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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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statistics | n: the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data | |
persuasive | adj: tending to make you want to do or believe a particular thing; convincing | |
decision | n: the act or process of making up someone’s mind about something; a choice or judgment reached after considering options | |
lurk | v: to wait somewhere secretly, especially because you are about to attack someone or do something bad or illegal | |
upside | n: the positive aspect or potential of something; the upper side of something | |
elderly | adj: (a polite word for) old | |
relative | adj: considered and evaluated through comparison with something else | |
surgery | n: medical treatment of injuries or diseases involving an incision with instruments and often removing or replacing some parts of the body; the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures | |
patient | n: a person who is receiving medical treatment, care, or attention from a healthcare professional, such as a doctor, nurse, or therapist; a personal quality or characteristic | |
survive | v: to live or exist despite a dangerous event or period | |
divide | v: to separate or cause to separate into parts or groups | |
survival | n: the state of continuing to exist or live, frequently in the face of difficulty or danger | |
stumble | v: to miss a step and fall or nearly fall; to walk unsteadily | |
paradox | n: a statement, situation, or person that has two opposite facts or features and therefore seems impossible, is difficult to understand, or is strange; | |
opposition | n: the act of disagreeing or resisting; the state of strong disagreement | |
trend | n: a general direction in which something is changing or developing | |
aggregate | n: a collection or sum of different things often used to describe a total or combination of items | |
conditional | adj: depending on a specific condition or circumstance; imposed or subject to certain conditions or restrictions | |
variable | adj: likely to change or vary often; (noun) a symbol, like x or y, that is used in mathematical or logical expressions to represent a value that may be changed | |
addition | n: the act or process of adding something to something else; the process of adding numbers | |
influence | n: the ability to affect someone’s or something’s character, growth, or behavior, or the effect itself | |
proportion | n: a part, share, or amount of something considered in comparative relation to a whole | |
hypothesis | n: a proposed idea or explanation that is based on a few known facts but has not yet been proven to be true or accurate | |
scenario | n: a description of possible actions or events in the future; a written outline of a play, film, or literary work | |
context | n: the circumstances, facts, or conditions that surround a particular event, situation, or statement and that give it meaning | |
smoker | n: a person who smokes tobacco regularly, or a device used for smoking | |
participate | v: to take part in something | |
precise | adj: sharply exact or accurate or delimited | |
vital | adj: necessary for the success or continued existence of something | |
interpret | v: to explain or assign the meaning of information, actions, etc. | |
analyze | v: to think about in-depth and evaluate to discover essential features or meaning | |
penalty | n: a punishment for violating a law, rule, or contract | |
rev | n: a measure of the rate at which an engine or motor rotates, often expressed in revolutions per minute (RPM); (verb) to increase the number of rotations per minute | |
racial | adj: of or related to the race (= classification of humans into groups based on physical traits or social relations) | |
disparity | n: a significant difference or inequality between two or more things | |
defendant | n: a person or party who is accused of a crime or who is being sued in a court of law | |
convict | v: to prove or declare someone to be guilty of a crime; (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | |
murder | n: the crime of killing somebody intentionally | |
victim | n: a person who has been harmed, injured, or otherwise negatively affected by a particular action, circumstance, or event | |
slightly | adv: in a small degree or extent; a little | |
elicit | v: to obtain information or a reaction from someone, usually with difficulty | |
unfortunately | adv: by bad luck; unluckily | |
accurate | adj: correct and exact in all details | |
mislead | v: to cause someone to believe something that is not true | |
arbitrary | adj: based on chance, or individual whim rather than any reason | |
vulnerable | adj: capable of being hurt or influenced physically or mentally | |
manipulate | v: to influence or control something or someone to your advantage, often in an unfair or dishonest way | |
promote | v: to encourage or persuade people to like, buy, use, do, or support something; to raise someone to a higher position or rank | |
agenda | n: a list or outline of things to be done, discussed, or considered |