Monday, May 17, 2010

20 vocab words

1) Annual (Adjective) occurring or payable every year.
Sentence: I went on an annual trip to London.
2) Confer (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over.
Sentence: We conferred about a plan of action.
3) Goal (noun) the place designated as the end.
Sentences: the winning goal came with less than a minute left to play.
4) Job (noun) an occupation.
Sentence: he gave it up as a bad job.
5) Phase (noun) any distinct time period in a sequence of events.
Sentence: they phased the intake with the output of the machine.
6) Series (noun) similar things placed in order or happening one after another.
Sentence: Faisal is a series person.
7) Apparent (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment.
Sentence:Memories may become apparent during dream state or have a trigger event in the awakened state.
8) Contrast (verb) the act of distinguishing by comparing differences.
Sentence: The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student
9) Consent (verb) to agree or to do something.
Sentence: We obtained parental consent for the young people.
10) Valid (adjective) having legal force; properly executed and binding under the law.
Sentence: Don't you see that the converse is equally valid?
11) Technology (noun) the science or study of the practical or industrial arts.
Sentence: The novelty of new technology holds the interest of visitors.
12) Access: (Noun) the act of coming toward or near to; approach.
Sentence: Improving access to services is a specific action point of the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy.
13) Civil (Adjective) of a community of citizens, their government, or their interrelations civil service, civil war.
Sentence: The talk is of criminal charges as well as just a civil one.
14) Established (verb) bring into being on a firm or stable basis.
Sentence: The telephone was established in 1876.
15) Individual (adjective) single; particular; separate: to number individual copies of a limited edition.
Sentence: I did an individual project.
16) Environment (Noun) The aggregate of surrounding things.
Sentence: Keeping the environment clean is society's duty.
17) Beneficial (adjective) Conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.
Sentence: The cars are beneficial but they cause a lot of pollution.
18) Assess (verb) to estimate officially the value.
Sentence: My teacher will assess this work.
19) Function (noun) the kind of action or activity proper to a person
to perform a specified action or activity.
Sentence: My brother function in the society is a lawyer.
20) Structure (noun) mode of building, construction, or organization.
Sentence: The managers know the structure of the company.

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