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This week's topic is: Idioms & Office Jargon
Intro:
If you are a working professional in an English environment, your colleagues will expect you to understand how they speak about business. Some would say that in the modern office environment, understanding business idioms has become a requirement whether we like them or not!
Vocabulary:
mundane (adj.): lacking interest or excitement; dull
lexicon (n.): the vocabulary of a person
exclusivity (n.): the practice of excluding people
disempower (v.): to make less powerful
to spin (a story) (v.): to tell a lie or half-truth to avoid consequences of something / duplicity (n.): deceitfulness
new speak (phrase): propagandist language
insidious (adj.): proceeding in a gradual way but with harmful effects
