한날의 낙서 [Hannal's scribbling]

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foster (TAKE CARE OF)
verb [I or T]
to take care of a child, usually for a limited time, without being the child’s legal parent:

Would you consider fostering (a child)?

Compare adopt (TAKE CHILD).

adopt (TAKE CHILD)
verb [I or T]
to take another person’s child into your own family and legally raise him or her as your own child:

They’ve adopted a baby girl.
She had the child adopted (= She gave her baby to someone else to raise).
They have no children of their own, but they’re hoping to adopt.

Compare foster (TAKE CARE OF).

wade through
to spend a lot of time and effort doing something boring or difficult, especially reading a lot of information:

We had to wade through pages of legal jargon before we could sign the contract.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)

effort
1 [C or U] physical or mental activity needed to achieve something:
[+ to infinitive] If we could all make an effort to keep this office tidier it would help.

You can’t expect to have any friends if you don’t make any effort with people.
In their efforts to reduce crime the government expanded the police force.
He’s jogging round the park every morning in an effort to get fit for the football season.
It takes a long time to prepare the dish but the results are so good that it’s worth the effort.

2 [C] the result of an attempt to produce something, especially when its quality is low or uncertain:

Do you want to have a look at his exam paper? It’s a fairly poor effort.

tidy (ORDERED)
having everything ordered and arranged in the right place, or liking to keep things like this:

The house was clean and tidy.
My flatmate isn’t very tidy.
neat and tidy
a tidy solution

else
adverb
used after words beginning with any-, every-, no- and some-, or after how, what, where, who, why but not which, to mean other, another, different, additional:

Everybody else has (= All the other people have) agreed except for you.
If it doesn’t work, try something else (= something different).
Let’s go before they ask us to visit anyone else (= another person).
It’s not my bag. It must be someone else’s (= it must belong to another person).
The book isn’t here. Where else (= In what other place) should I look?
He came to see you. Why else (= For what other reason) would he come?
After I’d thanked them I didn’t know what else (= what other things) to say.

improve
verb [I or T]
to (cause something to) get better:

He did a lot to improve conditions for factory workers.
I thought the best way to improve my French was to live in France.
Her health has improved dramatically since she started on this new diet.

phase
noun [C]
1 any stage in a series of events or in a process of development:

The project is only in the initial phase as yet, but it’s looking quite promising.
We’re entering a new phase in international relations.

2 a period of strange or difficult behaviour, especially that a young child or person goes through, that will stop after a while:

When I was in my early teens I went through a phase of only ever wearing black.

3 The phases of the moon are the regular changes in its shape as it appears to us on Earth.
verb [T often passive]
to introduce something in stages over a particular period of time:

The reduction in armed forces will be phased over the next ten years.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)

consistent
adjective
always behaving or happening in a similar, especially positive, way:

There has been a consistent improvement in her attitude.
Her work is sometimes good, but the problem is she’s not consistent.

NOTE: The opposite is inconsistent.

implement (TOOL)
noun [C]
a tool which works by being moved by hand or by being pulled across a surface, but which is not powered directly by electricity or fuel:

garden/household/agricultural implements
Shopkeepers are not supposed to sell knives and other sharp implements to children.