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Narrator: Today's word is "Revise" — verb, pronounced /rɪˈvaɪz/, with the stress on "vise".
Narrator: To revise is to study work again before an exam, or to change something to make it better or more accurate.
Narrator: In plain English, it means study again, or improve.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin revisere, to look at again.
Narrator: A common collocation is "revise for an exam", which describes studying in Britain.
Narrator: It differs from "edit", because editing fixes text, while revising can also change figures, plans or opinions.
Narrator: In a second sense, forecasts and prices are revised up or down.
Narrator: Education, publishing, finance and law all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: revise means look again and improve.
Speaker A: Why are you in the library all weekend?
Speaker B: I'm REVISING! It comes from Latin for looking again.
Speaker A: For your finals?
Speaker B: Three exams next week.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "She revised for her GCSEs", school. "The forecast was revised upwards", economics. "Please revise the second draft", editing.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: In American English, revise only means change, so Americans say "study" for exams.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Review is its cousin, amend its twin, and study an alternative — yet revise keeps its studious charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "revise" in AI prompts — useful for study apps and document editing.
Speaker A: How for study apps?
Speaker B: Plan sessions.
Prompt: Create a two-week timetable to revise for GCSE biology and chemistry.
Speaker A: And editing?
Speaker B: Improve drafts.
Prompt: Revise this cover letter to be clearer and under two hundred words.
Speaker A: Could it help finance?
Speaker B: Yes, for forecasts.
Prompt: Revise this sales forecast using the new data and explain what changed.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Flashcards.
Prompt: Turn these notes into twenty question-and-answer cards to help me revise.
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