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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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crucial | adj: extremely vital or necessary | |
urban | adj: relating to or located in a town or city | |
graffiti | n: writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place | |
depict | v: to illustrate someone or something in a photograph | |
affordable | adj: not expensive and able to pay | |
vast | adj: enormous in size, number, amount, or quantity | |
transport | n: a system for moving people or products from one location to another using automobiles, roads, and so on | |
flaw | n: a fault, mistake, or weakness that causes something not to be perfect | |
traffic | n: the movement of vehicles, people, or goods along a route or through a transport system; the amount of such movement in a particular place or at a particular time | |
inaccessible | adj: unable to travel to or reach; not available | |
disability | n: a physical or mental condition that makes it difficult for someone to do some things that other people do | |
gridlock | n: a situation in which traffic or progress is obstructed due to congestion, blockage, or a lack of movement; a deadlock or impasse in negotiations or decision-making | |
comedy | n: a genre of dramatic entertainment that aims to amuse and provoke laughter by depicting amusing or ludicrous situations, characters, or events; the use of humor, wit, and satire in writing, films, and other forms of entertainment | |
rap | n: a type of music characterized by a strong, repetitive beat and lyrics that often focus on social and political issues; a reproach for some lapse or misdeed | |
twist | v: to bend or turn something into a certain shape | |
feminist | adj: describing a belief in and advocacy for achieving gender equality in social, political, and economic spheres; advocating for the rights and empowerment of women; (noun) a person who believes in and advocates for gender equality between men and women | |
perspective | n: a confident attitude toward something; a particular style of thinking about something | |
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 | |
unfortunately | adv: by bad luck; unluckily | |
conduct | v: to organize and carry out a particular activity | |
percentage | n: the number, amount, or rate of something, which is usually the amount per hundred | |
whopping | adj: extremely large, impressive, or noteworthy; it can also be used to describe a surprise or shock | |
massive | adj: enormous amount; very heavy and solid | |
commute | v: to regularly travel a particular journey, especially between one’s home and place of work; (noun) a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work | |
eventually | adv: finally, particularly after a long time or a lot of struggle, complications, and so on | |
environment | n: the natural world such as air, water, and land in which humans, animals, and plants live | |
sustainable | adj: able to continue or be continued for a long time | |
independence | n: freedom from another’s or others’ control or influence | |
cringe | v: to move back or away from someone or something because you are afraid or shocked; to shrink as in fear, disgust, or embarrassment | |
headline | n: a heading at the top of a newspaper or magazine story or page | |
rid | v: to make someone or something free of unwanted or unpleasant tasks, objects, or person | |
commuter | n: a person who regularly travels long distances between their home and place of work, typically by public transportation or car | |
stranded | adj: left in a difficult or helpless position without access to help or resources; unable to move or proceed | |
unemployed | adj: not having a job, although able to work | |
operator | n: a person who uses and controls machinery or equipment; a mathematical symbol used to perform calculations | |
stakeholder | n: a person or group that has an interest or concern in something, especially a business | |
industrious | adj: hardworking, diligent, and persistent in effort | |
intervention | n: the action or process of being done to improve or help a circumstance, often they have not been asked to do so | |
yield | n: the total output of crops, profits, etc. that are produced; (verb) to produce or supply helpful something, such as a profit, an amount of food, or information | |
improve | v: to make or become better | |
unexpected | adj: not anticipated or regarded as likely to happen | |
display | v: to exhibit or show something to others, often to attract attention or demonstrate its features, properties, or value | |
chart | n: a visual display of information such as a diagram, lists of figures, etc.; a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea | |
incidence | n: the frequency or rate at which a particular event or condition occurs within a specific population, group, or area; the occurrence or manifestation of something, especially something harmful or unpleasant | |
recruit | v: to persuade someone to work for a company; to find new members for an organization, the armed forces, etc. | |
spotlight | n: a beam of light used to illuminate a particular area or person | |
communal | adj: belonging to or used by a group rather than individuals; for common use | |
metropolitan | adj: of or relating to a large city or a city that is considered to be the cultural or economic center of a region or country | |
regularly | adv: at regular intervals or times | |
attend | v: to be present at an event, to go to a place | |
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 | |
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 | |
violent | adj: involving or caused by physical force or aggression against someone or something | |
plague | n: any epidemic disease with a high death rate; (also called pest) a serious, sometimes fatal, infection spread by rats that causes fever and swellings on the body | |
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 | |
policy | n: a set of rules, guidelines, principles, or procedures that govern decision-making or action, often used in the context of business or government; a course of action or plan of action adopted or followed by an organization or individual to achieve a goal or objective | |
hire | v: to give somebody a job | |
diverse | adj: including numerous categories of individuals or entities; various | |
workforce | n: all the people who work in a company, industry, country, etc. | |
prefer | v: to like, choose, or want one thing or person better than another |