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upstate | adj: relating to or located in the region that is located in the northern part of a state or country, particularly in the United States | |
communal | adj: belonging to or used by a group rather than individuals; for common use | |
economy | n: the system by which a country or region produces manages, and distributes goods and services, including the money and finances involved in these activities; (of an airline) the lowest-priced, most basic option for seating in commercial travel | |
discontent | n: dissatisfaction or unhappiness with a situation or condition; a feeling of displeasure or disapproval | |
abuse | n: the use of something in an incorrect or harmful manner | |
nuclear | adj: of or relating to or constituting the nucleus of an atom; deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy | |
basis | n: the most important facts, ideas, or events from which something is developed; the way how things are organized or arranged | |
romantic | adj: of or relating to love or a sexual relationship | |
heterosexual | adj: attracted to individuals of the opposite sex | |
spouse | n: a person’s husband, wife, or partner in marriage | |
unmarried | adj: not married; single; having not entered into the legal or socially recognized state of marriage | |
citizenship | n: the status of being a member of a particular country | |
insure | v: to provide coverage in the event of loss or damage | |
inherit | v: to receive money, property, or a title from someone after they have died | |
argument | n: a set of statements or reasons used to support or refute a proposition or theory; a verbal or physical fight or dispute | |
deprive | v: to take away something from someone | |
gay | adj: homosexual; happy, carefree | |
essential | adj: indispensable; fundamental | |
deny | v: to state that one refuses to admit the existence or truth of something | |
relation | n: the way two persons or groups of people feel and act toward one another | |
disapprove | v: to have or express an unfavorable opinion or judgment about something or someone | |
co-parenting | n: a parent who shares the responsibility of raising a child with another parent, often in cases of divorce, adoption, or surrogacy | |
dedicate | v: to give all of your energy, time, etc., entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; to set apart for a particular purpose or use | |
vision | n: the ability to think about or see the future with imagination and intelligence; the faculty of being able to see | |
expansive | adj: large or wide in extent or scope; friendly and open and willing to talk | |
strengthen | v: to become stronger or more effective; to make someone or something stronger or more effective | |
platonic | adj: (of relationship or emotion) friendly or affectionate but not sexual | |
finance | n: the management of money, credit, banking, and investments, especially by a government or commercial organization; the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets | |
grandparent | n: a parent of one’s father or mother | |
grandchild | n: a child of someone’s son or daughter | |
lesbian | n: a woman who is attracted romantically and sexually to other women | |
polyamory | n: the practice or lifestyle of having multiple romantic or sexual relationships simultaneously with the consent and knowledge of all parties involved | |
committed | adj: willing to put in a lot of effort, time, and energy into something; firmly believing in something | |
advocacy | n: the act of supporting or promoting a particular cause or point of view, often through public campaigning or lobbying | |
facilitate | v: to make something easier or more likely to happen | |
discuss | v: to talk about or examine in detail through conversation or debate; to exchange ideas, opinions, or information on a particular topic | |
intention | n: something you want to do and are going to do | |
align | v: to put or arrange two or more things in a straight line or to form a straight line | |
nonprofit | adj: not established for commercial profit | |
advocate | n: a person who supports or suggests an idea, development, or way of doing something | |
spectrum | n: an ordered array of colors into which a light beam can be split | |
constellation | n: a group of stars that form a recognizable pattern and have a name; a group of related or similar ideas, things, or people | |
core | n: the most essential or fundamental part of something | |
intent | n: a strong determination or attention to do or achieve something; (adjective) having a strong determination to do or achieve something | |
emphasis | n: particular importance or significance that is given to something | |
extended | adj: longer than usual or anticipated | |
relative | adj: considered and evaluated through comparison with something else | |
develop | v: to grow or expand; to improve or refine through a process of progress and refinement, often to achieve greater sophistication or complexity; to elaborate or add detail to something that is in the process of being created | |
emerge | v: to move out of or away from something and become visible | |
industrial | adj: of or relating to or resulting from industry | |
revolution | n: a large-scale attempt to overthrow the government of a country, often using violence or war; | |
homemaking | n: the act or practice of managing a household and taking care of domestic duties such as cooking, cleaning, and organizing; the work or occupation of being a homemaker | |
peak | n: the point to which something or someone is at its strongest, best, or most successful; the pointed top of a mountain | |
affordable | adj: not expensive and able to pay | |
childcare | n: a service involving care for other people’s children | |
zone | n: a specific area, region, or section that is marked off or defined in some way | |
suburb | n: an outlying district or residential area of a city or town, typically comprising middle-class and affluent neighborhoods | |
fictional | adj: imaginary and not real; of or related to literary fiction | |
maternal | adj: relating to or characteristic of a mother; having feelings that are typical of a caring mother towards her child | |
