WRITING VOCABULARY

Undiminished: as good, strong, or important as always

Sentence: A hundred years after his death, his influence remains undiminished.

Insight: the ability to understand people and situations in a very clear way;

Sentence: His book offers some fresh insights into the events leading up to the war.

Irrelevant: not related to what is being discussed or considered:

Sentence: These documents are largely irrelevant to the present investigation.

Convenience: the quality of being useful, easy or suitable for somebody.

Sentence: I enjoy the convenience of living near a post office.

Contemporary: existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time

Sentence: The telephone and the gramophone were contemporary.

Comprehend: to understand something completely:

Sentence: The mind struggles to comprehend the scale of all that human misery.

Linear: arranged in or extending along a straight or nearly straight line.

Sentence: The proposed graph underlines the linear relation between dose and risk

Moderate: average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree.

Sentence: He was an easygoing man of very moderate views.

Cursory: done quickly with little attention to detail

Sentence: when buying a property you must give it more than a cursory inspection

Stimulate: to make something develop or become more active; to encourage something.

Sentence: The government plans to cut taxes in order to stimulate the economy.

Equip: to provide with the things that are needed for a particular purpose or activity.

Sentence: More money was needed to train and equip the troops

Accumulate: To collect a large number of things over a long period of time

Sentence: I seem to have accumulated a lot of books.