The meaning of success

UNIT 10: THE MEANING OF SUCCESS

--> VOCABULARY

● Weep → to cry or shed tears (more literary / poetic word than cry)

● Hierarchy → a system where people or things are ranked at different levels

● Correlation → a relationship or connection between two things

● Crushing → very demoralising, completely breaking a person’s spirit

● Meritocratic → where people make progress (in an organisation)

● Ridicule → making someone the subject of laughter and contempt

● Talented

● Unfortunate

● Loser

● Responsible

● Wrong

● Accidental

● Fixated on → obsessed with

● Make their excuses → change the subject politely

● Kickback → adverse effect

● Be in the driving seat → in control

● Exhilarating → thrilling

● Hold your horses → don’t be in a hurry

● Mess up → make a lot of mistakes with

● Dumming home → insistently repeating again and again

● Comes into contact with

● Make a good living

● Material goods

● Bright ideas

● Hold you back

● Take what happens to them personally

● Listening hard

● All along

SUCCESS ACROSS GENERATIONS

● Work hard to reach (a goal) → strive for

● Things that are usual, a standard → norms

● For a good reason → with some justification

● Became noticeable and in need of attention → came to the fore

● Relaxed and easy-going → happy-go-lucky

● Pressure from your own age group → peer pressure

● Exactly when you want or need it → demand instant

● Disadvantage → downside

● Regard as very valuable or important → premium

● With similar ideas and values → like-minded

SUCCESS AND FAILURE

● To make it → achieving success

● To drop out → not getting to the end

● Fall by the wayside → not getting to the end

● Set the heart on → having a goal

● Be going places → on the way of succeeding

● Be thrown in the towel → not getting to the end

● Get sb’s sights on → having a goal

● Blow their chance → failing

● Go up in the world → on the way of succeeding

● Realise sb’s lifelong ambition → achieving success

WRITING SKILL - REPORT

● Continuing → in progress

● Speaking

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