Guns, Germs and Steel Flashcards
Hallmark
(n)
A feature or quality that is typical of sb/st
A mark put on gold/silver & platinum objects that shows the quality & give info about when and where the object was made
Expedition
(n)
An organised journey with a particular purpose, especially to find out about a place that is not well known
Devise
/di’vaiz/
(v)
To invent st new or a new way of doing st
Denote
(v)
To be a sign of st (indicate) to mean st (represent)
Transcribe
(v)
St into st: to record thoughts speech or data in a written form, or in a different written form from original
Conform
(v) to st/ with st
To behave and think in the same way as most other people in a group of society
Deceive
(v) sb into doing st
To make sb believe st that is not true
Species
(n)
Ancient
(n)
Petroleum
(n)
Quicklime
(n)
Prestige
(n)
Cachet
(n)
Perverse
(v)
Entrench
(v)