Academic Word Bank - UG6 by JK Kukuczka https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4 PEP EAP Autumn 2016 en-us 2016-10-31 20:38:51 UTC 2016-11-24 16:03:25 UTC hello@padlet.com neoliberalism (noun jkenglishteaching https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/134351777 'Neoliberalism is an economic ideology based on promoting "rational self-interest" through policies such as privatisation, deregulation, globalisation and tax cuts.'


]]> 2016-10-31 20:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/134351777 equality(noun) https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/136577504 Any time on any situation,treating everyone should be same way.
e.g: In term of equality, everyone need be respected, people cannot discriminate vulnerable groups.]]> 2016-11-09 21:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/136577504 quantity (noun) https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/136696250 'an amount or a number of something'
e.g: We pay attention to quality of the medicine rather than quantity of the medicine.

]]> 2016-11-10 12:46:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/136696250 Garfield https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/136875132 demonstrating(v)

To demonstrate a fact means to make it clear to people.

e.g:He was forced to entrust an assistant with the important task of testing anddemonstrating aircraft to prospective customers


]]> 2016-11-10 19:53:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/136875132 contemporary(adj) cinnyx819 https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/136875858 1.existing or happening now
e.g: Although the play was written hundreds of years ago, it still has a contemporary (= modern) feel to it.
2.belonging to the same or a stated period in the past
e.g: Almost all of the contemporary accounts of the event have been lost.
From: Cinny


]]> 2016-11-10 19:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/136875858 Tony https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/136877805 obligation (n.)

must/do not have to, need

e.g. The United States will do that which is necessary to meet its obligations to its own citizens.]]> 2016-11-10 20:00:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/136877805 https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/136905547 engagement（noun）
elise
a formal agreement to get married
e.g:She had broken off her engagement with her boyfriend.]]> 2016-11-10 22:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/136905547 https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/136905997 engagement（noun）
elise
a formal agreement to get married
e.g:She had broken off her engagement with her boyfriend.]]> 2016-11-10 22:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/136905997 debatable(adj.) https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137024472
there have something could be argued and are
promlems.

e.g.:Those data are debatable, no one has been able to replicate them.
  Michael]]> 2016-11-11 15:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137024472 hesitation (n.) https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137027702
you are going to do something but stop ]]> 2016-11-11 15:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137027702 hesitation (n.) https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137037035
you are going to do something but you stop because of some considerations.
e.g.:He hesitated before crossing the road because of t he broke of the traffic lights.
                          Grace

]]> 2016-11-11 16:00:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137037035 coherent (adj) https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137097228 1 marked by an orderly,logical,and aesthetically consistent relation of parts
2 sticking together
e.g: They seem to have  no coherent plan fr saving the company.
Aviva]]> 2016-11-11 20:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137097228 occasion (n;v) https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137099342 an opportunity to do something (noun)
 give occasion to (verb)
e.g: I only wear a tie on special occasions.(n)
what occasioned his angry protest is the rival's deliberate and cynical foul.(v)
  Neil]]> 2016-11-11 20:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137099342 Narrator（n）：1. the person who tell you a story in a book 2. the person who illustrate what is happening in a company or TV programme however who is not seen https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137101443 e.g.it is the comparative study of the narrator]]> 2016-11-11 21:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137101443 https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137224365 Feminist
(n.) a supporter of feminism
(adj.) of or relating to or advocating equal rights for women

Eg. : Only 16 percent of young women in a 1990 survey considered themselves feminists.

From: Jason]]> 2016-11-13 20:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137224365 neoliberal https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137294338 2016-11-14 09:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137294338 neoliberal https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137294447 noun.
someone who supports a large amount of freedom for markets, with little government control or spending and low taxes:

social movements resisting neoliberal economic policies neoliberal politicians/economists.


adjective.
someone who supports a large amount of freedom for markets, with little government control or spending and low texes:

Neoliberals insist that market can do more change the world than governments.


From:Bovi]]> 2016-11-14 09:22:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137294447 entrepreneur(noun) cinnyx819 https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137906407 Someone who starts their own business, especially when this involves seeing a new opportunity
e.g:He was one of the entrepreneurs of the 80s who made their money in property.
From:Cinny]]> 2016-11-15 20:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/137906407 Partnership(n) matulanyamsi https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/138658679 when some people are in the same group for the same aim eg: ONU is an partnership of many country in order to keep the peace. FRoM: DANKEU NYAMSI]]> 2016-11-18 11:30:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/138658679 Criticism (n) https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/138890916 the act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything.
Example: It was in part to counter this criticism that Israel had arranged to have thetrial televised. 

Four]]> 2016-11-19 18:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/138890916 Exclusive https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/138891098 not admitting of something else incompatible 
limited to the objects designated

Four]]> 2016-11-19 18:38:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/138891098 Condition https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/138954872 (n.)
a state at a particular time

a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing

(v.)
establish a conditioned response

train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control

Eg. :  The conditions in which people live or work are the factors which affect their comfort, safety, or health.

From: Jason]]> 2016-11-20 19:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/138954872 plagiarism (n) https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/138955092 a price of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work.
 the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own.
e.g: the content of his book in no more than plagiarism.
  Aviva]]> 2016-11-20 19:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/138955092 patriarchal (adj.) https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139240656 1.Relating to or denoting a system of society or government controlled by men:
‘a patriarchal society’

‘patriarchal values’

2.Relating to a patriarch:
‘a tall man who cut a patriarchal figure as he strode the floor of his busy factory’

From:Bovi
]]> 2016-11-22 00:59:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139240656 equality https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139370071 2016-11-22 14:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139370071 equality https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139370118
  • the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status
  • a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced

    • ]]>     2016-11-22 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139370118     equality https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139370185
  • the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status
  • a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced
    • equality between the sexes

    frank
    ]]>     2016-11-22 14:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139370185     equality https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139370186
  • the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status
  • a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced
    • equality between the sexes

    ]]>     2016-11-22 14:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139370186     Brouhaha（n） https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139370382 Bruit confus produit par un groupe de personnes.

    From：Eason]]>     2016-11-22 14:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139370382     hangdog https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139370825 having a dejected or guilty appearance; shamefaced.

    From：Eason]]>     2016-11-22 14:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139370825     Prevalent (adj) prevalence (n) popular; fashionable; Describe the trends prevailing popular ;the fact of something existing or happening ofteneg:The prevalent view is that interest rates will fall. https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139371720 Mandy

    ]]>     2016-11-22 15:00:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139371720     Postpone (v) Delay; defer; put off;Delay refers to the objective delay, real pressing, such as weather. Postpone refers to the subjective delay, but also refers to a person and something in a secondary positione eg: I am postpone for this game. https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139373581 Mandy]]> 2016-11-22 15:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139373581 clarify (n.) https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139407981 do something or say something to explain what you are and what you did.
    or  make something clean and make sb refreshed. e.g. He issued a statement to clarify the situation.  Grace]]>     2016-11-22 16:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139407981     agriculture (n.) https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139785284 people who live by farming and planting
    e.g: agriculture in the main production methods in developing countries.
    Charlotte

    ]]>     2016-11-24 15:55:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139785284     homosexuality (n.) https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139785691 the people who be attracted by same gender
    e.g: he might be a homosexuality because he falls in love with a male.
    Charlotte]]>     2016-11-24 15:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139785691     fairy tale (n.) https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139786028 a fabricated story with a romantic way to write
    e.g: Andersen is a famous fairy tale writer.
    Charlotte]]>     2016-11-24 16:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jkenglishteaching/x44yqo1kyam4/wish/139786028