jauger

Meaning

to gauge, to size up, to assess

Example

Investors are seeking to gauge the real robustness of the new business model.

More words at level C1

• laconique laconic, terse, brief
• latent latent, dormant, underlying
• leurre decoy, lure, delusion
• limpide limpid, crystal clear, lucid
• louvoyer to manoeuvre, to tack, to hedge
• malmener to batter, to rough up, to treat harshly
• mansuétude leniency, clemency, mercy
• mégarde inadvertence, oversight (inadvertently)

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.