Feb 14 Flashcards
Conduit
Канал
The office acts as a conduit for ideas to flow throughout the organization
Contentious
ADJ
Causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial
E: a contentious issue
Contemplate
verb
: to view or consider with continued attention
E: “he sat on the carpet contemplating his image in the mirrors”
Unwitting
not aware of the full facts
unwitting participants in the study were
Devised
plan or invent (a complex procedure, system, or mechanism) by careful thought
E: The question, which was also devised by Shane Frederick, is again a challenge to System 2. The “trick”
Aptitude
A natural ability to do something
E: If people were ranked by their self-control and by their cognitive aptitude,
Sustenance
food and drink regarded as a source of strength; nourishment.
E: poor rural economies turned to potatoes for sustenance
Put up with
tolerate or endure something.
E: “I’m too tired to put up with any nonsense”
Judicious
having, exercising, or characterized by sound judgment
E: judicious investments
E: a judicious decision
Peacock
Павлин
Contempt
the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn.
E: “he showed his contempt for his job by doing it very badly”
Susceptible
likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing.
E: “patients with liver disease may be susceptible to infection”
Confine
to limit an activity, person, or problem in some way:
E: Let’s confine our discussion to the matter in question, please!
to keep someone closed in a place, often by force (usually passive)
E: The hostages had been confined for so long that they couldn’t cope with the outside world.
Coherent
ADJ
(of an argument, theory, or policy) logical and consistent.
E: “they failed to develop a coherent economic strategy”
Strident
Loud and harsh,
Premonition
COUNTABLE NOUN
If you have a premonition, you have a feeling that something is going to happen, often something unpleasant.
E: premonition of disaster
Contrive
to arrange a situation or event, or arrange for something to happen, using clever planning
E:Couldn’t you contrive a meeting between them? I think they’d really like each other.
E: Somehow she contrived to get tickets for the concert.
to invent and/or make a device or other object in a clever and possibly unusual way
E: Do you think you could contrive something for hanging my clothes on until I can get a wardrobe?
Animate
V to give life to : make alive
N possessing or characterized by life
Cohesion
I. noun — [ mass noun] 1. the action or fact of forming a united whole • the work at present lacks cohesion.
Industrious
Diligent and hardworking
E: An industrious people are making their country better.
Confront
Come face-to-face with someone with hostile or argumentative intent
Conform
Comply with rules, standards, or laws
E: he had the choice of conforming to these requirements,
Tresspass
Enter someones’s land or property without a permission
Diligent
careful and serious in your work, or done in a careful and determined way
E: A diligent worker
E: They made a diligent efforts to carry out their programa
Answer to my question
Cloth
Ткань
Propose
Propose doing something