Prueba Final Flashcards
Major
The main subject that a student studies at college or university
Enroll
To officially join a school, university or course
Tunnel vision
Thinking about one part of a plan or problem instead of considering all the parts
Shift
A change
Drop out
To leave school before you finish a course
Strategy
A planned series of actions for achieving something
Supportive
Giving help or encouragment
Management
The act of controlling and organizing someon’s work or time
Bribe
To offer a person something special in order to make the person do something
Ultimately
Finally, after everything else has been done or considered
Environment
The situations that affect the way we live and work
Volunteer
To do something without expecting money
Process
A series of actions done to get a result
Take a chance
To do semething risky
Figure out
To think about a problem until you find a solution
Play your cards right
To do everything necessary to succeed
Play second fiddle
To accept that you have a lower position
Get the lowdown
To get facts about something
Get your hands dirty
To become involved in all aspects of something including work that is unpleasant or less interesting
Play it by ear
To act without preparation
Get out of heand
To become uncontrolled
Affect
To do something that produce an affect or change in something
Ensure
To make sure something will happen in the right way
Facilitator
Someone who helps a group of people discuss things with each other
Incarcerate
To put or keep someone in prison
Move on
To let negativity go and then change and improve your life
Offender
Someone who is guilty of a crime
Outcome
The final result of a meeting or discussion
Restitution
The act of giving something back to the victim of a crime
Remorse
To feel sorry for something negative that happened
Tension
A nervous or worried feeling that make it impossible to relax
Lose it
Become very angry or upset
Brake the law
Doing something illegal
Forgive
Stop being angry at someone, although they did something wrong
Shocked
Surprised and upset by something unpleasant
Pouring out
Telling someone all your feeling because you are unhappy
Arrest
Take someone away
Detain
Stop someone from leaving
Try
Judge an offender in court
Convict
Announce that someone may have broken the law
Sentence
Tell an offender his or her punishment
Greenhouse gas
A gas specially carbon dioxide (CO2) or methane (CH4), that traps heat above the Earth and causes global warming
Resource
A supply of something useful such as land , oil or coal
Transport
To take goods or people form one place to another in a vehicle
Generation
All people of about the same age
Collectively
As a group
Consumption
The use of energy, oil or electricity
A drop in the bucket
An action that has a little or no effect
Raised bed
An area in a garden that is used to grow plants
Solar panel
Equipment that makes energy from the sun
Dense
Made of a lot of things that are very close together
Industries
Groups of businesses, each of which makes the same type of product
Factories
Buildings where products are made by machines
Energy efficient
Using less of a resource (gas, oil, water)
Technology
Machines that are based on modern knowledge of science and computers
Emissions
Gases that go into the air
