English Vocabulary Challenge: How to Be Fearless When You Fail?

 Here are the challenging words I've selected from 'How to Be Fearless When You Fail?'

along with their definition, part of speech, and a good example.

undertone (n.) - （文章或講話的）含意，弦外之音；（事件或情況的）蘊含意義

來自段落：... Because I think the undertone of most conversations in households for kids growing up is more like ...

例句：I thought her speech had slightly sinister undertones.

spectrum (n.) - 光譜;波譜;聲譜;頻譜

來自段落：... our listeners, by setting up for yourselves a new Spectrum ...

例句：The colours of the spectrum - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet - can be seen in a rainbow.

cynical (a.) - 憤世嫉俗的;懷疑人之真誠的;認為人皆自私的 來自段落：... because it's kind of cynical and also very optimistic at the same time in the same quote ... 例句：I've always been deeply cynical about politicians. embarrassed (a.) - 窘迫的，尷尬的;害羞的 來自段落：... I might feel a little embarrassed at times, but I'm going to stand up there on that stage ... 例句：I was too embarrassed to admit that I was scared. inevitable (a.) - 不可避免的;必然發生的 來自段落：... I would say failure is probably inevitable in some point in our lives in something ... 例句：The accident was the inevitable consequence/result/outcome of carelessness.