Vocabulary

• cluster: To come together in a group, flock etc.
• skills: Abilities to do some things well
• offense: Attempt to score in a game or match
• division: How many times a number is contained in another
• tried: To make an effort, to attempt to do something
• require: To demand that someone does something
• cycle: Series of regular and repeated actions
• opposite: Being totally different from
• say: To indicate or give information using language
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• early: Coming/happening before others in a time sequence
• uploading: To transfer a file or data to the internet
• lens: Structure in the eye or camera that focuses light
• dimension: Number of planes (X, Y, Z axes) an object has
• detail: Small part of something; tiny fact
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• page: Person's name
• become: To begin to be; grow to be; develop into
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• gorgeous: Extremely attractive; richly beautiful
• allocation: Sharing out of work/resources for some purpose
• harm: To damage, injure, or hurt someone or something
• stack: A large number or amount of something
• good: Proper, appropriate or right
• class: To place things into groups by common qualities
• huge: Very very large
• easy: Not hard to do; not difficult
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• expert: Skillful person with special knowledge
• expensive: Costing a lot of money
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• guardrail: Safety railing placed alongside a stairway or road
• example: Thing, person which represents a category
• action: Something that a person or thing does
• personal: Done by or to a particular person; individual
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• metric: Based on the meter as a standard of measurement
• send: To cause to behave or respond in a particular way
• area: Amount of measured space
• watch: To keep in check, manage, or control something
• consumer: Person who buys goods or services
• mba: MBA is an acronym for Masters of Business degree
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• unsafe: Likely to be dangerous or harmful
• certain: Definite, fixed
• injection: Act of adding or putting in; adding to
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• simplify: To make something easier to do, use or understand
• alter: To change so (clothing) fits better
• overload: To make a machine work too hard so it might break
• prohibitive: Tending to discourage, e.g. if a price is too high
• damage: Physical harm that is done to something
• come: To arrive at a place
• afford: To make available, to provide
• boyfriend: Man (boy) romantically involved with girl
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• someone: Person who is not known or named
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• inning: In some sports, the period a player is batting
• exposure: Allowing light through a cameras lens onto film
• angle: Place where two lines or surfaces meet
• money: Coins or notes we use to pay for things
• play: To act as a character in a movie, or on stage
• outfit: A set of clothing (with accessories)
• poor: Inferior; below the normal standard
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• put: To move or place a thing in a particular position
• server: A computer which distributes files to others
• last: Final; with nothing following; after all others
• first: Something that has not happened before
• defender: Fighter who fights against attack
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• agree: To have the same opinion as someone else
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• complicate: To make more difficult to do, understand or use
• user: Person that uses a service/thing, e.g. a website
• e-commerce: Commerce conducted electronically (as on the internet)
• daily: Happening every day
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• simplicity: Being easy to understand or use
• hardware: Physical parts of a computer, machine or device
• inspiration: Force making you feel you can do things, succeed
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• bunch: A group of things of the same kind
• technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
• apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• front: Behavior not showing a person's true feelings
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• patch: Cover worn over an eye to protect or hide it
• regulate: To control something with rules or laws
• day: A period of 24 hours beginning at midnight
• speed: How fast or slow something is or is done
• store: To put things in a place for later use
• silicon: Mineral used in making steel and computer parts
• quarter: 25 cents
• technical: Complex; difficult to understand
• possible: Being able or appropriate for a task or purpose
• little: A person's name
• doer: Person who acts and gets things done
• different: Not of the same kind; unlike other things
• useful: That can help with a particular task
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• term: Conditions applying to an agreement, contract
• transpire: To take place or occur
• point: An item to be discussed
• quote: Written statement of the cost of something
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• course: The route or direction e.g. a river moves along
• agent: Chemical with the power to make chemical reactions
• tremendous: Very good or very impressive
• experiment: Test performed to assess new ideas or theories
• abject: Very great (fear, poverty, loneliness etc.)
