Key English Word Meanings and Contexts

Essential English Vocabulary: Definitions and Usage

Emotional and Mental States

• Apprehensive: Zabrinut (Worried).
• Baffled: Zbunit nekog da ne kuzi i nemre objasnit (Perplexed).
• Bewildered: Confused/uncertain.
• Circumspect: Unwilling to take risks.
• Disenchanted: Razočaran u nešto si se divio (Disappointed in something you admired).
• Distraught: Extremely nervous/worried.
• Elated/Thrilled: Extremely happy.
• Evocative: Makes you remember something pleasant.
• Overwhelmed: Full of emotions.
• Perplexed: Feeling confused or worried by something difficult to understand.
• Reluctant: Unwilling to do something.
• Repentant/Remorseful: Feeling sorry for something you've done.
• Tense/Nervous/Worried.
• Uneasy: Uncomfortable about something.
• Unnerved: Feeling less confident.
• Withdrawn: Shy and quiet.
• Eager: Wanting something very much.
• Petrified: Extremely frightened.
• Angry: Mad, indigent, cross, irate.

Time and Manner Adverbs

• For the time being: For a limited period of time.
• Promptly: Quickly, with no delay.
• Resolutely: Determined in character, action, or ideas.
• Staunchly: Strongly.
• Thereby: As a result of this action.
• Thus: With this result.
• Loosely: In a way that is not firmly held.

Cognitive and Certainty Terms

• Categorically: Without doubt or possibility of being changed.
• Hindsight: When you understand something only after it has happened.
• Ingrained: Beliefs in which you firmly believe and which do not change.
• Ironically: In a way that is different from the result you expected.
• Literate: Pismen (Able to read and write).
• Paradoxically: A situation that seems difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts.
• Partial: Not complete.
• Preoccupied: Very busy, no time.
• Purportedly: In a way that is stated to be true although this may not be the case.
• Recollection: Memory of something.
• Reminisce: Prisjećati se nečega (To recall past events).
• Supposedly: To show that something you've been told is not true.

Action and Behavior Descriptors

• Action-packed: Full of exciting events.
• Onward: In a continuing forward direction.
• Emulating: Imitating.
• Subterfuge: Dishonest way of behaving.

Scientific and Structural Terms

Biology Basics

• Bases: Crucial part of something.
• Chromosome: Structure found in all cells.
• Genetic Code: Arrangement of genes.
• Genome: The complete set of genetic material of a human.
• Virtually: Almost.

Miscellaneous Vocabulary

• Broaden: Become wider.
• Shred: Small amount.
• Plausible: Reasonable and likely to be true.
• Obsolete: No longer used.
• Railings: Fence made of vertical metal bars.
• Heroic Exploits: Brave acts.
• Took Off: Became popular.
• Surge: Sudden increase.
• Dexterity: Ability to perform difficult actions quickly.
• Controversy: A lot of disagreement about something.
• Discredit: Cause people to stop respecting someone.