Week 2

Word: Amicable

Definition: Friendly, especially regarding an agreement.

Part of Speech: Adjective.

Sentence:  Some parent divorces in an amicable way because they do not want to give their children hard time and cause psychological illness to the children.

Collocation: "seem-amicable", "perfectly amicable", "amicable enough"

Word: Benevolent

Definition: Characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feeling.

Part of Speech: Adjective.

Sentence:  I admire the benevolent work of organs donors, it is nice of them to give their organs to someone else.

Collocation: "benevolent-person", "benevolent-purpose", "benevolent-prompt"


Word: Brusque

Definition: Abrupt, blunt, .or rough in manner.

Part of Speech: Adjective.

Sentence: Some customers would think that waiters behave in a brusque way where in fact they were busy and did not think that they were rude to the customers.

Collocation: "brusque-manner", "brusque-reply", "brusque-gesture"



Word: Cumulative

Definition: Increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions.

Part of Speech: Adjective.

Sentence: A cumulative GPA is a calculation of all the student's grades for all semesters and courses completed up to a given time,

Collocation: 


Word: Diligent

Definition: Constant in effort to accomplish something; attentive and persistent in doing anything.

Part of Speech: Adjective.

Sentence: In an attempt to accumulate the high GPA, the students would do diligent work by doing extra credits and studying hard for their courses.

Collocation: 


Word: Deferential

Definition: Showing respect.

Part of Speech: Adjective.

Sentence: The children have a deferential attitude toward their parent.

Collocation: "deferential-attitude"


Word: Bellicose

Definition: Eager to fight.

Part of Speech: Adjective.

Sentence: Some people have a hard time making friend because of their bellicose nature.

Collocation: 


Word: Alacrity

Definition: Cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness.

Part of Speech: Noun.

Sentence: The customer service representatives trained to respond to customers with alacrity.

Collocation: "with alacrity"


Word: Compassion

Definition: A feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.

Part of Speech: Noun.

Sentence: As humans we should have deep compassion for under privilege people.

Collocation: "deep compassion", "for compassion", "with compassion", "towards compassion"


Word: Digression

Definition:  the act of going off topic.

Part of Speech: Noun.

Sentence: A number of students digress in their writing assignment .

Collocation: