Comprehensive English Vocabulary Review

A collection of vocabulary terms covering various topics including everyday actions, professions, nature, and general academic language derived from the lecture transcript.

Reporter

A person who reports news for a newspaper, television, or radio.

Separate

To set or keep apart from others.

Wedding

A marriage ceremony and the celebrations that accompany it.

Solve

To find an answer to or a way of dealing with a problem.

Apartment

A set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a building.

Action

The process of doing something in order to achieve a particular result.

Advice

Guidance or recommendations offered regarding prudent future action.

Artist

A person who creates paintings or drawings as a profession or hobby.

Business

The activity of making, buying, and selling goods or providing services for money.

Century

A period of one hundred years.

Capital

The most important city or town of a country, acting as the seat of government.

Career

An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life with opportunities for progress.

College

An educational institution or establishment providing higher education or specialized training.

Common

Happening often or existing in large numbers.

Compare

To examine the similarities or differences between two or more things.

Concert

A musical performance given in public, typically by several performers.

Date

A particular day of the month or year.

Culture

The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation or people.

Customer

A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.

Dangerous

Able or likely to cause harm or injury.

Expensive

Costing a lot of money.

Fantastic

Extraordinarily good or attractive; remote from reality.

Hobby

An activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure.

Library

A building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films.

Introduce

To present someone by name to another person.

Opinion

A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact.

Passport

An official document issued by a government, certifying the holder's identity and citizenship for travel.

Practice

To perform an activity or exercise a skill repeatedly or regularly in order to improve.

Street

A public road in a city or town, typically with houses and buildings on one or both sides.

Terrible

Extremely bad or serious.

University

An educational institution designed for instruction, examination, or both, of students in many branches of advanced learning.

Vacation

An extended period of leisure and recreation, especially one spent away from home.

Village

A group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area.

Plumber

A person whose job is to install or repair sinks, toilets, and water pipes.

Pharmacist

A person who is professionally qualified to prepare and dispense medicinal drugs.

Journalist

A person who writes for newspapers, magazines, or news websites or prepares news to be broadcast.

Jungle

An area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics.

Desert

A barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.

Ocean

A very large expanse of sea, in particular, each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically.

Tongue

The fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal, used for tasting, licking, swallowing, and articulating speech.

Kidney

Each of a pair of organs in the abdominal cavity that excrete urine.

Crocodile

A large predatory semiaquatic reptile with long jaws, armored skin, a long tail, and short legs.

Sloth

A slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees.

Falcon

A bird of prey with long pointed wings and a notched bill, typically catching prey by diving on it from above.

Scorpion

A terrestrial arachnid with pincers and a poisonous sting at the end of its jointed tail.

Schedule

A plan for carrying out a process or procedure, giving lists of intended events and times.

Planet

A celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star.

Recycle

To convert waste into reusable material.

Tradition

The transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation.

Profile

A set of data often comprising a summary or analysis of an item or person.

Strategy

A plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.

Recommend

To suggest as being the best choice or appropriate for a particular purpose.

Region

An area, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.

Opportunity

A set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something.