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POco Wam Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Pls check a few sentence

1)nanny-woman who care about a young children /a grandmother
2)defamation -act when somebody hurt somebody's reputation by fake accusations
3)pass muster- to accept something as to meet standards
"which apps passed muster"
4)trash (your battery)- to damage something (your battery)
5)belittle their motivations- make smaller their motivations

Thx for check. I want to add this definitions to my Anki
  

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POco Wam 1)nanny-woman who care about a young children /a grandmother Yes, it can be a grandmother in certain cultures. I think in GB it's a woman who is hired to regularly take care of young children. POco Wam 2)defamation -act when somebody hurt somebody's reputation by fake accusations I agree.

  • POco Wam 1)nanny-woman who care about a young children /a grandmother Yes, it can be a grandmother in certain cultures.
  • I think in GB it's a woman who is hired to regularly take care of young children.
  • POco Wam 2)defamation -act when somebody hurt somebody's reputation by fake accusations I agree.
  • POco Wam 3)pass muster- to accept something as to meet standards"which apps passed muster" To be accepted as meeting standards (an old military expression) POco Wam 4)trash (your battery)- to damage something (your battery) (transitive verb) Can mean to deliberately dispose of something in the trash.
  • Can mean to accidentally damage something beyond repair, so that it has no value.
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POco Wam1)nanny-woman who care about a young children /a grandmother
Yes, it can be a grandmother in certain cultures.
I think in GB it's a woman who is hired to regularly take care of young children.
POco Wam2)defamation -act when somebody hurt somebody's reputation by fake accusations
I agree.
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Thanks for checking and nice welcome

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