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This isn’t an official article..at least for myself..
just put some important notes here...
because I forget to bring my floppy disk to schooltoday.
The explanations are from dictionary.com


*worth one’s weight in gold

:Very valuable,
as in John’s been extremely helpful; he’s worth his weight in gold,
or That tractor’s been worth its weight in gold.
This metaphoric term dates from Roman times and appeared in English by the early 1300s.

*fugue n.
:Music. An imitative polyphonic composition in which a theme or themes are stated successively in all of the voices of the contrapuntal structure.
Psychiatry. A pathological amnesiac condition during which one is apparently conscious of one’s actions but has no recollection of them after returning to a normal state. This condition, usually resulting from severe mental stress, may persist for as long as several months.

* stuck-up adj.
:snobbish, conceited, arrogant

* take a whizz
(Vulgar Slang)
: To urinate.



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The followings are from Mr. Mitchell’s class notes.

*re:
= regarding/ about

*meg
=mega

*feed
: The innate-built mechanism is like the internet that let people get information from the world

* brittle
: fragile