Vocabulary

  • Topic 1: People

                   

    • Self-esteem = belief in yourself
    • Stereotypical = having typical qualities

    • Fallible = able to make mistakes and be wrong

    • Sociable = friendly or seeking company

    • Tendency = recurring action or behavior

    • Gender = sex (male or female)

    • Lifetime = period of time you are alive

    • Empathise = understand someone’s feelings

    • Hardwired = automatic behavior

    • Habitually = usually or repeatedly

    • Adolescent = teenager

    •  Sibling = brother or sister

    • Characteristic = typical feature
    • Responsibility = duty
    • Individual = person
    • Resemble = look like
    • Reliable = can be trusted
    • Bond = close tie / link
    • Conscious = aware
    • Inherent = natural / instinctive
  • Topic 2: Health and fitness

                   

    • Self-esteem = belief in yourself
    • Stereotypical = having typical qualities

    • Fallible = able to make mistakes and be wrong

    • Sociable = friendly or seeking company

    • Tendency = recurring action or behavior

    • Gender = sex (male or female)

    • Lifetime = period of time you are alive

    • Empathise = understand someone’s feelings

    • Hardwired = automatic behavior

    • Habitually = usually or repeatedly

    • Adolescent = teenager

    • Sibling = brother or sister

    • Characteristic = typical feature

    • Responsibility = duty
    • Individual = person
    • Resemble = look like
    • Reliable = can be trusted
    • Bond = close tie / link
    • Conscious = aware
    • Inherent = natural / instinctive

  • Topic 3: Science
    • Elementary = basic
    • Combine = mix together
    • Analyse = examine in details
    • Exposure = in contact with
    • Detergent = soap
    • Side effects = unwanted reactions
    • Basis = the principal idea

    • Toxic = poisonous

    • Fertilizer = plant food

    • Contaminated = polluted

    • Ascertain = make sure or establish

    • Breakthrough = important new discovery

    • Release = allow to escape(gas) or give off

    • Accumulate = collect over time, gather or build up

    • Absorb = take in or soak up (liquid or gas)

    • Synthetic = man-made or artificial

    • Potential = ability / capability

    • Advances = progress or developments

    • Precise = exact or accurate

    • Quantify = count or measure

  • Topic 4: Community

    • Antisocial = against society
    • Conform = follow the rules
    • Cooperate = work together
    • Mindset = attitude
    • Minority = small percentage
    • Shun = avoid
    • Conventional = traditional
    • Interaction = communication
    • Pressure = stress
    • Conduct = behavior
    • Considerate = Kind and Helpful or thoughtful
    • Mainstream = common or average (ideas)
    • Civilization = culturally advanced human society
    • Supportive = helpful and encouraging
    • Appropriate = suitable
    • Engage = join in or get involved
    • Voluntary = done willingly or without payment
    • Charitable = helping the poor or needy
    • Foster = help something grow (attitude or idea)
    • Multicultural = having many different cultures

  • Topic 5: Study

    • Theoretical = academic or not proven
    • Educational=relating to the provision of education
    • Acquire = gain or get
    • Compulsory = must be done
    • Valid = reasonable
    • Determine = discover or find out

    • Establish = prove

    • Significant = important

    • Review = check or go over

    • Concentrate = think very hard

    • Specialize = concentrate on one subject

    • Profound = deep or intense (effect or feeling)

    • Cognitive = connected to thinking or mental

    • Curiosity = desire to know or find out / interest

    • Achievement = reaching a goal or success

    • Failure = lack of success or collapse

    • Determination = trying hard or not giving up

    • Miscalculation = bad judgment or calculation

    • Collaborate = work together with

    • Methodical = in a careful or ordered way

  • Topic 6: Advertising
    • Persuade = get s to agree

    • Convinced = sure of Something

    • Unavoidable = certain to happen

    • Commercialized = focused on profits

    • Effective = achieving its aims
    • Ploy = trick or gimmick
    • Visualise = mentally picture
    • Intrusive = not welcome
    • Promote = advertise
    • Exaggerate = magnify the truth
    • Ignore = pay no attention
    • Endorse = recommend a product or brand
    • Guarantee = promise that Something will happen
    • Gullible = easily tricked or too trusting
    • Prominent = noticeable /stand out
    • Pressure = forcefully persuade compel

    • Incorporate = use / include / contain

    • Entice = persuade by offering Something/ tempt

    • Bombard = attack continuously / pester

    • Inescapable = cannot be avoided / unavoidable

  • Topic 7: Travel and places

    • Memorable = unforgettable
    • Inhabitants = people living in a place

    • Custom = local tradition

    • Attract = act like a magnet

    • Remote = distant / far away

    • Spectacular = amazing

    • Landscape = large area of countryside

    • Outweigh = be more important than

    • Basic = simple / not luxurious

    • Barren = without plants

    • Cautious = avoiding risks / wary

    • Wander = walk without aim / stroll / roam

    • Adventurous = willing to try new thing / daring

    • Spontaneous = act without planning / unplanned

    • Unspoilt = beautiful or undamaged (place)

    • Wilderness = land not used

    • Paradise = a perfect place

    • Leisurely = in a relaxed way / not rushed (adj+adv)

    • Foreign = strange or unfamiliar

    • Rival = be good as S else

  • Topic 8: Government

    • Blame = accuse
    • Childcare = care for children
    • Govern = control a place
    • Provide = give / make available
    • Regulation = official rule
    • Depend = need help / support
    • Entitlement = right or privilege

    • Healthcare = care for the sick

    • Oppose = be against

    • Assistance = help / aid

    • Guidelines = official advice /rules

    • Consensus = general agreement / unity

    • Instil = put and idea or feeling in  mind

    • Taxpayer = person paying tax /ordinary citizen

    • Corrupt = dishonest /abusing their power

    • Expenditure = total amount a government spends

    • Resolve = firmly decide /undertake

    • Authority = legal power / right

    • Instability = lack of stability or uncertainty

    • Bureaucracy = admin system /official procedures

  • Topic 9: Animals

    • Endangered = dying out
    • Venomous = poisonous
    • Domesticates = tame / not wild
    • Thrive = grow or be successful
    • Predator = animals that hunts another
    • Vulnerable = easily hurt
    • Nocturnal = active at night

    • Dwindle = become smaller or fewer

    • Habitat = A natural environment

    • Prey=an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food

    • Survival = continuing to live or exist

    • Co-exist = live in the same time or place

    • Abandon = leave (a place or vehicle) empty or uninhabited, 

    • Captivity = the state of being locked up

    • Cruelty = behavior that causes pain

    • Expenditure = total amount a government spends

    • Sanctuary = safe = protected place

    • Defence = reaction to attack/ self-protection

    • Conservation = protecting them

    • Colony=a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country

    • Creature = living thing

  • Topic 10: Space

    • Explode = break up violently
    • Explore = search a new area
    • Risky = dangerous
    • Debris = large broken pieces
    • Frightening = makes u afraid
    • Infinite = without end
    • Acclimatise = adjust / adapt/ get used to
    • Fascinating = extremely interesting
    • Surface = top layer
    • Astronaut = working in space
    • Collide = crash into / strike
    • Universal = worldwide / existing everywhere
    • Misuse = bad usage of S
    • Boost = (give)added power /increase
    • Hollow = empty inside
    • Prolonged = lengthy / over a long time

    • Rotation = spinning /turning

    • Fragile = easily broken /delicate

    • Vertical = pointing, going up

    • Transmit = send out(a signal)