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Saturday 8 October 2011

UFS 201: 5 New Vocabulary



So, I already start using ma 'blogging system', when my lecturer asking me (& whole class of coz), each person must find 5 New Vocabulary. They must include:
  • Meaning
  • Antonym
  • Synonym
  • IPA
  • Words
uhuh!!!! I found it..... They are:

  • Inveterate
    • Meaning- Someone who does something very often and cannot stop doing/long-standing establishment.
    • Antonym- short-lived
    • Synonym- addicted, confirmed, continuing, enduring, old, permanent.
    • IPA- [ in-vet-er-it]
    • Words- The man inveterate with smoking since he's 18 years old.

  • Etiquette
    • Meaning- The set of rules or customer which control accepted behavior in particular social group or social situations.
    • Antonym- bad-manners
    • Synonym- amenities, code, convention, decorum, dignity, protocol.
    • IPA- [et-i-kit, -ket]
    • Words- Business etiquette and common sense seems to go on hand-in-hand.

  • Probationer
    • Meaning- casual participant
    • Antonym- professional
    • Synonym- apprentice, beginner, hopeful, learner.
    • IPA- [pron-bey-shuh-ner]
    • Words- That women having probation after 3 years she spent her time at college of nursing.

  • Eccentric
    • Meaning- Deviating from a circular form of a path, as in an elliptical orbit.
    • Antonym- normal, regular, ordinary, customary, conventional.
    • Synonym- strange,  weird, bizarre.
    • IPA- [ik-sen-trik, ek-]
    • Words- Perhaps more eccentric of all, a professor in our math department taught his dog the essentials of calculus. 
  • Voracious
    • Meaning- very hungry, greedy
    • Antonym- quenched, satisfied
    • Synonym- covetous, empty, gross, insatiable, prodigious, rapacios, starved, uncontrolled.
    • IPA- [vaw-rey-shuh s, voh-, vuh-]
    • Words- The fish in neighboring streams and lakes are so voracious, it is said, that fisherman have to stand out of sight behind trees while baiting their hooks.

And that the 5 words that I found..



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