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7th
Sentence
Kind of like business improv.
Definitions:
Improv>improvision
Unc.
acting, singing, performing etc without
preparing what you will say first:
Syllables/Pronunciation:
ad hoc
extempore
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
Are Leaders Born Or Made?
Sentence:
the truth of the matter is that people find
me overbearing and insensitive.
Definitions:
always trying to control other people without
considering their wishes or feelings
Syllables/Pronunciation:
autocratic
dictatorial
imperious
tyrannical
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
Are Leaders Born Or Made?
Sentence:
the truth of the matter is that people find me
overbearing and insensitive.
Definitions:
not noticing, or not taking the care to notice,
other people's feelings, and not realizing
when they are upset or when something that
you do will upset them:
(used with to ex. insensitive to his feeling)
Syllables/Pronunciation:
crass
uncaring
heartless
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
Are Leaders Born Or Made?
My Vocabulary Frontier Name: Mirei Higuchi Date:Sept.7th
Sentence
Ifyouare willing to be drop-dead
honest with you in the service of that.
Definitions:
used before an adjective to emphasize
that somebody/something is attractive in a
very noticeable way
Syllables/Pronunciation:
superb
impressive
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
Are Leaders Born Or Made?
Sentence:
They work prodigious hours.
Definitions:
(usually before noun)
very large or great in a surprising or
impressive way
Syllables/Pronunciation:
vast
immense
colossal
tremendous
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
The characteristics of The Operator
(Leadership course)
Sentence:
.
He was a printer, post master, inventor,
philanthropist, politician, husband and
father.
Definitions:
a rich person who gives a lot of money to
help poor people
Syllables/Pronunciation:
benefactor
contributor
donor
patron
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
Benjamin Franklin
My Vocabulary Frontier Name: Mirei Higuchi Date:Sept.7th
Sentence
This will help you avoid the pitfall of
copyng an authors text word-for-word.
Definitions:
a problem or difficulty that is likely to
happen in a particular job, course of
action, or activity
Syllables/Pronunciation:
danger
drawback
snag
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
How to take a good note
Sentence:
This will help you avoid the pitfall
ofplagiarizing the author
Definitions:
to take words or ideas from another
person's work and use them in your work,
without stating that they are not your own
Syllables/Pronunciation:
copy
steal
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
How to take a good note
Sentence:
.Annotate your text.
Definitions:
to add short notes to a book or piece of
writing to explain parts of it:
Syllables/Pronunciation:
comment
note
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
Taking Notes While You Read
My Vocabulary Frontier Name: Mirei Higuchi Date:Sept.7th
Sentence
The Strands of Independent Research
Definitions:
1,a single thin piece of thread, wire, hair
etc
2 one of the parts of a story, idea, plan etc
Syllables/Pronunciation:
area
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
Independent Research
Sentence:
you are going to embark on your own
research about Benjamin Franklin.
Definitions:
to go onto a ship or a plane, or to put or
take something onto a ship or plane
Syllables/Pronunciation:
enter
board
commence
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
Independent Research
Sentence:
...they can set their own aims and
occupation in life, according to their
inclinations.
Definitions:
1 a feeling that makes you want to do
something:
2 a tendency to think or behave in a
particular way
3 a movement made down towards the
ground
4 formal a slope or the angle at which
something slopes
Syllables/Pronunciation:
desire
disposition
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
American Values and Assumptions
My Vocabulary Frontier Name: Mirei Higuchi Date:Sept.7th
Sentence
We are raising them to be rugged
individualists.
Definitions:
1 land that is rugged is rough and uneven:
a rugged coastline
2 a man who is rugged is good-looking
and has strong features which are often
not perfect:
3 a vehicle or piece of equipment that is
rugged is strongly built and not likely to
break easily [= sturdy]
4 rugged behaviour is confident and
determined but not always polite
Syllables/Pronunciation:
uneven
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
American Values and Assumptions
Sentence:
If it is economically feasible for them to do
so, young Americans are xpected to live
apart from their parents,
Definitions:
a plan, idea, or method that is feasible is
possible and is likely to work
Syllables/Pronunciation:
attainable
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
American Values and Assumptions
Sentence:
.
Foreign visitors who understand the
degree to which Americans are imbued
with the notion that
Definitions:
to make someone or something have a
quality, idea, or emotion very strongly:
Syllables/Pronunciation:
suffuse
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
American Values and Assumtions
My Vocabulary Frontier Name: Mirei Higuchi Date:Sept.7th
Sentence
Examples are aviators Charles Lindbergh
and Amelia Earhart,
Definitions:
(oldfashioned)
A pilot
Syllables/Pronunciation:
navigator
airperson
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
American Values and Assumtions
Sentence:
Competitiveness pervades the society.
Definitions:
if a feeling, idea, or smell pervades a
place, it is present in every part of it
Syllables/Pronunciation:
Infuse
permiate
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
American Values and Assumtions
Sentence:
Latin American, Asian, and Arab, where
the is a pronounced reverence for the
past.
Definitions:
great respect and admiration for someone
or something
Syllables/Pronunciation:
admiration
veneration
piety
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)
American Values and Assumptons