welfare | n: the general health, happiness, and prosperous of a person or group | |
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 | |
unhealthy | adj: not conducive to good health; detrimental to physical or mental well-being | |
evaluate | v: to assess or estimate the quality, significance, quantity, or value of something | |
partnership | n: the state of a cooperative relationship between people or groups, especially in business | |
movement | n: a group of people working together to achieve a shared goal, especially a political, social, or artistic one; the process of moving or being moved, physically or figuratively | |
consistent | adj: always behaving or happening in the same way, or having the same thoughts, standards, etc. | |
stability | n: the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast | |
government | n: the group of people with authority to control a country or state | |
observe | v: to watch or notice something carefully, often to gather information or insights; to take note of something or someone; to celebrate or commemorate a special event or occasion | |
definition | n: a concise explanation of the meaning of a word, phrase, or symbol | |
regardless | adv: not paying attention or considering something or someone even if the situation is bad or there are difficulties | |
biology | n: the scientific study of life and the natural processes of living things | |
decision | n: the act or process of making up someone’s mind about something; a choice or judgment reached after considering options | |
commitment | n: a promise or firm decision to do something or to behave in a certain way | |
involve | v: to include or affect someone or something as a necessary part of something else | |
countless | adj: too numerous to be counted or very many | |
reject | v: to refuse to accept, consider, or use something or someone | |
origin | n: the first existence or beginning of something | |
queer | adj: strange or odd, typically in an interesting or attractive way | |
Christ | n: the man that Christians believe is the prophet and the son of God, and whose life and sermons form the basis for Christianity | |
bisexual | adj: attracted to both men and women; capable of having a romantic or sexual attraction to both men and women | |
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 | |
nonbinary | adj: someone who does not identify as a man or a woman; not relating to, composed of, or including only two things | |
cousin | n: the child of your aunt or uncle | |
diagnose | v: to determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a careful analysis | |
cervical | adj: relating to the neck or the cervix (= the narrow passage forming the lower end of the uterus) | |
cant | n: statements, especially about moral, religious, or political nature that are not sincerely believed by the person making them | |
dupe | v: to deceive or trick someone into believing something that is not true; to cheat or swindle someone; (noun) a person who has been deceived or tricked into believing something that is not true, often by someone who is trying to take advantage of them | |
desperate | adj: feeling or showing a lack of hope and a willingness to do anything because of the problematic situation | |
threaten | v: to utter intentions of injury or punishment against someone | |
sham | n: something that is not as good or true as it seems to be and is intended to deceive people; a person who pretends to be something they are not | |
embarrass | v: to cause someone to feel awkward, worried, or ashamed | |
discovery | n: the act or process of finding information, a place, or an object, or learning about something that was previously not known | |
eager | adj: showing enthusiasm and a strong desire or interest to do something | |
schedule | n: a list of planned activities, tasks, or things that must be completed showing when they are intended to happen or be done | |
coverage | n: the reporting or news of an important event, sports, subject, etc.; the amount, range, area, or quality of something that something provides | |
grief | n: a very great sadness, especially when somebody dies | |
appeal | n: a serious, earnest, or urgent request for money, information, or help; a quality that makes somebody or something attractive or interest | |
administrator | n: a person or organization responsible for managing and directing the affairs of a business, institution, government agency, or other organization; someone who administers, regulates, or supervises | |
necessarily | adv: in an essential manner; in such a way as could not be otherwise | |
pandemic | n: an outbreak of a disease that affects many people over a very wide area | |
embrace | v: to accept something willingly and enthusiastically; (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms as in greeting or affection | |
deserve | v: to be worthy of or entitled to something, especially something good or valuable | |
advance | v: to go or move forward; to develop in a positive way | |
concept | n: an idea or principle associated with something abstract | |
sperm | n: the reproductive cell produced by a man or male animal | |
donor | n: a person or an organization that makes a gift of money, food, supplies, etc. to a cause or fund; in medicine, a person who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person | |
ambiguity | n: the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; the uncertainty of meaning | |
bestie | n: a term of endearment used to describe one’s closest friend, a term that connotes a deep and unbreakable bond between the two friends | |
afford | v: to have enough money or time to be able to buy or do something | |
surrogate | adj: acting as a substitute or replacement for someone or something else; having a similar function or purpose | |
process | n: a series of actions or operations performed to achieve a particular outcome or goal; a systematic procedure or approach used to accomplish a specific task or objective; a method of treating milk to make it suitable for consumption or use in other dairy products | |
