chapter 3

Question 1

ambition

Answer 1

a strong desire to achieve something

Question 2

clinic

Answer 2

a place, often in a hospital, where medical treatment is given to people who do not need to stay in the hospital

Question 3

conservation

Answer 3

the protection of natural things such as animals, plants, forests etc, to prevent them from being spoiled or destroyed

Question 4

dictate

Answer 4

to say words for someone else to write down

Question 5

dispute

Answer 5

a serious argument or disagreement

Question 6

divorce

Answer 6

the legal ending of a marriage

Question 7

drugstore

Answer 7

a shop where you can buy medicines, beauty products

Question 8

engagement

Answer 8

an agreement between two people to marry, or the period of time they are engaged

Question 9

flourish

Answer 9

to develop well and be successful SYN thrive

Question 10

foster

Answer 10

to help a skill, feeling, idea etc develop over a period of time

Question 11

founded

Answer 11

to find

Question 12

outlook

Answer 12

your general attitude to life and the world

Question 13

planet

Answer 13

a very large round object in space that moves around the Sun or another star

Question 14

pollution

Answer 14

the process of making air, water, soil etc dangerously dirty and not suitable for people to use, or the state of being dangerously dirty

Question 15

preserve

Answer 15

to save something or someone from being harmed or destroyed

Question 16

priority

Answer 16

the thing that you think is most important and that needs attention before anything else

Question 17

prosperity

Answer 17

when people have money and everything that is needed for a good life

Question 18

pursue

Answer 18

to continue doing an activity or trying to achieve something over a long period of time

Question 19

relevant

Answer 19

directly relating to the subject or problem being discussed or considered

Question 20

rural

Answer 20

happening in or relating to the countryside, not the city

Question 21

spoil

Answer 21

o have a bad effect on something so that it is no longer attractive, enjoyable, useful etc SYN ruin

Question 22

tackle

Answer 22

to try to deal with a difficult problem

Question 23

vastly

Answer 23

very much

Question 24

vice

Answer 24

a bad habit