Business Communication: Team Building

Unit 7: Business: Team Building

• Accomplish: to finish something successfully; or to achieve something
• Challenge: something difficult that requires effort to do; can also be a verb meaning to dispute or question something
• Effective: producing a desired result; can also be an adverb (effectively)
• Enhance: to improve or make something better; can also be an adjective (enhanced)
• Practice: a habit, custom, or tradition; can also be a verb
• Project: a large planned piece of work
• Pull together: to organize
• Resolve: to fix a problem; can also be a noun (resolution)
• Sufficient: as much as needed, enough for a particular purpose; can also be an adverb (sufficiently)
• Summary: a short statement of key information; can also be a verb (summarize)
• Vital: extremely important or necessary; can also be an adverb (vitally)
• Zero in on: to pay special attention to something

Unit 8: Architecture: Frank Gehry

• Aesthetics: artistic value; can also be an adjective (aesthetic) or an adverb (aesthetically)
• Dynamic: exciting, interesting, full of energy; can also be an adverb (dynamically)
• Foundation: the basis, the ideas that support something
• Inspirational: causing others to produce or do something; can also be a verb (inspire)
• Intended use: reason for using something
• Meet the objective: achieved the goal
• Principle: rule or set of ideas
• Sound: in good condition, strong
• Stress: to emphasize; can also be a noun (stress)
• Utilize: use something effectively; can also be an adverb (utilizable)

Unit 9: Building Immunity

• Adapt to: to change your behavior in order to deal more successfully with a new situation; can also be an adjective (adaptive)
• Contagious: spreads by close contact between people; can also be a noun (contagion)
• Crucial: extremely important, because it will affect other things
• Expose to: come into contact with; can also be a noun (exposure)
• Incidence of: the number of cases (of a disease)
• Microorganism: a very small living thing that you can only see under a microscope
• Promote: to help sell a product, service, etc. or make it more popular by advertising it; can also be a noun (promotion)
• Recover: to get well again after being ill, hurt, etc.; can also be a noun (recovery)
• Resist: to refuse to accept something and try to stop it from happening; can also be a noun (resistance)
• Stress: pressure or worry caused by the problems in somebody’s life; can also be a verb (stress)
• Transmit: to carry (e.g., a disease); can also be a noun (transmission)
• Vaccine: a weak form of a virus given to protect the body from a disease; can also be a verb (vaccinate)

Reading Corner: Unit 1: English as a Universal Language

• Airwaves: waves used to broadcast TV or radio programs
• Diplomacy: management of relationship between countries; can also be an adjective (diplomatic)
• Dominant: noticeable, more important; can also be a noun (dominance)
• Geographically: physical positions and features of places; can also be an adjective (geographic)
• Multinational: involving several different countries
• Native: connected with the place where you were born and lived for the first years of your life
• Overwhelming: very great, very strong, powerful; can also be an adverb (overwhelmingly)
• Slang: informal language used by a group of people
• Software: instructions that control what a computer does
• Universal: present or occurring everywhere; can also be a noun (universe)

Unit 2: Tourism

• Boom: period of sudden economic growth
• Contaminated: dirty or polluted by the addition of a chemical, waste, bacteria; can also be a verb (contaminate)
• Destination: place where someone or something is going
• Ecosystem: living things in an area and the way they affect each other and the environment
• Ecotourism: business of organizing holidays to places in a way that helps local people and does not harm the environment
• Emission: act of sending out gas, heat, light, etc.; can also be a verb (emit)
• Endangered: animals or plants that may soon not exist because there are very few now; can also be a verb (endanger)
• Finch: type of bird
• Immigration: act of someone coming to live in a different place or country; can also be a verb (immigrate)
• Species: animals or plants that have similar characteristics and can breed with each other
• Wilderness: outside area in which plants are left to grow untidily

Unit 3: Password Fatigue

• Drawback: disadvantage
• Eliminate: to remove or get rid of; can also be a noun (elimination)
• Implement: to fulfill or perform something; can also be a noun (implementation)
• Mitigate: to lessen in force or intensity; can also be a noun (mitigation)
• Prevalent: widespread; can also be a noun (prevalence)
• Staggering: shocking or astonishing, difficult to believe
• Surpass: to be more or greater than
• Trait: a distinguishing quality or characteristic
• Unique: to be the only one of its type; can also be a noun (uniqueness)
• Virtually: almost completely; can also be an adjective (virtual)

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