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• Cram study concentrated short time
• Genius exceptionally clever person an
• Papers past exam previous years
• Learning rote purely repetition by
• Mnemonics tricks remember that help
• Bury books spend maximum time studying
• Intensively focused in a very
• Subject inside knwo completely know
• Composition words school work could
• Essay longer composition hunderds thousands words
• Assignment long essay part thousands words
• Project assignment emphasis student's material topic
• Portfolio collection indicidual pieces work include drawings examples
• Dissertation long research-based work words degree diploma
• Thesis long original research-based work words higher degree
• Mind map diagram lays ideas topis connected
• Draft rough version first
• Plagiarism people's work using others
• Acknowledge give details of
• Deadline date hand work by
• Assessed evaluated grade and given
• Feedback comments teacher/tutor from the
• Research carry formal out less
• Postgraduates students degree doing a
• Academic journals magazines articles word talk kind publication
• Access online hold internet it
• Inter-library loan system libraries exchange books/journals
• Open educational resources online materials freely teachers students
• Drop leave end the out
• Finals exams end college university
• Well-qualified formal qualifications with the
• Equality opportunity chances of when
• Selective schooling pupils chosen entry academic reasons case
• Comprehensive schooling enters exams education free paid government
• Schooling education received school at
• Elitism favour small privileged group
• Inherent existing basic part in
• League tables lists schools collages worst based exam
• Perpetuate make continue something
• System two-tier seperate levels a
• Perceives sees considers
• Better-off richer
• Well-endowed receiving lot money grants gifts rich people
• Depressing reducing
• Well-off poorer less
• Excel achieve excellent standard an
• Scholarships money pay studies provided basis academic merit
• Bursaries money pay studies provided basis
• Education tertiary university college level
• Student loans money borrow bank studying pay back
• Undergraduates students degree doing a
• Team player person good working
• Tuition fees money paid receive teaching
• Rs reading writing arithmetic the
• Literacy ability read the to
• Numeracy ability count/do basic maths
• Curriculum reform covered national syllabus
• Syllabus plan studied of what
• Education lifelong/continuing ages for all
• Students mature adult older average
• Education special children learn normal disability
• One-to-one teacher pupil group one
• Bullying threatening behavior
• Guidelines advice official often on
• Distraction takes attention away
• Passion liking for something very
• Challenging role positive word exciting difficult
• Fast-paced environment place things happen quickly
• Openings jobs available
• Reporting person boss report to
• Experience previous type job of
• Training full all the you
• Post job
• Career prospects opportunities promotion development
• Leadership qualities ability lead group
• Competitive salary good similar jobs
• Benefits package extra company offers salary
• Subsidised partly paid company for
• Stand out be better than
• Relevant connected to
• Carried out done
• Letter cover letter/covering job application
• Sir madam start letter person writing
• Hands-on practical direct theoretical not
• Field area business activity of
• Customer-facing dealing directly customers with
• Experience managerial managing people of
• Faithfully finish letter person writing
• Recruiting hiring staff new
• Criteria requirement youe make decision
• Shortlisted selected larger group from
• Trial run practice a of
• Boost improve increase or
• Panal group people a of
• Line manager person directly responsible work
• Body language physical movements show feeling
• Speak loudly up more and
• Talk detail us through tell
• Trainee person learning job a
• Professional development training employees increase knownledge skills
• In-house company within the
• Recruits people joined company new
• Supervisor person checks work the
• Start take on to have
• Fill post find job the
• Notice period time work job offically told company
• Ideal fit suitable for an
• Outlining giving overview an of
• Paid leave time holiday parental
• Structure reporting company report and
• Opposite number position/does job the
• Working relationship communicating way of
• Collaboration working achieve shared goals
• Counterpart position/does job formal the
• Rapport communication/relationship
• Initiative make decisions told take
• Important hierachical structure people has
• Pecking order system people benefits/promotion
• Job-share agreement people share job
• Hot-desking policy sharing desks office people sit whichever
• Workmates colleagues friendly non-professional occupations informal
• Talk shop work informal about
• Mundane ordinary interesting not
• Meet deadline finished fixed day time
• Volunteer offer asked to do
• Rewarding making feel satisfied important
• Stimulating encouraging ideas thinking new
• Workload amount work i of
• Mechanical job you don't to
• Repetitive job thing repeated day
• Knocking finishing informal off
• Monotonous boring because it never
• Un)satisfying make feel pleased providing i
• Challenging tests ability determination that
• Glamorous exciting admires very which
• Anti-social hours enable normal social life
• Desk stuck sitting day informal
