Memrise 400 Words of TOEFL - Intermediate English Flashcards
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cultivation
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the process of preparing the land for growing crops
2
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irrigation
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a means of supplying water for agriculture
3
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precipitation
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water that falls to the Earth’s surface
4
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a famine
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severe hunger; a drastic food shortage
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catastrophic
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extremely harmful
6
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to abandon
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to leave, to give up
7
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adversely
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affecting in a harmful, negative way
8
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to anticipate
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to sense or expect something before it happens
9
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to aggregate
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to collect together into a whole
10
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to fertilize
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to supply nourishment to plants
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to intensify
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to increase in power or strength
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to obtain
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to gain possession of, to get
13
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photosynthesis
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the process by which plants combine light energy into chemical energy
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to collide
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to come together with great or violent force
15
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an eruption
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a sudden, often violent, outburst
