"Big words" nghĩa là gì?

Feed Your Head, Young girl engrossed in a book. Photo courtesy Philippe Put.

'Big words' nghĩa là những lời nói huênh hoang, khoác lác, đao to búa lớn.

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Thousands of terms in the great word hoard of English inevitably fall by the wayside (lề đường), becoming forgotten or mere curiosities. Some people reflexively (phản thân) call any words not familiar to them "big words." And others of us bristle (nổi giận) at hearing what sounds like jargon (biệt ngữ). We often consider such English as language intended to impress or bewilder (làm hoang mang).

While it may be tempting to use big words to show off (khoe khoang, phô trương) your smarts in college admissions essays, short words -- to, and, they -- are actually the ones that matter, a new study says. Essentially, it's not the words you know, but how you use them. And the smallest, most common words, the study found, can tell a lot about someone's future success in college...

“The researchers we speak to, they speak normally, so we hear lots of big words on their end, so you can still come away from the show, with a broader understanding. So you do have some knowledge of astrophysics (vật lý học thiên thể), there might be some big cosmological (vũ trụ học) words that you can take away from it.”

Mostly, –thons are the worst. The first person to complete a marathon died immediately after. Telethons last just as long and all you get is the brief appeasement of your First World guilt and a tote bag (giỏ đi chợ). And Ironman triathlons are like, super hard. However, there is an exception to –thon suckiness: The first ever National Readathon Day is happening tomorrow and if you made it to the end of this paragraph without sounding out the big words, you’re ready.

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