TEDxLONGMAN

18-4-9

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Why open a school? To close a prison. TED

• empathize: understand, similar experience
• sympathize: understand, sorry
• special needs: mental or physical illnesses
• first-hand
• principal: headteacher
• inspect: examine, find more, find wrongs
• I have to inspect what I expect.

What reality are you creating for yourself? TED

• harbour: keep bad thoughts, fears or hopes in your mind for a long time
• We strive for unattainable perfection.
• frantic: extremely worried and frightened, cannot control your feelings
• mannequin: model
• morph: a new appearance, change
• Seeing is believing. Sight is true.
• solicit: <formal> for information and help
• sollicit: <disapproving> for money
• warped: bent or twisted, not in the correct shape
• engender: <formal> to be the causeof something or a situation
• toll: a very bad effect that something has on someone or something over a long period of time

18-4-11

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4 reasons to learn a new language TED

• enticing: attract your interest
• world view: opinions and attitudes
• imbibe: accept, be influenced by, qualities, ideas, values, etc.
• by virtue of something: <formal> by means of, as a result of
• vowel:

The beauty of what we'll never knonw TED

• take the plunge: decide to do something important or risky
• intimacy: close personal relationship
• You are only as strong as your readiness to surrender.

18-4-12

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• immense: extremely large

[Article] Upon Affectation

• expostulate: <formal> disapproval, disagreement, annoyance
• merit: good quality, praise
• reproach: <formal> criticism, disapproval, blame
• profuse: <adj> in large quantities
• niggardly: <old-fashioned adj> small, unwillingly
• profligate: <formal> wasting money or other things, careless
• laudable: deserving praise, not completely successful
• presumption: <formal> behaviors, rude, confident
• plough:
• cultivate: lands, for growing crops and plants
• trite: remark, idea, boring, not new, insincere
• whatsoever: used to emphasize a negative statement
• tenacious: determined, unwilling to stop trying, situation becomes difficult
• lustre: an attractive shinny appearance; the quality, interesting, attractive
• septuagenarian: 70-79
• sexagenarian: 60-69
• pardonable: pardonable mistakes, not so bad, can be forgiven
• caricature: description, partly true, make them seem silly
• bestow: <formal> give, great value or importance

How the blockchain will radically transform the economy. TED

• transaction: a business deal or action
• infancy: a period of a child's life, before they can walk or talk

What will human look like in 100 years? TED

• prosthetic: artificial part of body
• genome: all the genes, one type of living things

How to speak up for yourself TED

• speak up for somebody: to speak in support of somebody

18-4-13

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How we explore unanswered questions in physics. TED

• scrutiny: careful and thorough examination of someone or something
• photon: a unit of energy, carry light, no mass

Art made of air we breathe. TED

• visceral: beliefs, attitudes, the result of strong feelings, not careful thoughts
• tactile: sense of touch
• haptic: sense of touch

How to have better political conversations. TED

• endorse: formal approval or support

18-4-14

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How I'm fighting bias against algorithms. TED

• whimsical: unusual, strange, even amusing
• audit: <formal> detailed examination, check it is good enough
• consciential: careful to do everything that is your job or duty to do

18-4-24

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How we can find ourselves in data. TED

• nuance: very slight, hardly noticeable difference in manner, colour, meaning, etc.

18-5-3

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• discern: to notice or understand something by thinking about it carefully
• superfluous: more than is needed or wanted