Wednesday, April 21, 2010

List of Words You Learned this Semester

These are words you learned from the listening materials and the readings. In total, I think you have learned nearly 1000 new words! If you can remember even half, you have made some serious progress.

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  1. Spring 2010/5ab/Cin
    Vocabulary from this semester

    140 words from ALE:

    concept
    disrupt/disruptive
    off track/on track
    curriculum
    manifest
    fatigue
    keep my temper/a bad temper/a good temper
    susceptible/likely
    immune system
    assign/assignment
    patrol
    routine
    ulcer
    documented
    at my peak
    implications
    psychosomatic disorders
    invade/invaders
    inactivate
    compromised—damaged
    condition—to teach
    malfunction
    stimulus/stimulate
    nursing homes
    tend to be
    medication
    heavily
    switch
    peer pressure
    doesn't do any good
    will power
    hooked
    tempted
    hang out
    initially
    cold turkey
    cut back
    hypnotize
    treatments
    urge
    keep doing that
    a stroke
    peripheral
    clots
    elasticity
    partial
    estrogen
    menopause
    diabetes
    metabolically/metabolism
    cholesterol
    hereditary
    side effects
    obese
    excess
    incidence
    perfectionist
    hostility
    sedentary

    encounter
    you either get it or you don't
    flounder through
    fascinated by
    rapport
    label myself
    a dunce
    menial-type labor
    determination
    genius
    internalize/internalization
    devise
    premise
    assortment
    progressive
    bright/dull
    ratio
    formula
    administer
    visual-spatial skills
    bias
    rough neighborhood
    “street smart”
    thrive
    a cliché
    drop off (decrease)
    acquisition
    fine motor skills/gross motor skills
    assert oneself
    inappropriate
    “dumb down”
    cognitive
    rapid-fire questioning
    puts girls at a disadvantage
    compound (multiply/get bigger)
    blow it (slang—do badly “I blew it!”)
    out of control
    kinesthetic intelligences
    perceive
    replicate
    excel
    enriched
    impoverished
    climate
    successive

    hand signals
    palm
    index finger
    pinky
    “I bet!”
    interested (in a man or a woman)
    minimize
    sit still

    posture
    tone of voice
    complicated
    altogether
    puzzled
    colleague
    cues
    cooperate
    a green light

    backing up
    despair
    body bubble
    accommodate
    cold (unfriendly/distant)
    self-conscious
    affection
    sarcasm
    abroad
    overlooked
    proxemics
    subtle
    violate
    irritation
    neutral
    ritual
    taboo
    incorporate
    awkward
    norms
    alienation
    camaraderie

    Words from Reading Skills


    allude
    episodic
    combustion
    fossil fuels
    exacerbate
    assuage
    arid
    ameliorate
    parameters
    profits
    physical resources
    capital (business)
    conjure
    revenue
    legitimate
    capitalistic
    evolve
    intricate
    entrepreneur
    laissez-faire
    monopolize
    collude
    manipulation
    outsourcing
    acumen
    tangible
    peripheral
    subsidiary

    gullible
    devour
    immaculate
    awry
    malady
    stamina
    optimism
    tenacious
    unpalatable
    corny

    mentor
    tepid
    benign
    vile
    mettle
    monsoon
    incessant
    forge
    decoy
    dowry
    finesse
    frugal
    impoverished
    quay
    prostrated
    enervated
    measly
    obscurely
    stock in trade
    imperceptible
    autopsy
    apprehensively
    carnal
    rapture
    sole
    siren
    phial
    impending
    model
    prestigious
    insulation
    knocked asunder
    rage
    frenzied
    filch
    strategy
    venomous
    destiny
    battered
    paranoia
    binge
    counter to
    nurture

    irony
    concur
    norms
    subordinate
    agonistic paradox
    assertive

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