Honesty Is the Best Policy

Unit 2

Honesty Is the Best Policy

Honesty is the best policy means being honest with people in the life. Being honest help others to always trust on us and show our real character to them which is enough to let them know that we always tell the truth. 

Being trustworthy helps us to build a strong relationship by assuring others about our trustworthy nature. On the other hand, people who are dishonest never get second chance once they tell lie to people. It happens because people think that they will always be cheated in future by the dishonest person through lots of white lies.

Vocabulary 

Pervasive: existing or spreading everywhere.

Trivial: unimportant; of little value.

Tattling on each other: tell something bad that another person has done.

Mislead: a cover that hides the way someone or something really is.

Venner: the condition of thinking about only one thing.

Relentless: continuing without stopping or loseing strength.

Finely honed: sharpened; perfected.

Conceal: hide something carefully. 

Preoccupation: exaggerated; overly important.

Instrusive: affecting someone's privete life in an annoying way.

Erosion: the gradual reduction or wearing down something. 

Inflated: make someone believe something that is not true

Grammar

If you are certain about something that means you are sure, but it is important to keep in mind you can be certain in both the positive and negative. 

A person who is 100 percent sure uses the verb be, as in, "I am sick."

If they are mostly sure, say 95 percent, they will use the modal must, as in, "I must be sick."

When speakers are about 50 percent sure, they will use the modals may, might, or could; as in "I may be sick. I might be sick. I could be sick."