Vocabulary

• cognitive: The process of knowing and remembering
• perceive: To notice or become aware of something
• perception: Way in which one sees or understands something
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• fascinating: To attract or interest greatly
• confidence: Feeling that you can do well at something
• solid: Being able to be trusted; reliable
• dumb: Senseless; stupid
• sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
• excessive: Beyond what is usual or proper
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• feature: Special report in a magazine or paper
• concrete: Hard building material made of cement, sand, water
• pronounce: To state something in a legal or official way
• rehearse: To practice e.g. play, speech before a performance
• status: Position or rank relative to others in a society
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• ignore: To not listen to, look at, or pay attention to
• sabotage: To destroy or damage, often secretly, to weaken
• toss: To throw something into the air, e.g. casually
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• judge: Person who decides on the results of a contest
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• diminish: To make something smaller or less important
• fluency: Ability to do something well and with ease
• trap: Device used for catching animals
• pause: To stop doing for a while before continuing
• identical: The same in every way
• intelligent: Smart; able to think and reason
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• clarity: Being easy to be seen through, heard or understood
• invest: To use resources to build for the future
• competent: Fully qualified or capable of doing
• talent: Natural ability of a person to do something well
• nuance: Small, not obvious difference in meaning, etc.
• linguistic: Of or relating to language
• totally: In a complete way; completely; absolutely
• insecurity: Lack of confidence or certainty about yourself
• important: Having power or authority
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• argue: To fight or disagree over something
• competence: Ability to do in a fully satisfactory way
• difference: A thing or issue that people do not agree about
• pivot: Point on which something turns or balances
• jargon: Terms and expressions used in a specialist field
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• strategically: In a strategic or carefully worked out way
• flex: To move a part of the body to stretch muscles
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• credibility: Quality of being believable or deserving of trust
• headline: To be the main performer at a show
• competency: Ability to do in a fully satisfactory way
• credible: Believable; that can be believed or trusted
• showman: Person skilled at making effective presentations