PROFICIENT adj.
🔹able to do something very well

📌🎧 Secretaries are proficient at typing quickly. ⌨️
📌 Jerry is a proficient salesman who can sell anything to anyone.
📌 There's only one way to become proficient at anything - practice!


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RIDGE n.
📖a long area of high land, especially at the top of a mountain

📌🎧 The brown bear walked along the edge of the mountain ridge.
📌 A small ridge of sand separated the field from the beach.
📌 We made our way carefully along the ridge.⛰


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DEVISE v.
📖 to plan or invent a new way of doing something

📌🎧 The thieves devised a plan to steal the diamonds. 💎
📌 The region is keen to devise a strategy to develop tourism.
📌 Our aim is to devise a way to improve quality and reduce costs.


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TOLERATE v.
📖 to be able to accept something even when it is unpleasant

📌🎧 When you are in a hurry, it can be hard to tolerate traffic signals.🚦
📌 The medication is well tolerated by most patients.
📌 The company will not tolerate discrimination in any shape or form.


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SURPLUS n.
📖 an amount of something that is more than what is needed or used

📌🎧 The store sold their surplus items on sale.
📌 A surplus of corn has helped decline the grain prices. 🌽
📌 The pension fund is in surplus.


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SPARSE adj.
📖 existing only in small amounts

📌🎧 Rob spent Saturday in his garden, clearing out the sparse weeds.
📌 As we drove towards the desert, the vegetation became sparse.
📌 Traffic was sparse on the highway. 🛣


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IGNORANT adj.
📖 not knowing facts or information

📌🎧 I’m a bit ignorant about his theories. Can you explain them to me?
📌 What we know is little, and what we are ignorant of is immense.
📌 He's completely ignorant about modern technology.


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VIGOROUS adj.
📖 using a lot of energy and strength

📌🎧 Henry uses vigorous exercise to keep himself in shape. 🏋️‍♂️
📌 It's a good idea to stretch before you take vigorous exercise.
📌 Vigorous efforts are being made to find a solution to the problem.


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VERIFY v.
📖 to prove or confirm something

📌🎧 Julian called the movie theater to verify that the movie started at nine.
📌 The waitress asked to see my driver’s license so she could verify my age. 🪪
📌 Further experiments will be carried out to verify this result.


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GAZETTE n.
📖 a newspaper

📌🎧 Alice wants to write for a gazette when she’s older. 📰
📌 The enterprise was named in the gazette.
📌 After he retired from football he became a sports journalist for the Gazette.


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ELUDE v.
📖 to avoid something or someone

📌🎧 The rabbit eluded the wolf by hiding in a bush.
📌 Morihei Uyeshiba, the founder of aikido, often demonstrated his ability to elude attack.🥋
📌 The cruise ship was too big to elude the pirate vessel.


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COUNTERPART n.
📖 a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another

📌🎧 Our manager will meet our rival company’s counterpart later today.
📌 Night is the counterpart of day.🌚
📌 My counterpart in New York manages his office staff in the same manner that I supervise my employees.


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IMPAIR v.
📖 to damage something or make it not as good as it should be

📌🎧 Drinking coffee impairs my ability to go to sleep. 🙃
📌 A bad diet can impair your ability to perform athletically.
📌 Loud noise can impair your hearing.


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CONTRADICT v.
📖 to disagree with something, especially by saying that the opposite is true

📌🎧 Ken was always fighting with his little sister because she kept contradicting him. 🙅‍♀️
📌 Deborah opened her mouth to contradict, but closed it again.
📌 The two stories contradict each other.


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AQUATIC adj.
📖 associated with water, often living in or taking place in water

📌🎧 The dolphin is an aquatic mammal. 🐬
📌 All aquatic activities will take place in the indoor pool.
📌 The aquatic plant can only live in fresh water.


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REPETITIVE adj.
📖 happening, in the same way, many times

📌🎧 Working on an assembly line making cars every day is a repetitive job.
📌 Machines can now perform many repetitive tasks in the home.
📌 Repetitive practice on the court helped the basketball player improve her skill day after day. ⛹️‍♀️


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FEND v.
📖 defend oneself from a blow, attack, or attacker.

📌🎧 Dave spent all night fending off bugs instead of sleeping.
📌 I've had to fend for myself since I was 14. 🛡
📌 She uses her secretary to fend off unwanted phone calls.


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PROMINENT adj.
📖 important; easily seen

📌🎧 Queen Victoria was a prominent person in history.
📌 The World Cup will have a prominent place on the agenda.
📌 Maximilian was famous for his large nose, and it is prominent in all his pictures and statues. 👃


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AWHILE adv.
📖 for a short time

📌🎧 Wait here awhile, and I’ll bring some tea.
📌 After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.
📌 I waited awhile, then I rang again. ☎️


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#communication skills
7 Personal Thesaurus Technique

Look up some common words you use every day (smart, nice, pretty, good etc.) in the thesaurus. Then try a few new words to see how they sound for you. If you like them, start making permanent replacements.

smart → ingenious
wonderful → magnificient
good → marvelous

The world perceives people with rich vocabularies to be more creative, more intelligent. People with larger vocabularies get hired quicker, promoted faster, and listened to a whole lot more.

COARSE adj.
📖 having a rough surface that feels slightly hard

📌🎧 The coarse sweater made my skin itch.
📌 She never wears clothes made of coarse material. 🧶
📌 The fisherman's skin was dark and coarse, his hands big and strong.


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