split | v: to divide, or to make something divide into two or more parts, especially along a particular line | |
conversation | n: an informal talk between two or more people to exchange their views, ideas, information, etc. | |
sacrifice | n: the act of killing an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to a deity; (verb) to give up something important or valuable to help another person or get or do something that seems more important | |
shocking | adj: extremely or surprisingly bad, or causing a strong emotional response such as surprise or disgust | |
buddy | n: a close friend; a partner, especially one of a pair or team | |
elevate | v: to raise something from a lower to a higher position; to give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | |
consciously | adv: with awareness; in a deliberate manner | |
fantasy | n: a fiction with a large amount of imagination in it; a pleasant situation that you imagine but that is unlikely to happen | |
dispute | n: a disagreement, argument, or controversy between two people, groups, or countries, especially a formal one | |
contract | n: a legally binding agreement between two or more parties, setting out their rights and obligations to each other, typically in writing and enforceable by law | |
triad | n: a group of three people or things; a group of three musical notes played in one chord | |
quad | n: (short for quadrangle) a square or rectangular open area or courtyard, often surrounded by buildings or used for recreational or social purposes | |
structure | n: the way of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts, or a complex thing constructed of many parts | |
property | n: a thing or things that belong to someone | |
co-own | v: to own something such as a business or company jointly | |
strategy | n: a detailed plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall goal. | |
fortune | n: a large amount of money or property; chance or luck as an unknown and arbitrary force affecting human affairs | |
sibling | n: a brother or sister; member of a family born to the same parents | |
valid | adj: having a reasonable basis in logic or fact; still legally or officially acceptable | |
trend | n: a general direction in which something is changing or developing | |
domestic | adj: relating to or inside a particular country, not foreign or international | |
severely | adv: very badly or seriously | |
disabled | adj: having a physical or mental condition that limits someone’s specific actions that most other people can do | |
discriminate | v: to treat a person or particular group of people worse or better than another, especially in an unfair way; to recognize or perceive the difference between people or things | |
promote | v: to encourage or persuade people to like, buy, use, do, or support something; to raise someone to a higher position or rank | |
awareness | n: the fact or state of knowing something exists and is important | |
statistics | n: the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data | |
configuration | n: the arrangement or pattern of something or a group of related things | |
propose | v: to make a proposal, declare a plan for something | |
recognition | n: the action or process of recognizing or being recognized, especially by remembering; an agreement that something is true or legal | |
incentivize | v: to make someone want to do in a particular way by offering them a reward | |
separate | v: to force, take, or pull apart; mark as different | |
perk | n: an advantage or something extra, such as money or goods, you receive as well as your wages for doing a particular job | |
gateway | n: an entrance, door, or other openings that lead to a larger space, particularly one that serves as an entry point or access point to a larger area or system; a route, means, or method used to gain access to or acquire something | |
privilege | n: a special right or advantage that only one person or group of people has, usually because they are rich and powerful in a society | |
divorce | n: the legal dissolution of a marriage | |
relevance | n: the state or degree of being closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand | |
adopt | v: to choose to follow something; to legally take a child from another family and care for them as if they were one’s own | |
decide | v: to make up someone’s mind about something; to come to a conclusion or judgment after considering options | |
cocreate | v: to create something by working with others | |
monogamy | n: the practice of being married to only one person at a time; the state of having a mutually exclusive romantic or sexual relationship with one partner | |
confirm | v: to support or establish the truth or certainty of something previously believed or suspected to be the case | |
bet | v: to risk money on the result of an event or a competition, such as a race or game, to get more money; to have faith or confidence in something | |
aspect | n: one part or feature of a situation, problem, subject, etc. | |
participate | v: to take part in something | |
vacation | n: a period in which someone does not have to attend work or school and is free to do whatever they choose, such as travel or leisure | |
worthwhile | adj: having value or benefit; sufficiently important or beneficial to be worthy of time or effort; deserving of attention or consideration | |
interconnect | v: to connect similar things | |
cooperative | adj: involving doing something jointly or working with others to achieve a common goal | |
elderly | adj: (a polite word for) old | |
diaper | n: a soft, absorbent piece of material worn by babies and young children around their waist and between their legs to catch urine and feces | |
murmur | v: to say something very quietly; to complain about somebody or something under one’s breath | |
reciprocity | n: a mutual exchange of help and advantages; privileges granted in return for similar privileges | |
redefine | v: to change the meaning or interpretation of something; to make people think about something in a new or different way | |
courage | n: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or despair; the quality of being brave or courageous |