Words October 2025 Week 3

She is a procrastinator. (She’s always putting things off till later.)

I got a 350,000-yen trade-in on my old car. (When she bought a new car, she gave them her old car and they reduced the new car’s price by 350,000 yen.)

I think it was false advertising. (What she saw in the advertisement was not the same as what she actually got.)

Marshlands are similar to wetlands but have no trees. (The mallow plant grows in marshes – that is where we get marshmallows.)

A hybrid can use both its engine and electric motor to drive the wheels. (The battery recharges while driving the car.)

The e-power system uses an engine only to generate electricity for a motor that exclusively drives the wheels. (The gas engine recharges the battery and only the electric motor powers the car.)

I felt sluggish. (I have no energy and move slowly like a slug.)

The Czech Republic is landlocked. (The Czech Republic used to be connected to Slovakia.)

They eat freshwater fish. (Since they don’t have a sea coastline, they mostly eat river and lake fish.)

We were chatting using Line. (We chatted online on Line.)

After lunch, we went our own ways. (They went home after lunch.)

She has been taking jazz singing lessons for a while. (To “study” jazz means to learn about its history etc.)

They were all older than me. (She was the youngest in the group.)

She needs a tutor for studying the Japanese language. (She is a foreign students attending a Japanese school.)

Another way to say, “in my case” is “as for me.” (As for you, which phrase would you use?)
I’m starting to do “shukatsu, or “end-of-life planning.” (I’m not job hunting, but I should too.)

The baby was born by C-section. (It was a Cesarean birth. It was a surgical birth.)

I don’t like carbonated water. (The bubbles are made by using carbon dioxide gas.)

She is 85 but very energetic. (She is very active.)

We were troubleshooting the computer problem over the phone. (He finally solved the problem by using ChatGPT.)

The song “Die Lorelie” was about a siren named Lora Lay whose voice hypnotized sailors. (In Greek mythology, sirens are female humanlike beings with alluring voices.)