• lucid: Clear and easy to understand.

Examples:
Although he was very sick with cancer, my grandfather was lucid until he died.
That was a very lucid newspaper article.

• glance: To look at something for a very short time and then look away.

Examples:
I glanced at the car and saw him. I really think it was Elton John!
Alice glanced at her watch and noticed she was late for the meeting.

• gripping: Very exciting.

Examples:
This story is gripping. I cannot put the book down!
That is gripping news… I wonder who killed her?

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

VOCABULARY LEARNING TIPS

1. Try to read as much as you can.

2. As soon as you learn a new word, practice.

3. Use dictionary and get in the habit of looking up words you don't know.

4. Play Scrabble, boggle and do crossword puzzles.

5. Enjoy learning new vocabularies :)