Weekly English Words with Alisha - Words that end with X

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Welcome back to Weekly Words. My name is Alisha, and this week we are going to talk about words
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that end with X.
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First is ‘equinox’. There are two equinoxes per year. There is
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a fall equinox, and a spring Equinox. It's the days where the day time and the night
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time are of equal length. In a sentence, “You having a party for the equinox this year?“
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"Today is the spring equinox. Did you know that?” Okay, anyway.
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Onward! Next is ‘jinx’. We can use this as a noun or as a verb. A
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jinx is something—it's a curse really—something that brings somebody bad luck. In North America,
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maybe in your country as well, when kids say something at exactly the time, in exactly
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the same words, one or both of them will often yell, “Jinx!”And then they'll sometimes
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say, “You can't talk until I say your name.”‘To jinx’ can also be used as a verb to curse
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somebody. “The witch jinxed me, and now I am a werewolf.” I don't know… the more
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you know.
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Okay. ‘Fox’. Fox is another word. Great fox. Fox is a mammal,
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usually a reddish brown color, lives in forests. In some cultures it's associated with trickery,
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has a big bushy tail, often very cute, has a red belly sometimes. Fox facts. Fox! In
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a sentence, “My favorite animal is the fox.”“What does the fox say?”
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Climax is common in movies or in books. It's whatever the most intense scene in the
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movie is, the most intense scene in the book is. Something where everything comes to a
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peak and it has the most action, the most drama in a movie, whatever. The most intense
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point of something is the climax. In a sentence, “The climax of the movie was the most exciting
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part.” “What movie has the best climax that I remember? Obviously The Lord of the
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Rings. Yeah, it was the last one. The Return of the Kings, like that scene where Legolas
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rides the elephant, you know?”
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‘Wax’. Life's most important substance. Wax. I'm
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imagining surf boards. Surfers will put it on their surf board to help their board glide
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through water. You can put it on your car to make your car look a lot shinier. There's
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also earwax. A little bit gross. It's the, kind of, I don't even know, gross stuff that
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gets inside your ears if you don't clean them well enough. Wax, yeah. In a sentence, “Wax
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your car to make it shiny.”
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And that's the end of words that end with X, give them a try, they're interesting. Thanks
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very much for joining us this week, we will see you again soon for more fun stuff. Bye!
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Excellent, we learned something.
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