Don’t lose your head in Siberia, or it may be found preserved thousands of years later.
A group of mammoth tusk hunters in eastern Siberia recently found an Ice Age wolf’s head—minus its body—in the region’s permafrost. Almost perfectly preserved thanks to tens of thousands of years in ice, researchers dated the specimen to
badger: to try to persuade someone by asking them something several times (Synonym) pester
(Phrase)
(1) badger someone to do something
(2) badger someone into doing something
(Example)
(1) It is difficult to change someone's opinion by badgering him.
We usually make the simple past by adding -ed to the end of the verb.
(Example)
(1) I walk --> I walked
(2) we wait --> we waited
(3) they jump ---> they jumped
The left-handed brand has come a long way in the last few decades. The majority of people no longer assume that southpaws are tools of Satan, alight with hellfire. Today’s lefties are surrounded by a far more benevolent glow.
paradox: a situation that seems strange because it involves two ideas or qualities that are very different
(Collocations)
(1) apparent/ great paradox
(2) explain/ resolve a paradox
(Example)
(1) It's a paradox that in such a rich country there can be so much poverty.
