2nd week Vocabulary

1.

Word:  affable    

Definition:  friendly, amiable    

Part of Speech:  adjective              

Sentence:  She is always so affable that everyone wants to be her fellow.

Collocation: ‘student assessment’

2.

Word:  affluent  

Definition:  wealthy, rich 

Part of Speech:  adjective              

Sentence:  He is born in the affluent family who live in a suburb of Seoul.

Collocation: 'affluent nation'

3.

Word:  callous

Definition:  insensitive, cruel

Part of Speech:  adjective              

Sentence:  A person who is callous is insensitive to the suffering of others.

Collocation: 'a callous attitude'

4.

Word:  circumspect

Definition:  careful not to risk

Part of Speech:  adjective              

Sentence:  When it come to talking about religion, we have to be circumspect.

Collocation: 'circumspect about'

5.

Word:  clandestine

Definition:  concealed, planned or done in secret

Part of Speech:  adjective              

Sentence: The criminal has planned the incident clandestinely.

Collocation: 'clandestine relationship'

6.

Word:  aberration

Definition:  a temporary change from the typical or usual way, abnormality

Part of Speech:  noun

Sentence: It was an aberration that I wake up so early in the morning on this weekend.

Collocation: --

7.

Word:  captor

Definition:  a person who has captured a person or animal and refuse to release them

Part of Speech:  noun

Sentence: The captor asked a strong demand for releasing the hostages.

Collocation: --

8.

Word: empathy

Definition: a deep emotional understanding of someone else's feeling or experience, compassion

Part of Speech:  noun

Sentence: He showed empathy with victims of a catastrophic.

Collocation: 'empathy with'

9.

Word:  disdain

Definition: a feeling of contempt for anything deemed unworthy

Part of Speech:  noun

Sentence:  She is a racist that she treated Indians with disdain.

Collocation: 'a look of disdain'

10. 

Word:  cajole

Definition: to persuade someone to do something they might not want to do

Part of Speech:  verb

Sentence:  He cajoled a friend of his into doing his homework instead.

Collocation: --