week twelve
- Ivy League : The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group.[2] The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. The term Ivy League has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism .
- diarrhea : an illness in which waste matter is emptied from the bowels much more frequently than normal, and in liquid form
- vice : evil or immoral behavior; an evil or immoral quality in somebody’s character
- virtue : a particular good quality or habit
- S O P : Standard Operation Procedure, is used in a variety of different contexts, including healthcare, aviation, engineering, education, industry, military and civil servants.
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Vocabulary :
unit 19
- chide : to criticize or blame somebody because they have done something wrong
- coalition : a group formed by people from several different groups, especially political ones, agreeing to work together for a particular purpose
- commensurate : matching something in size, importance, quality, etc.
- connotation : an idea suggested by a word in addition to its main meaning
- diabolic : extremely bad or annoying
- dilapidated : (of furniture and buildings) old and in very bad condition
- integral : being an essential part of something
- noxious : poisonous or harmful
- scenario : a description of how things might happen in the future
- yen : a strong desire
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unit 20
- atrophy : the condition of losing flesh, muscle, strength, etc. in a part of the body because it does not have enough blood
- deplore : deplore something (formal) to strongly disapprove of something and criticize it, especially publicly
- deprivation : the fact of not having something that you need, like enough food, money or a home; the process that causes this
- exacerbate : exacerbate something (formal) to make something worse, especially a disease or problem
- imperative : very important and needing immediate attention or action
- mitigate : mitigate something (formal) to make something less harmful, serious, etc.
- objective : something that you are trying to achieve
- panacea : something that will solve all the problems of a particular situation
- unprecedented : that has never happened, been done or been known before
- utilitarian : designed to be useful and practical rather than attractive
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