2025-04-01
14 分钟Hello and welcome to the English Like a Native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week 13, day two of your English Fiver Day, the second season.
This series is dedicated to providing a healthy daily dose of English vocabulary so
that you can slowly but surely start to feel more confident when communicating in English.
All you have to do is tune in.
So let's begin as we always do with our snapshot.
Every year on the anniversary of their grandmother's passing,
Leo and his sister followed a simple ritual of remembrance.
Though their family was secular and did not follow religious traditions, they would like to candle,
share stories about her, and make a toast to the wonderful life she had lived.
It was their way of keeping her memory alive, honouring her with love instead of sorrow.
Okay, let's take a closer look at some of that vocabulary.
Starting with the adjective secular, secular.
We spell this S-E-C-U-L-A-R, secular.
If something is described as secular, then it's not connected with religion or spiritual matters.
It's related to worldly or non-religious affairs instead.
Here's an example sentence.
The festival started as a religious event but has now become more secular and widely celebrated.
Next, we had the noun anniversary, anniversary.
We spell this A-N-N-I-V-E-R-S-A-R-Y, anniversary.