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CTE VOCABULARY LEVEL 2

CTE VOCABULARY LEVEL 2. Week of January 28. Delegate: to assign responsibility or authority Specifications: an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service

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CTE VOCABULARY LEVEL 2

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  1. CTE VOCABULARYLEVEL 2

  2. Week of January 28 • Delegate: to assign responsibility or authority • Specifications: an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service • Ergonomics: designing and arranging things people use so that they interact efficiently and safely • Corroborate: to make more certain; confirm • Simplify: to make less complex or complicated

  3. Week of February 4 • Network: an interconnected system of things or people • Decipher: to make out the meaning of • Disclose: to make known; reveal or uncover • Insight: an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing • Aesthetic: pleasing in appearance or to the senses

  4. Week of February 11 • Affiliate: To adopt or accept as a member • Evident: Plain or clear to the sight or understanding • Anecdote: Short account of an event • Camaraderie: Trust among friends • Compromise: To settle a difference

  5. Week of February 18 • Conformist: Follower of customs • Frugal: Prudently saving or sparing • Hypothesis: Theory requiring proof • Incompatible: Unable to work together • Integrity: Soundness of moral character

  6. Week of February 25 • Earnest: Characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions • Liberal: Having a political or social views favoring reform and progress • Contempt: Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike • Contrived: Artificially formal • Besiege: Harass, as with questions or requests

  7. Week of March 4 • Fathom: Come to understand • Rebuke: An act or expression of criticism and censure • Rhetoric: Using language effectively to please or persuade • Hyperbole: Extravagant exaggeration • Mundane: Ordinary, often boring

  8. Week of March 11 • Cringe- Recoil; flinch; shy away • Accolade- Tribute; honor; praise • Plummet- Fall suddenly and steeply • Tentative- Not a certain time or action • Plagiarism- Taking credit for someone else's writing or ideas

  9. Week of March 18 • Adamant: Forceful; inflexible • Decorum: Dignified, correct behavior • Obsolete: No longer valid • Retraction: Withdrawal; cancellation of a statement • Defoliate: Cause leaves to fall off

  10. Week of April 8 • Adversity: A state, condition, or instance of serious or continued difficulty. • Poseur: Someone who puts on an act. • Aesthetic: Concerning art or beauty. • Hypochondriac: A person obsessed with health; having imaginary illnesses. • Euphemism: A polite phrase to cover something unpleasant.

  11. Week of April 15 • Nostalgia: Longing for the past • Conventional: Usual; customary; common • Pivotal: Of central importance • Notoriety: Infamy; known for wrong doing • Relegate: Dismiss to a lower position

  12. Week of April 22 • Virtual: Being in essence or effect, but not in form or appearance.  • Indicator: One who or that which points out • Digress: To turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter. • Citadel: Any strong fortress • Epidemic: Wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region

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