Study Sync Unit 3 Vocabulary

sympathy

• the feeling that you're happy for someone's success

• the feeling that you're sorry that something bad happened to someone else

• the feeling of indifference towards others' problems

• the feeling of anger towards someone else's misfortune

apathetic

• not having or showing one's feelings

• excessively emotional

• showing great enthusiasm

• indifferent to others' emotions

trigger

• to cause a reaction, to start

• to prevent an action

• to delay a response

• to ignore a signal

risk

• the possibility of something bad happening as a result of an action

• a measure of the likelihood of a positive outcome

• a strategy to avoid potential losses

• an assessment of financial gain

empathy

• the ability to feel joy for others' successes

• the feeling that you understand how another person feels

• the act of sharing your own feelings with others

• the process of analyzing someone's emotions

induce

• to cause something to happen

• to prevent something from occurring

• to create a barrier against something

• to enhance the quality of something

stagnate

• to stop changing

• to grow rapidly

• to fluctuate constantly

• to become more complex

asteroid

• a kind of rock that moves through space

• a type of planet

• a celestial body made of ice

• a star that has exploded

asterisk

• a small symbol that looks like a star (*)

• a type of punctuation used in writing

• a mathematical operator for multiplication

• a character used in programming languages

consequence

• a result of a previous action

• a type of punishment

• an unrelated event

• a planned outcome