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Vocab Unit 2. Acknowledge - Verb. Recognize; admit Acknowledging our shortcomings is the first step to changing ourselves for the better. Debilitate - Verb. Weaken; enfeeble Diseases debilitate many people in Africa who don’t have adequate nutrition and lack of access to modern medicine.
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Acknowledge - Verb • Recognize; admit • Acknowledging our shortcomings is the first step to changing ourselves for the better.
Debilitate - Verb • Weaken; enfeeble • Diseases debilitate many people in Africa who don’t have adequate nutrition and lack of access to modern medicine.
Exuberance - Noun • Joyful enthusiasm; overflowing abundance • Pat could hardly contain her exuberance after she saw her score on the SAT; it meant she would be accepted at the college she always wanted to attend.
Inadvertent - ADJ • Unintentional; as a result of oversight; careless • Sam assured Bob that although his remark could be seen as insulting, it had been inadvertent.
Opulence - Noun • Extreme wealth; luxuriousness;abundance • Even though he’s rich, the billionaire lives simply with none of the opulence usually associated with great wealth.
Truncate – Verb • Shorten; cut the top off • My pleasant conversation with an old friend was truncated by an important telephone call.