Overview
This lecture presented a collection of advanced English vocabulary words, each defined, paraphrased, and contextualized with example sentences to aid in comprehension and usage.
Key Vocabulary & Usage
- Words like consensus, contemporary, and panacea relate to agreement, time, and universal solutions.
- Action verbs such as retain, concentrate, supervise, utilize, evolve, and manipulate focus on maintaining, focusing, observing, using, developing, and controlling.
- Terms describing people or status include underprivileged, affiliate, successor, privilege, destitute, and affluent.
- Words about communication and thought: analogy, articulate, elaborate, persuasion, sarcastic, irony, articulate, coherent, introspective.
- Words for challenges or problems: dilemma, contradiction, ambivalent, hinder, constraint, catastrophe.
- Emotional and psychological descriptors: bewildered, euphoric, nostalgia, sanguine, pensive, vindictive, mournful.
- Societal and legal terms: amendment, outlaw, reform, elimination, abolish, regulate, discretion, intervention.
- Academic and scientific vocabulary: analogy, paradigm, specimen, mechanism, evolution, diversity, optimize.
- Description & traits: robust, dexterous, elegant, splendid, luxurious, bleak, appalling, grotesque.
- Adjectives showing degree or quality: superficial, definitive, perceptible, insatiable, exponential, remarkable, stunning.
Key Terms & Definitions
- Consensus — general agreement within a group.
- Panacea — a solution for all problems.
- Supervise — to observe and direct work.
- Amendment — a change to a document or law.
- Skeptical — doubting the truth or usefulness of something.
- Ambivalent — having mixed feelings.
- Evolve — to develop gradually.
- Authentic — real or genuine.
- Vivid — producing clear, powerful images.
- Empathetic — able to feel and understand others' emotions.
- Procrastinate — to delay doing something.
- Vindictive — seeking revenge.
Action Items / Next Steps
- Review and memorize key vocabulary and their definitions.
- Practice writing sentences using new words.
- Prepare for a quiz covering these terms and their correct contexts.