14 Flashcards
check out
5bookscheck something ↔ outAmE to borrow a book from a library:
The library allows you to check out six books at a time.
Judicial
American judicial system
reserve
it’s not on reserve
shelves
Shelf
shelves of books
hire
hire somebody to do something
A City lawyer has been hired to handle the case.
She does the hiring
weird
very strange and unusual, and difficult to understand or explain:
A really weird thing happened last night.
cognition
Cognition theory
the process of knowing, understanding, and learning something
SYN thought
the regions of the brain that are responsible for memory and cognition
Perceive
We perceive through our senses
Beliefs
Beliefs
gist
the gist the main idea and meaning of what someone has said or written:
gist of
The gist of his argument is that full employment is impossible.
faculty
3[countable usually plural] a natural ability, such as the ability to see, hear, or think clearly:
the patient’s mental faculties
Squirrel
سنجاب
Burrow
Dig down
sweat
I was sweating a lot despite the air conditioning.
panting
He came in panting after running up the steps.
duck
ducking into somewhere cool like a burrow or a hole under a rock
as the name suggests
And when I say localized, I mean really localized, because microclimates can be, as the name suggests, pretty small