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to know ones way about
to know one’s course of action: 
You 
needn’t worry about her, she knows her way about and can take care of 
herself.
all (quite, just) the other way about (AE around)
quite the op-
posite:
 “As far as I know he denied what he had said before.”“Quite the 
other way about. He confirmed everything.”
(in) one way or another (other, the other):
You’l have to do it one 
way or another. One way or the other he always seems to win.
5) a characteristic method or manner of behaving: 
I don’t like his 
ways at all.

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to have a way with smb
to be able to win the confidence and affec-
tion of people:
 She’ll make a good teacher, she has a way with children.
6) respect, degree: 
In one way that explanation is satisfactory, but 
in another way it is not.
in no way
: 
The photos are in no way similar.
by the way:
By the way, Jeff called this afternoon, and he wants 
you to call him back.
READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES
1. Consult a dictionary and practise the pronunciation of the following words. 
Pay attention to stresses:
pseudonym, imperious, frivolous, depravity, asperity, obstinacy, 
effectually, artichoke, raspberry, paradise, germinate, tapestry, ridicu-
lously, mandarin, discernment, disastrous.
2. Read the following words observing: a) two primary stresses; b) the sec-
ondary and the primary stress; c) a primary stress:
self
-righteous, nevertheless, 
un
interesting, 
un
counted, 
un
author-
ized, 
un
sympathetic,