Vulnerable vs Rejected - What's the difference?
vulnerable | rejected |
More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.
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(reject)
To refuse to accept.
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(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
As an adjective vulnerable
is vulnerable.As a verb rejected is
(reject).vulnerable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau, passage=The elimination of Federer after Nadal's loss to Lukas Rosol would have created mild panic among the fans of these gloriously gifted but now clearly vulnerable geniuses. }}
Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools