THEME THURSDAY: PORTMANTEAUS (FRENEMY)

Hello everyone, and welcome to our first Theme Thursday of the month. We have a holiday next week, so this is our only Theme Thursday for the month of September. Therefore, we are continuing our Theme Thursday from June: PORTMANTEAUS. 

PORTMANTEAUS are words that are a combination of two words. You can click on the following links to see the previous lessons about them. 

https://www.ziggurat.es/es/lecciones_ingles/index.asp?id=2599

https://www.ziggurat.es/es/lecciones_ingles/index.asp?id=2594

https://www.ziggurat.es/es/lecciones_ingles/index.asp?id=2590

Today's word is FRENEMY. It is the combination of the words FRIEND and ENEMY. 

Definition: someone who you pretend is your friend, but they are not. 

Example 1: I actually really dislike my flatmate. I'd say we are frenemies. 

Example 2: John and I are not close. In fact, I consider him to be a frenemy. 

I hope you don't have any FRENEMIES, but if you do, you now have a word to describe them. Sometimes, we have to be nice to people that we do not particularly like. 

That's all for today; thanks for reading!