- Essential English Vocabulary Toolkit

CORE VOCABULARY (NUST)1. AMBWALENT: Contradictory, having mixed feelings In the TV show Glee, Finn Hudson is the star quarterback of his high school football team. Finn is also a talented singer who is AMBIVALENT about joining the school Glee Club. Although Finn doesn't want to alienate his teammates, he enjoys singing and wants to follow his dream of becoming an entertainer. In the movie The Notebook, Allie has to choose between Noah and Lon. She is emotionally tom by her AMBIVALENT feelings as she tells Noah, "There is no easy way, no matter what I do, somebody gets hurt.'' She later reiterates her AMBIVALENT feelings when she tells Lon When ram with nothing, I feel like one person, and when I'm with you, feel like someone totally different." 2. ANOMALY: Deviation from something that is ATYPICAL In the Harry Potter series, Vernon Dursley prides himself on being "perfectly normal, thank you very much." An ANOMALY is the last thing Dursley wants in his life. In the opening chapter of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, however, Dursley notices several strange ANOMALIES or what he calls 1'funny stuff.'' For example, be spots a cat that appears to