e-Portfolio: Session 09 (October 08)

 

By: Yuliana Loría Villalobos

1.      Fickle /ˈfɪk.əl/

Adjective

Likely to change your opinion or your feelings suddenly and without a good reason.

E.g. He’s fickle because he changes a lot his girlfriends.

 

2.      Predecessor /ˈpred.ə.ses.ɚ/

Noun

Someone who had a job or a position before someone else, or something that comes before another thing in time or in a series.

E.g. He’s the president’s predecessor.

 

3.      Workload /ˈwɝːk.loʊd/

Noun

The amount of work to be done, especially by a particular person or machine in a period of time.

E.g. Students feel like they are a robot because of the workload they have.

 

4.      Suburb /ˈsʌb.ɝːb/

Noun

An area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city often live.

E.g. We are going to travel through the suburbs.

 

5.      Bumpy /ˈbʌm.pi/

Adjective

Not smooth.

E.g. It was a bumpy street.

 

6.      Advocate /ˈæd.və.keɪt/

Verb

To publicly support or suggest an idea, development, or way of doing something.

E.g. They advocated stopping the exam.

 

7.      Onerous /ˈɑː.nɚ.əs/

Adjective

Difficult to do or need a lot of effort.

E.g. He found his class' responsibility increasingly onerous.

 

8.      Underside /ˈʌn.dɚ.saɪd/

Noun

The side of something that is usually closest to the ground.

E.g. The butterfly's wings have a mottled brown pattern on the underside.

 

9.      Squarely /ˈskwer/

Adverb

Directly and firmly.

E.g. She talked to him squarely.

 

10.  Counterproductive /ˌkaʊn.t̬ɚ.prəˈdʌk.tɪv/

Adjective

Having an effect that is opposite to the one intended or wanted.

E.g. His answer was counterproductive.

 

11.  Catch-all /ˈkætʃ.ɑːl/

Adjective

General and intended to include everything.

E.g. The catch-all thought “The police are bad”.

 

12.  Rote /roʊt/

Noun

Learning something in order to be able to repeat it from memory, rather than in order to understand it.

E.g. She learned multiplication by rote.

 

13.  Cult /kʌlt/

Noun

Something that is very popular with some people, or a particular set of beliefs or behavior.

E.g. It is the cult of homework.

 

14.  Regurgitate /rɪˈɡɝː.dʒə.teɪt/

Verb

If you regurgitate facts, you just repeat what you have heard without thinking about it.

E.g. He regurgitated subjects just to do the exam.

 

15.  Loom /luːm/

Verb

To appear as a large, often frightening or unclear shape or object.

E.g. Vehicles loomed out of the darkness.