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My Vocab Practice

  1. Apply pressure to the nose by pinching the nostrils firmly together.
  2. He could hardly repress his tears.
  3. You mustn't use force to bully and oppress the weak.
  4. High interest rates may depress share prices.
  5. She gives the impression of being very busy.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE:
1.Pressure:
In stocks market, pressures are always coming from your decisions, both good or bad.
2.Repress:
I always repress myself in mind for the decision I made for buy and sell, in stocks market.
3.Oppress:
Big company is always oppressing the revenues from small company, in many ways.
4.Depress:
Do not depress your mind when investing, its nature of human being and should against it.
5.Impression:
The very first impression of stocks market for common people is, full of greed and fears.


Good work!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE:
1- Being under a lot of pressure can lead to stress.
2- The repression during the dictatorship was brutal.
3- The workers rebelled against the oppression of their employers.
4- Lately depression is very common in society, the way of living leads us more and more to be unhappy.
5- They say that the first impression is what counts. I don't think it's so like that.


Good work!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE
1-Rishabh pant had played under pressure the previous match.
2-I repress 2. resource power within 2 hours.
3-Now oppress this matter, it's time to celebrate.
4-Hearing the news of his father's death ,he get into depress.
5-First impression is last impression.


Good work!

2,3,4?
Oppress means to pressurise someone, with a negative e connotation.
In 4, depression would be more appropriate.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. The pressure of parents on their children was too high
  2. Please do not repress your emotion said ram
  3. The black were oppresed by the white
    4.dont be depressed you will score well in the next term
  4. The impression of the new teacher was good


Good work!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE:

  1. Pressure.
    We learned in first aide that to stop the wound from bleeding you need to apply pressure to the wound by placing good amount of gauze bandages to it.

  2. Repress.
    It is always a good idea to repress anger when debating with others in public who has different opinions than you.

  3. Oppress.
    In some cultures oppression happens when their people don’t conform or if they fail to oblige their beliefs in religion or tradition.

  4. Depress.
    The death of her sister made her very depress she became silent and isolated herself from family members and friends.

  5. Impression.
    At the summit meeting she wasn’t being superfluous in her ideas rather conveying a genuine impression to all who were present.


Good work!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

#1. Pressure

Coaches are always under pressure to win all their matches.

#2. Repress
Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis theory posits that repressed childhood dreams may cause fixation in adulthood.

#3. Oppress
In most cases, laws are just tools used to oppress the poor.

#4. Depress
Peter was depressed following the news of his wife's death.

#5. Impression
The young forward was dropped because he did not make a good impression on the scouts.


Good work!

Good point in #2. And if laws are not effective enough, then central banks' monetary policies are used top repress, suppress, and oppress the poor – and nowadays, even the middle classes.

Sometimes, that's called "democracy."

This is really serious. What the world do in the name of "democracy." Perhaps this is perhaps why Fela said Democracy is the demonstration of craze by the politicians.

Exactly.

As the great Indian writer Arundhati Roy once reported, she saw a protestor with a sign denouncing the supposed democratic government as a "DEMON CRAZY."

Hahaha this is even more sarcastic.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. My boss at my working place is putting too much pressure on me.

  2. Jane could not repress her excitement when her husband gave her a new car

  3. Anyone that oppresses another lack human sympathy

  4. I'll never allow the inhuman treatment of anyone to depress me

  5. You can identify my house easily by taking note of the impression that's on one of the pillars of my outside gate


Good work!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE:

  1. Pressure:
    While you were away, the pressure to do my best was at an all-time.

  2. Repress:
    We baked the cookies but repress the information about what ingredients we put in them so that we could keep our customers coming back for more.

  3. Oppress:
    If I stand before you here today and you feel oppressed by anything that I say, please, take that bullshit to someone who cares.

  4. Depress:
    Those who prayed or continue to pray to Moloch must be some of the most depressed people this world has to offer.

  5. Impression:
    The first impression I often leave with people is one that doesn't get me invited back to their house in the Hollywood Hills.


Good work!

If I were invited to anyone's home in the Hollywood Hills, the first and only impression I'd leave is the impression that I did not care – cuz I would NOT even go!

🤣 True LA style - ditch em.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Marriage is very beautiful, but it also puts pressure on most of the people in it.

  2. I couldn't repress the tears from my eyes when i heard the news of her death.

  3. Strong men don't oppress others, they elevate them.

  4. My new boss is making my job very depressing

  5. If i had told her about the impression i had about her actions, she would have called me a sexist


Good work!

I believe it's the job of a boss to make the jobs of his employees depressing. Because that's what most bosses do. Right?

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