TPO29 Flashcards
auditorium
🔹the part of a theatre, concert hall, or other public building in which the audience sits.
🔸the stage was small and the auditorium had only 366 seats
That being said
🔹taking into consideration what has just been said…it implies that you are about to contradict or modify what has just been said
chip away
🔹to gradually make something weaker, smaller, or less effective
🔸The company’s dominance of the market is gradually being chipped away.
🔸chip away at: Her comments were beginning to chip away at his self-confidence.
🔹to remove small pieces from something hard by hitting it with a tool
🔸Use a hammer to chip away the edge.
🔸chip away at: She was chipping away at the ground with a trowel.
handle
🔹feel or manipulate with the hands; hold
🔸heavy paving slabs can be difficult to handle
🔹the part by which a thing is held, carried, or controlled.
🔸a holdall with two carrying handles
justice
🔹just behaviour or treatment; fairness
🔸a concern for justice, peace, and genuine respect for people
do justice:
🔹to treat someone or something in a way that is fair and shows their or its true qualities:
🔸This postcard doesn’t do justice to the wonderful scenery.
ware
🔹pottery, typically that of a specified type.
🔸blue-and-white majolica ware
🔹manufactured articles of a specified type.
🔸crystal ware
🔹articles offered for sale.
🔸traders in the street markets displayed their wares
marchandise-goods-product-stock-comodity
tableware:
اسباب میز ناهارخوری-لوازم سفره یا میز
kitchenware:
ظروف آشپزخانه
shatter
🔹break or cause to break suddenly and violently into pieces; smash
🔸bullets riddled the bar top, glasses shattered, bottles exploded
🔹damage or destroy (something abstract); devastate; demolish; wreck
🔸the crisis will shatter their confidence
🔹upset (someone) greatly; devastate; traumatise
🔸everyone was shattered by the news
vessel
🔹a ship or large boat.
🔹a hollow container, especially one used to hold liquid, such as a bowl or cask.
blemish
🔹a small mark or flaw which spoils the appearance of something; imperfection; defect; flaw
🔸the girl’s hands were without a blemish
🔹a moral defect or fault.
🔸the offences were an uncharacteristic blemish on an otherwise clean record
🔹spoil the appearance or quality of (something); mar
🔸his reign as world champion has been blemished by controversy
🔸His record will be blemished by this failure.
glossy
🔹shiny and smooth.
🔸thick, glossy, manageable hair
🔹superficially attractive, stylish, and suggesting wealth; fashionable
🔸a glossy TV miniseries
sheer
🔹nothing other than; unmitigated (used for emphasis).
🔸she giggled with sheer delight
🔹(especially of a cliff or wall) perpendicular or nearly so; precipitous; vertical
🔸the sheer ice walls
🔹(of a fabric) very thin; diaphanous.
🔸sheer white silk chiffon
🔹(typically of a boat) swerve or change course quickly; drift
🔸the boat sheered off to beach further up the coast
🔹avoid or move away from an unpleasant topic.
🔸her mind sheered away from images she didn’t want to dwell on
elusive
🔹difficult to find, catch, or achieve; evasive
🔸success will become ever more elusive
گریزان- گریزپا
🔹difficult to remember.
🔸the elusive thought he had had moments before
از یادرو- گیج کننده- دیرفهم
potsherd
🔹a broken piece of ceramic material, especially one found on an archaeological site.
dump
🔹a site for depositing rubbish.
🔸a nuclear waste dump
🔹deposit or dispose of (rubbish, waste, or unwanted material), typically in a careless or hurried way.
🔸trucks dumped 1,900 tons of refuse here
🔹send (goods unsaleable in the home market) to a foreign market for sale at a low price.
🔸these countries have been dumping cheap fertilizers on the UK market
🔹(computing) an act of copying stored data to a different location, performed typically as a protection against loss.
might
🔹great and impressive power or strength, especially of a nation, large organization, or natural force.
🔸a convincing display of military might
