Glossary List
- access
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Find; get
- accessory
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Something you wear for decoration such as a belt, earrings, or a purse
- accomplishment
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Something that you achieved; a success
- accurately
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Correctly, with few or no mistakes
- achieve
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Do something successfully; reach a goal after a lot of effort
- activate
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Make active; turn on
- advancement
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Moving up; being promoted at work
- ahead of time
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Before
- aloud
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Spoken out loud
- Amazon
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A huge online store where people can buy things and have them delivered
- appears
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Becomes visible; comes into sight
- applicant
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A person who is applying for a job
- application form
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A form you fill out to apply for a job
- appropriate
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Suitable or acceptable for a situation
- automatically
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With no human control
- background knowledge
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What you already know about a topic
- body language
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Communicating by the way you move your body
- body position
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How you hold your body
- bolded
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Written in darker font, like this
- calm
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Not worried or upset or angry
- candidate
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A person who is applying for a job; an interviewee
- capture
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Catch something
- casual
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Not formal
- categories
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Different groups of things, and the things in each group are similar in some way
- category
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A group of things that are similar in some way
- challenging
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Difficult
- charts
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Diagrams that show information
- check off
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Put a checkmark in a box
- Christmas rush
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The time around Christmas where people are very busy buying presents, travelling, preparing food, and meeting friends
- co-worker
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Someone you work with who does a similar job
- coaching
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Giving someone special instructions
- collaboratively
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Working with others to do something
- common
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Happening often
- community
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Where you live; the people who live in an area
- competencies
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Things you can do well; skills
- competency
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Something you can do well
- competent
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Having the skills to be good at something
- complex
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Difficult to understand; complicated
- complexity
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How difficult something is to understand
- comprehension
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Related to being able to understand something
- confidence
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The belief that you can do something or be successful
- confident
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Feeling sure about your ability to successfully do things
- consonants
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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)
- construction
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Related to building or making things like roads, bridges, and buildings
- convince
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Persuade someone to do something or believe something
- correct
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Right; with no errors
- courage
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Not afraid; willing to try something difficult or dangerous
- curious
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Wanting to find out or learn about something
- customer
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Someone who buys a product or a service from a company
- decrease
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Make smaller; become smaller
- delivery vehicle
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A car or truck that is used to take packages, letters, or products to people
- describe
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Explain; say what something is like
- designed
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Made for a specific use; carefully planned
- disability
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A condition that keeps you from being able to use your body correctly or learn easily
- download
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To move data from the internet to your computer or from one computer system to another
- drag
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To click on something with your mouse and slide it to a different place
- during
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At that time; while something is happening
- embrace
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Hug; happily accept something (an idea, belief, culture, or person)
- essential
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Necessary
- etiquette
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Rules for polite behaviour for specific situations
- evaluate
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Think carefully to decide on the quality or value of something
- experience
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Knowledge or skill that you get from doing a job or activity
- export
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Change a file from one format to another
- facial expressions
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How you communicate with your face
- familiar
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Something you know well
- feedback
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Advice and information about someone's work saying what is good and what needs to be fixed or improved
- fit
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Match; be suitable
- flexible
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Willing to change; willing to do things differently
- flip
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Turn over
- fluent
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Able to do something (especially speak, read and write) easily and well
- focus
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Pay careful attention to something
- formal
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Very official, correct, and proper; for important occasions
- framework
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A way of thinking about and organizing something; a set of beliefs or rules for making decisions
- frustrated
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Feeling upset and impatient because you cannot do what you are trying to do
- gather
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Collect; bring together
- gender
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Related to male, female, non-binary, transgender, Two-Spirit, and more
- glossary
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A list of special or technical words in a text, with explanations of meanings
- goals
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Things you plan to finish or achieve in the future
- guess
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Try to give an answer even if you are not sure
- hand gestures
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How you communicate by moving your hands
- hard skills
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Technical skills such as computer programming, bookkeeping, using machinery, or speaking another language
- hint
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A suggestion
- icons
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Symbols or images that represent something
- identify
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Find something; recognize and say what something is
- illegal
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Not allowed by law
- imagine
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Make a picture in your mind of what something might be like
- impression
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The effect that something has on someone; a feeling or opinion about something or someone
- independently
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On your own; without help
- initiative
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Doing something before you are asked; seeing what needs to be done and doing it without being asked
- interviewee
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The person being interviewed
- intonation
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The rise and fall in pitch when speaking
- invitation
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A written or spoken request for someone to go somewhere or do something
- invite
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To formally ask someone to go somewhere or do something (especially to go to a social event)
- key
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Important
- legal
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Allowed by law
- legally
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Done in a way that is allowed by law
- levels of complexity
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Different levels of difficulty
- manager
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A person who is in charge of a business or part of a business
- marital status
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Whether a person is single, married, divorced, or widowed
- mention
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Tell someone about
- method
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A way of doing something
- mistake
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Something that was not done correctly
- mode
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A particular way to do something; a way that electronic equipment is set to do one kind of task
- negatively
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In a bad way; in a way that isn't desirable
- nervous
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Anxious; worried
- night shift
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A set time at night when workers regularly work (for example, from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.)
