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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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scam | n: a clever and dishonest, and often illegal, business scheme; a fraud | |
fad | n: an intense and widely shared enthusiasm for a particular style, activity, or interest that appears suddenly and achieves widespread but short-lived popularity; a craze | |
irrespective | adv: without taking something into account; regardless of | |
convene | v: to come or bring together a group of people for a meeting or activity | |
pioneer | n: inventor; explorer; someone who is among the first to achieve something | |
burgeon | v: to grow or develop rapidly, especially in a healthy or vigorous way | |
opportune | adj: suitable or happening at a time that is suitable or convenient for a particular purpose | |
pitfall | n: a hidden or unsuspected danger or difficulty; a trap or snare | |
inherent | adj: existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute | |
digital | adj: processing or storing information as a succession of 1 and 0 to show that a signal is present or missing; relating to the use of computer technology, especially the internet | |
cyberspace | n: the electronic space where computer-mediated communication and interactions occur often used to refer to the internet or virtual reality environments | |
pose | v: to present a risk, problem, or other issues that must be addressed | |
prescient | adj: having or showing knowledge of events or situations before they occur; foreknowing or prophetic | |
riddle | n: a type of question that describes something in a difficult and confusing way, and that has a surprising answer, often asked as a game | |
paraphrase | v: to restate or reword a passage in one’s own words, often to clarify or simplify the original meaning | |
property | n: a thing or things that belong to someone | |
infinite | adj: unlimited or very great; impossible to measure | |
reproduce | v: to make a copy of something such as a picture, piece of text, music, etc.; to produce offspring through a sexual or asexual process | |
instantaneous | adj: occurring or happening immediately or without delay; taking place in an instant or moment | |
distribute | v: to give something to a large number of individuals, or to spread or furnish something | |
planet | n: any of the nine large celestial bodies that circle in the solar system; any celestial body that revolves around a star | |
evolve | v: to develop gradually, or to cause the development of something or someone gradually | |
predict | v: to state beforehand that something will happen in the future, mainly based on knowledge or experience | |
champion | n: someone who has won first place in a competition; someone who fights for a specific group of people or a belief | |
increasingly | adv: more and more | |
default | v: to fail to fulfill an obligation or pay a debt when it is due; to fail to meet expectations or perform as required; to choose or accept a predetermined option or condition without making a deliberate selection or choice; (noun) a failure to fulfill an obligation or to meet a requirement; the pre-set or automatic settings that a system or program uses when the user has selected no other options | |
context | n: the circumstances, facts, or conditions that surround a particular event, situation, or statement and that give it meaning | |
wealth | n: a large amount of money, property, or other things that someone or an organization owns | |
relation | n: the way two persons or groups of people feel and act toward one another | |
mediate | v: to try to bring about an agreement or understanding between people who are in conflict | |
vex | v: to irritate or annoy with petty frustrations; to cause distress or agitation | |
unsolved | adj: not yet understood, explained, or resolved; remaining a mystery or enigma | |
concept | n: an idea or principle associated with something abstract | |
evade | v: to escape from or avoid meeting someone or something | |
foist | v: to impose something unwanted or unwelcome on someone, often by deceit or trickery; to pass off or palm off something as genuine or valuable when it is not | |
copyright | n: the legal right to be the only person or organization who can reproduce, publish, and sell a particular piece of work | |
watermark | n: a visible or invisible design or pattern that is embedded into paper or other surfaces and is used to prevent counterfeiting or illegal copying | |
restrain | v: to prevent or hold back from doing something, often by physical or moral force; to limit or restrict one’s actions or behavior; to control or moderate strong emotions or impulses | |
brand | n: a type of product, service, etc., made by a particular company and sold under a specific name; identification mark on the skin of livestock, criminals, etc., made by burning | |
effortless | adj: requiring little or no effort; not difficult or strenuous; easy to accomplish | |
hindrance | n: an obstacle or barrier that prevents progress or interferes with accomplishing a task or goal | |
encumber | v: to burden or obstruct someone or something, making movement or progress difficult or impossible; to saddle with debt or other financial obligations | |
upload | v: to transfer digital data or files from a local computer or device to a remote server or network; the act of transferring such data or files | |
trillion | n: the number 1,000,000,000,000; a million million | |
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 | |
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 | |
corporation | n: a large company or group of companies that are controlled together by law as a single unit | |
trap | n: a piece of equipment or hole for catching animals or people; (verb) to catch animals or people and prevent them from escaping | |
technological | adj: based on scientific and industrial progress | |
breakthrough | n: a sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development that helps to improve a situation or provide an answer to a problem | |
certificate | n: an official document stating that the information contained within is true | |
registration | n: the process of recording or enrolling for a particular course or event; the action or process of officially recording or enrolling something, such as a name or trademark | |
blockchain | n: a system in which a growing list of payment records, called blocks, made in cryptocurrency is maintained across several computers that are securely linked | |
dissimilar | adj: not alike or having little in common | |
denote | v: to indicate or represent something; to serve as a symbol or sign of something; to express or designate a meaning or concept | |
ancient | adj: relating to the long ago, particularly the historical period preceding the fall of the Western Roman Empire; very old | |
bygone | adj: belonging to an earlier time; from a previous era or period | |
era | n: a period that is distinct from others, typically in history | |
native | adj: connecting with or describing someone’s birth country or place of birth, or someone born in a specific country or place | |
