Glossary List

Find; get

A thing you wear for decoration, such as a belt, earrings, or a purse

Something you achieved; a success

Correctly, with few or no mistakes

Successfully reach a goal after a lot of effort

Make active; turn on

To move ahead

Moving up; being promoted at work

Before

Spoken out loud

A huge online store where people can buy things and have them delivered

A person who is applying for a job

A form you fill out to apply for a job

Suitable or acceptable for a situation

With no human control

What you already know about a topic

Communicating by the way you move your body

How you hold your body

Written in darker font, like this

Not worried or upset or angry

A person who is applying for a job; interviewee

People who are applying for a job; interviewees

Catch

Not formal

Different groups of things, and the things in each group are similar in some way

A group of things that are similar in some way

Difficult

Diagrams that show information

Put a checkmark in a box

The time around Christmas when people are very busy buying presents, travelling, preparing food, and meeting friends

Someone you work with who does a similar job

Giving someone special instructions

Working with others to do something

Happening often

Where you live; the people who live in an area

Things you can do well; your skills

Something you can do well

Having the skills to be good at something

Difficult to understand; complicated

How difficult something is to understand

Related to being able to understand something

The belief that you can do something or be successful

Feeling sure about your ability to do things successfully

Consonants are letters and sounds that are not vowels; consonant sounds stop or partly stop the flow of air (for example, p, b, d, t, s, sh, z, m, n, and more)

Related to building or making things like roads, bridges, and buildings

Persuade someone to do something or believe something

Right

To not be afraid; to be willing to try something difficult or dangerous; to not be afraid to do something that is difficult or dangerous

To want to find out about something

Someone who buys a product or a service from a company

To make smaller; to become smaller

Remove

A car or truck that is used to take packages, letters, or products to people

Explain; say what something is like

Made for a specific use; carefully planned

A condition that keeps you from being able to use your body correctly or learn easily

To move data from the internet to your computer or from one computer system to another

To click on something with your mouse and slide it to a different place

How much time something takes

At the time of; while

Hug; happily accept something (an idea, belief, culture, or person)

Necessary

Rules for polite behaviour for specific situations

Think carefully to decide on the quality or value of something

Knowledge or skill that you get from doing a job or activity

Change a file from one format to another

A saying

How you communicate with your face

Something you know well

Advice and information about someone's work; telling someone what is good and what needs to be fixed or improved

To match or be suitable

Willing to change; willing to do things differently

Turn over

Able to do something (especially speak, read, and/or write) easily and well

Pay careful attention to something

Official and proper; for important occasions

A way of thinking about and organizing something; a set of beliefs or rules for making decisions

Feeling upset because you cannot do what you are trying to do

Collect; bring together

Related to male, female, non-binary, transgender, Two Spirit, and others

A list of special words in a text with explanations of meanings

Things you plan to finish or achieve in the future

Try to give an answer, even if you are not sure

How you communicate by moving your hands

Technical skills

A suggestion

Symbols or images that represent something

Find something; recognize and say what something is

Not allowed by law

Make a picture in your mind of what something might be like

The effect that something has on someone

Not appropriate

On your own; without help

Doing something before you are asked; seeing what needs to be done and doing it without being asked

The person being interviewed

The rise and fall in pitch when speaking

Formally asking someone to go somewhere or do something

To formally ask someone to go somewhere or do something (especially to go to a social event)

Important

Allowed by law

Done in a way that is allowed by law

Different levels of difficulty

A person who is in charge of a business or part of a business

Whether a person is single, married, divorced, separated, or widowed

Tell someone about something

A way of doing something

Something that was not done correctly

A particular way of doing something; a way that electronic equipment is set to do one kind of task

In a bad way

Anxious or worried

A time at night when workers work (for example, a work shift from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.)

Pay attention to

Goals

Job

Times when it is possible to do something

Aloud; to speak in a voice that people can hear

Things that are put in boxes or wrapped to be delivered to other people

Stop for a moment

With no mistakes

Someone who is allowed to live in Canada but is not a Canadian citizen

Related to your private life

A group of words that together have a specific meaning

Groups of words

Change something to make it better

Shiny; impressive; all fixed up

Good manners; showing respect for other people's feelings

Appropriately

In a good way

After

After

Before

Say what will happen in the future; guess

Get ready to do something; make something ready to use

Do things in a particular order; a series of actions or steps

Formal; Showing that someone is well-trained or skilled

Say

Feeling pleased, happy, and satisfied with something you did

On time; not late

Got

Know what something is; identify something

People who give information about your personality and your abilities

Think carefully about

Stop worrying; become calmer

Can be trusted

Help someone remember something

Needed; necessary

Look for information about something

Answer; say something in reply

An answer (usually to an email or to a question)

A summary of a person's work and education

To quickly look at a text or document but not read it carefully; you might scan for a particular detail, or you might scan to see how the text is organized

Descriptions of situations

The order of steps or events

Emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction to the same gender, a different gender, or all genders

Speak aloud with an audio, trying to use the exact same words, timing, stress, and intonation as the speaker

Related to a specific situation

Read very quickly to find the main point(s) or a specific point

Skills related to your personality and attitudes

Computer programs

Answer

Plans for how you will reach a goal

A plan; a way to achieve a purpose or goal

Making some syllables or words louder and longer than other syllables and words

Organization

To give something to someone in authority

Do well; accomplish a goal

The specific skills that are needed for a job

Speed and pauses

A small piece of advice

A page with a list of suggestions or advice

Small pieces of advice

The attitude of something (happy, sad, formal, informal)

A thing that helps you do something

Can be moved from one place, person, or job to another

Moved from one place to another

A teacher who teaches just one person or a small group

Not safe

In English, vowels are represented by a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y

A large building where a company stores products before they are sold

A short activity or exercise that you do to prepare for the main activity