Last Week Flashcards
Connotation
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
Endeavor
Try hard to do or achieve something
Indulge in
Allow yourselves to have or do something that you know you will enjoy
“We had enough time to indulge in a bit of window shopping”
Conspicuously
In a clearly visible way
Inherently
Im a permanent, essential or characteristic way.
Notion
A conception of or belief about something
Isolate
Cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from other
Occur
(Especially if accidents and other unexpected events) to happen
Or
To exist or be present in, among
Integrate
Two mix with or join society or a group of people
Or
Two combine more two or more things in order to become effective
Or
To bring two things or systems to work together as one
Diminish
To reduce or be reduced in size or important
“What he did has seriously diminished him in many people’s eyes”
Occupy
To exist or use a place for a period of time
Or
To keep someone busy ot interested
“I occupy myself with solving math puzzles”
Deduct
To take away an amount or part form a total
“The player had points deducted from his score”
Reverse
To change the direction, order, result, etc of something to its opposite
“The intervention was designed to help, but it had the reverse effect”
Deviate
To do something that is different from the usual or common way of behaving/ to go in a different direction
Conduct
Go organize and perform a particular activity
“The experiments were conducted by scientists in New York”
Inhibit
To slow down a process
Or
To prevent someone from doing something by making them feel nervous or embarrassed
“Some worker were inhibited by the presence of their managers”
Rely
To need or depend on
Or
To trust someone or something
Refine
To make something pure or improve something, especially by removing unwanted material or by doing small changes
Derive
Go get something from something else
Commit
To do something illegal or something that is considered wrong
“To commit an offence”
Or
To promise loyalty, time, or money to a particular principle, person or plan of action
“He has problems committing himself to a relationship”
Shirker
Someone who avoids something, especially work
Emerge
To appear by coming out of something or out from behind something
“She merged from the sea”
And
“To become know, especially as a result of examining something or asking questions about it”
“The facts are sure to emerge eventually”
Facilitate
To make something possible or easier
Survey
An examination of opinions by asking questions
Or
To look at or examine all of something, especially carefully
Legislate
To make laws or rules laying to a particular activity
“We cannot legislate a charge on businesses outside the state”
Compensate
To pay someone money in exchange for something that has been lost or damaged for some problem
“Victims will be compensated for their injuries”
Or
To provide something good or useful in place of something or to make someone feel better about something lost
“His enthusiasm more than compensates for his lack of experience”
Monitor
To watch and check a situation carefully for a period of time in order to discover something about it
“The CIA were monitoring his phone calls”
Also:
A computer screen or a person whose job is watching
Grant
To give or allow something, usually in an oficial way
Or to accept that something is true, often before expressing an opposite opinion
“I grant you that X, but Y”
Require
Necessary, must, fundamental, need, essential, indispensable
Requirement
Concern, condition, demand, need, precondition, prerequisite, obligation
Enthralled
Cautivado
