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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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pandemic | n: an outbreak of a disease that affects many people over a very wide area | |
nonprofit | adj: not established for commercial profit | |
hybrid | adj: composed of different elements or mixed characters | |
labor | n: productive work, especially physical work done for wages; the people who do manual or physical work in a country or company for wage; (verb) to work hard or to strive and make an effort to reach a goal | |
workforce | n: all the people who work in a company, industry, country, etc. | |
rely | v: to require a specific thing or the assistance and support of someone or something to continue, run properly, or succeed. | |
elderly | adj: (a polite word for) old | |
terrify | v: to frighten someone very much | |
childcare | n: a service involving care for other people’s children | |
supplement | n: something that is added to something else to make it better or complete it | |
unpaid | adj: not yet paid; without payment | |
vanish | v: disappear or stop being present or existing suddenly and completely | |
recover | v: to return to a former condition, health, mind, or strength | |
statistics | n: the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data | |
downshift | v: to switch from a financially rewarding but stressful career or lifestyle to a less stressful, lower-paying, but more fulfilling one; to change to a lower gear in a vehicle | |
inconsistent | adj: not remaining constant or in agreement | |
structure | n: the way of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts, or a complex thing constructed of many parts | |
barnstorm | v: to travel quickly through an area and make political speeches to gain people’s votes, support, attention, etc. | |
lean | adj: having a noticeably small amount of body fat; (verb) to bend or move from a straight to a sloping posture | |
sentimental | adj: connected with or resulting from someone’s emotions, rather than reason or realism | |
mentor | n: a person who helps and advises a younger or less experienced person over time, usually at work or school | |
sponsor | v: to provide funds for a particular event, program, individual, etc. as a way of advertising | |
industrialize | v: to organize the production of something into an industry | |
schedule | n: a list of planned activities, tasks, or things that must be completed showing when they are intended to happen or be done | |
balance | n: a condition in which everything has the same weight or force; something left after other parts have been taken away | |
frank | adj: honest and sincere; open and candid in expression | |
abortion | n: the intentional termination of a pregnancy at an early stage | |
structural | adj: associated with the way on construction or organization of anything | |
conversation | n: an informal talk between two or more people to exchange their views, ideas, information, etc. | |
reconcile | v: to find a way of dealing with two or more ideas, needs, etc. that are opposed to each other to agree and coexist | |
identity | n: the fact of being who or what somebody or something is; the features, emotions, or ideas that distinguish persons from one another | |
caretaker | n: a person employed to take care of a large building such as a school and who deals with the cleaning, repairs, etc.; a person employed to look after a house or land while the owner is away | |
obvious | adj: easy to see, discover or understand | |
affordable | adj: not expensive and able to pay | |
woe | n: significant problems or troubles; great unhappiness | |
closure | n: the situation that a company, organization, etc. has ceased operations permanently | |
investigate | v: to conduct a systematic or formal inquiry to identify and evaluate the facts of a crime, problem, statement, etc. to establish the truth | |
policymaker | n: a person in charge of or involved in developing action plans for a political party, business, etc. | |
ramification | n: the act or process of branching out or dividing into branches | |
dramatically | adv: in a very impressive manner | |
globe | n: the earth or world, mainly used to emphasize its vastness | |
perspective | n: a confident attitude toward something; a particular style of thinking about something | |
automated | adj: carried out by machines or computers to replace or decrease human labor | |
breadwinner | n: the member of a family who earns money to support the others | |
president | n: the leader of a republic, for example, the US; the person in charge of the organization such as a company, university, club, etc. | |
legislation | n: a law or a set of laws suggested and then passed by a parliament, or the act of making or enacting laws | |
tenet | n: one of the fundamental ideas or beliefs upon which a theory or broader group of views is founded | |
expire | v: to come to the end of the period of validity of a document, authorization, agreement, etc. | |
bail | n: the temporary release of an accused person awaiting trial in exchange for a monetary deposit to ensure their appearance in court | |
entrepreneur | n: an individual who creates or invests in one or more businesses, especially when this involves taking financial risks | |
devastating | adj: causing a great deal of destruction or damage | |
congress | n: a formal meeting of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties, or other groups | |
contemplate | v: to think about a possible future action or to think about something for a long time thoughtfully | |
elect | v: to choose someone for a specific position by voting for them; to decide or choose to do something | |
innovate | v: to introduce new methods, ideas, or products | |
resignation | n: an act of giving up or resigning from a job or office | |
subsidize | v: to pay part of the cost of something to support an organization, activity, etc. financially | |
shift | n: a slight transition in position, direction, or trend | |
lift | v: to raise something to a higher position or level; to pick up something or somebody and move them to a different position | |
emotional | adj: relating to people’s feelings | |
allyship | n: the quality or practice of helping and supporting groups of people who are treated badly or unfairly and marginalized to ensure their fundamental rights and ability to be happy and successful in society | |
session | n: a formal meeting or series of meetings for the execution of a particular group’s functions; a period spent doing a particular activity | |
compensation | n: something especially money, given or received as payment or reparation for a service or loss or injury | |
bunch | n: a grouping of several similar things which are growing or fastened together | |
promote | v: to encourage or persuade people to like, buy, use, do, or support something; to raise someone to a higher position or rank | |
committed | adj: willing to put in a lot of effort, time, and energy into something; firmly believing in something | |
employer | n: a person or organization that pays workers to work for them | |
stick | v: to put something, usually a sharp object, into something; to restrict yourself to doing or using one certain thing and not change; (noun) a thin piece of wood or other material | |
transparency | n: the condition or quality of being easy to see through | |
gender | n: the range of characteristics of femininity and masculinity and differentiating between them, especially when considering social and cultural differences rather than differences in biology | |
gap | n: a conspicuous disparity or difference separates something such as a figure, people, their opinions, situation, etc. | |
translate | v: to convert or change words into another language | |
algorithm | n: a set of rules or rigorous instructions typically used to solve a specific problem or to perform a computation | |
moth | n: an insect with wings similar to a butterfly that travels at night and is attracted to light | |
penalty | n: a punishment for violating a law, rule, or contract | |
zookeeper | n: a person who works in a zoo and takes care of the animals | |
suppose | v: to think that something is likely to be actual or possible | |
ceiling | n: a room’s top interior surface | |
expense | n: the money, time, or effort incurred or required for something | |
offset | v: to compensate for or counterbalance one influence against an opposing influence | |
subsidy | n: money paid by a government or an organization as part of the cost of something to aid or encourage it to happen | |
emergency | n: a sudden unforeseen crisis usually involving danger that requires immediate action | |
ally | n: a country that has officially agreed to assist and support another country, particularly in the event of a war | |
attrition | n: a process of weakening someone or something, especially an enemy, by continuously attacking or causing issues for them | |
retain | v: to keep or continue to possess or maintain something | |
talent | n: a natural ability to be good at something; someone who has a natural ability to be good at something | |
strike | v: to wallop somebody or something with the hand, fist, or weapon; to have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | |
essentially | adv: relating to the essential features or concepts of anything | |
equity | n: the value of the shares issued by a company | |
elective | adj: of or using in elections; not compulsory | |
participate | v: to take part in something | |
ultimate | adj: furthest or highest in degree or order | |
motivate | v: to make someone want to do something, especially something that requires tremendous work and effort | |
tide | n: the cyclical rise and fall of sea level caused by the moon’s gravitational pull | |
radical | adj: relating to the essential aspects of anything; far beyond the norm, mainly used of opinions and actions | |
obsess | v: to fill the mind of someone continually so that one can’t think of anything else | |
resist | v: to refuse to accept something and attempt to prevent it from happening | |
norm | n: something that is regarded as usual, typical, or standard | |
alignment | n: an arrangement in which two or more elements are placed in a straight line or parallel to each other | |
nonbinary | adj: someone who does not identify as a man or a woman; not relating to, composed of, or including only two things | |
hustle | v: to cause someone to move quickly by pushing them in a rough, aggressive way | |
heal | v: to make a wound or injury to become well again | |
empathy | n: the ability to share another person’s feelings or experiences by imagining that person’s situation | |
exhausted | adj: extremely tired | |
convince | v: to persuade someone or make someone believe that something is true | |
convert | v: to have a talk with someone; (adjective) reversed in order, relation, or action | |
provoke | v: to stimulate or give rise to a particular reaction or have a particular effect |