Freedom Writers' corner - Vocabulary - 1st diary
VOCABULARY
High school: freshman, junior, senior.
Freshman: a student in the first year of high school or university.
Sophomore: a student who is in their second year of study at a college.
Junior: American English relating to the year before the final year of high school or college.
Senior: having a higher position, level, or rank.
Counter: to say something in order to try to prove that what someone said was not true.
Embroil: to involve someone or something in a difficult situation.
Advocate: to publicly say that something should be done.
Quad: informal a square open area with buildings all around it, especially in a school or college.
The projects: are massive low-income housing units.
Busing: the transporting of children to a school outside their residential area as a means of achieving racial balance in that school.
Saunter: to walk in a slow relaxed way, especially so that you look confident.
Disciplinary: relating to the punishment of someone who has not obeyed rules, or to trying to make people obey rules.
Preppy: American English informal-preppy clothes or styles are very neat, in a way that is typical of students who go to expensive private schools in the US.
Disgruntled: annoyed or disappointed, especially because things have not happened in the way that you wanted.
Rookie: [countable] especially American English someone who has just started doing a job and has little experience.
Push the envelope: to do something that is new and that goes beyond the limits of what has already been done in a particular area of activity.
Go back to the drawing board: if you go back to the drawing board, you start again with a completely new plan or idea, after the one you tried before has failed.
High school: freshman, junior, senior.
Freshman: a student in the first year of high school or university.
Sophomore: a student who is in their second year of study at a college.
Junior: American English relating to the year before the final year of high school or college.
Senior: having a higher position, level, or rank.
Counter: to say something in order to try to prove that what someone said was not true.
Embroil: to involve someone or something in a difficult situation.
Advocate: to publicly say that something should be done.
Quad: informal a square open area with buildings all around it, especially in a school or college.
The projects: are massive low-income housing units.
Busing: the transporting of children to a school outside their residential area as a means of achieving racial balance in that school.
Saunter: to walk in a slow relaxed way, especially so that you look confident.
Disciplinary: relating to the punishment of someone who has not obeyed rules, or to trying to make people obey rules.
Preppy: American English informal-preppy clothes or styles are very neat, in a way that is typical of students who go to expensive private schools in the US.
Disgruntled: annoyed or disappointed, especially because things have not happened in the way that you wanted.
Rookie: [countable] especially American English someone who has just started doing a job and has little experience.
Push the envelope: to do something that is new and that goes beyond the limits of what has already been done in a particular area of activity.
Go back to the drawing board: if you go back to the drawing board, you start again with a completely new plan or idea, after the one you tried before has failed.
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