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Advanced Communication Skills

Notes Colleagues: People working together in the same office or department.
Congenital: Belonging or pertaining to an individual from birth.
Contemporary: Men living in the same age:

Cosmopolitan: One who can make himself at home in all countries.
Credulous: A person who believes easily whatever he is told.
Democracy: Government by the people:

Depreciate: To go down in value:
Diplomat/Envoy: A diplomatic minister of the higher order sent by a country to another:
Ambassador.

Disenfranchisement: To take away some one's right to vote.
Delegate: To give one's authority to another.
Drawn/ Tie: A game or batter in which neither party wins.
Edible: A thing that is fit to be eaten.
Ecology: Study of environment.

Egoist/Egoist: One who thinks only for oneself, a person who is selfish, self absorbed and
self centered.
Eligible: One who is qualifies for election.

Elucidate: To explain something mysterious or difficult.
Emphasize: To lay special stress on.
Epitaph: inscription on a tombstone.

Equilibrium: A state of perfect balance:
Eradicate: To root out an evil, disease:
Extempore or Impromptu: A speech delivered without any previous preparation:
Embezzlement: Misappropriation of money.
Fanatic: A man who has too much enthusiasm for his own religion:

Facsimile: An exact copy.
Fastidious: One who is not easily pleased.
Germicide: A medicine that kills germs.

Hung: Assembly or parliament in which no party has got clear majority
Honorary: Work for which no salary is paid:
Humanitarian: One who feels sympathetic towards human beings:
Illegible: That which cannot be read:
Illicit: That is prohibited by law:

Illiterate: One who cannot read or write:
Inaudible: A sound that cannot be heard.
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