26-50 Flashcards
There are 2 kinds of failure:
The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from, and such timidity will destroy you.
The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit.
invaluable
When that happens, all of the skills you have accumulated will prove invaluable.
- extremely useful; indispensable
- an invaluable source of information.
exploited
Then, finally, Faraday found a chance to separate himself from his overbearing mentor, and he exploited this opportunity to the maximum.
- make full use of and derive benefit from.
- 500 companies sprang up to exploit this new technology.
- use in an unfair or selfish way
- benefit unfairly from the work of someone, typically by overworking or underpaying them.
- making money does not always mean exploiting others.
divulge
mentors will tend to divulge ore of their secrets than they would to others.
- make known (private or sensitive information)
- I am too much of a gentlemen to divulge her age
rigor
He worried that his work had no legitimacy and that he lacked a certain rigor.
- the quality of being extremely thorough, exhaustive, or accurate
- his analysis is lacking in rigor.
- severity or strictness. the full rigor of the law
- demanding, difficult, or extreme conditions. the rigors of a harsh winter
chafed
He chafed t the idea of having to follow Freudian dogma.
- become or make annoyed or impatient because of a restriction or inconvenience.
- It chafed him to be confined like this
- (of something restrictive or too tight: make (a part of the body) sore by rubbing against it. The collar chafed his neck.
dogma
Freudian dogma
- a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.
- The Christian dogma of the Trinity
Purport
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