Enska DD Flashcards by Sandra Sól Hjörleifsdóttir

Lumens

A measurement of brightness of light

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Illuminate

To light up, to make something complicated easier

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Luminary

Someone who is a leader

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Bioluminescence

Light produced by a living thing, such as a firefly

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Lucid

Clear and understandable

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Elucidate

To make something more clear

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Pellucid

Letting light through completely and clearly, easy to understand

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Transcend

Go beyond

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Abject

Total and hopeless

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Conjecture

Speculation

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Eject

Throw out of, like a pilot from a plane

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Inject

To shoot into something

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Objective

Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions

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Projectile

Something being thrown, like an arrow

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Reject

To fail to accept or to throw back

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Subjective

Based in n or influenced by personal feelings, tastes or opinions

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Trajectory

Curved path of something that has been thrown

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Ten/Tain

Hold

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Contain

To hold or hold back

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Contend

To try or struggle in a contest or against difficulties

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Content

Something contained

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Contentious

Causing or likely to cause an argument

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Detain

To hold or keep, as in custody, or to be held back

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Intensity

The strength or quantity of something

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Retain

To keep in one place

Tenacity

The Condition of holding on to something

Out or away from

Eject

To throw out of

Erase

To wipe out or make disappear

Evaporate

To change into invincible vapour, to disappear, quickly and completely

Emote

To show feeling outwardly

Away from

Exhaust

To use entirely

Express

To send out a message usually in words

Explode

To burst forth suddenly and violently from energy

Expand

To open out, spread out

Export

Ship out to another place

Extinct

No longer existing

Exoskeleton

Hard supporting structure that is on outside of an animal

Excessive

Going outside a limit

Exit

A door that leads out of a public place

Exude

To ooze or send out or spread in all directions

Vertical

Perpendicular to the place of the horizon or to a primary axis

Vertigo

Dizzy, confused state of mind

Vertebrate

Animal with a backbone

Invert

To turn inside out or upside down

Vert

Turn or twist

Convert

To turn from one thing to another

Revert

To turn back to an earlier state or condition

Controversial

The subject of argument or dispute, turning people against each other

Introvert

A person who is shy and reserved and keeps to themselves

Extrovert

A person who is outgoing

Avert

To turn away to see something coming and avoid it

Adverse

Turning against what is wanted

Adversity

Conditions that make things harder or turn against you

Subversive

Trying to undermine or overthrow

Diverse

Different; made up of different kinds of things or people

Vol

Wish or will

Volunteer

To offer to serve without pay or reward

Voluntary

Done by free choice

Volition

The act of choosing to do something

Benevolent

Intending good things to happen, bene means good

Malevolent

Intending bad things to happen, mal means bad

Mortal

Subject to death or causing death

Immortal

Never dying, living forever

Mortuary

Funeral home

Mortify

To embarrass or humiliate completely

Mortician

Someone who prepares a body for funeral

Post mortem

Examination of a body after death

Rigorous mortis

The rigidity of a body that happens after death

Lev

Raise up, to rise or make lighter

Elevate

To raise up or go up

Elevator

A cage or platform for taking things or people up and down in a building

Lever

A bar used for prying or moving something up

Levity

Light heartedness

Leverage

The action of a lever, pushing something, the power to make things happen

Levitate

To rise into the air, especially in seeming defiance of gravity

Levee

An embankment built up prevent or confine floods

Alleviate

To lighten or make more bearable

Relieve

To free from a burden or problem, to release from a duty or position, or replace someone

Dispel

To drive away or scatter away

Expel

To push out or away, often permanently

Pulse

A throbbing beat, to throb or move in rhythm

Propel

Drive or push something forwards

Propeller

A device with a hub in the middle and twisted blades around it, which is used to make a boat, airplane or helicopter move

Compel

To push someone or something to do something

Impel

To get something going, whether getting a thing moving or a person to do an action

Impulsive

Likely to do whatever one gets urged to do, right away

Compulsion

An irresistible urge to do something that doesn’t really make sense

Compulsory

Required by rules or regulations

Repel

To prevent something from approaching

Repulsive

Tending to repeal, especially by causing aversion or disgust