MRP3 Excercise 3 gg gj Flashcards
shorten
If you shorten an event or the length of time that something lasts, or if it shortens, it does not last as long as it would otherwise do or as it used to do.
Why did you shorten the video, the length of it was perfect before.
Invention
An invention is a machine, device, or system that has been invented by someone.
Light bulb is an invention from Edison.
Destruction
Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
The destruction was caused by a big tsunami.
Harmful
Something that is harmful has a bad effect on something else, especially on a person’s health.
It is harmful for you to drink a lot of soda.
punctuation
Punctuation is the use of symbols such as full stops or periods, commas, or question marks to divide written words into sentences and clauses.
There are a lot of punctuations in the passage which aren’t correct
addiction
Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
He has an addiction of taking drugs.
statistics
Statistics are facts which are obtained from analysing information expressed in numbers, for example information about the number of times that something happens.
From statistics we know that 80%people don’t have a good sleep last night.
empty
containing nothing
This box is empty.
voice
sound produced by vertebrates by means of lungs, larynx, or syrinx; especially : sound so produced by human beings
A small voice come up.
issue
If something is the issue, it is the thing you consider to be the most important part of a situation or discussion.
We have a big issue to talk about.
common
of or relating to a community at large : public
it is very common to meet a squirrel in America
such
You use such to refer back to the thing or person that you have just mentioned, or a thing or person like the one that you have just mentioned. You use such as and such…as to introduce a reference to the person or thing that has just been mentioned.
You are such a beautiful.