It’s Tuesday!
And after a week of monitoring your emails (Thank you! Great sentences!)
I have decided to give you all a bit more of a challenge.
At the end of each post, you will find a list of articles that either use the word or are related to the word in some way.
TUESDAY’S WORD:
So, you know that sound a balloon makes when you let the air out of it?
“de-fleeeeeeehhhhhh…”
(Ok, so it doesn’t sound like that.)
When you deflate a balloon, it sounds more like this:
“shshshshshshshssssssss….”
And when you feel deflated, it’s sort of like this:
_(._.)_
And when you hear about deflation, it usually has something to do with the economy like this:
TUESDAY’S WORD is:
deflate–(verb)-to let the air or gas out of;
to make someone feel disappointed or a loss of confidence;
(economy)-an overall reduction in price levels.
EXAMPLE SENTENCES:
Please deflate the beach balls when you are finished playing.
The tire deflated when I ran over a nail.
He was completely deflated when he discovered that his girlfriend was lying to him.
deflation–(noun)-the act of deflating;
(economy) a state of general price reduction in an economy.
EXAMPLE SENTENCES:
The Japanese economy has been suffering from deflation for many years.
According to an article in the BBC, “…convincing companies to spend is a key part of Mr Abe’s plan to pull the country out of deflation.”
“The lack of women in the workforce poses one of the biggest structural impediments to faster growth. Japan’s institutionalized sexism deepens deflation, hurts competitiveness and exacerbates the demographic trends that make Japan’s debt load so dangerous.”-William Pesek, Bloomberg, May 27, 2013.
MAKE YOUR OWN SENTENCES!!!
Remember if you email your sentences to me, I will check them for you.
Suzanne@futureglobejapan.com
ARTICLES FOR FURTHER STUDY:
The deflating duck of Honk Kong.
A funny story about a flat tire on an electric car in England.
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