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Nouns

Jobs/Occupations/
Careers: relating to advice about jobs and training.
Accountant: someone who keeps or examines the records of money
received, paid, and owed by a company or person.
(secret) agent: a government employee whose job involves getting
secret information about the governments of unfriendly foreign
countries.
Air traffic controller: the activity of managing aircraft from the ground
as they take off, fly, and land, or the people who do this.
Architectt: a person whose job is to design new buildings and make
certain that they are built correctly.
Child-care worker: Responsible for supervising, nurturing, and caring
for children typically from ages 6 weeks to 5 years old, before the child
enters kindergarten. Welcomes children each day, provides meals,
performs crafts and activities, changes diapers, and ensures children
behave well when in contact with other children.
Choir director: Learn about the education and preparation needed to
become a choral director. Get a quick view of the requirements as well
as details about training, job duties and important skills to find out if this
is the career for you.
(high school) coach: the cheapest type of seats on a plane or train.
(gossip) columnist: a journalist who writes a regular feature in a
newspaper.
Comedian: an amusing or entertaining person: sometimes used
ironically.
(Restaurant) cook: to prepare (food) by the action of heat, as by
boiling, baking, etc., or (of food) to become ready for eating through
such a process .
Counselor: a U.S. diplomatic officer ranking just below an ambassador
or minister.

(clothing/Web) designer: a person who devises and executes designs,


as for works of art, clothes, machines, etc.
(bus/taxi) driver: a person who drives a vehicle.
Flight attendant: a person who attends to the needs of passengers on
a commercial flight.
Headhunter: a person who tries to persuade someone to leave their job
by offering that person another job with more pay and a higher position.
(aerobics) instructor: a person whose job is to teach people a
practical skill.
Intern: to put someone in prison for political or military reasons,
especially during a war.
Landscaper: the art of making gardens, parks, and areas around
buildings look more natural and attractive.
Lawyer: someone whose job is to give advice to people about the law
and speak for them in court.
Pharmacist: a person who is trained to prepare and give out medicines
in a hospital or shop.
Politician: a member of a government or law-making organization.
Psychiatrist: a doctor who is also trained in psychiatry.
(newspaper/TV) reporter: a person whose job is to discover
information about news events and describe them for a newspaper or
magazine or for radio or television.
Veterinarian: a person skilled in the practice of veterinary medicine.
Other
(dis)advantage: a condition or situation that causes problems,
especially one that causes something or someone to be less successful
than other things or people.
Landscaping: a large area of countryside, especially in relation to its
appearance.
(job) lead: to control a group of people, a country, or a situation.

Orchestra: a large group of musicians who play many different


instruments together and are led by a conductor.
Salary: a fixed amount of money agreed every year as pay for an
employee, usually paid directly into his or her bank account every
month.
(public) speaking: the act or skill of giving a speech at a public event.
Tan: pleasantly brown skin caused by being in the hot sun.
Adjectives
Conventional: a large formal assembly of a group with common
interests, such as a political party or trade union.
Enterprising: ready to embark on new ventures; full of boldness and
initiative.
Investigative: intended to examine a situation in order to discover the
truth.
(Un) predictable: likely to change suddenly and without reason and
therefore not able to be predicted (= expected before it happens) or
depended on.
Realistic: accepting things as they are in fact and not making decisions
based on unlikely hopes for the future.
Social: relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with
other people and that happen during the time when you are not working.
Verbs
Conduct: to organize and perform a particular activity.
Earn: to receive money as payment for work that you do.
Seem: to give the effect of being; to be judged to be.
Sound: of or relating to radio as distinguished from television.
Adverb: a word that describes or gives more information about a verb,
adjective, adverb, or phrase.
Probably: likely to be true or likely to happen.

Conjunctions: a word such as 'and', 'but', 'while', or 'although' that


connects words, phrases, and clauses in a sentence.
As: used in comparisons to refer to the degree of something.
But: used to introduce an added statement, usually something that is
different from what you have said before.

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