aléa

Meaning

hazard, uncertainty, risk

Example

Farmers are calling for a fund to cover climate hazards.

More words at level C1

• ancrer to anchor, to embed, to entrench
• apanage preserve, prerogative, privilege
• avérer to prove to be, to turn out
• brider to curb, to restrain, to hold back
• carcan straitjacket, yoke, shackles
• cerner to pin down, to grasp, to define
• cinglant scathing, stinging, blistering
• conforter to reinforce, to bolster, to support

How to learn a word, not just look it up

• How spaced repetition works

  Memory lets a word go along a curve. Spaced repetition puts the next review just before the word slips, so every repeat buys more time than the one before it.

• Learning Lithuanian as an English speaker

  Seven cases, no shared vocabulary and a stress mark nobody writes down. What is genuinely hard about Lithuanian for an English speaker, what is easier than advertised, and the order that works.