Vocabulary for Week 1 & 2
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What does 'empower' mean?

  • To confuse or mislead someone
  • To restrict or confine someone's abilities
  • To ignore someone
  • To give power or authority to someone (correct)
  • What does 'determined' mean?

    Having a firmness of purpose; resolute.

    Which phrase means to stop doing something that you have been doing?

  • Drop out (correct)
  • Give up (correct)
  • Keep it up
  • Make an effort
  • The term 'endangered' refers to species at risk of extinction.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    A _____ is an animal or plant that is at serious risk of extinction.

    <p>species</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does 'motivation' refer to?

    <p>The reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following words with their definitions:

    <p>Aptitude = Natural ability to do something Imagination = Ability to form new ideas or images in the mind Persistence = Firmness in continuing a course of action Equity = Quality of being fair and impartial</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Week 1

    • Unit 1A: Vocabulary includes determined, inspiring, motivated, respected, and stubborn (all adjectives).

    • Unit 1B: Vocabulary includes drop out (verb), give up (verb), have a go at (phrase), keep it up (phrase), keep to sth (verb), make an effort (phrase), manage (verb), try out (verb).

    • Unit 1: Vocabulary includes attitude (noun), constantly (adverb), construct (verb), evolving (adjective), expanding (adjective), identity (noun), inevitable (adjective), phenomenon (noun), reinforce (verb), and widespread (adjective).

    Week 2

    • Unit 2: Vocabulary includes words like alert (adjective), aptitude (noun), devoted (adjective), exhibit (verb), imagination (noun), inconsistency (noun), motivation (noun), prominent (adjective), strategy (noun), underlying (adjective). Also, includes (to be) idealistic (adjective) and (to make) prediction(s) (noun).

    • Reading 1: Title is "Finishing School".

    • Worksheet 1: Has words like reluctant, pose, persistence, intrinsic, extrinsic, conceive, assemble, accommodate, supplementary, and suspend.

    Week 3

    • Unit 2A: Vocabulary related to actions and feelings, such as "get away", "get hold of sth", "get into trouble", "get sb's attention".

    • Unit 2B: Vocabulary relating to risk, attack, creatures, environment, extinctions.

    • Unit 3: Vocabulary related to access, business capital, contribute, generate, indicate, influence, investment, potential, robust (adjective).

    • Reading 3: Title is "Mysterious Lines".

    Week 4

    • Unit 3B: Vocabulary concerning champion, compete, competitor, opposing, training, and technique.

    • Unit 4A: Vocabulary related to leading, causing, results of actions, and effects.

    • Unit 4: Vocabulary includes acquire, collaboration, daunting, diverse, harmoniously, intelligence, navigate, occupation, prioritize, observance, abolish, implement, and foe.

    • Reading 5: Title is "Saving Daylight".

    Week 5

    • Unit 5: Vocabulary related to being conscious, consciousness, decade, implicit, imply, and temporarily
    • Reading 7: Title is "Birth Order"

    Week 6

    • Unit 5B: Vocabulary related to carbon footprint, climate change, ecological impact, environmentally friendly, fragile environment, global warming.

    • Unit 6: Vocabulary concerning attachment, characteristic, emotion, enhance, invoke, mutual, prospective, notion, basis, express.

    • Reading 9: Title is "Schizophrenia".

    Week 7

    • Unit 6A: Vocabulary related to impressive, remarkable, superb, astonishing, breathtaking, dramatic, unique, stunning, and memorable.

    Week 8

    • Unit 6B: Vocabulary relating to being lost, decline, decrease, deteriorate, civil liberties, commercial, composite, controversial, deterrent, sophisticated, suspected.

    • Reading 11: Title is "The Impressionists".

    Week 9

    • Unit 7A: Vocabulary related to local residents, traffic congestion, quality of life, urban development, public transport, air pollution, and parking space.

    • Unit 7B: Vocabulary related to cast, script, soundtrack, shot, cottage, attic, chimney, cellar, basement, convey, perception, refer, range, and capacity.

    • Reading 13: Title is "The Neanderthals".

    Week 10

    • Unit 8A: Vocabulary related to debt, interest rate, budget, savings, pay off, investment, income, donation, making a living, put aside savings.

    • Unit 8B: Vocabulary related to burglar, burglary, lying, lie, bribery, murder, murder, kidnapper, kidnapping, shoplifter, shoplifting, etc.

    • Reading 15: Title is "Can you train yourself to get by on less sleep?".

    Week 11

    • Unit 10: Vocabulary connected with abandoning, abstract, civilization, currency, enormous, heredity, initiation, subjective, and transaction.

    • Reading 17: Title is "Bird Migration".

    Week 12

    • Unit 10A: Vocabulary related to unbelievable, incredible, improbable, impossible, unsuccessful, and irrelevant.

    • Unit 10B: Vocabulary related to pursuing, overcoming, working on, sticking with, coping with, and tackling.

    • Reading 19: Title is "Extinction of Dinosaurs".

    Week 13

    • Reading 21: Title is "Spanish Exploration of the Americas".

    Week 14

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    This quiz focuses on vocabulary from the first two weeks, covering various parts of speech including adjectives, verbs, nouns, and phrases. You'll encounter words that express determination, motivation, and identity, as well as terms related to strategy and imagination. Test your understanding and retention of these essential vocabulary words.

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