- objectives
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Goals
- occupation
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Job
- opportunities
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Times when it is possible to do something
- out loud
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Aloud; to speak in a voice that people can hear
- packages
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Things that are put in boxes or wrapped to be delivered to other people
- pause
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Stop for a moment
- perfect
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With no mistakes or weaknesses
- permanent resident
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Someone who is allowed to live in Canada but is not a Canadian citizen
- personal
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Related to your private life
- phrase
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A group of words that together have a specific meaning
- phrases
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Groups of words
- polish
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Change something to make it better
- polished
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Shiny; impressive; all fixed up
- polite
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Having good manners; showing respect for other people's feelings
- politely
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Appropriately; in a respectful way
- positively
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In a good way
- post-
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After
- pre
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Before
- predict
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Say what will happen in the future; guess
- prepare
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Get ready to do something; make something ready to use
- process
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Things that are done in a particular order
- pronounce
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Say
- proud
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Feeling pleased, happy, and satisfied with something you did
- punctual
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On time; not late
- received
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Got
- recognize
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Know what something is; identify something
- references
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People who give information about your personality and your abilities
- reflect
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Think deeply and carefully about something
- relax
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Stop worrying; become calmer
- reliable
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Can be trusted
- remind
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Help someone remember something
- required
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Needed; necessary
- research
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Look for information about something
- respond
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Answer; reply to something
- response
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An answer, usually to an email or to a question
- resumé
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A summary of a person's work and education
- scan
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Quickly look at a text or document but not read it carefully; you might scan for a particular detail or to see how the text is organized
- scenarios
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Descriptions of situations
- sequence
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The order of steps or events
- sexual orientation
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Emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction to people of a different gender, the same gender, or all genders
- shadow read
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Speak aloud with an audio, trying to use the exact same words, timing, stress, and intonation as the speaker
- situational
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Related to a specific situation
- skim
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Read very quickly to find the main point(s) or a specific point
- soft skills
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Skills related to your personality and attitudes, such as communication skills, critical thinking, empathy, creativity, and management skills
- software
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Computer programs
- solution
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Answer
- strategies
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Plans for how you will reach a goal
- strategy
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A plan; a way to achieve a goal
- stress
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The syllables and words that are louder and longer than other syllables and words
- structure
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Organization
- submit
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Give something to someone in authority
- successful
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Do well; achieve a goal
- technical
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Related to the particular skills that are needed for a job
- timing
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Speed and pauses when speaking
- tip
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A small piece of advice
- tip sheet
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A page with a list of suggestions or advice
- tips
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Small pieces of advice
- tone
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The character and attitude of something (happy, sad, formal, informal)
- tool
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A thing that helps you do something
- top ten
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The 10 most important things
- transferable
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Can be moved from one place or person (or job) to another
- transferred
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Moved from one place to another
- tutor
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A teacher who teaches just one person or a small group
- unsafe
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Not safe
- vowels
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In English, vowels are represented by a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y
- warehouse
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A large building where a company stores products before they are sold
- warm-up
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A short activity or exercise that you do to prepare for the main activity