Difficult meaning Flashcards
a …. organization, industry etc is no longer active or effective and may be coming to an end.
moribund / ˈmɒrəbʌnd/
> > > The region’s heavy industry is still inefficient and …..
A cut in interest rates will help the country’s ….housing market.
moribund / ˈmɒrəbʌnd/
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transient
+++ 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.
momentary
+++ 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.»_space;> The momentary panic ended when he found his two-year-old son waiting happily outside the store.
if two things …… each other, they push each other away with an electrical force
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.