Dictionary Drama
This adjective describes behavior or actions that are so bad they cannot be approved, permitted, or tolerated.
What is unacceptable?
The noun form of the adjective accountable, often used when talk about an office where mistakes are blamed on no one.
What is accountability?
A stranger at the gym has been sitting on the only bench press machine for 30 minutes while playing on their phone.
A stranger at the gym has been sitting on the only bench press machine for 30 minutes while playing on their phone.
A delivery driver drops your fragile package from the second story onto your porch and breaks it on camera
What must the delivery company do to compensate you?
Loudly talking on your phone during a movie is completely ________ behavior.
What is unacceptable?
This adjective describes a person or thing that can always be trusted or depended on to do what is expected.
Answer: What is reliable?
The negative adjective form of reliable, used to describe a classmate who always misses deadlines.
What is unreliable?
Someone on a quiet train carriage is blasting videos out loud on their phone speaker with no headphones
Why is this commuter acting so entitled?
Your university classmate did absolutely zero work for a major group presentation but expects the same grade.
How can you hold this slacker accountable?
The airline ________ everyone with hotel vouchers after the flight was canceled.
What is compensated?
This verb means to pay someone or give them a benefit to make up for a mistake, loss, or injury.
What is to compensate?
The noun form of the verb compensate, which you might demand from an airline if they lose your bags.
What is compensation?
Your neighbor is blasting techno music at 2:00 AM on a Tuesday when you have a massive job interview the next morning.
Why is this techno music completely unacceptable?
You paid a mechanic $500 to fix a noise, but 10 minutes after driving away, the exact same noise starts again.
Why is this mechanic not reliable?
"In a professional workplace, you are completely ________ for the accuracy of your own reports."
What is accountable?
This adjective describes someone who feels they deserve special treatment or privileges without actually earning them.
What is entitled?
The adverb form of reliable, describing someone who beautifully shows up 10 minutes early to every single meeting.
What is reliably
?
You are waiting in a long line at a café, and someone walks straight to the front of the counter to order ahead of everyone
Why is the queue jumper acting so entitled?
You hired a painter. They left their tools everywhere on Monday and haven't answered your calls for three days.
Why is this contractor completely unreliable?
"Regular maintenance will improve the _______________ of your vehicle."
What is reliability?
This adjective means being completely responsible for giving an explanation for your actions, choices, or mistakes.
What is accountable?
The adjective form of compensate, used to describe a gesture like a store offering a free meal after a disaster.
What is compensatory?
The person in front of you on a tiny 1-hour flight reclines their seat all the way back, slamming your laptop screen
Why is the passenger acting so entitled?
Your flight is delayed by 8 hours, causing you to miss your best friend's wedding ceremony entirely.
Your flight is delayed by 8 hours, causing you to miss your best friend's wedding ceremony entirely.
We cannot sign the contract until we receive formal _______________ from the board of directors (accept).
What is acceptance?