newsweek Flashcards
rental
an arrangement to rent something, or the amount of money that you pay to rent something
annual
happening once every year:
counselor
someone who is trained to listen to people and give them advice about their problems:
crosscurents
a conflicting tendency or movement.
sift
to put flour, sugar, etc. through a sieve (= wire net shaped like a bowl) to break up large pieces:
glimpse
to see something or someone for a very short time or only partly:
forge
the radioactive dust in the air after a nuclear explosion:
beset
having a lot of trouble with something,
rampant
getting worse quickly and in an uncontrolled way:
insurers
a person or company that insures someone or something:
entity
something that exists apart from other things, having its own independent existence:
belly up
it fails:
assesment
the act of judging or deciding the amount, value, quality,
roster
a list of people’s names, often with the jobs they have been given to do:
barred
If a door is barred, a bar of wood or metal has been put across it so that it cannot be opened:
rapid
fast or sudden:
demise
the end of something that was previously considered to be powerful, such as a business, industry, or system:
retailers
a person, shop, or business that sells goods to the public:
leverage
the action or advantage of using a lever:
ward
one of the parts or large rooms into which a hospital is divided, usually with beds for patients:
undergo
to experience something that is unpleasant or something that involves a change:
excoriated
to write or say that a play, book, political action, etc. is very bad:
reined
to make a horse go more slowly or stop by pulling on its reins
embarked
to go onto a ship:
thrive
to grow, develop, or be successful:
ordinance
a law or rule made by a government or authority:
proliferation
the fact of something increasing a lot and suddenly in number or amount:
clumped
a group, especially of trees or flowers:
rural
in, of, or like the countryside:
sheer
used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is; nothing except:
efficiencies
the quality of achieving the largest amount of useful work using as little energy, fuel, effort, etc. as possible:
warehouse
a large building for storing things before they are sold, used, or sent out to shops,
latter
near or towards the end of something:
solidified
to change from being a liquid or gas to a solid form, or to make something do this:
mince
meat, usually beef, that has been cut up into very small pieces, often using a special machine
uphill
leading to a higher place on a slope:
dim
not giving or having much light:
vastly
very much:
detained
to force someone officially to stay in a place:
compulsory
because of a rule or law that states something must be done:
dissent
a strong difference of opinion on a particular subject,
