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Question 1

Devastate

Devastating

Answer 1

V
1
Damaging or destroying sth
Adj
2
Impressive

Its total impact is unlikely to pose a devastating problem

Question 2

Nurture

Answer 2

پروراندن باور

Many people nurture the belief that…

Question 3

Lopsideness

Answer 3

نامتعادل

One is the lopsideness built into scientific research.

Question 4

Scepticism

Answer 4

شکاکیت
That would matter less if people applied the same degree of scepticism to environmental lobbying as they do to lobby groups in other fields.

Question 5

Wrecking

Answer 5

Destroy
Demolish
This climatic phenomenon was accused of wrecking tourism.

Question 6

Intuition

Answer 6

شهود
بینش
Despite the intuition that something drastic needs to be done about such a costly problem, economics analyses clearly show it will be far more expensive to cut co2 emissions radically than to pay the costs of …

Question 7

Sanitation

Answer 7

N
conditions relating to public health, especially the provision of clean drinking water and adequate sewage disposal.
“they could afford to erect new dwellings with a reasonable standard of construction and sanitation”