• move: To cause someone to have certain emotions
• realistic: Looks or appears real; like things really are
• buy: To believe something; accept
• room: All of the people inside a particular room
• management: People who are in control of a business or group
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• cognitive: The process of knowing and remembering
• decision: Choice made after thinking; final judgment
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• excited: To make something or someone become more active
• consequence: Importance of a person or thing
• minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
• look: Person's beauty or physical attractiveness
• delegation: A group of people sent as representatives
• public: Owned by the government
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• site: Place that is reserved for a particular activity
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• Double: Person that is exactly like someone else
• star: To perform or play a main role in a movie, play
• intelligent: Smart; able to think and reason
• constrain: To make someone do something by strong persuasion
• match: To equal or be as good as something else
• space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
• multitude: Large number of people or things; crowd
• prior: Existing or coming earlier in time
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• announcement: Act of informing people about something publicly
• lie: To be in a horizontal or flat position
• large: Big; of great size; broad, tall, wide, or fat
• enough: Equal to what is needed; as much as required
• read: Person's name
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• face: To cover a surface with something like paint
• epsilon: Fifth letter of the Greek alphabet
• lovable: Arousing affection; funny; likeable
• share: Part-ownership in a property, business or company
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• quotient: Number resulting from dividing a number by another
• distinguish: To make something clearly different from others
• secure: To get or achieve something with certainty
• leadership: Quality of being able to guide or influence others
• dynamic: Always active or energetic; getting things done
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• infrastructure: Basic necessary equipment for a country or region
• old: Having existed for a long time, not young or new
• difference: A thing or issue that people do not agree about
• appreciate: To rise in value (of property or belongings)
• judgment: Opinion that is made after careful consideration
• success: Achievement of a desired purpose or goal
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• launch: Starting a new project; introducing new product
• grill: Plate of food that has been grilled
• choice: Decision between two or more possibilities
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• failure: When things go wrong; lack of function
• platform: Flat, raised structure that people stand on
• treater: A person who treats or entertains others, especially by paying for something.
• pacing: To set and control your speed, as in a race
• provider: Person who supports a family
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• delegate: Person attending a meeting
• wonder: Surprise caused by experiencing something amazing
• optic: Concerning vision or helping people see
• intercept: To stop or catch something while it is moving
• important: Having power or authority
• clothing: Things you wear on your body, e.g. shirt or dress
• weight: How heavy something is
• secret: Kept hidden from others; Known only to a few people
• design: To plan in a particular way to fulfill a purpose
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• balance: Instrument for weighing things
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• available: Present and able to be used
• okay: Yes; alright
• scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
• sub: A prefix meaning 'under' or 'instead of'
• satisfied: To make someone happy because they got their wish
• shortage: A lack of something necessary
• defeat: To beat an enemy, team, disease
• team: Group of people working on a task together
• tie: To attach things (together) with a string or rope
• ali: Fourth caliph of Islam who is considered to be the first caliph by Shiites; he was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad; after his assassination Islam was divided into Shiite and Sunnite sects
• month: One of 12 28-31 day periods in the year
• community: Group of people who share a common idea or area
• combat: To fight someone or something physically
• ask: To say to someone that you want something
• frontier: Border crossing between countries
• better: In a more excellent way
• false: Not real or genuine
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• correct: Being suitable and appropriate for an occasion
• cisco: Important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America
• event: Any social gathering; occasion; planned activity
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• mitigate: To make less severe or serious
• builder: A person who makes buildings
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• classic: Having a simple, basic design or style
• happen: To take place or occur
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• anomaly: Something different from what is expected
• fantastic: Strange or unusual in design or appearance
