29 Flashcards
Detrimental
adj: causing harm or damage:
These chemicals have a detrimental effect/impact on the environment.
Their decision could be detrimental to the future of the company.
adv: detrimentally
noun: detriment: harm or damage:
Are you sure that I can follow this diet without detriment to my health?
She was very involved with sports at college, to the detriment of (= harming) her studies.
Bucket
noun: لگن، سطل
Armed with a bucket and a mop, I started washing the floor.
Grain
noun: a seed or seeds from a plant, especially a plant like a grass such as rice or wheat:
grains of wheat/rice
Grain (= the crop from food plants like grasses) is one of the main exports of the American Midwest.
a very small amount of a particular quality:
There wasn’t a grain of truth in anything she said.
Anyone with a grain of common sense would have known what to do.
Commute
verb: to make the same journey regularly between work and home:
It’s exhausting commuting from Brighton to London every day.
to change one thing into another:
People used to believe that you could commute base metals into gold.
to exchange one type of payment for a different type:
I think I’ll commute my life insurance into an annuity.
to change a punishment to one that is less severe:
Her sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.
noun: a regular journey between work and home:
It’s at least an hour’s commute to work.
noun: commuter: someone who regularly travels between work and home:
The train was packed with commuters.
Dine
verb: to eat the main meal of the day, usually in the evening:
I hate dining alone.
We dined by candlelight.
He once dined with the president of France.
Dormitory
noun: خوابگاه:
The toilet was far away from the dormitory room.
an area near a town or city where many people who work in the town or city live:
We were determined to build not just dormitories but communities.
Compose
verb: to produce music, poetry, or formal writing:
Prokofiev started composing at the age of five.
The music was specially composed for the film.
** be composed of something: to be formed from various things:**
Air is composed mainly of nitrogen and oxygen.
compose yourself: to make yourself calm again after being angry or upset:
She finally stopped crying and composed herself.
Carve
verb: تراشیدن، بریدن، کنده کاری کردن
He carved her name on a tree.
They carve the stone into smooth, organic shapes.
The statue is carved out of olive wood.
to cut thin pieces from a large piece of cooked meat:
Would you like me to carve the chicken?
Spite
in spite of something: despite:
In spite of his injury, Ricardo will play in Saturday’s match.
لج، کینه، بدخواهی
He’s the sort of man who would let down the tyres on your car just out of/from spite.
verb: to intentionally annoy, upset, or hurt someone:
I almost think he died without making a will just to spite his family.
adj: spiteful
adv: spitefully
noun: spitefulness
Ought
modal verb: used to say that it is necessary or desirable to perform the action expressed in the verb:
We ought to clean up before we go home.
She really ought to apologize.
Council-counsel-consult-console
we had council and counsel before.
council: شورا
counsel: مشورت کردن
consult: مشورت کردن
counselling has become closely identified with advice given to individuals (whether alone or in groups) to assist with their emotional problems, whereas consulting is sought to address problems in a business or professional practice or process.
console: دلداری دادن:
Her friends tried to console her, telling her “Everything will be fine.”
He was consoled by the fact that he was young enough to try again the following year.
Resort
noun: a place where many people go for rest, sport, or another stated purpose:
a tourist resort
a holiday resort
first/last resort: used for talking about the first/last thing that you think of doing or using in a situation:
Diplomacy ought to be our first resort.
Bush
بوته:
a lavender bush
She pulled the bush out of the ground with a sharp jerk.
She saw him coming and crouched down behind a bush.
a large amount of hair:
The baby was born with a surprising bush of black hair.
Spectrum
گستره، طیف (رنگ، عقیده، هر چیزی)
The colours of the spectrum - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet - can be seen in a rainbow.
The survey revealed a wide spectrum of opinion.
He is some way along the autistic spectrum.
Solitary
adj: A solitary person or thing is the only person or thing in a place:
On the hill, a solitary figure was busy chopping down trees.
In the distance was a solitary building.
noun:
After weeks in solitary, he started hallucinating.
adv: solitarily
