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authentic
(adjective) real or true
compulsory
(adjective) something that must be done because a rule or law says so
counterpart
(noun) A person that has the same function as you, but in a different location
de facto
(adjective) in reality something is recognised, but not legally or officially
despite
(preposition) even though/ regardless of
fake
(adjective) not real
huge
(adjective) very big
inflection
(noun) a grammatical change to a word
lingua franca
(noun) a language that two or more people have in common, but this language is not the native language of any of these people
platform
(noun) an area that is visible to an audience
profound(adjective) very intenserank(noun) level or positionsaying(noun) a well-known expression or piece of advicesit back(verb) to relaxstatus(noun) level or position of something compared to another thingshy(adjective) very quiet and uncomfortable talking to other peoplestrict(adjective) very regulated with no flexibilitysupposedly(adverb) used to say something that somebody has told you, but you don't believe what they saidtool(noun) an object that has a certain function to help you complete somethingtop tip(noun) a piece of useful advicevirtually(adverb) almost OR something done in a technological way