English Vocabulary Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards to help review key terms and definitions from the lecture notes.

Achievement

Something very good and difficult that you have succeeded in doing.

Acknowledged for

Known or accepted by many people.

Advance

To go or move something forward, or to develop or improve something.

Adversity

A difficult or unlucky situation or event.

Advocate

Someone who speaks for, supports, or represents a person or group of people who may need extra help or protection.

Aspire to

To want something very much or hope to achieve something or be successful.

Assess

To judge or decide the amount, value, quality, or importance of something.

Authenticity

The quality of being authentic, Originality, and Genuity.

Capable

Able to do things effectively and skillfully, and to achieve results:

Cause

Someone or something that makes something happen, reason.

Clarity

The quality of being clear and easy to understand.

Confront

To face, meet, or deal with a difficult situation or person.

Constrained

Forced to act or behave in a particular way, not free.

Contact

Communication with someone, especially by speaking or writing to them regularly.

Diverse

Including many different types of people or things.

Effective

Successful or achieving the results that you want.

Embody

To represent a quality or an idea exactly.

Empower

To give someone official authority or the freedom to do something.

Enthusiasm

A feeling of energetic interest in a particular subject or activity and an eagerness to be involved in it.

Ethical

Relating to beliefs about what is morally right and wrong.

Executive

Someone in a high position, especially in business, who makes decisions and puts them into action.

Exponential

An exponential rate of increase becomes quicker and quicker as the thing that increases becomes larger.

Funding

Money given by a government or organization for an event or activity.

Humanitarian

Involved in or connected with improving people’s lives and reducing suffering.

Humility

The quality of not being proud because you are aware of your bad qualities.

Inclined

A feeling that you want to do a particular thing, or the fact that you prefer or are more likely to do a particular thing.

Inherently

In a way that exists as a natural or basic part of something.

Initiative

The ability to use your judgment to make decisions and do things without needing to be told what to do.

Innovation

The creating and use of new ideas or methods.

Motivation

The need or reason for doing something.

Perceive

To think of something or someone in a particular way.

Personify

Represent or embody in a physical form.

Perspective

A particular way of considering something.

Phenomenon

Something that exists and can be seen, felt, tasted, etc., especially something unusual or interesting.

Promote

To encourage people to like, buy, use, do, or support something.

Pursue

If you pursue a plan, activity, or situation, you try to do it or achieve it, usually over a long period of time.

Realistic

Accepting things as they are in fact and not making decisions based on unlikely hopes for the future.

Resolve

To make a decision formally or with determination.

Responsibility

Something that it is your job or duty to deal with.

Role

The position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, or relationship.

Style

A way of doing something, especially one that is typical of a person, group of people, place, or period.

Take on

Start doing something willingly.

Title

A word such as ‘Lord’, ‘Dr’, etc. that is used before someone’s name.

Version

A particular form of something that is slightly different from other forms of the same thing.

Versus

Used to say that one team or person is competing against another.

Activation

The act of making something start or making it start working.

Align

To put two or more things into a straight line.

Allure

The quality of being very attractive or interesting.

Assume

To accept something to be true without question or proof.

Bias

The action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way.

Broadly speaking

In a general way, without considering specific examples or all the details.

Chaos

A state of total confusion with no order.

Counter

To react to something with an opposing opinion or action.

Crave

To have a very strong feeling of wanting something.

Disclose

To make something known publicly, or to show something that was hidden.

Distinct

Clearly noticeable; that certainly exists.

Embrace

To accept something enthusiastically.

Endorse

To make a public statement of your approval or support for something or someone.

Escalate

To become or make something become greater or more serious.

Essentially

Relating to the most important characteristics or ideas of something.

Exaggerated

Seeming larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is.

Feature

A typical quality or an important part of something.

Functional

Designed to be practical and useful rather than attractive.

Grant

To give or allow someone something, usually in an official way.

Imply

To communicate an idea or feeling without saying it directly.

Impulsive

Showing behavior in which you do things suddenly without any planning.

Inflexible

Fixed and unable or unwilling to change.

Insight

(The ability to have) a clear, deep, and sometimes sudden understanding of a complicated problem or situation.

Legal

Connected with the law.

Manipulate

To control something or someone to your advantage, often unfairly or dishonestly.

Manufacture

To produce goods in large numbers, usually in a factory using machines.

Metric

A system for measuring something.

Moderately

In a way that is neither small nor large in size, amount, degree, or strength.

Monopoly

(An organization or group that has) complete control of something, especially an area of business.

Obsession

Something or someone that you think about all the time.

Obtain

To get something, especially by asking for it, buying it, working for it, or producing it from something else.

Open-minded

Willing to consider ideas and opinions that are new or different to your own.

Point out

To make a person notice someone or something, sometimes by holding up one of your fingers towards him, her, or it.

Purchase

Something that you buy.

Put a premium on

To consider one quality or type of thing as being much more important than others.

Recognize

To accept that something is legal, true, or important.

Resistance

The act of fighting against something that is attacking you, or refusing to accept something.

Revert

To return to doing, using, being, or referring to something, usually something bad or less satisfactory.

Shade

A slight difference or something that is not exactly the same as something else.

Stifle

To prevent something from happening, being expressed, or continuing.

Stimulating

If something is stimulating, it encourages new ideas.

Stumble upon

To discover something by chance, or to meet someone by chance.

Tactic

A planned way of doing something.

Theme

The main subject of a talk, book, film, etc.

Tolerant

Willing to accept behavior and beliefs that are different from your own, even if you disagree with or disapprove of them.

Trademark

To register something as a trademark.

Transparency

The characteristic of being easy to see through.

Turn out

To happen in a particular way or to have a particular result.

Agency

A business that represents one group of people when dealing with another group.

Anxiety

An uncomfortable feeling of nervousness or worry about something that is happening or might happen in the future.

Asset

A useful or valuable quality, skill, or person.

Attribute

To say or think that something is the result of a particular thing.

Balance

To arrange something so that different parts are equal or correct.

Barrier

Something that prevents people from entering or leaving a place.

Coping

The way someone deals with a difficult situation.