Vocab / sentences

1. circumstance- a condition, fact, or event accompanying, conditioning, or determining another: an essential or inevitable concomitant b: a subordinate or accessory fact or detail / The weather is a circumstance to be taken into consideration

2. undergraduate- a student at a college or university who has not received a first and especially a bachelor's degree / He is a under graduated student.

3. coalition- a government formed by two or more political parties working together. / A coalition between students and teachers was formed.

4. incentive- something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action / I gave him an incentive to do the work

5. Wrangling- 1: to dispute angrily or peevishly 2: to engage in argument or controversy. / I wrangled with a friend about a soccer game of yesterday.

6. Postdoctoral- being beyond the doctoral level: a: of or relating to advanced academic or professional work beyond a doctor's degree b: engaged in such work / He is in postdoctoral process.

7. Multidisciplinary- composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise / The huge company is multidisciplinary.

8. adolescent- growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful. / Adolescent age is the most important.

9. appropriation- anything appropriated for a special purpose, esp. money / an act of a legislature authorizing money to be paid from the treasury for a specified use. / He made an appropriation of $100,000 for a car.

10. Bureaucratic- of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a bureaucracy or a bureaucrat / I hate bureaucratic government of the country.

Vocab / sentences

1. Fatality- a: the quality or state of causing death or destruction b: the quality or condition of being destined for disaster / Traffic accidents cause thousands of fatalities every year.

2. Briefed- to give sb information or instructions about sth / The minister has been fully briefed on what questions to expect.

3. Decline- a: to become weaker, smaller or less good b: to refuse, usually politely / I declined a gift with thanks.

4. Witness- attestation of a fact or event / I supported his witness.

5. Consumption- a: a progressive wasting away of the body especially from pulmonary tuberculosis b: TUBERCULOSIS / We don't plan our household consumption.

6. Attributes- 1: an inherent characteristic; also: an accidental quality / Each person has a particular physical attribute.

7. Blast- a: a violent gust of wind b: the effect or accompaniment (as sleet) of such a gust / Blast was very strong last night.

8. Paste- a: a dough that contains a considerable proportion of fat and is used for pastry crust or fancy rolls b: a confection made by evaporating fruit with sugar or by flavoring a gelatin, starch, or gum Arabic preparation c: a smooth food product made by evaporation or grinding d: a shaped dough prepared from semolina, farina, or wheat flour / I made many pastes to make doughnuts.

9. Cinnamon- a: any of several Asian trees of the laurel family b: an aromatic spice prepared from the dried inner bark of a cinnamon / The tree smells like cinnamon

10. Preservation- to keep safe from injury, harm, or destruction: PROTECT / Soong-rae-gate was in good preservation.

11. Dictate- to give dictation / He dictated a letter to a secretary.

12. Confess- to tell or make known / He confessed his crime to his son.
13. Grievance- obsolete: SUFFERING, DISTRESS / I have a grievance against a teacher.

14. Din- a loud continued noise; especially: a welter of discordant sounds / I heard the din of machinery.

15. Patchy- marked by, consisting of, or diversified with patches / His old jacket is patchy.

16. Slumber- to sleep lightly / when I do homework, I always slumber.

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Vocab / sentences

1. Obligatory- 1: binding in law or conscience 2: relating to or enforcing an obligation / Paying taxes is obligatory.

2. awareness- having or showing realization, perception, or knowledge / Awareness about the society of today is necessary.

3. emancipation- the act or process of emancipating / Many people fought for emancipation of their country.

4. payoff- a: PROFIT REWARD b: RETRIBUTION c: the act or occasion of receiving money or material gain especially as compensation or as a bribe / I forgot the date of payoff.

5. Fierce- a: violently hostile or aggressive in temperament b: given to fighting or killing / I was running away from a fierce dog.

6. Parlous- a: dangerously shrewd or cunning b: full of danger or risk / The war between two countries was parlous.

7. Accommodate- a: to make fit, suitable, or congruous, b: to provide with something desired, needed, or suited / He accommodates his friends.

8. swath- a: a row of cut grain or grass left by a scythe or mowing machine b: the sweep of a scythe or a machine in mowing or the path cut in one course / The swath made a road.

