VIP Class Notes (Jesse)

Vocabulary

reforging – (forge = to make using melted metal) (v)
eg. Jill and I have forged a strong friendship

ancestral (adj)
eg. parts of America are the ancestral homeland of the native american tribes

paramour = lover

cannibal – (n) sb who eats human flesh
eg. they’re cannibals

reinforce / reinforcement
eg. I want to reinforce my English by listening to podcasts every day

replenish – to add more to make the amount / strength enough again
eg. if you format your computer it should replenish the memory capacity

deplete (used often with energy / resources)
eg. using WeChat too often will deplete your battery

tame < > wild
eg. my cat is super tame

died in childbirth

brutalized – to attack in a vicious way
eg. he was brutalized by the dogs

subservient
eg. black people were thought of as being subservient by racists across the world

persona – like a character that almost has become its own person

succumbs – to eventually die from sth
eg. he succumbed to the disease

grief-stricken / poverty-stricken …

enlists
eg. i enlisted the help of my family to buy a house

smuggle – to secretly bring sth to a place
eg. he smuggled drugs into the country and was caught

benevolent – kind / helpful / generous

mutineers / mutiny

to lay siege