improve | v: to make or become better | |
fence | n: a structure, usually made of wood or metal, that encloses an area, typically for protection or to keep animals or people in or out; a dealer in stolen property | |
preclude | v: to make something impossible or prevent it from happening; to exclude or shut out something or someone from consideration or participation | |
invite | v: to ask someone to come or join; to offer an opportunity or possibility for something to happen or take place | |
expansive | adj: large or wide in extent or scope; friendly and open and willing to talk | |
exponential | adj: becoming more and more rapid; of or involving mathematical exponents | |
opposition | n: the act of disagreeing or resisting; the state of strong disagreement | |
appreciate | v: to value and acknowledge the worth of someone or something; to be grateful for something or someone | |
possibility | n: a chance that something may happen or be true | |
instantly | adv: immediately | |
recognizable | adj: easy to become aware of or identify | |
accumulate | v: to collect or acquire a large number of things over a long period of time | |
precise | adj: sharply exact or accurate or delimited | |
viral | adj: relating to or caused by a virus | |
auction | n: a public sale in which goods or property are sold to the highest bidder; a process of selling goods or property through competitive bidding | |
equivalent | n: having the same value, quality, meaning, purpose, etc. | |
remix | v: to compose a piece of media that has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing elements of the item | |
compensation | n: something especially money, given or received as payment or reparation for a service or loss or injury | |
royalty | n: revenue derived from the use of a patent, copyright, or other right; the people who are the family of a king and queen | |
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 | |
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 | |
software | n: a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data for doing particular computational jobs | |
complicated | adj: involving a lot of different things or parts in a way that is difficult to understand or analyze | |
enormous | adj: extremely large or great | |
labor | n: productive work, especially physical work done for wages; the people who do manual or physical work in a country or company for wage; (verb) to work hard or to strive and make an effort to reach a goal | |
implement | v: to put a decision, plan, or system into effect | |
analog | adj: relating to or using signals or information represented by a continuous physical quantity such as spatial position, voltage, etc. | |
represent | v: to speak, act, or be present on behalf of another person or group; to form or constitute | |
innovation | n: the creation of a new device or process resulting from study and experimentation | |
industrious | adj: hardworking, diligent, and persistent in effort | |
predicate | n: a statement or assertion about something, especially a statement in logic or grammar; (verb) to base or found on a particular fact or assumption | |
architect | n: a person whose job is to design plans to be used in making something, such as buildings | |
catalyst | n: a person or thing that causes an important event to happen or changes the current situation rapidly; (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without being changed itself | |
evolution | n: a gradual process of transformation of living things | |
dissolve | v: to be or cause to be absorbed by a liquid to form a part of the solution; to close down or dismiss | |
geography | n: a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the Earth | |
boundary | n: a real or imaginary line that marks the limit or extent of something and separates it from other things or places | |
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 | |
portrait | n: a painting, picture; the likeness of a person, especially one showing the face | |
hero | n: a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities; a character in literature or history who is central to the plot and who exhibits heroic qualities | |
heroine | n: a woman admired or idealized for her courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities; a woman who is the protagonist of a literary work or film | |
exchange | v: to give something and receive something else in return, often with the implication that the items being traded are of equal or comparable value; (noun) the act of giving or taking something in return for something else; a place or system where goods or services can be bought, sold, or traded | |
transfer | v: to move, pass, or change from one person, place, or situation to another | |
dispose | v: to put things or people in a particular manner or position; to incline someone towards a specific activity or mood; throw or cast away | |
platform | n: the raised flat space close to the track at a train station where passengers get on or off the train; (technology) a computational or digital environment in which a piece of software is executed | |
confine | v: to restrict the movement of someone or something | |
proprietor | n: a person who owns and runs a business, especially a hotel, a shop, or a company | |
app | n: (abbreviation for application) software designed to run on smartphones and other mobile devices or inside a web browser on a PC | |
server | n: a computer program or a device from which other computers get information; a person who serves food in a restaurant | |
decentralize | v: to move the power, control, or authority of an organization, government, or system from a single place to several smaller ones | |
infrastructure | n: the basic systems, services, or features that are necessary for an organization or country, such as transport and power supplies | |
peer | n: a person who has the same age, status, or ability | |
transparent | adj: easy to perceive, detect, or understand; (of a material or article) permitting light to pass through freely | |
complexity | n: the state or quality of being complicated or intricate and difficult to understand | |
prerequisite | adj: required as a necessary condition or qualification for something else; essential or fundamental to the success or achievement of something | |
unlock | v: to open something, such as a door, window, etc., usually using a key | |
domain | n: a specific sphere of influence or control; a specific field of knowledge or expertise | |
radical | adj: relating to the essential aspects of anything; far beyond the norm, mainly used of opinions and actions | |
emerge | v: to move out of or away from something and become visible | |
fiction | n: the type of book or story, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people; anything made up or imagined that is not true | |
generation | n: all the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively; the production of heat or electricity | |
reshape | v: to change the form or structure of something | |
creative | adj: relating to or involving the use of skill and original and unusual ideas to create something |