitive & intransitive) If you approach something, you move closer to it. 2. (transitive) If you approach a problem, or a job you try to deal with it.	approach (noun) approachable approachability

1.3 Area

Word	Pronuciation	Definition	Synonyms
area	ɛɹiə	An area is a piece of land or space. An area of study is a special subject, such as mathematics, grammar, music, or biology. The area of a surface, is the size of the surface.	(piece of land) space, part (special subject) subject, branch, field

1.4 Assess

Word	Pronuciation	Definition	Related Forms
assess	/əˈsɛs/	(transitive) If you assess a person, idea, skill, process, etc, you judge or measure them.	assessment assessor assessable

1.5 Assume

Word	Pronuciation	Definition	Related Forms
assume	/ə'sum/	(transitive & intransitive) If you assume something, you guess or believe something without having enough information to know that it's true.	assumption assumptive assumedly assumptively assumingly

1.6 Authority

Word	Pronuciation	Definition	Related Forms
authority	/əˈθɔɹəti/	(uncountable) To have authority means to have the power to make a decision. (countable) If you are an authority on something, many people think you know very, very much about it.	author authorize authoritative authoritarian authorization

1.7 Available

Word	Pronuciation	Definition	Related Forms
available	/əˈveɪ.lə.b(ə)l/	If something is available, it exists and you can use it.	unavailable availability

1.8 Benefit

Word	Pronuciation	Definition	Related Forms
benefit	IPA	(uncountable) A benefit is something good that comes from something else. (transitive and intransitive) If you benefit from something, you get something good from it.	beneficial beneficiary beneficent beneficence beneficially

1.9 Concept

Word	Pronuciation	Definition	Related Forms
concept	/ˈkɒn.sɛpt/	A concept is an idea or thought. A concept is a scheme or plan.	concept conceptual conception conceptualize conceptualization conceptual conceptually

1.10 Consist

Word	Pronuciation	Definition	Related Forms
consist	/kənˈsɪst/	(intransitive) If A consists of B, then B is the thing or things that, together, make A.	consistent consistently consistency consistence