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Vocabulary: Week 1

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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VOCABULARY 1

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BENEVOLENT

(adj) friendly and helpful

condescending

(adj) possessing an attitude of superiority, patronizing
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diligent

(adj) careful and hard-working
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EXEMPLARY

(adj) outstanding, an example to others
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novice

(n) apprentice, beginner

resilient

(adj) quick to recover, bounce back
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suppress

(v) to end an activity

DIGRESSION

(n) the act of turning aside, straying from the main point, esp. in a speech or argument
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anecdote

(n) short, usually funny account of an event

wary

(adj) careful, cautious

empathy

(n) identification with the feelings of others
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inconsequential

(adj) unimportant, trivial
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orator

(n) lecturer, speaker

prosperity

(n) wealth or success
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RECLUSIVE

(adj) preferring to live in isolation
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