Practice Listening #5How to Succeed? Get More Sleep

(n) Personality characterized by (1) a strong competitive orientation, (2) impatience and time urgency, and (3) anger and hostility.

Type A personality

(n) Lack of appropriate sleep time, short of sleep

Sleep deprived

(n) A female movement for gender equality.

Feminist / Feminism

(n) manliness

Virility

(v) praising or boasting about oneself

Bragging

(n) the practice of successively outdoing a competitor

One-upmanship

(n) figure of speech comparing two different things

Metaphor

(n) a large mass of ice floating at sea

Iceberg / Titanic

(n) a Wall Street investment banking firms that collapsed

Lehman Brothers