Open F2F Class Notes 12th December (Raph)

Vocabulary

Agreeable (adj): 1- nice or pleasing to the mind or senses. 2- willing or ready to agree or consent.
E.g.: He’s a very agreeable young man.

Confrontation (n): 1- a hostile or argumentative meeting or situation between two or more opposing parties.
E.g.: He would prefer not to have a confrontation with the authorities.

Altruism (n): 1- the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.
E.g.: He chose to work with vulnerable elderly people just out of altruism.

Conscience (n): 1- an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one’s behavior.  2- conformity to what one considers to be correct, right, or morally good
E.g.: The thief must have had an attack of conscience, because he returned the wallet with nothing missing from it.

Neurosis (n): 1- excessive and irrational anxiety or obsession. 2- a relatively mild personality disorder typified by excessive anxiety or indecision and a degree of lacking social or interpersonal adjustment.
E.g.: Apprehension over the country’s growing debt has created a collective neurosis in the business world.