DANA - chapter19 Flashcards

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  • Pursue (v.)

- Follow, Engage in.

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  • To continue with something to find out more.
  • We will continue pursuing the course.
    تعقب
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  • Undertake (v.)

- Contract, Take on.

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  • To carry out
  • I will undertake the group work.
    تعهد
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  • Reveal (v.)

- Show, Uncover.

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  • To make something known that was a secret before.
  • I can’t reveal the research details.
    كشف
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  • Notwithstanding (adv.)

- However.

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  • Without being affected by; however.
  • Notwithstanding, the exam was very hard.
    على الرغم من
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  • Survive (v.)

- Remain alive.

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  • To continue to live or exist.
  • In the final exams, we have to study all day and all night and survive with few hours of sleeping.
    البقاء على قيد الحياة
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  • Straightforward (adj.)

- Uncomplicated, Simple.

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  • Easy to do or understand.
  • I asked him some questions, and he answer it straightforward.
    بسيط
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  • Equate (v.)

- Compare.

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  • To consider one thing as being the same as something else.
  • You shouldn’t equate between these two things.
    مساواة
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  • Identical (adj.)

- Same.

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  • Exactly the same.
  • Last day I saw an identical twins.
    مطابق
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  • Empirical (adj.)

- Experiential.

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  • Based on experiments or practical experience.
  • Our studies is based on empirical evidence.
    تجريبي
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  • Summarize (v.)

- Outline.

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  • Short description of main ideas or events of something.
  • We summarize the main topic that our teacher was talking about.
    تلخيص
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  • Statistics (n.)

- Numbers, Facts.

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  • Number that shows facts or provides information about something; numbers that have been collected to provide info.
  • You have to take a statistic class if you are going to study business.
    إحصائيات
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  • Deduce (v.)

- Figure out.

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  • To form an opinion based on facts that you already know.
  • He cannot deduce his descent.
    استنتج
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  • Mediate (v.)

- In-between.

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  • To try to settle a disagreement between two or more people.
  • I’m attempting to mediate between the two sides.
    توسط
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  • Journal (n.)

- Magazine, Newspaper.

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  • A magazine full of articles about one subject.
  • I’ll records my dreams in a journal.
    صحيفة
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  • Behalf (n.)

- Help.

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  • In order to help someone
  • I talked on him behalf when he lost his words.
    باسم
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  • Compound (n.)

- Mix.

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  • Two or more things combined together.
  • We compounded our error by waiting too long to call for help.
    مركب
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  • Restrain (v.)

- Control.

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  • To keep someone/something under control.
  • I could barely restrain my anger.
    كبح
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  • Colleague (n.)

- Mate.

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  • A person you work with in a job.
  • My colleague is very friendly.
    زميل
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  • Infer (v.)

- Guess, Understand.

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  • To teach a conclusion from the information you have.
  • We learned how to infer in the reading class.
    خمن
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  • Compile (v.)

- Compose, Collect.

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  • To collect info and arrange it in a list, book, etc.
  • He compiled a book of poems.
    جمع
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  • Liberal (adj.)

- Flexible, Free.

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  • Large amounts; generous.
  • This guy is very liberal with the food.
    تحررية
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  • Substitute (v.)

- Replacement, Exchange.

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  • To use something instead of something else.
  • Our teacher is absent, so we have a substitute teacher.
    بدل
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  • Guidelines (n.)

- Instruction.

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  • Advice on what to do about something.
  • We wrote a guidelines for our research paper.
    المبادئ التوجيهية
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  • Comprehensive (adj.)

- complete.

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  • Including everything that is connected to a subject.
  • I have a comprehensive grammar exam next Monday.
    شامل

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