Difficult meaning Flashcards

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a …. organization, industry etc is no longer active or effective and may be coming to an end.

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moribund / ˈmɒrəbʌnd/

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> > > The region’s heavy industry is still inefficient and …..
A cut in interest rates will help the country’s ….housing market.

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moribund / ˈmɒrəbʌnd/

افول كرده - زيان ده

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transient

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+++ but the Impressionists found that they could capture the momentary and transient effects of sunlight by painting air (in plain air). +++

/ ˈtrænziənt $ ˈtrænʃ ə nt / adjective formal

1 continuing only for a short time :
transient fashions
2 working or staying somewhere for only a short time :
a transient population

transient formal continuing for only a limited time, or staying somewhere for only a short time – used especially to say that something is always changing, or people only stay somewhere for a short time :

> > > the transient nature of life
transient changes in the electrical properties of the neurons
Arizona has a highly transient population.

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momentary

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+++ but the Impressionists found that they could capture the momentary and transient effects of sunlight by painting air (in plain air). +++

/ ˈməʊmənt ə ri $ ˈmoʊmənteri / adjective
continuing for a very short time SYN brief :
»> There was a momentary pause.

momentary lasting for a very short time – used especially about feelings or pauses :
»> There was a momentary pause in the conversation.&raquo_space;> The momentary panic ended when he found his two-year-old son waiting happily outside the store.

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if two things …… each other, they push each other away with an electrical force

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repel / rɪˈpel / verb technical
( past tense and past participle repelled , present participle repelling )

OPP attract

> > > Two positive charges repel each other.

+>+ invisible substance called dark matter (25 percent) and a force that repels gravity known as dark energy.

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