Hi, I'm remembering to introduce the series this week.

My name is Alicia. Welcome back to weekly words. This week we're going to talk about really long words that are actually used.

Okay, this is going to be interesting, I think. Let's start.

The first word is photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is an eighth grade American science school word.

It's an eighth grade science word.

This refers to the process that plants use to convert sunlight to oxygen.

The process of photosynthesis is vitally important to the survival of humans.

Right?

The next word is imperturbable.

Impperturbable means someone who can't really get upset or excited.

Like it's hard to change the emotions of a person.

So you might say, I have a friend who is imperturbable.

No matter what we do or what we say, he doesn't get angry with

us. Onward. The next is counterintuitive. Counterintuitive is a good word, which means

it's the opposite of common sense. So we talked about the word intuitive in a previous episode

of weekly words where intuitive means able to sense something or able to do something correctly without knowing,

having to know much about it.

Counterintuitive, however, on the other hand, means not intuitive, or it seems like

something that just doesn't make much sense. It's not a common sense thing.

So maybe, let's see, something that doesn't seem to make very much sense to you.

Maybe on your office building, for example, you seem to make very much sense to you. Maybe on your office

building, for example, you have to first push the door and then pull it in order to open it.

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