9. repository- a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored / I found a repository of ancestors.

10. Scrutiny- a searching study, inquiry, or inspection. / Scrutiny is in progress because there was no clear evidence.

11. conscious- perceiving, apprehending, or noticing with a degree of controlled thought or observation / He is a conscious liar.

12. Lavish- expending or bestowing profusely: PRODIGAL / She is lavish of her money.

13. alumnus- a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university / I went to an alumni association of my high school.

14. Parochial- of or relating to a church parish ; of or relating to a parish as a unit of local government / The town is parochial.

15. Enrich- to make rich or richer esp. by the addition or increase of some desirable quality, attribute, or ingredient / The president enriched a nation by trade.

16. expenditure- the act or process of expending / An expenditure of $100000 on the new car is completed last month.

17. Inflation- an act of inflating: a state of being inflated: as a: distension b: a hypothetical extremely brief period of very rapid expansion of the universe immediately following the big bang c: empty pretentiousness: POMPOSITY / The war caused vicious inflation.

18. Commission- a: a formal written warrant granting the power to perform various acts or duties b: a certificate conferring military rank and authority / I have some commissions for you.

19. Stunning- causing astonishment or disbelief / The explosion was stunning.

20. priority- a: the quality or state of being prior b: precedence in date or position of publication / I have a priority to buy the soccer game ticket.

Vocab / Sentences

1. Lopsided- 1: leaning to one side 2: lacking in balance, symmetry, or proportion / An old building is lopsided

2. Clasp- a holding or enveloping with or as if with the hands or arms / She clasped the tennis racket even if she got hurt.

3. Sway- a: the action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed: an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion b: an inclination or deflection caused by or as if by swaying / The branches of the trees were swaying in the wind.

4. Dedicate- to devote to the worship of a divine being; specifically: to set apart (a church) to sacred uses with solemn rites; b: to set apart to a definite use / He dedicated his life to fighting corruption.

5. Aggressive- a: tending toward or exhibiting aggression b: marked by combative readiness / Most people don’t like aggressive people.

6. Refinance- to renew or reorganize the financing of / He refinanced money to repay a debt.

7. Backlash- a: a sudden violent backward movement or reaction b: the play between adjacent movable parts (as in a series of gears); also: the jar caused by this when the parts are put into action / The backlash against the new policy was very violent.

8. Avalanche- a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice / A house was destroyed by a huge avalanche.

9. elsewhere- in or to another place / He lived elsewhere.

10. gorge- often used with rise to indicate revulsion accompanied by a sensation of constriction; B: a narrow passage through land; especially: a narrow steep-walled canyon or part of a canyon / He was standing between two gorges.

11. subsequent- following in time, order, or place/ The subsequent meals became very light.

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Vocab / Sentences

1. Eternity- the quality or state of being eternal / Our peace should be eternal.

2. Caucus- a closed meeting of a group of persons belonging to the same political party or faction usually to select candidates or to decide on policy / The caucus will be held tomorrow.

3. Nominate- 1: DESIGNATE NAME; 2 a: to appoint or propose for appointment to an office or place b: to propose as a candidate for election to office c: to propose for an honor / He nominates Obama for president.

4. Acclamation- a loud eager expression of approval, praises, or assents / I was received with acclamations.

5. Pollster- one that conducts a poll or compiles data obtained by a poll / He was appointed as to the position of pollster.

6. Meanwhile- 1: during the intervening time 2: at the same time / He was playing computer games. Meanwhile, I studied.

7. Wield- 1: to deal successfully with: MANAGE 2: to handle (as a tool) especially effectively / He wields a pen.

8. Extraordinary- a: going beyond what is usual, regular, or customary b: exceptional to a very marked extent c: NONRECURRING / He has extraordinary power.

9. Fluid- a substance (as a liquid or gas) tending to flow or conform to the outline of its container / Water is fluid.

10. Reel- a: to turn or move round and round b: to be in a whirl C: to behave in a violent disorderly manner / He reeled after he got drunk.

