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.

Articles

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/14/university.shooting/index.html

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1713178.00.html

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/13/kimchi.space/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/11/skorea.landmark/index.html