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Preposition
Looks like you are ok for graduation
He eats like a pig
Process
I understand you need this in order to process my diploma
Familiar with
Are you familiar with your graduation requirements
out line
You have to meet with your department chair to outline a plan for rest of your time here
issue
v
…we also issue letters before student’s final year began..
definitely
Without any doubt
I definitely met my chair person 2 years ago
Pretty
Pretty reliable
تقريبا
I’m not sure
I’m not sure what was going on here
supplement
v
I supplement just sitting and listening the lecture.
Count
They count as intermediate level courses.
Miss
But the computer still showing the miss basic level courses despite the field work
Get worry
No reason to get worry like that
certify
Certify these credits right away
passive
Passive habitat
OPP. Active
we shouldn’t be passive about our fate.
disperse
They are dispersed by other agent.
agent
Soap is a cleaning agent.
عامل
A police agent.
He is the company’s new agent.
land
If the seeds land in a suitable habitat.
offspring
places where their offspring have the best chance for survival.
offspring=check=fledgling
preference
We expect animal species to develop preferences for particular types of habitats.
recap
to repeat the main points of something that has just been said:
Let me just recap what’s been discussed so far.
organism
1 an animal, plant, human, or any other living thing:
All living organisms have to adapt to changes in environmental conditions.
Contain
…habitat must contain.
destruction
Habitat destruction
destroy
shellfish
They feeds on small shellfish and insects in plants
camouflage
It well camouflage from predator birds above
depression
Shallow depression
By
One of its meaning is ……beside or near something
Outing California weather has been a lot of human development by the ocean.
Conservation
So conservation is tried to recreate new habitat for them
Inaccessible
… In the area that is inaccessible to people and dogs
songbird
Blue warbler is a songbird in North America
spot
Area
Hot spots
Chick
Baby bird
Checks
Correlate
old age and conservatism are often correlated
پیری و محافظهکاری اغلب به هم وابستهاند.
Pine
Blackcaps live in pine woods away from water
Instructor
1someone who teaches a sport or practical skill:
a driving instructor
ski instructors
By the end of
By the end of the 19 century
canny
He was a canny business man.
premier
He quickly established his school as a premiere destination for women artists.
brilliant
Brilliant business man.
Canny
Progress
I asked the nurse how my son was progressing
OPP regress
With progressive ideas
thought
Think
He thought
adopt
He adopted only women classes
established
established religion
established artist
Hold
were held in the studio
Criticism
Weekly criticism
Savvy
He followed Julia savvy suggestion .
Political savvy
Hang up
The painting eventually hung up at the salon
possess
Ali possessed outstanding business skills
meet
Wherever he went he met hostility
gym
gym health club
I guess
I guess I still want to try to understand
strategic
An issue in strategic marketing
Walk
I walked all the way
nowadays
now, compared with what happened in the past
SYN today
Nowadays people are rarely shocked by the sex they see on television.
how come?
28how come? used to ask someone why or how something happened:
How come you’ve ended up here?
‘Last I heard, she was teaching in Mexico.’ ‘How come?’
Membership
..expensive membership fees.
Stuff
Higher stuff
make sense
5make sense
a)
to have a clear meaning and be easy to understand:
Read this and tell me if it makes sense.
b)
to be a sensible thing to do:
it makes sense (for somebody) to do something
It makes sense to save money while you can.
Would it make sense for the city authorities to further restrict parking?
c)
if something makes sense, there seems to be a good reason or explanation for it:
Why did she do a thing like that? It doesn’t seem to make sense.
Benefit
That could benefit from doing this
everyone
everyone uses.
author
writer
Printing press
ماشين چاپ
as
As you know, not everyone has perfect vision
literacy
OPP. illiteracy
Think of
Here’s something you probably haven’t thought of.
Societal
Societal attitudes.
vision correction
Vision correction before the printing press
Poor vision
literate
باسواد
Wealth
wealthiest people with poor vision could
Have someone else read to them
Greece
Like Ancient Greece
quartz
a hard mineral substance that is used in making electronic watches and clocks:
quartz crystals
a quartz watch
C.E
(Common Era) used after a date to show it was after the birth of Christ
SYN AD
➔ BC
out of
Out of your sight
They made reading stones out of clear glass. (از درون (به بيرون
evolve
These clear glass reading stones evolved into the eye glasses we know today
Europe
China
As usual as
It’s not as unusual as it sound.
Tie
Let’s tie this to what I said before about societal attitudes toward glasses
Affluence
Wealth
They also symbolize affluence .
purchase
to buy something
People could purchase them easily from traveling peddler.
rise
Go up
Demands rose drastically.
OPP. Fall
periodic
The periodic table is predictive.
range
and it is ranged according to increasing atomic numbers.
Oops
said when someone falls or makes a small mistake:
Oops, I’ve spelt that wrong.
discredit
They were discredited
spontaneously
Uranium atom that has spontaneously split
ore
Iron ore
