8th Vocabulary Entry

Anxious : Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety.

Integrate : Make into a whole or make part of a whole.


Accepted : Generally approved or compelling recognition.


Imperative : Some duty that is essential and urgent.

Advancement : The act of moving forward.


Commitments : The trait of sincere and steadfast fixing of purpose.


Interactive : Capable of acting on or influencing each other.

Resources : Anything of material value or usefulness.


Struggling : Engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity.


Pace : The rate of moving.


Flexibility : The quality of being adaptable or variable.

Alter : Become different in some particular way.


Routine : An  unvarying or habitual method or procedure.

Accommodate : Provide with something desired or needed.

Potential : The inherent capacity for coming into being.


User : The exercise or enjoyment of a right or property.


Friendly : Showing and expressing liking and goodwill.


Valuable : Something of value.


Utilized : Put to use.

Expanding : Cause to increase the size, volume, quantity, or scope of enlarge.

Method : A way of doing something.

8th Reflection

    

     I choose Boffin and Butler because it fits on me. Half of me representing the type of Boffin, and the rest represent the Butler. I am a student who is to be curious, and would like to learn something one by one, and need a very clear explanation, I was able to complete a task. Thus, the first thing that must I do to improve my learning is, where I must be brave to try a new things so do not expect it to others only. Next, I knew to be a success person, I must discipline ourselves, not just hope in the ideas of others, but I must try with my own effort to be more satisfied with the things that I've learned. Other than that, I realized that I love wasted time to the entertainment, and I like to delay the work, therefore I should to advice my own self to reduce the entertainment, and take more time to my studies, with table arranged in a systematic way to study. Besides, I should change myself to a person who's like to ask for something that we don't know, and for each learning that I do not understand with someone who's got a much of  knowledge. Finally, my advice I give to myself to enhance my learning, which I should be hard to read any book or newspaper, and find info that are related to my learning, to increase my knowledge, and indirectly to enhance my learning to a higher level as a builder. 

7th Vocabulary Entry

Convenient - Limited to your comfort or purpose or needs.

Scapegoat - Someone who is punished for the errors of others.

Buffer - A neutral zone between two rival powers that is created in order to diminish the danger of conflict.

Paved - Covered with a firm surface.

Grasslands -  Land where grass or grass like vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life.

Gullies - Deep ditch out by running water.

Drainage - Emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it.

Mother - A woman who has given birth to a child.

Nature - The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized.

Widespread - Widely circulated or diffused.

Destruction - The termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists.

Foreseen - Deal with a head of time.

Legitimate - In accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles.

Wiped - The act of rubbing or wiping.

Out - Being out or having grown cold.

Man - An adult person who is male.

Made - Produced by manufacturing process.

Accurately - It strictly correctly.

Short - Lacking foresight or scope.

Sighted - Means able to see.

7th Reflection

Based on the articles of natural disasters that I read and understand, I can give the conclusion which natural disasters might happen any time. At present, some people blame the world when they suffer a disaster, but they do not realize, all the thing happens, is the result of their own acts of nature. However, around these days, we can be seen there are many dense forests in slash and burn to make the development, while the hills are cut and flattened to create a drainage systems and canals, for their interest and and the impact of human beings, causing a natural disasters. In addition, the disasters actually confirmed as natural disasters, where the occurrence of volcanic eruptions and directly causing an earthquake, and the earthquake might caused a Tsunami that destroyed coastal areas as described in the article. Further, natural disaster are actually caused by a large meteor crashing the planet, and destroy all eras. However, their homes destroyed by floods, is not actually called as natural disaster, but it is called man-made disaster, or the right one it is said that as a part of a narrow view of human nature. People should be thinking wide and have the foresight, and unselfish before planning something, so they do not blame nature if a disaster occurs, resulting from human own mistakes.

6th Vocabulary Entry

Values - Belief of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment.

Movie - A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.

Child - A young person of either sex.

Hardship -  A state of misfortune or affliction.

Money - The most common medium of exchange.

Upset - An unhappy and worried mental state.

Generation - Group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent.

Parents - One who beget or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child.

Career - The particular occupation for which you are trained.

Work - Activity directed toward making or doing something.

5th Vocabulary Entry

Laugh - A facial expression characteristic of a person laughing.

Comedian - A professional performer who tells jokes and perform comical acts.

Funny - An account of an amusing incident.

Choose - Select as an alternative over another.

Write - Communicate or express by writing.

Plays - A theatrical performance of a drama.

Watching - The act of observing.

Adapted - Chnaged in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose.

Delivers - Hand over to the authorities of another country.

Speak - Express in speech.

Make - Create or manufacture a man made product.

Feel - A property perceived by touch.

Saw - A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experienced that is taken as true by many people.

Show - The act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining.

Slide - The act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it.

Become - Enter or assume a certain state or condition.

Bring - Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere.

Drive - The act of applying force to propel something.

Educated - Possessing an education.

Engineering - The practical application of science to commerce or industry.

4th Vocabulary Entry

Take
* Take off - Take away or remove.
* Take out - Remove something from enclosed space.


Blow
* Blow up - To swell or cause to enlarge.
* Blow out - Erupt in an uncontrolled manner.


Break
* Break off - Interrupt before its natural or planned end.
* Break down - Lose control of one's emotions.


Dig
* Dig in - Occupy a trench or secured area.
* Dig out - Create by digging.


Make
* Make off - Includes taking something or somebody along.
* Make up - Devise or compose.


Switch
* Switch off - Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch.
* Switch on - Cause to operate by flipping a switch.


Laugh
* Laugh off - Deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it.
* Laugh softly - Laugh quietly or with restraint.


Put
* Put in - Set up for use.
* Put out - To cause inconvenience or discomfort to.


Breath
* Breath on - To exhale on someone or something.
* Breath in - To take air into the lungs.


Work
* Work in - Add by mixing or blending on or attaching.
* Work on - To exert effort in order to do, make or perform something.