2015/09/24

Week Two

a. vocabulary

   Unit 1

1. detriment - the act of causing harm or damage; something that causes harm or damage
2. dexterous - skillful with your hands; skilfully done
3. discretion - 1.The quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offence or                         revealing confidential information                                                                                               2.The freedom to decide what should be done in a particular situation
4. facetious - Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant
5. gregarious - (of people) liking to be with other people, or (especially of animals) living in groups
6. optimum -  best; most likely to bring success or advantage
7. ostentatious - adjective    too obviously showing your money, possessions or power, in an attempt to make other people notice and admire you
8. scrupulous - adjective   extremely honest, or doing everything correctly and exactly as it should be done
9. sensory - adjective  connected with the physical senses of touch, smell, taste, hearing and seeing
10. vicarious - adjective   experienced as a result of watching, listening to or reading about the activities of other people, rather than by doing the activities yourself

   Unit 2

1. collaborate - 
2. verb   
3. to work with someone else for a special purpose
5. despondent - adjective     unhappy and with no hope or enthusiasm because you feel you are in a difficult situation
6. instigate - verb    to cause an event or situation to happen by making a set of actions or a formal process begin
7. resilient - adjective   able to quickly return to a previous good condition
8. retrospect - noun    thinking now about something in the past
9. rudimentary - adjective      

          (1)basic

          (2)describes methods, equipment, systems, etc. that are simple and not very well developed

     7.  scoff - verb     to laugh and speak about a person or idea in a way which shows that you think               they are stupid or silly

     8.  squelch - verb   to make a sucking sound like the one produced when you are walking on soft             wet ground

     9.  venerate - verb  to honor or very much respect a person or thing

   10.  zealot - noun  a person who has very strong opinions about something, and tries to make other             people have them too