Chapter I. Verbs 21 - 30; p. 12, 1-2; Flashcards
explain [smth. or smn.; smth. to smn.; smth. + how, why ect.; that smth.]
If you explain something, you give details about it or describe it so that it can be understood.
Not every judge, however, has the ability to explain the law in simple terms. [VERB noun]
Don’t sign anything until your solicitor has explained the contract to you. [VERB noun + to]
Professor Griffiths explained how the drug appears to work. [VERB wh]
‘He and Mrs Stein have a plan,’ she explained. [VERB with quote]
I explained that each person has different ideas of what freedom is. [VERB that]
[Also VERB]
legitimize [smth.]
[formal]
To legitimize something, especially something bad, means to officially allow it, approve it, or make it seem acceptable.
They will accept no agreement that legitimizes the ethnic division of the country. [VERB noun]
Images which glorify violence and cruelty, serve to legitimise such behaviour. [VERB noun]
suspend [smth.]
If you suspend something, you delay it or stop it from happening for a while or until a decision is made about it.
The union suspended strike action this week. [VERB noun]
Aid programs will be suspended until there’s adequate protection for relief convoys. [VERB noun]
isolate [smth.; smth. from smth.]
If you isolate something such as an idea or a problem, you separate it from others that it is connected with, so that you can concentrate on it or consider it on its own.
Our anxieties can also be controlled by isolating thoughts, feelings and memories. [VERB noun]
Gandhi said that those who isolate religion from politics don’t understand the nature of either. [VERB noun + from]
lose [smth.]
lose, lost, lost;
If someone loses a quality, characteristic, attitude, or belief, they no longer have it.
He lost all sense of reason. [VERB noun]
The government had lost all credibility. [VERB noun]
He had lost his desire to live. [VERB noun]
replace [smth. oe smn.; smth. or smn. with smth. or smn.; smth. oe smn. as smth. or smn.; be replaced with/by smth. oe smn.]
If one thing or person replaces another, the first is used or acts instead of the second.
The council tax replaced the poll tax in 1993. [VERB noun]
…the city lawyer who replaced Bob as chairman of the company. [VERB noun + as]
The smile disappeared to be replaced by a doleful frown. [be V-ed + with/by]
arrest [smth.]
[formal]
If something or someone arrests a process, they stop it continuing.
A quarantine was put in place to arrest the spread of the disease. [VERB noun]
The law could arrest the development of good research if applied prematurely. [VERB noun]
establishe [smth.; smth. to be established]
If someone establishes something such as an organization, a type of activity, or a set of rules, they create it or introduce it in such a way that it is likely to last for a long time.
The U.N. has established detailed criteria for who should be allowed to vote. [VERB noun]
The School was established in 1989 by an Italian professor. [be VERB-ed]
alter [smth.]
If something alters or if you alter it, it changes.
Little had altered in the village. [VERB]
They have never altered their programmes by a single day. [VERB noun]
concern [smth.; pronoun-reflexive + with smth.]
If something such as a book or a piece of information concerns a particular subject, it is about that subject.
The bulk of the book concerns Sandy’s two middle-aged children. [VERB noun]
Chapter 2 concerns itself with the methodological difficulties. [VERB pronoun-reflexive + with]
