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Vocabulary: understanding

"Communicating" is mainly exchanging, and making oneself understood. Understanding is the ultimate objective in life, in a family, at work, between friends, between communities and in society. People can only understand each other if they make real efforts to interact and speak. True communication leads to harmony, and ultimately to good understanding and real happiness. That says it all.

I) UNDERSTANDING one another...

To grasp... It makes sense! // It doesn't make sense!

To understand		Understandable
Understanding		Intelligible/ intelligibility
To make oneself understood		It makes sense!
To realise that		To grasp sth
To follow		To gather that
Evident/ obvious		Evidently/ obviously
Coherent/ coherence		Unequivocal

Obvious To make oneself understood

EXPRESSIONS and IDIOMS:

- That is beyond all understanding.

- To manage to understand/ to make sense of sth.

- To be within/ beyond grasp.

- I don't see the point of it.

- So I gather!

- It suddenly dawned on me that!

II) LACK OF COMMUNICATION: MISUNDERSTANDINGS...

A misunderstanding		To make a mistake To be mistaken
Mistakenly		I'm quite lost!
Incomprehensible		Puzzling
Unintelligible		Equivocal
Obscure		Unfathomable
Incoherent/ incoherence		Enigmatic/ an enigma
Ambiguous		An ambiguity

unfathomable To miss the point

EXPRESSIONS and IDIOMS:

- To fail to understand.

- To miss the point of sth/ to misunderstand sth.

- To have a mistaken idea of.

- It's not consistent!

- I can't make heads or tails of this.

- I haven't the slightest idea!

- I'm all at sea!

We shouldn't let chance and improvisation guide our communication, which should be precise.

Here's a way to test your knowledge, to use "the right words" in order to avoid misunderstandings.

I'm sure you'll pass the test with "Flying colours"... Thanks a lot for working with me...

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