Saturday, February 23, 2008

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.

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