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Dominate

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1 [intransitive, transitive] to control someone or something or to have more importance than other people or things
The industry is dominated by five multinational companies.
New Orleans dominated throughout the game.
Her loud voice totally dominated the conversation.
Education issues dominated the election campaign.

2 [transitive] to be larger and more noticeable than anything else in a place
The cathedral dominates the city.

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Agenda

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To do list

1 a list of problems or subjects that a government, organization etc is planning to deal with
be high on the agenda/be top of the agenda (=be one of the most important problems to deal with)
Measures to combat terrorism will be high on the agenda.

2 the ideas that a political party thinks are important and the things that party aims to achieve
The Republicans have stuck to their conservative agenda.

3 a list of the subjects to be discussed at a meeting
the next item (=subject) on the agenda

COLLOCATIONS
PHRASES
be high on the agenda
New measures to combat terrorism are high on the agenda.

be (at the) top of the agenda
Energy efficiency is top of the agenda.
be on the political agenda
Immigration is an important issue on the political agenda.

VERBS
have an agenda
Brown has an agenda for the university’s future.

set an agenda (=decide on the problems you want to deal with)
The new government set an agenda for constitutional reform.

put something on the agenda
This incident has put the issue of racism firmly back on the agenda.

agree an agenda
The meeting ended in chaos as representatives were unable to agree an agenda.

establish/create/provide an agenda (=begin to have an agenda)
We need to establish an agenda for future research.

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There are a lot of advantages in/to group work

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Advantage in/to

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Find a solution to/for a problem

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They sit in silence

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They are quite

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First-year student

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دانش اموز یا دانشجوی سال اولی

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Do research on/about something

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On / about

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Avoid something

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Avoid doing something
حرف اضافه ندارد

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Set a rule

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Make a rule

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Agree the deadline

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Accept the deadline

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Opposite of meet the deadline

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Miss the deadline

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Tutor

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1 someone who gives private lessons to one student or a small group, and is paid directly by them
The children were educated at home by a succession of tutors.
► see thesaurus at teacher

2 a teacher in a British university or college → tutorial

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Vowel sounds

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حروف صدادار

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Look after somebody

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Take care

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Look for somebody

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Search for sb/sth

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Desert

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a large area of land where it is always very dry, there are few plants, and there is a lot of sand or rocks

بیابان
in the desert
The plane crash-landed in the desert.
2 [countable] a place where there is no activity or where nothing interesting happens

The railroad yard was a desert now.
► Do not confuse with dessert (=the sweet part of a meal).

COLLOCATIONS
ADJECTIVES
vast (=extremely big)
the vast Gobi desert in China
empty (=with no buildings or people in it)
Outside the city there was nothing but empty desert.
arid (=with very little rain)
Very little can grow in this arid desert.
an inhospitable desert (=not easy to live or stay in)
The interior of the country is an inhospitable desert.
a barren desert (=where no plants can grow)
Years of intensive farming have turned the area into a barren desert.
DESERT + NOUN
a desert area/region
A hot dry wind blows from the desert areas of North Africa.
a desert landscape
the flat desert landscape outside Kuwait
desert country/land
Large parts of Oman are desert country.
the desert sun/heat
Animals shelter from the desert sun during the day.
PHRASES
a stretch/expanse of desert (=a very large area of desert)
In front of us was nothing but a vast expanse of desert.

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Eagle

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عقاب
a very large strong bird with a beak like a hook that eats small animals, birds etc
2 two strokes less than par (=the usual number of strokes for a hole) in a game of golf
3 → eagle eye

eagle2 verb [transitive]
to use two strokes less than the usual number of strokes for a hole in a game of golf
→ See Verb table

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Snake

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مار

an animal with a long thin body and no legs, that often has a poisonous bite
A snake slithered across our path.
a poisonous/venomous snake
2 (also snake in the grass) informal someone who cannot be trusted

COLLOCATIONS
ADJECTIVES
a poisonous/venomous snake
He warned me there were poisonous snakes in the region.
a deadly snake
It is the most deadly snake in India.
VERBS
a snake bites somebody
I might get bitten by a snake.
a snake hisses (=makes a noise which sounds like ‘ssss’)
The snake hissed at him and opened its mouth.
a snake slithers somewhere (=moves there)
Just feet from me, a green snake slithered silently across the path.
a snake coils itself around something
The snake coiled itself around the branch.

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Survive

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To continue to live

20
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Skill

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Something you can do well

21
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Role

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What a person has when they are part of a team

22
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Make a decision

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When you make a choice

23
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Preparetion

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Getting something ready, or getting yourself ready