Pronunciation Challenge Why Our Best Thoughts Come to Us in the Shower?

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Which one do you prefer, taking a shower or a bath?

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In a utopian future, we would get a lot more creative about what real thinking is and where it happens. We’d learn that the real enemy of good thinking isn’t a small desk or a modest view: it is – almost always – anxiety, for which there can be few better cures than that library of our deeper selves: the morning shower.

Key Vocabulary

1. utopian

utopian

[juˋtopɪən] (adj.)

utopia

[juˋtopɪə] (n.)

2. enemy

enemy

[ˋɛnəmɪ] (n.)

frenemy

[ˈfrenəmi] (n.)

foe

[foʊ] (n.)

opponent

[əˈpoʊnənt] (n.)

3. modest

modest

[ˈmɑdəst] (adj.)

humble

[ˈhʌmbəl] (adj.)

mild

[maɪld] (adj.)

4. anxiety

anxiety

[æŋˈzaɪəti] (n.)

edgy

[ˈɛʤi] (adj.)

nervous

[ˈnɜrvəs] (adj.)

upset

[ʌpˋsɛt] (adj.)

5. cure

cure

[kjʊr] (n.)

heal

[hil] (v.)

remedy

[ˋrɛmədɪ] (n.)