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VOCABULARY LOG # ( 4 )
Words (5 words)
Target Word 1
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inferior
Ilona Leki, Academic Writing, ELI073
Some educators fear that the average and slow students would come to regard themselves as inferior.
Category
Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb
Meaning
Bad, not as good as
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Category
N V Adj Adv
Meaning
lower in station, rank, degree, or grade
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Target Word 2
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He's so clever, he makes me feel inferior.
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heterogeneous
Ilona Leki, Academic Writing, ELI073
Heterogeneous classrooms frequently produce frustration in children who are persistently unable to do t
he same work that most of the other children do.
Category
Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb
Meaning
Not the same
Category
N V Adj Adv
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Target Word 3
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Meaning
Different in kind
There is a heterogeneous mass of papers in the teacher's office.
snob
Ilona Leki, Academic Writing, ELI073
One of the basic arguments against grouping the gifted is the fear of creating a caste of intellectual snobs.
Category
Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb
Meaning
Some people who think themselves are great
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Category
N V Adj Adv
Meaning
a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
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Target Word 4
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Context
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This part of the town has a lot of snobs.
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innate
Ilona Leki, Academic Writing, ELI073
I regard gifted children as those who possess some quality or innate ability which has been recognized by any
number of testing in either physical, intellectual, or artistic pursuits.
Category
Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb
Meaning
internal
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Category
N V Adj Adv
Meaning
existing in one from birth
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Target Word 5
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Context
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Ability is not innate, but comes through practice.
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extinct
Academic Reading, ELI082
Within ten years, destruction of rain forests will cause hundreds of plant and animal species to become
extinct.
Category
Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb
Meaning
disappear
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Category
N V Adj Adv
Meaning
no longer in existence
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Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
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Word Parts (2 word parts)
Word Part
Meaning
Example
Ann, enni(Roots)
year
anniversary
annual
biennial
Ced(Roots)
Yield, go
recede
proceed
intercede
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Idioms/Collocations (5 idioms or collocations)
Target Phrase 1
Regard…as
Source
Ilona Leki, Academic Writing, ELI073
Context
I regard gifted children as those who possess some quality or innate ability which has been recognized by any number of testing in
either physical, intellectual, or artistic pursuits.
Meaning
look on as or consider
Target Phrase 2
In charge of
Source
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Reading Fast, ELI082
Context
In the course of trying to get permission from the city offices in charge of the park, the artists received a vast collection of documents.
Meaning
to be responsible for
Target Phrase 3
Be endowed with
Source
Ilona Leki, Academic Writing, ELI073
Context
They are endowed with certain characteristics and attributes—“gifted” of nature—which represent their potential success in life.
Meaning
Possess, have
Target Phrase 4
Be over the hill
Source
Reader’s Digest
Context
In the world of pop music, people think you're over the hill at the age of twenty-five.
Meaning
Someone is too old to do things well.
Target Phrase 5
lose one's appetite
Source
Reader’s Digest
Context
After that gory movie, I'm afraid I've lost my appetite.
Meaning
to lose one's desire to eat