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Expert 21 Vocabulary
Expert 21 Vocabulary for X-Skills
Question | Answer |
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advise | recomend, suggestion; I advise you to be safe on Halloween. |
recruit | to enlist; The general helped to recruit three new soldiers. |
aptitude | inclined to a talent; The boy had a special aptitude for opera singing. |
orientation | to face something to the east or in any specific direction; We went to the high school orientations to see which high schools we wanted rise into. |
semester | a half-year term in a school or college, typically lasting fifteen to eighteen weeks, midterm break; This semester in college was |
pursue | To follow someone or something for a very specific purpose; Jimmy broke his arm at work, so he pursued legal action against his company. |
violation | The act of treating someone with violence; The man was fined for a violation of his restraining order. |
grueling | punishing, exhausting, torturous; The work given to the prisoners was grueling, being harsh and torturous. |
envision | to see things mentally, especially future events; The fortune teller could envision the person’s future, and tell him what would happen. |
satellite | a natural body or object that goes around another; The moon is a natural satellite. |
exract | to pull or draw something out of something else; I extracted the information about the Civil War from the textbook. |
represent | to express, show, in a matter of a painting, feeling, etc; In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good. |
trepidation | trembling or quivering movement; tremor; The trepidation of the scared little boy was massive when he saw his parents burn in a fire. |
implored | beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something; As she had turned me down several times already, and all my friends would be there, I implored my mom to let me go to the mall. |
dubious | hesitating or doubting; I am dubious that my team will win since we have not won a game all season. |
insufficient | not enough; inadequate; Despite the fact that I wanted cookies, I had insufficient money to buy any. |