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UNIT 1: and We're Off!

This document provides definitions for 14 vocabulary words related to personal and professional skills and attributes. It defines words like ambitious, confident, creative, experienced, independent, polite, qualified, responsible, successful, and truthful. For each word, it provides the adjective form and related noun, as well as a concise definition for both. The document is organized into 14 sections, one for each vocabulary word, to clearly define the terms.

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UNIT 1: and We're Off!

This document provides definitions for 14 vocabulary words related to personal and professional skills and attributes. It defines words like ambitious, confident, creative, experienced, independent, polite, qualified, responsible, successful, and truthful. For each word, it provides the adjective form and related noun, as well as a concise definition for both. The document is organized into 14 sections, one for each vocabulary word, to clearly define the terms.

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UNIT 1: And we’re off!

Break a record (verb phrase) Face your fear -s (verb phrase)

▫ to do something better than the ▫ Accept something that causes


best known speed, time, number, terror.
etc. previously achieved.

2
Get a lot of likes ( verb phrase) Have a sense of humor ( verb phrase)

▫ Especially in social media. ▫ To be funny.

3
Rise to a challenge ( verb phrase) Run a business ( verb phrase)

▫ To prove that one is equal to a ▫ To operate or be responsible for


demand by acting forcefully or a business.
correctly.

4
Run a marathon ( verb phrase) Set a goal for yourself ( verb phrase)

▫ To establish your own


objectives.

5
Take pride in something ( verb phrase) Tell a joke ( verb phrase)

▫ To be proud of something. ▫ To tell someone something


funny.

6
Win a medal ( verb phrase) Work with your hands ( verb phrase)

7
Ambitious (adj.) Confident (adj.)
ambition (noun) confidence (noun)

▫ Adj. having a strong with to be ▫ Adj. Being certain of your


successful, powerful, or rich. abilities or having trust in
▫ Noun. Strong wish to achieve people, plans, or the future.
something. ▫ Noun. The quality of being
certain of your abilities or of
having trust in people, plans, or
the future.

8
Creative (adj.) Enthusiastic (adj.)
creativity (noun) enthusiasm (noun)

▫ Adj. Producing or using original ▫ Adj. Showing enthusiasm.


and unusual ideas. ▫ Noun. A feeling or energetic
▫ Noun. The ability to produce or interest in a particular subject
use original and unusual ideas. or activity and an eagerness to
be involved in it.

9
Experienced (adj.) Independent (adj.)
experience (noun) independence (noun)

▫ Adj. Having skill or knowledge ▫ Adj. Not influenced or


because you have done something controlled in any way by other
many times. people, events, or things.
▫ Noun. The process of getting ▫ Noun. Freedom from being
knowledge or skill from doing, governed or ruled by another
seeing, or feeling things. country, for example.

10
Polite (adj.) Qualified (adj.)
politeness (noun) qualification (noun)

▫ Adj. Behaving in a way that is ▫ Adj. Having finished a training


socially correct and shows course, or having particular
understanding of and care for skills, etc.
other people’s feelings. ▫ An official record showing that
▫ Noun. Behavior that is socially you have finished a training
correct and shows understanding course or have the necessary
of and care for other people’s skills.
feelings.

11
Responsible (adj.) Successful (adj.)
responsibility (noun) success (noun)

▫ Adj. to have control and authority ▫ Adj. Achieving the results


over something or someone and wanted or hoped for.
the duty of taking care of it, him, or ▫ Noun. The achieving of the
her. results wanted or hoped for.
▫ Noun. Something that it is your job
or duty to deal with.

12
Truthful (adj.)
truthfulness (noun)

▫ Adj. Honest and not containing or


telling any lies.
▫ Noun. The quality of being honest
and not containing or telling any
lies.

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