While many are trying to figure out how to advance in their careers, what many fail to understand is that communication is the key to success. With good communication skills and a vocabulary to back it up, you can be sure to make a good impression on your peers.
Here’s a way to improve your vocabulary and communication skills. Check out the words of the day and a short quiz to push yourself and improve your vocabulary and language skills.
Fanaticism (Noun)
Meaning: the quality of being fanatic
Example: The outlook is for further destruction, fanaticismviolence and hatred
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Fanfare (Noun)
Meaning: A short ceremonial melody or tap played on brass instruments, usually to introduce something or someone important.
Example: The studio released this movie to great acclaim. fanfare but without commercial success
Farce (Noun)
Meaning: A comic dramatic work that employs buffoonery and slapstick and typically includes crude characterizations and ridiculously improbable situations.
Example: Add to the farce When they can’t change clothes fast enough
Annoying (Adjective)
Meaning: Very attentive and concerned with precision and detail.
Example: He always loves to have everything very elegant and polished and annoying
Fertility (Noun)
Meaning: the ability to produce an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertility
Example: The fertility The Elizabethan language was an extraordinary phenomenon produced by an extraordinary society.
Febrile (Adjective)
Meaning: having or showing symptoms of fever/characterized by a great deal of excitement or nervous energy
Example: However, chest x-rays may be normal during the febrile prodrome and throughout the disease
Think about it and try to answer the following questions to see how much you have understood.
- The girl seemed __________________ about getting her fingers dirty. Which of the following words best fits the sentence?Annoying, farce)
- There are elements of farce in this drama that make it even sadder. Which of the following words best fits the sentence?Farce, fanfare)
- Can you think of some antonyms for the word? Fanfare?
- Can you think of some synonyms for the word? Fanaticism?
- Can you think of any sentences that use the word? Febrile?
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(Definitions and examples are from Oxford Languages)
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