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
sink
Well, since cold air sinks, and these spots are shaded
perspire
Sweat
Like when you walk outside on a hot day, you perspire
cool
your body cools itself down,
Dehydrate
the marathon runner dehydrated and fainted
دوندهی ماراتن دچار آب از دست دادگی شد و غش کرد.
unwittingly
they could be unwittingly destroying a microclimate that an animal or organism relies on.
Hook
I was hooked
Run on
My article ran on the front page
Barely
In fact I barely recognized a couple of paragraphs
Craft
then see if you can craft the story about it, accurately, on dead line.
strive
That is really a goal worth striving for.
Elective
And as elective, you could take some Pre-Law classes like Constitution Law,
District
ناحیه، بخش، برزن، حوزه، منطقه، الکا .۱
an electoral district
حوزهی انتخاباتی
seafarer
Sailor
discern
perceive
chaotic
where everything would seem more chaotic.
horizon
أفق
constellation
صورت فلكي
monument
(مجسمه یا لوحه یا ستون یا بنا و غیره در بزرگداشت شخص یا رویداد) یادمان، بنای یادبود، لوحهی یادبود (و غیره)، یادکرد .۱
a monument to the war dead
pyramid
أهرام
chamber
enclosed space
miraculous
Very good
chant
When religious leaders started chanting with echoes bounced off the stonewalls over and over again
intriguing
something that is intriguing is very interesting because it is strange, mysterious, or unexpected
Worship
They all worship the same god.
a church where people have worshipped for hundreds of years
engender
This had to engender powerful sense of all Neolithic worshipers.
Extraordinary
incredible
