VOCAB

hey all,

the first word is taken from my prev post which i didnt explain clearly. obviously i was even thinking when i cut and paste that meaning lol so here's the revised version (:

1) Assimilation: the process oF understanding and using new ideas / people assimilate into a country or group

It will take time to assimilate all these facts./ Refugees find it difficult to assimilate into the new community.


2) Adduce: give facts or reasons to prove that something is true.

As more evidence was adduced, the reaction was that the threat was remote and there was plenty time to take remedial action.


3) Paradigm- an example serving as a model; pattern
Paradigm-shift: an immportant change in which the usual way of thinking or doing something is replaced by another way of thinkinf or doing something.

We should change the paradigm and make it fashionable to drive energy-efficient cars instead of Sports Utility Vehicles.


4) Periphery: relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question; at the edge
( a person or thing that is on the periphery is not one of the main things involved.)

The government pushed environmental concerns from the periphery into mainstream thinking.


5) espouse: to support an idea or believe (especially a political one), adopt a cause, marry to

He espoused for the call of liberal reforms.


6) Ratify: to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction ( signed treaty or agreement)

Singapore ratified the Kyoto Protocol some nine years after the international treaty to cap greenhouse gases nwas first framed.


much happened today and i need to get more rest so i'l be rejuvenised tmr (: prob try to do up a vocab review tmr or sth (: man GP's in 3days' time am i freaking out or what? :XXX