Vocabulary Words Unit 1

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Name of Reading: “Shitty First Drafts”

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Name of Reading: “Student Fear Factor”

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matriculating Enrolling at a 23 “Melanie spoke The students

college or vividly of the were stressed
university fears she about the idea of
confronted on matriculating
matriculating.” early without
sufficient
preparation.

trajectory The path 28 “Thus, the The student’s

followed outcome of each trajectory was to
student in graduate and
composition pursue an
holds important internship to find
consequences a job with a
for his or her telecommunicati
educational onsn company.
trajectory and
ability to
succeed as a
college student.”

baccalaureate A university 34 “Nereida and A method of

bachelor’s Susan were scaling back on
degree taking career goals is
themselves off to pursue an
the associate’s
baccalaureate degree instead
track.” of a
baccalaureate.

fortuitous Happening by 34 “Thre ability to It’s fortuitous to

chance rather reframe make the claim
than intrention disappointments tat I didn’t pass
as fortuitous the course
twists of failure despite all the
was explained effort I made.
most eloquently
by a Latino
student named
Carlos.”

tenuously With little 34 “In the absence I held tenuously

strewngth of evidencefrom onto the rope
 assessments, before falling to
students can the ground.
cling however
tenuously to
their identity as
college
students.”

Name of Reading: “Challenge Personality Awareness: How to overcome

challenges, achieve goals and have success in school and life”

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self-efficacy The beliefs we 2 “Positive The student

hold about our self-beliefs operated with a
ability to emanate from great amount of
complete a task positive self efficacy
emotions, driven about writing the
by neural essay, because
networks he had a good
associated with understanding of
positive feelings, the topic, and a
which supportive
encourage the environment.
belief that one
has the
ability, power
and influence to
succeed despite
challenging
situations. This
ability has been
coined, “self
efficacy,” by
psychologist
Albert Bandura.”
sabotage Hamper ones 2 “The Saboteur My negative
interests and Challenge thoughts about
development Personality having to be
response is perfect to get a
generated from good grade
the fear and sabotage my
threat centers of ability to even
the brain fueled make an effort
by negative on the
emotions, and assignment.
following the
emotional
decision-making
path: “where
feelings of fear
coopt rational
thought
and sabotages
effort”.”

merit the quality of 4 My merit at

being “There are many school and work
particularly good success is the product of
or worthy, ideologies that hard work and
especially so as focus only on an developing
to deserve individual’s merit habits that suit
praise or reward such as: effort, my success.
mindset, grit, or
ability, but these
ideas have been
proven to fall
short, especially
for historically
marginalized
and
socio-economica
lly challenged
individuals,
because
success is
largely affected
by external
factors and the
environment that
surrounds the
individual.”

imperative Of vital 4 “The major The student’s

importance; imperative of imperative from
 crucial this system is watching the
not to seek to documentary
“fix” individuals, was to learn
but rather, to more about
help individuals options in life
optimize their after
approach and postsecondary
environments to education.
meet and defeat
any challenge.”

optimal best or most 1 “Certainly, The optimal

favorable challenges are solution for a
necessary for sore throat is to
optimal success, drink warm
however, they natural
can be like a remedies.
rubber band:
where it isn’t
useful if it isn’t
stretched, but it
can be stretched
so far
that it risks
snapping or
breaking.”

Name of Reading: “7 Laws of Consistent Success System: A Case Study

Explanation”

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milestone an important 7 “You will create Today was an

point in the an action plan important
progress or with milestones milestone in my
and stay in dog’s recovery
development
momentum by from his broken
of something taking small leg, as he
steps towards started limping.
the goal.”
Intrinsic By your nature 6 “Intrinsically If it wasn’t for my
motivated desire to receive
people learn the million dollar
better, work prize and skills I
harder, and are had developed
more resilient.” over the years, I
would not have
been intrinsically
motivated to
compete in the
chess
competition.

Ecologist Person who 6 “Ecologists have A human is a

studies the found that living organism
relationship of environments that can shape
organisms to shape its environment
one another and organisms and to influence their
their physical organisms can lives.
surroundings also shape
environments.
Environments
can create or
impede
success.”

diligent having or 8 “This law The doctor

showing care and requires that you showed
conscientiousnes diligently focus diligence when
s in one's work or on what you are caring for the
duties doing right now.” sick patient.

capitalize take the chance 6 “Create a plan to I made sure to

to gain capitalize on capitalize on the
advantage from positive fact that my
environmental essay was due
factors, in 10 days by
re-arrange, gaining a head
and/or put start on the
yourself in assignment.
environments
that facilitate the
achievement of
your
mission.”

Name of Reading: “Brainology”

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deficiency a lack or 2 “If you feel Although I suffer

shortage dumb — from a vitamin
permanently defficiency, I’m
dumb — in an still able to
academic area, exercise and
there is no good study.
way to bounce
back and be
successful in the
future.In a
growth mindset,
however, you
can make a plan
of positive action
that can remedy
a deficiency.”

anonymous not identified by 3 “We asked The fact that I’m

name children to write not famous
something makes me
(anonymously) anonymous to
about their most of the
experience to a people where I
child in another live.
school …”

mesmerize hold the attention 4 “Students were My mind was

of (someone) to mesmerized by mesmerized by
the exclusion of this article and the beauty of the
all else or so as its message.” sunset by the
to transfix them beach.

plummet Fall or drop at 3 “The children The prolonged

high speed praised for their procrastination
intelligence lost caused my
their confidence performance to
as soon as the plummet to a C
problems got in math.
more difficult …
and, as a result,
their
performance
 plummeted.”

intuitive using or based 3 “But the biggest It was based on

on what one feels mistake was the my intuition that
to be true even belief that you the man’s breath
without could simply would smell bad
conscious hand children because he was
reasoning self-esteem by homeless.
telling them how
smart and
talented they
are. Even
though this is
such an
intuitively
appealing idea,
and even though
it was
exceedingly
well-
intentioned, I
believe it has
had disastrous
effects.”

Name of Reading: “The Problem With Growth Mindset”

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malleable easily influenced 1 “The notion of An individual

intelligence as who is sure
something about their
innate and fixed beliefs is not
has been malleable about
supplanted by them.
the idea that
intelligence is
instead
something
malleable …”
relish great enjoyment 3 “The second I delight and
child relish in
relishes the macaroni and
challenge, and cheese with
works to chicken wings,
improve – that because it’s my
child is favorite meal
displaying a combination.
growth mindset.”

impediment a hindrance or 5 “One of the My greatest

obstruction in greatest impediment to
doing something impediments to achieving my
successfully goals is my
implementing a procrastination.
growth mindset
is the education
system itself.”

ephermal lasting for a very 7 “t is the The movie was

short time ephemeral, an ephemeral
elusive form of experience for
knowledge that the children who
resists had waited so
classification or long to go to the
codification, and cinema to watch
that can be it.
gleaned only
through
immersion in the
experience
itself.”

elusive difficult to find, 7 “t is the Some of the

catch, or achieve ephemeral, math problems
elusive form of were elusive in
knowledge that nature as people
resists were confused
classification or by their puzzling
codification, and formulas.
that can be
gleaned only
through
immersion in the
experience
itself.”