Lesson Flashcards
notion
conception of belief about something
idea, belief
(she a notion to ring her friend work)
breakdown
a failure of of relationship or system, crash and collapse
a breakdown in military discipline
smooth (adj)
having the surface free from roughness or irregularities
the track gave a smooth ride
to empashisize
make something important, highlight, stress, accent
his father emphasized the wrong word in the sentence
absence
state of not being some place
the letter arrived during his absence
poverty
state of being extremely poor, scarcity
the poverty of her imagination
eminent
distinguished, marked
one of the words most eminent statisticians
merely
only and nothing more
I was merely asking
deductive (adj)
related to the logical deduction, cause and effect
deductive reasoning
to deduce
conclude, arrived by a fact of reasoning
little can safely deduce from these figures