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• consumption: The act of buying and using products
• par: Set number of hits to complete a hole in golf
• easier: Less difficult than
• connect: To associate a thing with something else
• use: Ability to employ something
• sudden: Happening or done quickly or unexpectedly
• utilization: Making use of something; using
• like: To want to
• word: Unit of language that has a meaning
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• defenses: Strong walls, plans to protect e.g. a city
• sport: Something that is done for fun, e.g. football
• website: Collection of webpages in one location
• care: To feel interest, concern, or worry
• trade: A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
• want: To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing
• collaboration: Act of working with someone to complete a task
• mouse: Small animal that has fur and a long tail
• malicious: Intending to harm or hurt someone
• attacker: Someone who attacks
• night: Time when sun does not shine
• rout: To defeat (a team, opponent) overwhelmingly
• safety: Device on a gun to prevent accidental shooting
• dangerous: Involving the chance of hurt or damage; risky
• need: To be unable to manage without something; require
• center: Community place people go health or social reasons
• job: Something that must be done
• sit: To take an exam
• examples: Things, people, which represent a category
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• show: To be easily seen or displayed
• terabit: A unit of information equal to gigabits or (,,,,) bits
• chief: Leader of a race or group of people
• simplification: Act of making easier to do, use or understand
• foundation: Base or important starting point
• hug: To hold someone in your arms as sign of affection
• wing: Part of an animal's body that is used for flying
• high: Excited or relaxed from taking drugs
• batch: Amount of something that is produced at one time
• keep: Large, strong tower in the middle of a castle
• fill: To make something full
• news: Broadcast on radio or TV about recent events
• year: Unit of time equal to 12 months or 365 or 366 days
• lesson: Something done to learn or teach something; class
• chat: To talk in a friendly and relaxed manner
• needed: To be unable to manage without something; require
• contributor: Someone who gives money to cause, charity
• evolution: Theory that living things change over time
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• follow: To come after someone; be guided by someone
• harder: Less soft; more solid
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• curiosity: Something unusual and perhaps worthy of collecting
• machine: Piece of equipment used to do work
• plug: Wood, rubber or metal used to block a hole
• unlimited: Being free from limits, restrictions or rules
• premium: Having a higher than normal quality
• block: Solid piece of material used for building
• filming: To record moving action with a camera
• cat: Household pet with fur, four legs and long tail.
• let: To allow someone to do something
• series: Set of stories or articles on a particular subject
• watt: Standard unit used to measure electrical power
• pleasure: Feeling of happiness, enjoyment, or satisfaction
• sake: Japanese rice wine
• pricing: To determine or set the cost of something
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• attack: To try to destroy, beat, or injure
• skill: Ability to do something well
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• serve: To act in a particular position or office
• dollar: A basic unit of money equal to 100 cent
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• frugality: Carefulness with money, resources; meanness
• rogue: Being corrupt, dangerous, or uncontrollable
• go: To attend or be at a place
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• color: To change or affect someone's opinion
• file: Computer document
• tool: Device used to make things, e.g. a hammer
• applied: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• second: 2nd; the one following first
• vulnerability: Being weak and able to be easily hurt or damaged
• market: To publicize products to get you to buy; advertise
• production: Process of producing or growing food naturally
• solve: To figure out a way to handle a difficult problem
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• escaping: To avoid something undesirable, dangerous or bad
• young: At an early stage of existence; not mature
• sell: To exchange something for money
• lemonade: Drink that has a lemon flavor
• enterprise: A business or organization
• data: Facts or information used to calculate or analyze
• domain: A field of knowledge, thought or influence
• realizes: To become aware of or understand mentally
• transistor: Part controlling the electricity inside devices
• wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
• number: Symbols such as 1, 2, 56, 793
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• piece: A counter in a board game
• elite: The richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society
• able: Skilled; good at something
• product: Item that can be bought
• click: To work well with someone or something
• letter: One of the 26 parts of the English alphabet
• similar: Nearly the same; alike
• road: Long piece of hard land for cars to travel on
• volume: Number or amount of something e.g. sales
• obvious: Easily understood and clear; plain to see
• please: To entertain someone, by dancing, singing etc.
