Name: Alejandro Maldonado A.

Course: 8th

Vocabulary-Unit#5
1. App: An application, especially as downloaded by a user to a mobile device.
2. Appliance: A device or piece of equipment designed to perform a specific task.
3. Assertive: Having or showing a confident and forceful personality.
4. Badly Paid: Receiving very little money for the work you do.
5. Balanced: Fair and sensible.
6. Be about to: To be ready to start doing something.
7. Bother: To make the effort to do something.
8. Build up: To develop something slowly.
9. Checkout: The place in a supermarket where you pay for goods.
10. College: A school for advance education, especially in a particular profession or
skill.
11. Compete: To try to win something or to be more successful than someone else.
12. Competitive: Competitive situation is one in which people or organizations try to
be more successful than others.
13. Confused: Unable to think dearly, so that you do not what to do.
14. Contact details: the information someone needs to contact you by post,
telephone and email.
15. Contestant: Someone who competes in a competition.
16. Crossroads: A time when you have to make an important decision about your
future.
17. Currently: Happening, existing or being done now.
18. Deal with: To do what is necessary, especially in order to solve a problem.
19. Decorating: The process of painting or putting paper into the walls of a room or
building.
20. Demands: The difficult or tiring things you have to do.
21. Disciplined: A discipline person obeys rules and controls their behaviour.
22. Discreet: Careful and prudent in one's speech or actions, especially in order to
keep something confidential or to avoid embarrassment.
23. Distract: Prevent (someone) from concentrating on something.
24. Distraction: A thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something
else.
25. Effective: Successful in producing a desired or intended result
26. Elderly: (of a person) old or ageing.
27. Employer: A person or organization that employs people.
28. Enrol: Officially register as a member of an institution or a student on a course.
29. Enthusiam: Intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
30. Executive: Relating to or having the power to put plans or actions into effect.
31. Explain: Make (an idea or situation) clear to someone by describing it in more
detail or revealing relevant facts.
32. Failure: Lack of success.
33. Final: Coming at the end of a series.
34. Fulfil: Achieve or realize (something desired, promised, or predicted)
35. Get ahead: To be successful in your job, work, etc.
36. Guess: To answer a question or decide something without being sure whether
you are right.
37. Guru: A Hindu spiritual teacher
38. Hurry up: Spoken used to tell someone to do something quickly.
39. Identify: Establish or indicate who or what (someone or something) is.
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40. Imagination: The faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts
of external objects not present to the senses.
41. Improvement: An example of improving or being improved.
42. In touch: If you are in touch with someone, you speak or writte to the regularly.
43. Intention: A thing intended; an aim or plan.
44. Interpersonal: Relating to relationships or communication between people.
45. Inventor: A person who invented a particular process or device or who invents
things as an occupation.
46. Jealous: Feeling or showing an envious resentment of someone or their
achievements, possessions, or perceived advantages.
47. Lifetime: The duration of a person's life.
48. Light bulb: The glass part of an electric light, where the light shines from.
49. Manner: The way in which someone behave with other people.
50. Material: The matter from which a thing is or can be made.
51. Maternity leave: A period of absence from work granted to a mother before and
after the birth of her child.
52. Moral: Concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviour.
53. Optimistic: Hopeful and confident about the future.
54. Outgoing: Friendly and socially confident.
55. Placement: The action of placing someone or something somewhere.
56. Position: A place where someone or something is located or has been put.
57. Potential: Having or showing the capacity to develop into something in the future.
58. Frustrating: Causing annoyance or upset because of an inability to change or
achieve something.
59. Practical: Of or concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than
with theory and ideas.
60. Profit: A financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and
the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something.
61. Profitable: (of a business or activity) yielding profit or financial gain.
62. Qualify: Be entitled to a particular benefit or privilege by fulfilling a necessary
condition.
63. Reality show: A television programme in which ordinary people are continuously
filmed, designed to be entertaining rather than informative.
64. Reasonably: In a sensible way.
65. Regret: Feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over (something that one has done
or failed to do)
66. Related: belonging to the same family, group, or type; connected.
67. Remark: Say something as a comment; mention.
68. Requirement: A thing that is needed or wanted.
69. Respond: Say something in reply.
70. Save: Keep safe or rescue (someone or something) from harm or danger.
71. Secretly: In a secret way; without others knowing.
72. Secure: Fixed or fastened so as not to give way, become loose, or be lost.
73. Sell: Give or hand over (something) in exchange for money.
74. Semi-final: A match or round immediately preceding the final, the winner of which
goes on to the final.
75. Sense: A faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the
faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.
76. Settle down: To start living a quiet life in one place, especially when you get
married.
77. Shock: A sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience.
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78. Sick: Affected by physical or mental illness.
79. Social media: Websites and applications that enable users to create and share
content or to participate in social networking.
80. Stall: A stand, booth, or compartment for the sale of goods in a market or large
covered area.
81. Statement: A definite or clear expression of something in speech or writing.
82. Summarize: Give a brief statement of the main points of (something)
83. Tough: (of a substance or object) strong enough to withstand adverse conditions
or rough handling
84. Trainee: A person undergoing training for a particular job or profession.
85. Unkind: Inconsiderate and harsh to others.
86. Weakness: The state or condition of being weak.
87. Wealthy: Having a great deal of money, resources, or assets; rich.
88. Well organized: Having or showing good organization.
89. Workaholic: A person who compulsively works excessively hard and long hours.