Daily Reading: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (day 4)

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Today’s Vocabulary

• Meekly:
  • Meaning: In a quiet, gentle, and submissive manner.
  • Sentence: She spoke meekly, afraid to raise her voice.
• Abdicated:
  • Meaning: Voluntarily give up or renounce the throne, power, or responsibility.
  • Sentence: The king abdicated the throne, leaving the kingdom in the hands of his successor.
• Circumscribe:
  • Meaning: To restrict or limit something within certain bounds.
  • Sentence: The rules of the game circumscribe the players’ actions to maintain fair competition.
• Inadequacy:
  • Meaning: Lack of quality or quantity required; insufficiency.
  • Sentence: She felt a sense of inadequacy when faced with the challenging task.
• Repertoire:
  • Meaning: A stock of plays, dances, or pieces that a company or a performer is prepared to perform.
  • Sentence: The pianist’s repertoire includes both classical and contemporary pieces.
• Serenity:
  • Meaning: The state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled.
  • Sentence: The garden provided a place of serenity for those seeking a break from the busy city life.
• Gofer:
  • Meaning: An employee whose job involves running errands or doing odd jobs.
  • Sentence: As the office gofer, he was responsible for fetching coffee and delivering documents.
• Vindictive:
  • Meaning: Having a strong desire for revenge.
  • Sentence: Her vindictive actions were fueled by a desire to settle an old score.
• Collusive:
  • Meaning: Involving secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, often to deceive others.
  • Sentence: The collusive scheme was designed to manipulate the market for personal gain.
• Absolve:
  • Meaning: To declare someone free from guilt, obligation, or punishment.
  • Sentence: The priest absolved the penitent of their sins after a sincere confession.
• Imperceptibly:
  • Meaning: In a way that is impossible to perceive or notice.
  • Sentence: The temperature dropped imperceptibly as the sun set.
• Groundswell:
  • Meaning: A gradual and widespread increase or surge in support, opinion, or activity.
  • Sentence: There was a groundswell of public support for the environmental conservation initiative.
• Languish:
  • Meaning: To become weak or feeble, especially when forced to remain in an unpleasant situation.
  • Sentence: The plants languished in the dry soil without proper nourishment.
• Stagnant:
  • Meaning: Not flowing or moving, often used to describe water; showing little or no activity or development.
  • Sentence: The stagnant pond had an unpleasant odor due to the lack of circulation.