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.
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