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Well, as I told you over the past week, week and a half, I'm moved into a new apartment and still getting organized.

Today I put together a few bookcases, moved books around.

I'm telling you, books can be really heavy.

I'm pretty beat.

I am pretty beat. That is today's expression. I am pretty, P-R-E-T-T-Y, pretty beat, B-E-A-T. Now, pretty is an interesting word. If you look in the

dictionary, of course the first definition is something like beautiful,

but the second definition would be a little, kind of. But sometimes pretty can mean a lot.

I know. Sometimes it means a little.

Sometimes it means a lot.

How do we know which is which?

The context of the situation.

You have to understand the situation.

So, for example, today the temperature outside is 41 degrees Celsius.

Not where I live, but maybe somewhere.

Is that hot?

Oh, that's pretty hot.

That's pretty hot.

In this case, of course, pretty means very. Okay. So if you go to

buy a sandwich, a sandwich at McDonald's, and regular hamburger is a dollar, and cheeseburger is $1.25.

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