CALUSAC / COURSE 10 / Low Intermediate Level / April, 2012 ENGLISH GLOSSARY Name: JORGE DANIEL PACHECO GOMEZ 2612082

VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIONS

INSTRUCTIONS: Define in English each of the following words and expressions. Use a dictionary when necessary but try to give a simple but objective definition to each word. Use synonyms or examples if you needed.

UNIT 1/ CULTURAL LITERACY - Pages 2 to 13 Word / Expression Definition Word / Expression

1. flyer
It is a paper advertisement

Definition
To be in sharp at a meeting

26.punctuality

2. source 3. tailor

posted or distributed in a public place Is the main place where all things come from is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
Is a person who speak his or her own language from the country where he or she was born

27. impolite 28. offensive

Miss behavior, bad customs To do or to say bad things against others

4. native speaker

29. customary

Are things that people do from their native country

5. arrange

To set many things in an only array A person who Doesnt go out and stayed at home Is when someone has superior ability to reach somthing Is something that is behind other things extremely fresh or clean harmonious whole with a common culture
Is a form o behavior or how to do things

30. taboo

6. homestay 7. achievement

31. to agree 32. to disagree

Dont talk about a topic which one is difficult to talk with others Think in the same way in some issue To think in different way in some issue policy Are rules to follow in an interprise. The government of a country is the group of people who are responsible for governing it. an affix that follows the stem to which it is attached, as for example -s and -ness in dogs and softness People those who are not proud When something could happens o could no happens

8. backround 9. pristine 10. melting pot

33. dress code 34. policy 35. headquarters

11. custom

36. suffix

12. when in Rome.. 13. local customs

14. do you mind

15. to be addressed 16. tag questions 17. you look familiar 18. she turned twenty years 19. abroad 20. acceptance letter

Is a saying and its meaning is do as the Romans do is a behaving, or an event which is usual or traditional in a particular country If the person care or matter if other person do somenthing How to be called
If something mentioned is true or false Somebody seeing before

37. humble 38.perhaps

39. take account

Include something or somebody

Female or male A irritating thing

40. gender 41.cumbersome 42.musical tastes 43.dating customs

Diferents kind of music

Old younger
to or in a foreign country or countries

Celebrate a determinate day In the date. rules on how to interact

Is What women do in a job

44.rules behaviors 45.male roles at workplace

Its a letter about something good.

21. dropped off 22.Cultural Literacy

Is left a people in a certain place When a person have knowledge of culture

46.female roles at home 47.modest

23. manners 24. etiquette 25. table maners

social deportment rules governing socially acceptable behavior

You can use table manners to refer to the way you behave when you are eating a meal at a table.

48.advantage 49.disadvantage 50.survey

Having or showing a moderate estimation of one's own talents, abilities, and value. A beneficial factor or combination of factors An unfavorable condition or circumstance. To examine or look at comprehensively

UNIT 2/HEALTH MATTERS - Pages 14 to 25 Word / Expression

1.health 2.vaccinations

Definition No to be sick or insane

Word / Expression
32. nauseous

Definition is a sensation of unease and discomfort

If someone is weak, they are not healthy or do not have good muscles, so that they cannot move quickly or carry heavy things. Vomiting to force air out of your throat with a sudden, harsh noise. When you sneeze, you suddenly take in your breath and then blow it down your nose noisily without being able to stop yourself, for example because you have a cold. If someone wheezes, they breathe with difficulty and make a whistling sound. A cavity below your head an above your stomach

Inoculation with a vaccine 33. weak in order to protect against a particular disease. treatment with drugs or remedies Something that is necessity. The process of inducing immunity to an infectious organism or agent in an individual or animal through vaccination. Poor health resulting from disease of body or mind; sickness. A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system he drug or remedy prescribed
34. throwing up 35. coughing 36. sneezing

3. medications 4. requirement 5. ammunization

6. illness

37. wheezing

7. desease 8. prescription

38. chest 39. hips

9. give a tip

give advice

40. ribs

10. supply 11. carrry-on bags

To make available for use; provide. light bags

41. breath 42. symptom

12. luggage

Containers for a traveler's belongings.

43. patient

The laterally projecting prominence of the pelvis or pelvic region from the waist to the thigh. One of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum. The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration. A characteristic sign or indication of the existence of something else One who receives medical attention, care, or treatment

13. contac lenses 14. dental care

Eyewear Check up the tooth a pain in or near a tooth. A review o examination To keep from happening. Date or a meeting Is expecting something to

44. medical procedure 45. surgery

treatments the branch of medicine concerned with treating disease, injuries, etc. photograph of bones electrocardiogram Injection EKG/electrocardiogram Medical procedure based on the scientific study of the human body Natural medicine Inserted at certain points on the body to relieve pain and / or restore health Inserted at certain points on the body to relieve pain and / or restore health Dont use medication Mind and body have a connection
At the beginning of each one hundred years

15. toothache 16. check-up 17. avoid 18. appointment 19. I was wondering

46. an X-ray 47. an EKG 48. a shot 49. a cardio test 50. conventional medicine 51. Homeopathy 52. Herbal Therapy

20. overseas 21. fitting me in

Beyond the sea; abroad.

