Essential Vocabulary for Professional and Social Fluency
Master these key terms and phrases covering business, communication, and personal development to boost your understanding and confidence in various settings.
- Embarrassed
- Feeling ashamed and uncomfortable.
- Pick up
- To learn something in an informal way, by listening to or watching other people.
- Get your message across
- To manage to make someone understand or believe something.
- Attention Span
- The length of time you can concentrate and listen effectively.
- Entitled
- Believing you deserve privileges or special treatment.
- Up-and-coming
- Likely to become very famous or successful.
- Unaffiliated
- Not officially attached to or connected with an organization or group.
- Opt for
- To choose.
- Boost
- To increase or make something stronger.
- Flatter
- To praise dishonestly.
- Weird
- Strange.
- Hesitate
- To pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness.
- Trustworthy
- Reliable.
- Up-to-date
- Modern.
- Website Analytics
- Data generated by website users, used to make decisions about web design.
- Stand out
- To be recognized as different or better.
- Sort out
- To find the solution.
- Commercial Awareness
- Understanding the commercial realities affecting the organization.
- Get in touch with someone
- To contact someone.
- To look for
- To try to find (something or someone), or to search.
- Pay attention to
- To concentrate or focus on something.
- Chat up
- To talk to someone in a way that shows attraction (to flirt or start a conversation).
- Adulthood
- The time when you are an adult, and no longer a child.
- Charity
- Showing kindness by giving money or gifts to organizations that need them.
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- A business's concern for society's welfare.
- To take on
- To employ.
- Failure
- Lack of success or a bad result.
- Self-esteem
- How much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself.
- Awkward
- Clumsy or strange.
- To nod
- To move your head up and down.
- Awesome
- Inspiring admiration or wonder.
- Thirsty
- Feeling a need to drink something.
- Brand Advocates
- Individuals who are passionate about a business or brand and want to tell the world about it.
- Be worth doing
- Used to say that an activity is interesting, useful, or helpful.
- Unique take on something
- An unusual opinion or perspective.
- Host webinars
- To organize online training sessions.
- To put forward ideas
- To suggest.