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Reading notes: Resilient
Resilient (adjective): Able to recover or adapt after difficulties; also able to spring back into shape.
Use it accurately
For people or communities, resilience concerns recovery and adaptation. It does not mean never feeling upset or needing support. For materials, the meaning concerns returning towards an original shape.
Original example sentences
The resilient team regrouped after losing its first match.
A resilient cushion springs back after pressure is removed.
Check your understanding
Does being resilient mean that setbacks have no effect on you?
Answer: No. The emphasis is on recovering or adapting after a setback.
Describe recovery, not invulnerability
After losing a match, a team feels disappointed, reviews its mistakes and returns to training with a revised plan.
Think it through: Which details support describing the team as resilient?
Check the explanation
The team adapts and resumes its effort after a setback. Feeling disappointed does not contradict resilience. Saying “nothing affects them” would miss the important process of recovery.
Your turn: Retell the sequence using “after”, then add a sentence about what the team changed.
Study resilient in the written lesson: meaning and further examples.
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