• counterintuitive: Contrary to what common sense would suggest
• non: A prefix meaning 'not'
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• project: To predict what will happen in the future
• version: Different way that someone interprets something
• partner: One you have a business/personal relationship with
• spot: A certain place or area
• bubble: A small ball of air inside of a liquid
• adopter: Person who starts using a new idea, plan, method
• business: A company formed for making profit
• consume: To eat, drink, buy or use up something
• text: To send a message by phone or other device
• amaze: To cause wonder; to surprise completely
• simpler: Easier to understand; less complex
• detect: To discover or identify the presence of something
• instance: An example of something; case
• dive: Restaurant, bar or club with a bad reputation
• side: To decide to agree with one point, not the other
• outcome: Something that happens as a result, consequence
• supply: Availability of products and services for use
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• roll: Small, round piece of bread for one person to eat
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• strengthen: To make something stronger
• take: To accept something that is offered
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• instinct: Natural way of thinking; intuition
• validate: To show to be officially correct or allowable
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• humanity: Quality of being understanding or sympathetic
• sure: What you say to agree willingly
• much: A lot; large amount; a high degree of
• saw: To cut with a metal tool with sharp teeth
• derive: To come from another thing
• live: To be alive
• felt: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• decide: To make a choice or choose after thinking about it
• stingy: Unwilling to spend money or much money
• techie: One skilled/enthusiastic in a technical field
• glad: Happy or pleased about something/to do something
• sum: Amount when all is added together; total
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• model: Being an excellent example of
• individual: Single person, looked at separately from others
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• welcome: Being what was wanted or needed
• opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
• generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
• vector: Math a quantity that has both size and direction
• jump: To attack someone suddenly
• ongoing: Continuing to exist or be in progress
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• amount: Quantity of something
• rapid: Moving or happening very quickly
• nonstop: Occurring without stops; continuous
• pause: To stop doing for a while before continuing
• honest: Good, truthful, sincere, or faithful; trustworthy
• intimidate: To make someone feel afraid
• instruction: A command for someone formally to do something
• entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
• stamp: To press a seal on a document to make it official
• great: Very good; better than before
• lab: Short for 'laboratory'
• happy: Feeling pleasure or joy; glad
• safe: Highly likely
• conference: Series of lectures held as an event
• wasteful: Inefficient in use of time or effort or materials
• comment: Something you say, giving an opinion; remark
• shrunk: To become smaller
• interception: Preventing something from proceeding or arriving
• tell: To (strongly) advise a person to do something
• diffuse: To cause something to spread through a large area
• bandwidth: Data transmission rate over the internet
• hope: When you wish something will happen; what you wish
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• advantage: Thing making the chance of success higher
• advice: Suggestion about what would help someone
• shoe: Outer covering for the foot, often made of leather
• constraint: Thing preventing you moving or acting; restriction
• hand: Cards given to a player in a card game
• enemy: Something that stops you doing what you want
• February: 2nd month of the year
• couch: To formulate in a particular style or language
• manufacturer: Group or company that makes a certain product
• shareholder: Someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation
• cloud: To confuse the mind/judgment of a person
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• Positives: Goods or useful qualities or aspects
• edge: An advantage you have over others
• utilized: To use something for a particular purpose
• third: 3rd: Number after second
• topic: Subject or issue people talk or write about
• couple: To join something to something else
• adversary: Opponent who want to fight you for some reason
• nice: Being attractive or of high quality or value
• solution: Mix of a liquid and a solid or a gas
• fusing: Electrical safety device
• defense: Argument in support of something
• sufficient: Having or providing enough when needed
• rail: To complain or object forcefully
• meaningful: Having importance; showing someone's intention
• touched: To affect feelings, especially by causing sympathy
• person: Man, woman or child
• downside: Negative aspect of something
• daughter: A female child of someone
• join: To bring something close to another, to become one
• announce: To make a public statement about a plan, decision
• asymmetry: Being different on one side than the other
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• private: Being away from others and quiet
• tinkering: To make small adjustments to repair or improve
• interest: Best or most advantageous thing for someone
• notion: Sudden idea or desire to do something
• differential: Different, as in treatment; discriminatory
• privilege: Advantage or right given to only certain people
• prompt: Message on a computer requiring attention
• open: To make accessible or able to be used, e.g. road
• elastic: Able to return to original shape after stretching
• law: Field of study that relates to the legal profession
• grace: Dignified polite behavior, as when things go badly
