14 April, 2022
Welcome to today’s Academic Word of the Week!
This week we will be looking at the following noun:
VISION
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪʒən/
1ST meaning: The ability to see; the area you can see from a particular position.
Example: After the accident she suffered from temporary vision loss.
Also, we can say that someone with perfect sight is said to have twenty-twenty VISION. In this meaning VISION is uncountable.
2nd meaning: An idea or a picture in your imagination.
Example: The two people share similar visions for the future of the university.
Prepositions used with VISION are ‘of’ and ‘from’.
Here, VISION is countable.
3rd meaning: The ability to think about or plan the future with intelligence and imagination.
Example: She was a leader of vision.
Here, VISION is uncountable.
Have a great weekend and see you again next week for another word from the Academic Word List!
The ELCP Team