Following examples illustrate the objective of WonderVocab; which is to make your routine communication articulate and eloquent. You will find the examples very easy and important for use at home or work. Besides learning words you will improve your sentence composition too.
Situation: You ask your child to use his sense of sharp hearing and listen carefully to his mom’s approaching footsteps, while you filch cookies off a kitchen closet.
Amateur: Use your auditory sharpness and signal me if you hear her coming.
Pro: Use your hearing acuity and signal me if you sense her approaching.
(vision or thought acuity)
Situation: You are helping a relative or friend to make a hassle-free exit out of a station or area where cab drivers usually approach and harass you to ride with them.
Amateur: Try avoiding that route. Else you could be approached by too many cab drivers who at times get aggressive in asking you to ride with them.
Pro: Try avoiding that route. Else you could be accosted by too many cabbies for riding with them.
(accosted by a stranger/beggars or drunks demanding money or accost someone to stop him from causing nuisance at a public place)
Situation: You have to confess to or share with a teacher that you find a particular chapter or a topic difficult to understand.
Amateur: I find this chapter/topic a little difficult to understand.
Pro: I find this chapter/topic a little abstruse.
(abstruse statement/theory/law/subject/contract document)
Situation: You are requesting your team not to have biases or presumptions about what consumers want. You ask them remain neutral and survey the market without any personal preferences. After this decide the most demanded App or another product.
Amateur: Let’s remain noncommittal to any product or price. Let’s survey and discover what consumers want.
Pro: Let’s remain agnostic about product and price. Let’s first survey and discover what consumers want.
(Investors who remain industry agnostic and decide on credentials of an opportunity, freshers who remain agnostic before experiencing and then deciding on which specific career to pursue, to be agnostic about what to purchase, be agnostic to all opinions or ideas, be politically agnostic and open to voting)