• massive: Very big; large; too big
• friend: Person who you like and enjoy being with
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• sophistication: Worldliness; experience; stylish taste
• bankruptcy: State of having no money and unable to pay debts
• super: Of the highest quality; great; marvelous
• consequential: Following as a logical conclusion or result
• compute: To find out by calculating or estimating
• test: To be given a medical examination
• glass: Clear hard container used for drinking
• pay: To give money for goods or work done
• organization: Group of people with a particular purpose
• knowing: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
• review: To carefully look at the quality of something
• partnership: Shared business relationship with someone
• access: Way to enter a place, e.g. a station or stadium
• drift: (Of sand, etc.) to be blown into heaps by the wind
• source: Piece of information; a person giving information
• package: Box or container items are placed in for mailing
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• agency: Business that provides some service for others
• window: Opening in a wall or door to let in light
• impossible: (Child, etc.) very annoying
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• basis: Main ingredient or part of something
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• fire: Heat and the flame produced when burning
• mechanisms: Parts of a machine that performs a certain function
• teenager: Person between the ages of 13 and 19
• big: Popular
• human: A person; a man, woman or child
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• context: Set of facts surrounding a person or event
• containment: Trying to stop an enemy getting bigger or stronger
• advance: Forward movement by an army
• door: You walk through this when you go in a room
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• exercise: To work out to become stronger and healthier
• exponential: (Of an increase) at a faster and faster rate
• reference: A letter of recommendation, e.g. for a job
• compliment: Remark saying someone looks nice, plays well, etc.
• way: Particular aspect of something being thought about
• fund: To supply money for something
• helpful: Doing things that help someone
• know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
• level: Specific height of something
• democratize: To make everyone in (a country) equal
• today: This day; day that is happening now
• end: The point where a process or activity stops
• conversation: Talking with other people; discussion or chat
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• miller: Someone who grinds grain into flour
• wisdom: Knowledge gained from experience in life
• guard: To keep watch over something to protect it
• problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
• story: One of many floors or levels in a building
• sophisticated: Making a good sounding but misleading argument
• perfect: So good it cannot be improved
• manages: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• deem: To judge something to be a certain thing, way
• resource: Something that can be used profitably; asset
• thing: (Used to introduce the reason for something)
• kid: Child or young person
• best: Better than all others in some way
• amazon: Mainly green tropical American parrots
• truth: Real facts about something
• try: To make an effort, to attempt to do something
• compensate: To give (money) to as a form of correcting a loss
• effort: Amount of work used trying to do something
• exceed: To be greater in number, degree than something
• waste: To kill or severely harm someone
• impressive: Causing admiration or respect; grand or expensive
• see: To go on a date with someone
• institution: Organization created for a particular aim/purpose
• provide: To make available; to supply for use
• title: Book produced by a publisher
• analogy: Comparison of things based on their similarity
• power: Legal or official right to perform certain actions
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• primary: Most important, most basic or essential
• relate: To demonstrate a logical relationship between
• officer: Person of high position in an organization
• true: Agreeing with the facts; not false; real or actual
• cio: Chief Information Officer: the executive responsible for information technology and computer systems.
• viral: Of or caused by a virus
• developer: Someone who develops real estate
• get: To become affected by illness or disease
• bold: Brave; very confident; too confident
• yeah: Another way of saying 'yes'
• density: Degree to which an area is filled or covered
• network: Group of computers connected to each other
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• certainty: Feeling that you really know something; being sure
• scanner: Machine that copies, reads, or records data
• talk: Style of speaking
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• abundance: Quantity that is very large or more than enough
• chip: To break a small piece off something such as a cup
• customer: Someone who buys goods or services from a business
• right: Correct or true
• many: Used to refer a large number of things
• preference: Something that is liked/wanted more than another
• documentation: Official papers that give information
• purpose: Reason for which something is done; aim; goal
• autonomy: The power to make independent decisions
• token: Flat, round piece of material used e.g. as coins
• monitor: To observe and keep a record of something
• chain: To feel to be bound or tied to
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• thank: To tell someone you are grateful to them
• produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
• architectures: Designs and constructions of buildings
• higher: Farther above the ground
• close: Almost; near
• cross: Angry and upset
• complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• budget: Amount of money planned to be spent
• gotten: To obtain, receive or be given something