11. Gridlock- a traffic jam in which a grid of intersecting streets is so completely congested that no vehicular movement is possible / The gridlock in the morning is a very serious problem.

12. Byword- 1: a proverbial saying: PROVERB 2 a: one that personifies a type b: one that is noteworthy or notorious / My grandfather always said the byword, "easy come easy go."

13. Optimism- a doctrine that this world is the best possible world / My friend has great optimism.

14. Brilliance- the quality or state of being brilliant / His gems were brilliant.

15. Mire- a: to cause to stick fast in or as if in mire b: to hamper or hold back as if by mire: ENTANG / The cheater was mired in a difficult situation.

16. Poisonous- 1: DESTRUCTIVE HARMFUL 2: having the properties or effects of poison : VENOMOUS 3: SPITEFUL MALICIOUS / I caught a poisonous snake.

17. Liberal- a: of, relating to, or based on the liberal arts b: archaic: of or befitting a man of free birth / I need a liberal revolution.

18. Knottier- marked by or full of knots; especially: so full of difficulties and complications as to be likely to defy solution / The oil problem is knotty

19. Particular- of, relating to, or being a single person or thing / Every people have particular characteristics.

20. Deny- 1: to declare untrue 2: to refuse to admit or acknowledge / He denied having said so.

21. Investigate- to observe or study by close examination and systematic inquiry / I investigated the votes in New Jersey.

Vocab / Sentences

1. Exploited- to make productive use of / They exploited the mountain mine.

2. Whopping- extremely large; also: EXTRAORDINARY INCREDIBLE / The car is whopping.

3. consumption- a: a progressive wasting away of the body especially from pulmonary tuberculosis b: TUBERCULOSIS C: the utilization of economic goods in the satisfaction of wants or in the process of production resulting chiefly in their destruction, deterioration, or transformation / We don't plan our household consumption.

4. Aquaculturist- the cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) especially for food / He works in aquaculture.

5. crustacean- any of a large class (Crustacea) of mostly aquatic mandibulate arthropods that have a chitinous or calcareous and chitinous exoskeleton, a pair of often much modified appendages on each segment, and two pairs of antennae and that include the lobsters, shrimps, crabs, wood lice, water fleas, and barnacles / Crabs are crustaceans.

6. Parasitic- A: a person who exploits the hospitality of the rich and earns welcome by flattery B: an organism living in, with, or on another organism in parasitism / The fish is parasitic in warm water.

7. tilapia- any of numerous African freshwater cichlid fishes often raised for food / The scientists began to study tilapia.

8. toxic- containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation; extremely harsh, malicious, or harmful / Many soldiers died because of toxic smoke.

9. terrestrial- a: of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants b: mundane in scope or character / I firmly believe that the unidentified object was not terrestrial.

10. proclivity- an inclination or predisposition toward something; especially : a strong inherent inclination toward something objectionable / I have a proclivity to colds.

11. Eschew- to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds: SHUN / I eschew bad students who smoke.

12. prejudice- injury or damage resulting from some judgment or action of another in disregard of one's rights; especially: detriment to one's legal rights or claims / I am prejudiced with regards to race.

13. Equated- a: to make equal: EQUALIZE b: to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard or obtain a correct result / When I solved the equation, I equated the formulas.

14. Arbitrary- a: not restrained or limited in the exercise of power: ruling by absolute authority b: marked by or resulting from the unrestrained and often tyrannical exercise of power / He established an arbitrary government.

15. infallible- never making mistakes or being wrong. / I remember infallible memory.

16. godfather- a man who sponsors a person at baptism / He became a godfather to the child.

17. Manipulate- to use, move or control something with skill. / He manipulates the levers very well.

18. colleague- an associate in a profession or in a civil or ecclesiastical office / He is the best colleague in my office.

19. puberty- 1: the condition of being or the period of becoming first capable of reproducing sexually marked by maturing of the genital organs, development of secondary sex characteristics, and in the human and in higher primates by the first occurrence of menstruation in the female 2: the age at which puberty occurs often construed legally as 14 in boys and 12 in girls / He is going to through puberty.

20. Accumulate- to gather or pile up especially little by little: AMASS / The king accumulated debts because of many wars.

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