My Vocabulary Frontier Name: Mirei Higuchi Date:Sept.

7th




Sentence

Kind of like business improv.
Definitions:
Improv>improvision
Unc.
acting, singing, performing etc without
preparing what you will say first:

Syllables/Pronunciation:

ad hoc
extempore



Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

Are Leaders Born Or Made?





Sentence:

the truth of the matter is that people find
me overbearing and insensitive.
Definitions:

always trying to control other people without
considering their wishes or feelings


Syllables/Pronunciation:

autocratic
dictatorial
imperious
tyrannical

Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

Are Leaders Born Or Made?





Sentence:

the truth of the matter is that people find me
overbearing and insensitive.
Definitions:

not noticing, or not taking the care to notice,
other people's feelings, and not realizing
when they are upset or when something that
you do will upset them:
(used with to ex. insensitive to his feeling)
Syllables/Pronunciation:

crass
uncaring
heartless



Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

Are Leaders Born Or Made?




My Vocabulary Frontier Name: Mirei Higuchi Date:Sept.7th




Sentence

Ifyouare willing to be drop-dead
honest with you in the service of that.
Definitions:

used before an adjective to emphasize
that somebody/something is attractive in a
very noticeable way

Syllables/Pronunciation:

superb
impressive
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

Are Leaders Born Or Made?






Sentence:

They work prodigious hours.
Definitions:

(usually before noun)
very large or great in a surprising or
impressive way

Syllables/Pronunciation:

vast
immense
colossal
tremendous

Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

The characteristics of The Operator
(Leadership course)




Sentence:
.
He was a printer, post master, inventor,
philanthropist, politician, husband and
father.
Definitions:

a rich person who gives a lot of money to
help poor people



Syllables/Pronunciation:

benefactor
contributor
donor
patron


Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)


Benjamin Franklin




My Vocabulary Frontier Name: Mirei Higuchi Date:Sept.7th




Sentence

This will help you avoid the pitfall of
copyng an authors text word-for-word.
Definitions:

a problem or difficulty that is likely to
happen in a particular job, course of
action, or activity


Syllables/Pronunciation:

danger
drawback
snag

Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

How to take a good note






Sentence:

This will help you avoid the pitfall
ofplagiarizing the author
Definitions:

to take words or ideas from another
person's work and use them in your work,
without stating that they are not your own


Syllables/Pronunciation:

copy
steal
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

How to take a good note






Sentence:
.Annotate your text.
Definitions:

to add short notes to a book or piece of
writing to explain parts of it:


Syllables/Pronunciation:

comment
note

Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

Taking Notes While You Read







My Vocabulary Frontier Name: Mirei Higuchi Date:Sept.7th




Sentence

The Strands of Independent Research
Definitions:

1,a single thin piece of thread, wire, hair
etc

2 one of the parts of a story, idea, plan etc

Syllables/Pronunciation:

area

Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

Independent Research






Sentence:

you are going to embark on your own
research about Benjamin Franklin.
Definitions:

to go onto a ship or a plane, or to put or
take something onto a ship or plane


Syllables/Pronunciation:

enter
board
commence
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

Independent Research






Sentence:
...they can set their own aims and
occupation in life, according to their
inclinations.
Definitions:
1 a feeling that makes you want to do
something:
2 a tendency to think or behave in a
particular way
3 a movement made down towards the
ground
4 formal a slope or the angle at which
something slopes

Syllables/Pronunciation:

desire
disposition
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

American Values and Assumptions




My Vocabulary Frontier Name: Mirei Higuchi Date:Sept.7th


Sentence




We are raising them to be rugged
individualists.
Definitions:
1 land that is rugged is rough and uneven:
a rugged coastline
2 a man who is rugged is good-looking
and has strong features which are often
not perfect:
3 a vehicle or piece of equipment that is
rugged is strongly built and not likely to
break easily [= sturdy]
4 rugged behaviour is confident and
determined but not always polite
Syllables/Pronunciation:

uneven

Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)


American Values and Assumptions





Sentence:
If it is economically feasible for them to do
so, young Americans are xpected to live
apart from their parents,
Definitions:

a plan, idea, or method that is feasible is
possible and is likely to work


Syllables/Pronunciation:

attainable
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

American Values and Assumptions






Sentence:
.
Foreign visitors who understand the
degree to which Americans are imbued
with the notion that
Definitions:

to make someone or something have a
quality, idea, or emotion very strongly:

Syllables/Pronunciation:

suffuse

Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

American Values and Assumtions






My Vocabulary Frontier Name: Mirei Higuchi Date:Sept.7th




Sentence

Examples are aviators Charles Lindbergh
and Amelia Earhart,
Definitions:
(oldfashioned)
A pilot



Syllables/Pronunciation:

navigator
airperson

Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

American Values and Assumtions






Sentence:

Competitiveness pervades the society.
Definitions:

if a feeling, idea, or smell pervades a
place, it is present in every part of it


Syllables/Pronunciation:

Infuse
permiate
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

American Values and Assumtions






Sentence:

Latin American, Asian, and Arab, where
the is a pronounced reverence for the
past.
Definitions:

great respect and admiration for someone
or something



Syllables/Pronunciation:

admiration
veneration
piety
Context: (eg, name of article, lecture, etc;
topic of paragraph, etc)

American Values and Assumptons