Is to introduce someone with others

22. lets have a look

Let me see emergency room when it follows a filler A crown is missing It was misplaced

53. Acupuncture

23. E.R (in a hospital) 24. I lost a filling 25. a crown is lose 26. a bridge came out

54. Chiropractic 55. Spiritual Healing 56. early century 57. to improve

27. My gums are swollen 28. terrible 29. terrific

When it has a abnormal size Is too bad Is when something is wrong When something or someone is causing a bad time Having a whirling sensation and a tendency to fall.

58. worldwide 59. natural sources 60. needles

Enhance something or be better every day in every things Around the world Come from the nature the long hollow pointed part of a hypodermic syringe, which is inserted into the body Make feel better

30. to bother

61.pain relief

31. dizzy

62. injuries

Damage or harm done to or suffered by a person or thing:

63. faith

believe in something or someone relieve the pain relief coughing problems

69. antacid

64. a painkiller 65. cold tablets

70. ointment 71. vitamins

a substance used to neutralize acidity in the stomach To apply on the skin to heal or protect Any of various fat-soluble or water-soluble organic substances essential in minute amounts for normal growth and activity of the body and obtained naturally

66. decongestant 67. antihistamine

relieve sneeze problems Help with problems to allergic

72. currently 73. dizziness

from plant and animal foods Now, nowadays any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease feeling unable to breathe

68. antibiotic

To attack baterias in the human body

74. shortness of breath

UNIT 3/GETTING THINGS DONE - Pages 26 to 37

1. website

A Set o web pages built in different programming languages. Web pages that give you important information Make sure others that something is good Process to make something A fast work When you need other thing
Dont help to others

2.brochure

3. newslettes 5. guarantee 7. to develope 9. a rush job 11. what else 13. I wont keep you 15. to frame 17. to lengthen 19. reliable 21. efficient 23. helpful 25. quality service 27. custom-made 29. ready-made 31. workmanship 33. garment 35. linen 37. fittings

4. stationery 6. overseas 8. in a hurry 10. a.s.a.p 12. Im in a bit of hurry 14. courier service

A brochure is a magazine or thin book with pictures that gives you information about a product or service. is paper, envelopes, and other materials or equipment used for writing. Cities or countries far away or beyond the sea.

To be running or doing things as soon as posible As soon as possible When someone doesnt has time A company that delivery a package

put something in a picture 16. to deliver more longer Trust in someone o something Something or someone that work very well Providing assistance; useful. Good services requested in advance
18. to shorten 20. reasonable 22. defficient 24. emphatic 26. artcrafts 28. factory-made 30. tailor

the act of delivering or distributing something To make short. Sane , rational Something or someone that doesnt work well
absolute, categorical, certain, decided, definite, direct.

Somethings made by hands

artificially produced clothier, costumier, couturier, dressmaker, garment maker, outfitter, seamstress fibre produced by a silkworm to make its cocoon A gown is a dress, usually a long dress, which women wear on formal occasions.

The skill of a craftsperson or artisan. An article of clothing. Thread made from fibers of the flax plant. Is to save something that we use in a future.

32. silk 34. gowns 36. cashmere 38. measurements

39. to forfeit 41.upscale

leave something, not have 40. shopping arcades right to Improve the resolution
42. budget

A measurement is a result, usually expressed in numbers, that you obtain by measuring something. When you do theshopping, you go to shops and buy things. to manage how much spend

43. caterer 45. task 47. a TGFI party

Someone who provide. a assigned work to do.

thanks god is Friday party

44. to hire 46. survey 48. A bachelors party

To employ someone or pay to do a particular job for you. When someone make interviews to many people Is a party for a man who is not marry

UNIT 4/LIFE CHOICES - Pages 38 to 49

1. inventory 3. to regret 5. crafts
Is a thing that came from an idea Is to be sorry about something. an activity such as weaving, carving, or pottery that involves making things with your hands. Exactly tomorrow a deficiency or lack in the amount needed, expected, or due; deficit How to travel from one place to other place. Is work or do something for soport Knowledge is information and understanding about a subject which a person has, or which all people have. ability to do something

2. furniture 4. job-field 6. social work

7. due tomorrow 9. shortage

8. instead 10. useless

articles that equip a room, house, sofa, chair an investigation or search for material Social work is work which involves giving help and advice to people with serious family problems or financial problems. as a replacement, substitute, or alternative having no practical use or advantage

11. How come? 13. make a living

12. my tastes changed 14. skills

Is when the preference of somenthig is change

An ability that has been acquire by training

15. knowledge

16. experience

Knowledge in a particular job or activity, which you have gained because you have done before. Is a person who lead other people to do something To agree in the same way altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, charitable, compassionate, Is a religion from mid east

17. talents 19. manual dexterity 21. briely 23. philanthropy

18. leadership 20. common sense 22. humanitarian 24. muslims

Ability to do something with hands It take a little time

is the giving money to people who need it, without wanting anything in return. doing something at great speed. unfair treatment of a person, racial group, minority, etc.; action based on prejudice Is to help others

25. fasting 27. discrimination

26. purpose 28. multiracial

intention to do something
involving people from many different nationalities and cultures. to get a credit for something.

29. to support

30. Nobel Prize