Emotions & feelings

resilience

ability to recover from difficulty

The ability to cope with difficult conditions and recover from them.

C1 common speech & writing

Hear it in real life

How did he cope after losing his job?

He showed remarkable resilience and started again.

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Her resilience after the accident impressed everyone around her.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: She showed a lot of resilient after the accident.

Say: She showed a lot of resilience after the accident.

Use the noun “resilience” after “a lot of,” not the adjective “resilient.”

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How it fits in a sentence.

show resilience; build resilience; resilience in the face of adversity

Your turn: say it out loud

Her resilience after the accident impressed everyone around her.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

resilience

ability to recover from difficulty

“Her resilience after the accident impressed everyone around her.”

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