More mobile phone application news + vocabulary

The UAE is becoming increasingly more popular with people who make applications for mobile phones and they are gaining international attention as a result.  We've read about Emirati college students who developed an application for Blackberry, iphone and Android operating systems as well as an Emirati father who developed an iphone application to help his daughters learn their alphabets.

Now comes news that a word game in both English and Arabic was developed in Dubai and has been nominated for the Best Ever Apps award. The idea for  Kalimat was the brainchild of Farès Fayad, who commissioned the Dubai games company Piranha Byte to develop it.  Along the way, however we ran across some often used words that we must know to increase our vocabulary.  Here they are

nominate

conceive

entrepreneur

innovate

enthusiastic

evolution

gripe

expo

astonish
exist

I encourage you to use some if not all of these words in your writing assignments we will have this week.  There will be a short vocab quiz on Thursday, God willing.  If you have any questions, I'll see you in class!