Thursday, May 6, 2010

Vocabulary words

While being in my internship this is the five most important vocabulary i catch up at the top.

Advocacy
Native language: plaidoyer
Meaning: The act of pleading and arguing about anything such as a cause, idea, policy or active support
Sentence; Flanbwayan way advocacy support teen to achieve their goal
My mentor always use this word to say this is what they do

Outreach
Native language:sensibilisation
Meaning:is concerning about community service and benefits.
sentence:an educational outreach program.


Profit
Native language:Profit
meaning: the money a business makes after accounting for all the expenses.
Sentence; flanbwayan goal is to make profit


Non profit
Native language: pas davantage
Meaning:not established for the purpose of making a profit or not entered into for money
Sentence:The organization i work on is a non profit

Ethnocentrism
Native language:ethnocentrisme
Meaning:Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.
Sentence:Ethnocentrism is basically the belief that your ethnicity is superior to

Advisor
Native language:conseiller
Meaning:A person who give good advice to other
Sentence: There are teacher in my school who are responsible for advising student

Appropriate
Native language:approprier
meaning: Something that not represented to do or wear
Sentence: the clothes that she is wearing is not appropriate

Attitude
Native language:attitude
Meaning: a bad manner someone have on their oneself
Sentence;That girl next door have a bad attitude

Colleague
Native language : college
Meaning: A partner a fellow group member or a staff
Sentence:she is my internship colleague

Cover letter
Native language:lettre de motivation
Meaning: A letter sent with other documents to provide more information.
Sentence: I have to write my cover letter to my new job, so they could know information about me

Co- worker
Native language: Co-travailleurs
Meaning:someone who work with another
Sentence: Sara is the co-worker of my internship

Criticism
Native language:Critique
Meaning:the act of passing judgement
Sentence: Teacher in my school criticism student because of their attitude


Discrimination
Native language:discrimination
Meaning: The power of making distinction to someone
Sentence:she got discriminated because of her color

Duty
Native language: devoir
Meaning: an act or expression of respect.
Sentence:That person is dealing if a lot of duty.

Employer
Native language:Employe
Meaning:A person or a job that employs more tha on people
Sentence: This job only need more than five employer


Employee
Native language:Employeur
meaning: a person working for another person
Sentence she is an employee working for me


Evaluate
Native language:Evaluer
Meaning:to determine
Sentence: the worker have to evaluate the property

Evaluation
Native language:evaluation
Meaning:To examine and judge carefully
Sentence:the school have to do the avaluation of all the student

Flexible
Native language:Souple
Meaning:capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent
Sentence: that ruler is flexible

Harassment
Native language:harcelment
Meaning: to attack someone
Sentence: that girl been harassment since the day of the school

Initiative
Native language:Initiative
Meaning:an introductory act or step, leading action.
Sentence:She take the initiative of making friend

Novice
Native language: novice
Meaning:a person who is new to a circumstances, in which he or she is placed
Sentence:The sisterhood required that prospective novices take an introductory course before applying to join the order.

Proactive
Native language:proactive
Meaning:serving to prepare for
Sentence:We can deal with each problem as it pops up, or we can take a proactive stance and try to prevent future problems.

Qualifications
native language:
Meaning:a quality that fits a person for some function.
Sentence:to endorse a plan without qualification.

Recommendation
Native language; recommendation
Meaning: somethig that require from someone to another person
Sentence:she need to do a letter recommendation

Reference
Native language:reference
Meaning;Something that require to someone
sentence:a library for public reference.

Reliable
Native language: reliable
Meaning:Capable of being dependable
Sentence: a reliable assistant

Salary
Native language:Salaire
Meaning:Something someone receive in return of a work or service like money
Sentence:She receive most of the time salary for her work

Task
Native language: task
Meaning:any piece of work.
Sentence:It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Wage
Native language:
Meaning:money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week.
sentence:Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.




1 comment:

  1. Betina,

    Excellent work on part 1 but you MUST finish part 2 in order to earn credit.

    Thanks.

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