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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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possibility | n: a chance that something may happen or be true | |
AI | n: (abbreviation for artificial intelligence) the theory and development of computer systems capable of doing activities that would ordinarily need human intelligence, such as object recognition, speech recognition, decision-making, and language translation | |
govern | v: to legally control and direct a country, city, group of people, etc. and be responsible for introducing new laws, organizing and maintaining public services | |
translate | v: to convert or change words into another language | |
misinformation | n: information that is false or inaccurate, or the act of giving wrong information, especially deliberately | |
tsunami | n: a huge ocean wave caused by an earthquake, volcano, or other disturbance | |
convincing | adj: able to make someone believe that something is true | |
narrative | n: a story or a description of a series of events or process of telling a story | |
collusion | n: secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, especially for a deceitful or fraudulent purpose | |
alien | n: a person who comes from a different country, race, or group; a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere | |
backstage | adj: relating to or situated in the area behind the stage of a theater, concert, or other performance venues; relating to the private or hidden aspects of something, such as politics, business, or personal life | |
influence | n: the ability to affect someone’s or something’s character, growth, or behavior, or the effect itself | |
elect | v: to choose someone for a specific position by voting for them; to decide or choose to do something | |
threaten | v: to utter intentions of injury or punishment against someone | |
democracy | n: a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation, or to choose governing officials to do so | |
deliberately | adv: done in an intentional or slow and careful manner | |
fluid | n: a substance that can flow and is not solid | |
grammar | n: the set of structural constraints on speakers’ or writers’ composition of clauses, phrases, and words | |
editorial | adj: relating to the expression of opinions or interpretations in the media | |
harassment | n: the act of repeatedly annoying, tormenting, or persecuting someone in a way that is threatening or unwelcome, often relating to issues of race, gender, or other identities | |
scandal | n: an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage | |
claim | v: to assert that something is true; to demand or request something as one’s own; to lay legal or moral right to something; (noun) a demand or assertion of a right or something that one believes to be true | |
fake | adj: not genuine; fraudulent or counterfeit | |
citation | n: words or lines taken from speech, written passages, legal precedent, etc.; an official or formal notice of a person’s good conduct or work, given as a recognition | |
musky | adj: having a strong, earthy smell that is often reminiscent of musk or moss | |
tweet | n: a short, high sound made by a small bird; a message sent using Twitter, the social media application | |
database | n: a large amount of data stored in a computer system in such a way that it can be searched and updated easily | |
statistics | n: the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data | |
involve | v: to include or affect someone or something as a necessary part of something else | |
relation | n: the way two persons or groups of people feel and act toward one another | |
embody | v: to represent or exemplify something; to give tangible form to an abstract idea | |
autocomplete | n: a feature in software or search engines that suggests and completes words or phrases as a user types into a text field, used to speed up the process of typing and to reduce errors | |
predict | v: to state beforehand that something will happen in the future, mainly based on knowledge or experience | |
probable | adj: likely to happen or likely to be true | |
aggregate | n: a collection or sum of different things often used to describe a total or combination of items | |
plausible | adj: seeming reasonable or likely to be true, and therefore convincing | |
bias | n: a strong feeling in favor of or against one group of people, an idea, or thing, often not based on fair judgment | |
miller | n: a person who operates a mill (= a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing), especially a grain mill | |
constantly | adv: all the time | |
reinforcement | n: the act of strengthening, supporting, or consolidating; something that serves to strengthen or support | |
flavor | n: the taste sensation produced by a substance in the mouth | |
fashion | n: a style that is popular at a particular time or place; the state of being popular | |
replace | v: to take the place of something | |
engineer | n: a person whose job is designing, building, or maintaining something such as machines, structures, or software | |
chemical | adj: relating to or connected with chemistry; | |
suspicious | adj: making you feel that someone has done something wrong, illegal, or dishonest without any evidence | |
bot | n: a computer program or software application that is capable of performing automated tasks, often on the internet; a type of electronic device that provides autonomous service or assistance to users | |
