TPO6

Question 0

Harness

Answer 0

• to control and use the natural force or power of something:
• We can harness the power of the wind to generate electricity.

Question 1

dramatic

Answer 1

Sudden, striking, tense, powerful,

Question 2

abound

Answer 2

verb exist in abundance
• Thrive, proliferate
• Rumours abound as to the reasons for his resignation.
• Examples of this abound in her book.

Question 3

Mill

Answer 3

• a building containing a large machine for crushing grain into flour اسیاب •

Question 4

textile

Answer 4

نساجي

Question 5

exploit

Answer 5

• Use
• Abuse
• Homeworkers can easily be exploited by employers.

Question 6

condense

Answer 6

• Abridge, shorten, compress,

* This whole chapter could be condensed into a few paragraphs.

Question 7

vacuum

Answer 7

• Void, gap, emptiness
• space that is completely empty of all gas, especially one from which all the air has been taken away
• Her husband’s death left a vacuum in her life.

Question 8

reciprocate

Answer 8

• Retaliate,
• to do or give something, because something similar has been done or given to you:
• When he spoke I was expected to reciprocate with some remark of my own.

Question 9

illuminate

Answer 9

• Make light, make clear, brighten, highlight,

Question 10

flicker

Answer 10

• Spark, glimmer, beam, gleam,

Question 11

accustom

Answer 11

• Used to
• We were accustomed to working together.
• Her eyes quickly became accustomed to the dark.

Question 12

Manufacture

Answer 12

Build, produce, invent,

Question 13

starve

Answer 13

• to suffer or die because you do not have enough to eat:
• Thousands of people will starve if food doesn’t reach the city.
• pictures of starving children

Question 14

Charcoal

Answer 14

• a black substance made of burned wood that can be used as fuel:
• cooking over a charcoal fire

Question 15

blast

Answer 15

Explosion

Question 16

furnace

Answer 16

كوره

Question 17

bellow

Answer 17

• to shout loudly in a deep voice [= yell]:

• ‘That’s your problem!’ bellowed Hurley.
• Tony was bellowing orders.

Question 18

retain

Answer 18

• Preserve, maintain, keep

Question 19

monopoly

Answer 19

امتياز انحصاري

انحصار

Question 20

turnpike

Answer 20

Roadway, freeway, highway

Question 21

terrain

Answer 21

Landscape, ground, land, province, region, territory

Question 22

flange

Answer 22

Rim,border

Question 23

haul

Answer 23

1to pull something heavy with a continuous steady movement:

Question 24

puff

Answer 24

George puffed and panted and he tried to keep up

Question 25

Liberate

Answer 25

• Detach, free, save, rescue

Question 26

rudimentary

Answer 26

• Simple, basic, fundamental, elementary, primitive,

Question 27

roam

Answer 27

• Wander around,stray,

Question 28

apprentice

Answer 28

Pupil

Question 29

reveal

Answer 29

Disclose, show, uncover, expose

Question 30

Meticulous

Answer 30

Precise, cautious, exact, fastidious,

Question 31

surround

Answer 31

Besiege, circle, hem in,

• The field was surrounded by trees.

Question 32

distinguish

Answer 32

• Differentiate, discern, discriminate,

Question 33

shale

Answer 33

سنگ رس

Question 34

stratum

Strata

Answer 34

لايه

طبقه

Question 35

fauna

Answer 35

Animal life, animal kingdom • all the animals living in a particular area or period in history

Flora

Question 36

ubiquitous

Answer 36

Omnipresent, ever- present, pervasive, universal

Question 37

Infantile

Answer 37

• Childish, babyish

* infantile jokes

Question 38

Amnesia

Answer 38

Memory loss

Question 39

scanty

Answer 39

• Inadequate, meager, scant,

* There is only scanty evidence of his involvement.

Question 40

sibling

Answer 40

brother or sister

Question 41

sheer

Answer 41

• the sheer weight/size etc used to emphasize that something is very heavy, large etc
• the sheer weight/size etc of • The sheer size of the country makes communications difficult.

Question 42

account for

Answer 42

Give reason for, clarify, explain,
• Recent pressure at work may account for his behavior.
• Can you account for your movements on that night?

Question 43

plausible

Answer 43

• Reasonable, believable, rational
• His story certainly sounds plausible.
• a plausible explanation

Question 44

toddler

Answer 44

• Baby

* a very young child who is just learning to walk

Question 45

maturation

Answer 45

• Development, evolution, progress
• the period during which something grows and develops:
• cell maturation

Question 46

gist

Answer 46

• Essence, summary, meaning, main idea

Question 47

compatible

Answer 47

• In harmony, adaptable,

* Stephen’s political views often weren’t compatible with her own.

Question 48

critical

Answer 48

Crucial

These talks are critical to the future of the peace process.

Question 49

retrieve

Answer 49

get back

Question 50

mutual

Answer 50

reciprocal

Common,shared

Question 51

Exclude

Answer 51

• to deliberately not include something [≠ include]:
• a special diet that excludes dairy products
• The judges decided to exclude evidence which had been unfairly