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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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start-up | n: a newly established company or business | |
technological | adj: based on scientific and industrial progress | |
investor | n: someone who puts money or capital into something to gain financial returns | |
determination | n: the quality of being persistent and purposeful; the act of finding out the exact nature or essence of something | |
venture | n: a business project or activity that is risky or daring | |
capitalism | n: an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit | |
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 | |
background | n: the details of a person’s social heritage, such as family, vocational or educational experience; past information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem | |
ivy | n: an evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plant that often grows up trees or buildings | |
league | n: an association of sports teams who compete against each other; an obsolete unit of distance of variable length, equal to about 3 miles or 4,000 meters | |
chip | n: a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; a long and thin piece of potato fried in oil or fat | |
vision | n: the ability to think about or see the future with imagination and intelligence; the faculty of being able to see | |
emotional | adj: relating to people’s feelings | |
quotient | n: a degree or measure of a specific quality or characteristic; the result of dividing one number by another | |
rapport | n: a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other’s feelings or ideas and communicate well | |
methodology | n: a set of ways or principles of doing, teaching, or studying something | |
complicated | adj: involving a lot of different things or parts in a way that is difficult to understand or analyze | |
specific | adj: clearly defined or particular to a certain thing or situation; distinct, explicit, and precise | |
trait | n: a particular feature of your nature | |
adaptable | adj: able or willing to modify or be modified to deal with new situations | |
react | v: to take action in response to something | |
inevitable | adj: certain to happen and unavoidable | |
determinant | n: a factor, circumstance, or condition that contributes to the shaping, influencing, or determining of a particular outcome or result | |
subscribe | v: to agree to receive or support something, often through payment or regular participation; to sign up for or enroll in something, such as a publication, service, or program | |
intelligence | n: the ability to learn, comprehend, or make judgments or conclusions based on reasons | |
improvisation | n: the act of making something up on the spot or creating or performing something without preparation | |
increasingly | adv: more and more | |
accelerate | v: to make something faster or earlier; to cause to develop or progress more quickly | |
brain | n: the organ inside the head that is responsible for one’s movement, thought, memory, and feeling | |
navigate | v: to plan and direct the way that a ship, plane, etc. will travel, often by using a map | |
automatic | adj: able to work or operate with little or no direct human control; independent of external control | |
shifting | adj: constantly changing or moving | |
geopolitical | adj: of or relating to political activity or relations between countries and groups of countries, as influenced by the physical features of a country or area | |
dynamics | n: the branch of mechanics that deals with the motion of bodies under the action of forces, including the particular case in which a body remains at rest; forces that produce or stimulate movement, growth, or change | |
relation | n: the way two persons or groups of people feel and act toward one another | |
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 | |
government | n: the group of people with authority to control a country or state | |
grapple | v: to make a strenuous effort to solve a problem; to engage in a close fight or conflict without weapons | |
probable | adj: likely to happen or likely to be true | |
variation | n: the act or state of changing; a difference or change in the way something is done, made or said | |
revenue | n: the income that a government receives from taxes or that a company earns from its business | |
stream | n: a small, narrow river; a continuous flow of something, such as liquid, gas, people, vehicles, etc. | |
overnight | adj: lasting for or occurring during one night; occurring or changing extremely quickly or suddenly; happening or being achieved in a short amount of time | |
simulate | v: to make a pretense of someone’s behavior or looks; to reproduce something that exists in real life using computers, models, etc., usually for study or training purposes | |
strength | n: the quality or state of being physically, or sometimes mentally, strong | |
distinct | adj: noticeable from something else of a similar type | |
scenario | n: a description of possible actions or events in the future; a written outline of a play, film, or literary work | |
conjure | v: to call forth by magic; to create or bring about through the imagination | |
retain | v: to keep or continue to possess or maintain something | |
manipulate | v: to influence or control something or someone to your advantage, often in an unfair or dishonest way | |
constraint | n: a limit or restriction on something, such as an action, behavior, or thought | |
achieve | v: to successfully complete a task or goal, often through hard work, perseverance, and dedication; to attain or accomplish something that one has set out to do | |
presume | v: to suppose or assume something to be true, often without sufficient evidence or proof; to take liberties, behave impolitely, or overstep one’s bounds, often due to arrogance or ignorance | |
override | v: to use one’s authority or power to cancel or disregard something, especially a decision or rule made by someone else | |
disk | n: a flat, circular plate, typically made of metal, glass, or plastic, used for storing data or playing music | |
cleanup | n: an act or process of cleaning up a particular area, space, or mess; the removal of dirt, debris, or other unwanted materials | |
steer | v: to control the direction or movement of a vehicle; to direct a course of action; to guide or motivate someone | |
vice | n: wrongdoing or wicked behavior; (in the form of vice versa) with the order reversed; (as a prefix) someone with a job immediately below a particular person | |
backward | adv: at, to, or toward the direction or place that is behind or rear | |
normally | adv: usually; under normal conditions | |
awesome | adj: inspiring fear, admiration, or respect; very good, nice, fun, etc. | |
improve | v: to make or become better | |
dedication | n: a lot of time and energy that someone puts in for an activity or purpose because they believe it is important | |
autobiography | n: a written account of someone’s own life, written by that person | |
mindset | n: the established set of attitudes or fixed ideas held by someone | |
infuse | v: to fill something with a particular quality, feeling, or influence; to imbue | |
exploitation | n: the process of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | |
overvalue | v: to value or estimate something too high; to assign too much worth or importance to something; to assess or appraise something beyond its actual market or intrinsic value | |
finagle | v: to obtain something deceitfully or by trickery; to manipulate or finesse something to achieve a desired outcome | |
blockbuster | n: a movie, book, or other product that is extremely successful and popular, especially one that makes much money | |
propose | v: to make a proposal, declare a plan for something | |
partnership | n: the state of a cooperative relationship between people or groups, especially in business | |
fledgling | n: water creatures that live in shells, especially one of the types that can be eaten | |
retail | n: the sale of goods or services to consumers, especially in small quantities, either directly to the end customer or through retail outlets | |
reed | n: a tall, slender-leaved plant that grows in water; a thin strip of wood or metal that vibrates to produce sound in certain musical instruments such as oboe, clarinet, and saxophone | |
bankruptcy | n: the legal status of a person or business that cannot repay debts to creditors | |
exploit | v: to make full use of and gain an advantage from resources, opportunities, etc. | |
frame | n: a strong border or structure of the wood, metal, etc. that surrounds something such as a picture, door, or window | |
constant | adj: happening repeatedly or all the time | |
proactive | adj: acting in advance to deal with an expected difficulty or to take advantage of an opportunity. | |
exciting | adj: causing a lot of interest or excitement | |
discotheque | n: a nightclub or restaurant where recorded music is played, and people dance | |
prioritize | v: to assign a higher level of importance to something compared to other things | |
adapt | v: to make fit for or change to suit a new purpose or environment |