SL-CH4-VOCABULARY Flashcards

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(verb) attend
(noun) attention attendant attentiveness ≠ inattentiveness (adjective) attentive ≠ inattentive
(adverb) attentively ≠ inattentively

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to go to an event such as a meeting or a class.

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(verb) collect collectivize
(noun) collection collector collective collectable collectible collectivism collectivization
(adjective) collected collective collectable collectible collectivist
(adverb) collectively

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to get things of the same type from different places and bring them together

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(noun) debate debater

(verb) debate

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discussion of a particular subject that often continues for a long time and in which people express different opinions

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(verb) exist coexist
(noun) existence ≠ non-existence existent existentialism existentialist coexistence
(adjective) existent ≠ nonexistent existing pre-existing existential existentialist

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to happen or be present in a particular situation or place; to be real or alive; survive

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(verb) survive
(noun) survival survivor
(adjective) surviving

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to continue to live after an accident, war, or illness

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(verb) intend
(noun) intent intention
(adjective) intended ≠ unintended intentional ≠ unintentional intent
(adverb) intentionally ≠ unintentionally

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to have something in your mind as a plan or purpose;

mean

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(verb) mean
(noun) meaning mean
(adjective) meaningful meaningless
(adverb) meaningfully

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to intend a particular meaning when you say something;
to have or represent a particular meaning;
an average

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(verb) invite
(noun) invitation invite
(adjective) uninvited inviting ≠ uninviting
(adverb) invitingly

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to ask someone to come to a party, wedding, meal etc

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(verb) mention

(adjective) mentioned

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to talk or write about something or someone, usually quickly and without saying very much or giving details ;
refer to something briefly and without going into detail

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(verb) occur

(noun) occurrence

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to happen or exist in a particular place or situation;

happen; take place.

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(verb) quote

(noun) quotation quote

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to repeat exactly what someone else has said or written; to give something as an example to support what you are saying; to give the price of a share or currency

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(verb) release
(noun) release
(adjective) released

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to let someone go free, after having kept them somewhere ;the action or process of releasing or being released; to let news or official information be known and printed; publish

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(verb) separate
(noun) separation separates separatist separatism separator inseperability
(adjective) separable ≠ inseparable separate separated (adverb) inseparably separately

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not related to or not affected by something else; not joined to or touching something else

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(verb) suggest
(noun) suggestion suggestiveness
(adjective) suggestive suggestible
(adverb) suggestively

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to tell someone your ideas about what they should do, where they should go etc

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(adverb) basically
(noun) base the basics basis
(adjective) baseless basic based
(verb) base

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used to emphasize the most important reason or fact about something, or a simple explanation of something

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(adjective) possible ≠ impossible
(noun) possibility ≠ impossibility the impossible possible
(adverb) possibly ≠ impossibly

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something that is impossible cannot happen or be done

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(noun) benefit beneficiary
(adjective) beneficial
(verb) benefit
(adverb) beneficially

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an advantage, improvement, or help that you get from something

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(noun) danger
(adjective) endangered dangerous
(verb) endanger
(adverb) dangerously

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the possibility that someone or something will be harmed, destroyed, or killed

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(adverb) instead

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used to say what is done, when you have just said that a particular thing is not done

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(adverb) probably ≠ improbably
(noun) probability probable
(adjective) probable ≠ improbable

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used to say that something is likely to happen, likely to be true

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(adjective) devoted = dedicated
(noun) devotion
(verb) devote
(adverb) devotedly

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giving someone or something a lot of love and attention;

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(adjective) qualified ≠ unqualified disqualified
(noun) qualification disqualification qualifier
(verb) qualify disqualify

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having suitable knowledge, experience, or skills, especially for a particular job

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(verb) advocate

(noun) advocacy advocate

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to publicly support a particular way of doing something

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(verb) overlook

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to not notice something, or not see how important it is

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(adjective) military militant militaristic militarized
(noun) militancy militant the military militia militarism militarist
(adverb) militantly militarily

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used by, involving, or relating to the army, navy, or air force

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(verb) threaten
(noun) threat
(adjective) threatening
(adverb) threateningly

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to say that you will cause someone harm or trouble if they do not do what you want

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(noun) exploration explorer
(adjective) exploratory unexplored
(verb) explore

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the act of travelling through a place in order to find out about it or find something such as oil or gold in it

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(noun) barrier

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a rule, problem etc that prevents people from doing something, or limits what they can do

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(noun) command commander = leader

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the control of a group of people or a situation

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(noun) crew

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all the people who work on a ship or plane; a group of people working together with special skills