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Wednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 2:09 PM
Vocabulary Building 02
Hey people!

I just completed marking your homework. Wooo there's loads of work to be done! :) Work hard and read more please. Please use the materials that I distributed (eg : the newspaper articles) to good use. Err, not for lavatory use ok? Ok I'll make it clearer. Don't use them as toilet paper! :P

Read well, and everything else follows.

Here are the words we discussed in class.

1) empathy (noun)
- the ability to understand and share the feelings of others
~ Almost everyone likes the class monitor. He has empathy towards the less fortunate.

2) priority (noun)
- a thing that is regarded more important than the other
~ Jaline is always scolded by her mother as housework is not high on her list of priorities.

3) speculation (verb)
- predict an event without any facts
~ David hates his classmates as they frequently speculate about his private life.

4) informal (adjective) 
- having a relaxed, friendly or unofficial style and manner
~ It is nice to see the teachers behaving informally amongst themselves. It shows that they are 'normal' after all.

5) marketing (verb)
- advertise or promote something
~ The salesgirl went all out marketing the new product to the aunties.

6) amid (preposition)
- in the middle of
~ Heidi lives in a beautiful cottage, set amid magnificent lush green fields of sunflower.

7) materialistic (adjective)
- a tendency to consider material possessions more valuable than spiritual values
~ Henry does not get along well with her materialistic aunt. 

8) pathologist (nouns)
- a person who works in the field of pathology (the science of the cause and effects of death)
~ Karim dreams to be a famous pathologist.


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