Ziqi+Yang

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**Week 1** -**Vocabulary for Week Ending Friday September 18 **
 * 1) ambiguity(n.) an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context; e.g. He was quick eo notice the ambiguities in the article.
 * 2) puberty(n.) the time of life when sex glands become functional; e.g. Reach the age of puberty when a boy is about 12.
 * 3) millennium(n.) a thousand years; e.g. Now is the second millennium AD.
 * 4) sway1.(n.) controlling influence; e.g. People under the sway of Rome. 2.(v.) move or lean slowly from side to side; e.g. He swayed slightly, as if about to fall.
 * 5) riddle1.(n.) a difficult problem; e.g. She speaks in riddles, it's hard to understand what she means. 2.(v.) set a difficult problem or riddle; e.g. Riddle a riddle.
 * 6) chronic(a.) lasting for a long time; e.g. The country's chronic unemployment problem has not been solved until now.
 * 7) sesemblance(n.) similarity in appearance or external or superficial details; e.g. This language bear no resemblance to any other language known to the Romans.
 * 8) wane(v.) grow smaller; e.g. The waning hope that this riddle can be solved rests with archaeological investigations now being conducted on an unprecedented scale in Tuscany and northern Italy.
 * 9) heterogeneous(a.) consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature; e.g. The hererogeneous population of the USA, i**s** of many different races.
 * 10) arbiter(n.) person who has the power to decide what will be done, accepted, etc with regard to sth; e.g. Most arbiters of fashion is in France.


 * Yang, good start. Don't forget your example sentences and watch that you don't make incomplete sentences. **

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**Week 2** -**Vocabulary for Week Ending Friday September 25 **
 * 1) catharsis(n.) release of strong feelings through the effect of art, esp drama; e.g. Even around Plato's time, his pupil Aristotle preferred an Expression theory: Art as catharsis of the emotions.
 * 2) voluminous(a.) great in quantity, abundant; e.g. The pubications of the book generated voluminous research in social psychology.
 * 3) indulgent(a.) inclined to indulge; e.g. He was an indulgent father,ever ready to provide new clothes.
 * 4) intent(n.) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions; e.g. Examines officially with intent to verify.
 * 5) annotate(v.) add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments; e.g. Some people annotate as they read.
 * 6) serif(n.) a short line at the end of the stockes of a character; e.g. Should it be a serif or a sans serif for example?
 * 7) urbanize(v.) make more industrial or city-like; e.g. The area was urbanized after many people moved in.
 * 8) grammatical(a.) of pertaining to grammer; e.g. Grammatical structure can also lead to ambiguity.
 * 9) badger(v.) annoy persistently; e.g. Stop badgering your father with questions!
 * 10) jab(v.) push or poke at sb/sth roughly, use with sth sharp or pointed; e.g. He kept jabbing at the paper cup with his pencil.
 * 11) manner(n.) way in which a thing is done or happens; e.g. I don't object to what she says, but I strongly disapprove of her manner of saying it.
 * 12) fragile(a.) easily broken or damaged or destroyed; e.g. Glasses are fragile and must be handled with great care.
 * 13) cursive(a.) with letters rounded and joined together; e.g. As a cursive script and other characteristics, it is very difficult to do text segmentation and recognition.

**Week 3** -**Vocabulary for Week Ending Friday October 2**
 * 1) offspring(n.) child or children of a particular person or couple; e.g. She will do well and perhaps have more offspring than others in the population.
 * 2) cosmetic(n.) (use pl.) a toiletry designed to beautiful the body; e.g.I work for a company that sells cosmetics.
 * 3) permeate(v.) enter sth. and spread to every part; e.g. Be a kind of research study that studies the way, it is permeate in the student study of all courses, all activities in.
 * 4) lure(v.) attract or tempt; e.g. The enticement of the big city lures her away from her home.
 * 5) indulge(v.) give free rein to; e.g. Do not ignore cherishing spirit, do not indulge in seeking pleasure.
 * 6) utmost(a.) greatest, furthest, most extreme; e.g. We can't take on any more work we're fully stretched (ie working to the utmost of our powers) at the moment.
 * 7) amorous(a.) readily showing or feeling love, relating to love; e.g. The oars were silver,/Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made the/Water which they beat to follow faster/As amorous of their strokes.
 * 8) deceitful(a.) often deceiving people, dishonest; e.g. His political opponents tore away the show of sincerity covering his deceitful intention.
 * 9) fraud(n.) deceiving sb. illegally in order to make money or obtain goods; e.g. Their effectiveness in the fraud industry is excellent.
 * 10) rudimentary(a.) elementary, fundamental; e.g. This may be possible in a village society with rudimentary specialization.
 * 11) tremendous(a.) very great, immense; e.g. He has a tremendous hold over his younger brother.
 * 12) expenditure(n.) action of spending or using; e.g. Everyone is always in favor of general economy and particular expenditure.
 * 13) numb(a.) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; e.g. If exposed to too much advertisements he or she will just become numb and will only take it too much for granted.
 * 14) burglarize(v.) commit a burglary, enter and rob a dwelling; e.g. They might steal purses, burglarize apartments and homes.

