English Vocabulary

Vocabulary flashcards from lecture notes.

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.

Courage

The ability to control fear and to be willing to deal with something that is dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant.

Credit

Praise or approval because you are responsible for something good that has happened.

Current

Of the present time.

Debt

Something, especially money, that is owed to someone else.

Empathy

The ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation.

Encounter

To experience something, especially something unpleasant or difficult.

Entrepreneur

Someone who starts their own business, especially when this involves seeing a new opportunity.

Extensive

Covering a large area or having a great range.

Fee

An amount of money paid for a particular piece of work or for a particular right or service.

Fit in

To feel that you belong to a particular group and are accepted by them.

Foundation

An organization that has been started in order to provide money for a particular group of people in need of help or for a particular type of study.

Gap

An empty space or hole in the middle of something, or between two things.

Hesitation

The act of pausing before doing something, especially because you are nervous or not certain.

Insurance

An agreement in which you pay a company money and they pay your costs if you have an accident, injury, etc.

Interaction

An occasion when two or more people or things communicate with or react to each other.

Interest

The feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more about something.

Intervention

The action of becoming intentionally involved in a difficult situation, in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse.

Loan

An amount of money that is borrowed, often from a bank, and has to be paid back, usually together with an extra amount of money that you have to pay as a charge for borrowing.

Mortgage

An agreement that allows you to borrow money from a bank or similar organization, especially in order to buy a house, or the amount of money itself.

Naturally

Happening or existing as part of nature and not made or done by people.

Negotiate

To have formal discussions with someone in order to reach an agreement with them.

Pension

An amount of money paid regularly by the government or a private company to a person who does not work any more because they are too old or have become ill.

Petrified

Extremely frightened.

Pitch in

To start to do something as part of a group, especially something helpful.

Precisely

Exactly.

Refrain

A phrase or idea that you repeat often.

Retirement

The act of leaving your job and stopping working, usually because you are old.

Self-fulfillment

A feeling of happiness because you are doing what you intended to do in life.

Sense

An ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel.

Series

A number of similar or related events or things, one following another.

Set up

To arrange for something to happen.

Shame

An uncomfortable feeling of guilt or of being ashamed because of your own or someone else's bad behaviour.

Stock

A supply of something for use or sale.

Tedious

Boring and tiring, especially because long or often repeated.

Tool

A piece of equipment that you use with your hands to make or repair something.

Tragic

Very sad, often involving death and suffering.

Truly

Used to emphasize that what you are saying is true.

Void

A large hole or empty space.

Work ethic

The belief that work is morally good.

Wounded

Injured, especially with a cut or hole in the skin.