TPO6 Flashcards
Harness
- to control and use the natural force or power of something:
- We can harness the power of the wind to generate electricity.
dramatic
Sudden, striking, tense, powerful,
abound
verb exist in abundance
• Thrive, proliferate
• Rumours abound as to the reasons for his resignation.
• Examples of this abound in her book.
Mill
• a building containing a large machine for crushing grain into flour اسیاب •
textile
نساجي
exploit
- Use
- Abuse
- Homeworkers can easily be exploited by employers.
condense
- Abridge, shorten, compress,
* This whole chapter could be condensed into a few paragraphs.
vacuum
- 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.
reciprocate
- 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.
illuminate
• Make light, make clear, brighten, highlight,
flicker
• Spark, glimmer, beam, gleam,
accustom
- Used to
- We were accustomed to working together.
- Her eyes quickly became accustomed to the dark.
Manufacture
Build, produce, invent,
starve
- 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
Charcoal
- a black substance made of burned wood that can be used as fuel:
- cooking over a charcoal fire
blast
Explosion
furnace
كوره
bellow
• to shout loudly in a deep voice [= yell]:
- ‘That’s your problem!’ bellowed Hurley.
- Tony was bellowing orders.
retain
• Preserve, maintain, keep
monopoly
امتياز انحصاري
انحصار
turnpike
Roadway, freeway, highway
terrain
Landscape, ground, land, province, region, territory
flange
Rim,border
haul
1to pull something heavy with a continuous steady movement:
puff
George puffed and panted and he tried to keep up
Liberate
• Detach, free, save, rescue
rudimentary
• Simple, basic, fundamental, elementary, primitive,
roam
• Wander around,stray,
apprentice
Pupil
reveal
Disclose, show, uncover, expose
Meticulous
Precise, cautious, exact, fastidious,
surround
Besiege, circle, hem in,
• The field was surrounded by trees.
distinguish
• Differentiate, discern, discriminate,
shale
سنگ رس
stratum
Strata
لايه
طبقه
fauna
Animal life, animal kingdom • all the animals living in a particular area or period in history
Flora
ubiquitous
Omnipresent, ever- present, pervasive, universal
Infantile
- Childish, babyish
* infantile jokes
Amnesia
Memory loss
scanty
- Inadequate, meager, scant,
* There is only scanty evidence of his involvement.
sibling
brother or sister
sheer
- 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.
account for
Give reason for, clarify, explain,
• Recent pressure at work may account for his behavior.
• Can you account for your movements on that night?
plausible
- Reasonable, believable, rational
- His story certainly sounds plausible.
- a plausible explanation
toddler
- Baby
* a very young child who is just learning to walk
maturation
- Development, evolution, progress
- the period during which something grows and develops:
- cell maturation
gist
• Essence, summary, meaning, main idea
compatible
- In harmony, adaptable,
* Stephen’s political views often weren’t compatible with her own.
critical
Crucial
These talks are critical to the future of the peace process.
retrieve
get back
mutual
reciprocal
Common,shared
Exclude
- to deliberately not include something [≠ include]:
- a special diet that excludes dairy products
- The judges decided to exclude evidence which had been unfairly
