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USF Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
flourish
"flourish" means developping something like a carrier or business and become successful, but another meaning for "flourish" is to waving something with the hand to show or show off that thing to others. I guess flourish in the first meaning is quite formal, but flourish for waving something does sound informal!
And when I looked up flourish in Google Image, all images were some drawings, which I think it doesn't add up. I expect at least picture of kids flourishing their exam result or something like that, so I concluded that flourish is more common in formal situation and the first usage.
I would appreciate it if you could help me to figure out why this word is like this, and was I right about its usage.
And when I looked up flourish in Google Image, all images were some drawings, which I think it doesn't add up. I expect at least picture of kids flourishing their exam result or something like that, so I concluded that flourish is more common in formal situation and the first usage.
I would appreciate it if you could help me to figure out why this word is like this, and was I right about its usage.
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) You will not get so many google hits for verbs, because pictures of verb actions are far less common than pictures of concrete nouns.
- ) You will not get so many google hits for verbs, because pictures of verb actions are far less common than pictures of concrete nouns.
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