• Mind-numbing extremely boring
• Tight schedules strict severely limited timetables
• Stuck rut stuck/trapped job escape
• Dead-end prospects promotion with no
• Technician person job involves practical work scientific electrical
• Formed business partnership with went
• Start-up small business started a
• Freelance works or
• Programmer writes computer programs someone
• Job satisfaction feeling worth fulfils
• Workplace place work the where
• Run-of-the-mill ordinary special not or
• Term short opp long immediate
• Financial reward money gained
• Teamwork working common purpose together
• Job stability change not likely
• Fast moving developing changing quickly
• Amount time spent work-life balance working compared things
• Dynamic continuously developing
• Demotivated feeling enthusiastic work less
• Maternity/paternity/adoption leave time work prepare baby/adopted child
• Perks informal)/(extra)benefits formal extra things salary e.g car
• Holiday entitlement number days of
• Increments increases/rises formal
• Performance-related depending job on how
• Annual bonus extra money paid year based good
• Overworked underpaid informal humorous fixed expression
• Voluntary redundancies people losing jobs offering
• Compulsory redundancies people losing jobs choice
• Skeleton staff minimum number workers needed operating
• Interview panel group people interviewing job
• Opportunistic situations benefit using for
• Methodical systematic careful
• Chauvinistic patriotic too
• Carried excited lose control get
• Obliging ready to help
• Superficial caring things not about
• Insecure confident uncertain abilities not
• Perfectionist satisfied things perfect not
• Tactless inclined things upset offend people
• Intuitive understanding instinctively
• Diligent hard-working
• Personality magnetic attracts people that
• Distrustful trusting suspicious not of
• Shrewd good judgement having
• Supportive encouragement gives help or
• Extravagant spends money too much
• Down-to-earth practical and sensible
• Altruistic thinking of others rather
• Morose gloomy
• Sharp-tongued inclined speak severe critical
• Naive whithout experience life trusting easily
• Generous unstinting extravagant immoderate
• Resolute dogged stubborn obstinate
• Thrifty frugal stingy parsimonious
• Diligent industrious work-obsessed workaholic noun
• Shrewd astute cunning sly
• Sober morose sullen serious
• Witty pithy brusque terse
• Tolerant open-minded unprincipled unscrupulous
• Chatty talkative verbose garrulous
• Slender thin attractive in an
• Scrawny unattractively thin bony-looking and
• Lanky tall thin moving awkwardly
• Gangling/gangly tall long thing arms legs awkward movements
• Obese fat unhealthy very in
• Stout large solid body men women
• Stocky short body wide shoulders chest
• Bulked increase body size gaining muscle
• Lean thin healthy and
• Wiry thin strong but
• Unkempt untidy scruffy
• Hair place well-dressed neat smart-looking
• Immaculate perfect condition smart in
• Swarthy dark-coloured skin used about
• Sallow yellowish
• Haggard face ill tired a
• Grinning giving big smile a
• Pouting positioning lips attractive your
• Pouts positions lips annoyance her
• Grimace make expression pain strong dislike
• Scowled gave bad-tempered angry me
• Leering looing unpleasant sexually interested
• Folded arms crossed close body
• Crossed legs sitting his one
• Twitching suddenly making small movements
• Bites nails nervous habit her
• Clenched fist closed hand tightly anger
• Tapping/drumming fingers made quick light hitting movements
• Impetuous acts sudden idea thinking negative
• Impulsive similar impetuous positive to
• Effusive exaggerated expression pleasure praise gratitude
• Excitable easily excited things by
• Pushy selfishly promoting position interests
• Self-concious nervous ucomfortable people actions
• Well-balanced calm reasonable showing good judgement
• Taciturn reserved generally negative or
• Introvert inward-looking quiet and
• Outgoing energetic friendly find easy
• Extrovert outward-looking energetic sociable and
• Diffident lacks confidence
• Self-esteem low opinion oneself has
• Reserved immediately sociable not
• Aloof unfriendly sociable and not
• Haughty unfriendly thinks oneself and
• Disdainful deserve respect does not
• Unapproachable easy sociable start conversation
• Approachable easy sociable start conversation
• Conceited thinks oneself wonderful
• Self-important exaggerated sense importance has
• Modest prefers exaggerate qualities not
• Respectful treating politely admiration someone
• Gullible easily deceived
• Conscientious work always took his
• Restless satisfied wanting not with
• Obstinate uwilling change persuasion to
• Pig-headed similar obstinate stronger to
• Love sight began time first
• Love fall head heels fell deeply madly
• Eyes attracted to only have
• Infatuated romantically obsessed with to
• Besotted stupidly blindly love with
• Relationship platonic affectionate people opposite sex sexual
• Hit moment meet to it
• Soulmates people feel close spirit understand deeply
• Man/woman heart admire you do
• House fire good enjoyable relationship
• Bosom friends/buddies/pals close good friends
• Inseparable close always want to
• Bond realtionship feeling togetherness or
• Kindred spirits people similar life
• Well-matched people perfect who seem
• Family ties bond connection members obligation one's
• Mutual acquaintances knowing people several
• Hold high regard lot respect
• Thick thieves close sharing secrets

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