**Week 4** -**Vocabulary for Week Ending Friday October 9**
 * 1) heuristic(a.) (of a method or of a teaching) that helps or allows a learner to discover and learn things for himself; e.g. An experiment proves this heuristic algorithm is efficient for solving this kind of problem.
 * 2) conveyance(n.) something that serves as a means of transportation; e.g. We focus on visual design of the brand for the value promotion and conveyance.
 * 3) oppositive(ad.) expressing antithesis or opposition; e.g. The oppositive to the negative.
 * 4) hinder(v.) prevent the progress of sb./sth.; e.g. A weight, such as a block, attached to the leg of an animal to hinde**r** movement.
 * 5) nuisance(n.) thing, person or behavior that is treroublesome or annoying; e.g. Dog is sometimes a nuisance to the neighborhood.
 * 6) exert(v.) bring sth. into use; e.g. He exerted all his influence to make them accept his plan.
 * 7) indecent(a.) offending against accepted standards of decency or morality obscene; e.g. Something, such as a word, an act, or an expression, that is indecent or lewd.
 * 8) unwholesome(a.) harmful to health or to moral well-being; e.g. Unwholesome associations often lead to unwholesome thoughts and actions.
 * 9) hemorrhage(n.) flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessels; e.g. A hemorrhage of corporate earnings.
 * 10) inveigle(v.) doing sth. persuade sb. to go somewhere or do sth. by using flattery and deception; e.g. She inveigle him into the house and rob him while he sleep.

**Week 5-Vocabulary for Week Ending Friday October 16**
 * 1) pun(n.) humourous use of a word that has two meanings or of different words that sound the same; e.g. Ancient scribes turned to puns.
 * 2) slogan(n.) word or phrase that is easy to remember, used as a motto example by a political party, or in advertising; e.g. The slogan was a pun on the name of the product.
 * 3) commit(v.) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation; e.g. One cannot commit crimes with impunity.
 * 4) attempt(v.) make an effort to accomplish; e.g. The chocolate cake I first attempted to make tasted horrible.
 * 5) captive(a.) held as a prisoner, unable to escape; e.g. Television advertisers can exploit a captive audience.
 * 6) abstract(n.) a concept or an idea not associated with any specific instance; e.g. This is an abstract of an lecture.
 * 7) cybercrime(n.) crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity; e.g. The author tries to analyses several kinds of main cybercriminal acts and makes an approach to a few the matter of legislation for cybercrime.
 * 8) argumentative(a.) fond of argue; e.g. 'How can one drop one's personal history?' I asked in an argumentative mood.
 * 9) abortion(n.) termination of pregnancy; e.g. There has been much dispute over the question of legalized abortion.
 * 10) brevity(n.) shortness or briefness of time; e.g. How can we endeavor to prolong the brevity of human life?

**Week 6-Vocabulary for Week Ending Friday October 23**
 * 1) executive(n.) a person responsible for the administration of a business; e.g. He is the executive director.
 * 2) breadwinner(n.) one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents; e.g. Perkins was the main breadwinner at a time when few women worked.
 * 3) endurance(n.) the powerto withstand or stress; e.g. She exhibited great powers of endurance during the climb.
 * 4) mosiac(n.) art consisting of design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass; e.g. The sky this morning was a mosaic of blue and white.
 * 5) trail(n.) mark or sign in the form of a long line left by sth. or sb. passing by; e.g. The tired children trailed along behind their parents.
 * 6) merciful(a.) showing or giving mercy; e.g. The prisoner besought the judge for mercy/to be merciful.
 * 7) virtue(n.) moral goodness or excellence; e.g. Glory is the shadow of virtue.
 * 8) underestimate(v.) make too low an estimate of sb./sth.; e.g. ANAKIN: You underestimate my power!
 * 9) lurk(v.) be or stay hidden, especially waiting to attact; e.g. Dangers seem to lurk beneath this river.
 * 10) blunder(n.) stupid or careless mistake; e.g. I made a terrible blunder in introducing her to my husband.