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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TEMPERATE adj.
📖 to have moderate or mild weather; calm and sensible

📌🎧 In Peru, the weather is temperate and rarely gets too hot or cold.
📌 He is temperate in his habits.
📌 Her final report to the President was far more temperate and balanced than the earlier memorandum.


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FEAT n.
📖 an impressive or difficult achievement or action

📌🎧 The elephant’s standing up on one leg was a feat.
📌 He received a medal for his heroic feat. 🏅
📌 The Eiffel Tower is a remarkable feat of engineering.


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VULNERABLE adj.
📖 someone who can be easily harmed or hurt; easy to attack or criticize

📌🎧 He felt very vulnerable when he was stranded in the desert.
📌 The sudden leave of the director put the company in a very vulnerable position.
📌The virus attacks the immune system, leaving your body vulnerable to infections. 🦠


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COMPANION n.
📖 a person who accompanies another person while traveling or doing other tasks

📌🎧 I always walk to school with my companion Frank.
📌 My companion waited for me at the end of the street.
📌 The dog has been her constant companion these past ten years.🐕


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DIVERGE v.
📖 to separate into different directions

📌🎧 The road diverged into two paths that led to our houses.
📌 The two species diverged millions of years ago.🦕
📌 I'm afraid our opinions diverge from each other on the direction of investment.


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ORNATE adj.
📖 covered with a lot of decoration

📌🎧 Kim’s prom dress was very expensive since it was so ornate.
📌 The uneducated man could not understand the ornate speech made by the professor.
📌 During the holiday, families display ceramic dolls dressed in the ornate, decorative robes. 🎎


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GRATIFY v.
📖 to please someone, or to satisfy a wish or need

📌🎧 Bonnie was gratified after receiving her gift from her parents.👨‍👩‍👧
📌 Now she has a job in France she can gratify her wish to see Europe.
📌 Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest. [Mark Twain]


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How many of them do you remember ?

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🏅 🙊 🌖 👜 🧜‍♀️ 🌐 🗞

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☎️ 👩‍⚖️ 🧘‍♀️ 👩‍🌾 📉 🌾 🧀

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SINISTER adj.
📖 making you feel that something evil, dangerous, or illegal is happening or will happen

📌🎧 Bad guys in most movies have sinister laughs.😈
📌 Her dark eyes and evil laugh made her seem sinister.
📌 The man was dressed in a black suit and wore dark glasses. There was something sinister about him.


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HONE v.
📖 to perfect a talent or skill

📌🎧 Lisa honed her chess skills by hours and hours of practice. ♟
📌 Because Jessica wants to hone her cake baking ability, she attends a culinary class.
📌 The football players will hone their strengths before the championship match.


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PROLONG v.
📖 to make something last for a longer time.

📌🎧 Sandy walked slowly across the beach, trying to prolong her lunch break.⏳
📌 The teacher decided to prolong the test, giving the student 15 more minutes to finish the exam.
📌 I was trying to think of some way to prolong the conversation.


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