Family Background

meticulous: paying careful attention to every detail

scrapbook: a book with empty pages where you can stick pictures, newspaper articles, etc.

clipping: an article or a story that you cut from a newspaper or magazine and keep

attorney: DJ[əˋtə:ni]

evolve: to develop gradually, especially from a simple to a more complicated form; to develop something in this way

unjust: not deserved or fair

complement: to add to something in a way that improves it or makes it more attractive

glimpse: to see somebody/something for a moment, but not very clearly

dote on: to feel and show great love for somebody, ignoring their faults

shovel: DJ[ˋʃʌvl] a tool like a spade with a long handle and a broad metal part with curved edges, used for moving earth, snow, sand, etc.

carve out: develop

fledgling: a person, an organization or a system that is new and without experience

examiner: a person who has the official duty to check that things are being done correctly and according to the rules of an organization; a person who officially examines something

wagon: a vehicle with four wheels, pulled by horses or oxen and used for carrying heavy loads

civic: connected with the people who live in a town or city

croquet: a game played on grass in which players use mallets (= sticks with a block of wood at one end) to knock wooden balls through a series of hoops (= curved wires)

shuffleboard: a game in which players use long sticks to push discs towards spaces with numbers on a board

horseshoes: a game like quoits played with horseshoes or with horseshoe-shaped pieces of metal

mainstay: a person or thing that is the most important part of something and enables it to exist or be successful

proxy for something: something that you use to represent something else that you are trying to measure or calculate

sobriety: the fact of being sensible and serious

acuity: the ability to think, see or hear clearly

valedictorian: the student who has the highest grades in a particular group of students and who gives the valedictory speech at a graduation ceremony

excel: to be very good at doing something

Bill Gates "Source Code"

Online Dictionaries Used:

hk.dictionary.search.yahoo.com

www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com

www.merriam-webster.com