VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S / W]

Compromise
My husband wanted to watch football game while I wanted to watch the Walking Dead, and finally we reached a compromise to play video games. / we compromised by playing video games 

Inadvertent – adj
I inadvertently pressed the delete button and the whole article I had just finished was gone.

Impede
The storm impeded our plan to go out.

Supplemental / tary 
He is a super diligent student who takes 3 supplemental courses in one term.

Backlog
I have been lazy lately, which caused a backlog of work waiting for me.

Vocabulary

detrimental / adversely affected 
eg. smoking is detrimental to your health
eg2. the weather adversely affected our trip

unnerved – to lose your nerves and become worried and lacking confidence

arachnophobia – a fear of spiders

confide – to trust by telling sb sth 
eg. I confided in you by telling you that information

depict – to show sth in picture form
eg. the painting depicted the family together

decimate – almost completely destroy
eg. the army was decimated

valid / legitimate – real / acceptable 
eg. that’s a valid reason to not go to America

goosebumps
eg. I get goosebumps every time I think about spiders

the picture depicted (showed) a spider in Australia

I have a fondness for coffee

feed / fed 

timid < > aggressive
eg. the kangaroos were quite timid

I used to have a plan to go to australia but since i am arachnophobia I was scared by a picture of spider living in Australia once which was depicted by my friend. This experience totally decimated my fond / favor of Australia. That’s a valid reason to not go to Australia. My friend showed me a picture and told me it was beautiful and i confided in him by telling him that i wanted to go to australia and he showed me a picture with a spider.

I used to have a plan to go to Australia but since i am Arachnophobic / I have arachnophobia I was scared by a picture of a spider living in Australia once, which was depicted by a spider on a branch with the Sydney Opera house behind it. This experience totally decimated my fondness for Australia. That’s a valid reason to not go to Australia. My friend showed me a picture and told me it was beautiful and i confided in him by telling him that i wanted to go to Australia and he showed me a picture with a spider.