MY VOCAB PRACTICE

1. Decorative
   The vase doesn’t serve any function but it’s a lovely decorative piece for my office.

2. Authoritative
   Authoritative parenting involves setting clear boundaries and expectations for the child and never using threats to enforce them.

3. Formative
   Three-dimensional printing is a slow, formative process but it is fascinating to watch.

4. Instinctive
   A mother instinctively knows when her child is too quiet it often means trouble is brewing.

I had a little difficulty here because authoritative and authoritarian are very different things but the given definition sounds a bit like authoritarian. That is the “because I said so” type of rule enforcement in parenting, as an example. More of a tyrant.