visual | adj: relating to seeing or sight | |
impair | v: to damage something or make it weaker or worse | |
bunch | n: a grouping of several similar things which are growing or fastened together | |
volume | n: the amount of space occupied by an object or substance; the magnitude of sound | |
scam | n: a clever and dishonest, and often illegal, business scheme; a fraud | |
intelligence | n: the ability to learn, comprehend, or make judgments or conclusions based on reasons | |
flexibility | n: the quality of changing or being changed easily according to new conditions or situations | |
mitigate | v: to make less severe or less intense; to alleviate or lessen the adverse effects of something | |
hostile | adj: unfriendly or aggressively opposed | |
opposition | n: the act of disagreeing or resisting; the state of strong disagreement | |
symbol | n: something visible that is used to represent something else | |
neural | adj: of or relating to a nerve or the nervous system that includes the brain | |
logic | n: a way of thinking or reasoning conducted or evaluated by strict validity principles; the study of correct reasoning or good arguments | |
brain | n: the organ inside the head that is responsible for one’s movement, thought, memory, and feeling | |
ubiquitous | adj: being or existing everywhere at once | |
software | n: a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data for doing particular computational jobs | |
recognition | n: the action or process of recognizing or being recognized, especially by remembering; an agreement that something is true or legal | |
synthesis | n: the combination of components or elements to form a more complex whole; the creation of something new through combining parts or elements | |
unique | adj: being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else | |
strength | n: the quality or state of being physically, or sometimes mentally, strong | |
represent | v: to speak, act, or be present on behalf of another person or group; to form or constitute | |
custom-build | v: to create or construct a product, often a computer or other electronic device, to the specific requirements of an individual customer; to build something according to a specified design or configuration | |
broad | adj: very wide; general | |
handle | v: to deal with a situation, problem, or strong emotion | |
discovery | n: the act or process of finding information, a place, or an object, or learning about something that was previously not known | |
frank | adj: honest and sincere; open and candid in expression | |
rival | n: a person, company, or thing competing with others for the same thing or in the same area | |
rivalry | n: competition or opposition between people or groups, especially in sports or business | |
persist | v: to continue to do and refuse to stop something despite difficulties or opposition, even if it appears unreasonable | |
reliable | adj: worthy of being relied on; trustworthy | |
emphasis | n: particular importance or significance that is given to something | |
explicit | adj: stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt | |
reconciliation | n: the restoration of cordial or friendly relations; getting two things to correspond | |
absolutely | adv: without restriction or limitation; completely or utterly | |
cognitive | adj: of or relating to mental processes of understanding | |
neuroscience | n: the scientific study of the function, structure, and disorder of the brain and the nervous system | |
distinction | n: a difference or contrast between similar things or people | |
probabilistic | adj: characterized by the influence of chance or probability; involving the use of statistical models or methods to estimate likelihoods or risks | |
intuition | n: the ability to understand or know something without reasoning or evidence; a feeling that guides a person to do or believe something without fully understanding why | |
deliberate | adj: done with full consciousness of nature and effects rather than by accident | |
incentive | n: something, such as a punishment, reward, etc., that encourages a person to do something | |
advertise | v: to draw attention to something such as a product, service, or event in public to encourage people to buy, use, or attend it | |
precision | n: the quality or condition of being exact and accurate | |
individual | n: a single person or thing, as distinct from a group | |
corporation | n: a large company or group of companies that are controlled together by law as a single unit | |
uncertain | adj: not being sure of something; not being able to choose | |
dual | adj: having two parts, aspects, or elements | |
nuclear | adj: of or relating to or constituting the nucleus of an atom; deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy | |
profit | n: money that is earned in business or by selling things after deducting the costs involved | |
neutral | adj: not helping or assisting either side in a conflict, argument, etc. | |
stakeholder | n: a person or group that has an interest or concern in something, especially a business | |
emphasize | v: to give or show particular importance to something | |
critic | n: someone who expresses opinions about the quality of books, music, etc. | |
pharmaceutical | adj: relating to the production and selling of the medical drugs | |
phase | n: any stage in a series of events, change, or development | |
roll | v: to move in a particular direction by turning over and over or from side to side | |
fundamental | adj: forming an essential base or core from which everything else develops or is affected | |
contribute | v: to give something, especially money or goods, to provide or achieve something together with other people | |
confident | adj: feeling sure about your abilities or qualities or having trust in people, plans, or the future | |
survey | n: an investigation of the opinions, behavior, etc. of a particular group of people, made by asking people questions | |
release | v: to set free or allow to escape from confinement | |
dramatic | adj: very sudden, very excellent, or full of action and excitement | |
slide | v: to move or cause to move smoothly along a surface without interruption | |
sinister | adj: giving the impression that something bad or evil is happening or will happen | |
prompt | v: to make someone decide to or try to do something, or to make something happen | |
jailbreak | n: an escape from prison; the act of removing restrictions or limitations on a device or software, especially a mobile phone or tablet, to access additional features or apps that were previously locked or unavailable | |
conspiracy | n: a secret agreement between two or more people to perform something harmful or illegal | |
meme | n: a cultural idea, value, or pattern of behavior that is passed from one generation to another by imitation rather than genetic means; (as an Internet meme) an image, a video, a piece of text, etc. that is remixed, copied, and circulated in a shared cultural experience online | |
fictional | adj: imaginary and not real; of or related to literary fiction | |
guardrail | n: a sturdy metal or wooden railing or barrier placed beside a road, bridge, or other dangerous areas to prevent vehicles or people from going over the edge; a protective barrier or railing used to prevent falls or accidents | |
evil | adj: profoundly immoral, cruel, and wicked; having or exerting a harmful effect on people | |
evident | adj: apparent to the mind, senses, or judgment | |
slightly | adv: in a small degree or extent; a little | |
mainstream | n: the ideas, opinions, beliefs, etc., that are considered normal or accepted by most people | |
ordinary | adj: not different, exceptional, or unexpected in any way, especially in quality, ability, size, or degree | |
troll | n: a person who makes inflammatory or off-topic posts on the internet; a supernatural creature often portrayed as a giant or dwarf that lives in isolated areas; (verb) to fish by dragging a baited line through the water behind a boat | |
efficient | adj: performing at the highest level of productivity with the least wasted effort or resources; capable of achieving maximum output with minimum wasted effort, time, or materials | |
combine | v: to join or merge to form a single thing or group | |
tradition | n: a belief, custom, or way of doing something that has been passed down from generation to generation within a group or society | |
aspect | n: one part or feature of a situation, problem, subject, etc. | |
prediction | n: the act of predicting the future by reasoning; a statement made about the future | |
wisdom | n: the quality of being wise, or the ability to use your knowledge and experience to make sensible decisions | |
gadget | n: a small tool or device that is useful for a particular job | |
incorporate | v: to include something as a part of a larger entity | |
entity | n: something that exists independently and has its own identity | |
grain | n: wheat or any other small hard seeds used as a food; a relatively small granular particle of a substance | |
religion | n: a deep conviction in a supernatural power that controls human destiny | |
Jewish | adj: of or relating to people whose traditional religion is Judaism | |
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. | |
vary | v: to become different in terms of size, shape, etc. | |
stake | n: a share or financial investment in something such as a business; a wooden or metal post set up to mark something | |
regulation | n: an official rule made and maintained by a government or some other authority; the act of controlling or directing something according to a rule | |
complicated | adj: involving a lot of different things or parts in a way that is difficult to understand or analyze | |
sentimental | adj: connected with or resulting from someone’s emotions, rather than reason or realism | |
affiliation | n: the act of joining or associating with a particular group or organization; a connection or relationship with a particular group or organization | |
argue | v: to express differing opinions or points of view, often in a heated or contentious manner; to present a case or reasoning to persuade or convince others | |
nation | n: a large organized community of people living in a particular country or region and having a particular culture | |
spectacular | adj: striking or impressive to look at or in performance or achievement | |
philanthropy | n: the practice of voluntarily helping the poor, especially by giving money | |
structure | n: the way of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts, or a complex thing constructed of many parts | |
sponsor | v: to provide funds for a particular event, program, individual, etc. as a way of advertising | |
workshop | n: a place where people work, especially one where they do manual or practical work; a brief intensive course for a small group | |
conversation | n: an informal talk between two or more people to exchange their views, ideas, information, etc. |