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cruise

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Journey, voyage

• a cruise around the world

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objective

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Aim, goal, intent

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invertebrate

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a living creature that does not have a backbone

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wipe out

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Erase, annihilate, kill, eliminate

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dome

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A round roof on a building

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Penetrate

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  • Permeate, seep, enter, go through

* bullets that penetrate thick armour plating

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fragment

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Particle, portion, bit, piece,

• glass fragments

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peculiarity

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  • Abnormality, anomaly

* a strange or unusual habit, quality etc:

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basin

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sink
Wash sink

Amazon basin

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silt

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Residue, sand, sediment

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strait

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• a narrow passage of water between two areas of land, usually connecting two seas:
• the Bering Strait
تنگه •

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Salinity

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Saline adj
Salinity n

Saline solution

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exterminate

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Destruction, extinction,extermination

• Staff use the poison to exterminate moles and rabbits.

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score

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  • Number

* Great scores of animals

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brine

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water which contains a lot of salt and is used for preserving food:
• fish pickled in brine
• sea water

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precipitation

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• Rain, rainfall, snow, snowfall

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deluge

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  • a large amount of something such as letters or questions that someone gets at the same time [= flood]
  • deluge of
  • Viewers sent a deluge of complaints about the show.
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cascade

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1[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to flow, fall, or hang down in large quantities:
Her thick black hair cascaded down below her waist.
Gallons of water cascaded over the side of the bath.

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turbulent

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  • Unstable, violent, stormy
  • the dark turbulent waters of the river
  • He has had a turbulent political career.
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cohesive

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1connected or related in a reasonable way to form a whole:
a cohesive community
2uniting people or things:
Historically, sport has been a cohesive force in international relations.

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bond

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something that unites two or more people or groups, such as love, or a shared interest or idea [↪ tie]
• bond between
• the emotional bond between mother and child

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monolithic

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• a monolithic building is very large, solid, and impressive

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entity

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• Body, being, thing

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garrison

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Military garrison

پادگان

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station

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to send someone in the military to a particular place for a period of time as part of their military duty [= post]:
• I was stationed overseas at the time.

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province

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a Chinese province

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obsession

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noun fixation; consumption with belief, desire

Gambling became an obsession , and he eventually lost everything

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territory

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  • land that is owned or controlled by a particular country, ruler, or military force:
  • Hong Kong became Chinese territory in 1997.

• Area, colony, land, zone,

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conquest

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  • the act of getting control of a country by fighting:
  • the Norman Conquest (=the conquest of England by the Normans)
  • conquest of
  • the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
  • Success, triumph, win
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stark

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• very plain in appearance, with little or no colour or decoration:

  • In the cold dawn light, the castle looked stark and forbidding.
  • the stark beauty of New Mexico

• Simple, bare

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march

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• if soldiers or other people march somewhere, they walk there quickly with firm regular steps

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legion

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• a large group of soldiers, especially in ancient Rome
قشون

numerous

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Fertile

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Fruitful, rich, abundant,

• fertile land or soil is able to produce good crops:

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foster

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promote,encourage

adopt

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Virtue

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Honor,integrity
• moral goodness of character and behaviour [≠ vice]:

• Women have often been used as symbols of virtue.

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devotion

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  • the strong love that you show when you pay a lot of attention to someone or something
  • devotion to
  • Alanna has always shown intense devotion to her children.
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Thorough

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1including every possible detail➔ thoroughly:

The doctor gave him a thorough check-up.

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predispose

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1to make someone more likely to suffer from a particular health problem:
predispose somebody to something
Diabetes predisposes patients to infections.

Willing,incline
ready

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Might

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great strength and power:
• two individuals who took on the might of the English legal system
• He swung the axe again with all his might.

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subtlety

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• he quality that something has when it has been done in a clever or skilful way, with careful attention to small details:
• The play lacks subtlety.
• She argued her case with considerable subtlety.
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disdain

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  • with disdain
  • She watched me with disdain.
  • a look of complete disdain

• Ridicule, arrogance, aversion, dislike, contempt,

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Sphere

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  • 2 a particular area of activity, work, knowledge etc
  • in … sphere
  • television’s increasing role in the political sphere
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caliber

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• of somebody’s calibre •
Where will we find another man of his calibre?
• The school attracts a high calibre of student.

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Route

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  • a way from one place to another
  • route to/from
  • What’s the best route to Cambridge?
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Cavalry

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سواره نظام

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Millet

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ارزن

• the small seeds of a plant similar to grass, used as food

46
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diffuse

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Spread, distribute, scatter

• The pollutants diffuse into the soil.

47
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receptive

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  • a receptive audience
  • receptive to
  • a workforce that is receptive to new ideas

• welcoming, interested, open- minded

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chariot

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• a vehicle with two wheels pulled by a horse, used in ancient times in battles and races

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Traverse

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  • to move across, over, or through something, especially an area of land or water:
  • two minutes to traverse the park

• Cross, roam, go over, pass over,

50
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innovation

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• a new idea, method, or invention

  • innovation in
  • recent innovations in English teaching
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Thrive

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  • to become very successful or very strong and healthy:
  • plants that thrive in tropical rainforests
  • a business which managed to thrive during a recession

Shine, prosper, develop, succeed, grow, advance

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profound

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having a strong influence or effect profound effect/influence/impact/consequence etc
Tolstoy’s experiences of war had a profound effect on his work.

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ingenious

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  • Imaginative, inventive, innovative, creative
  • Many fish have ingenious ways of protecting their eggs from predators.
  • an ingenious device
54
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furnace

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كوره

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Flee

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  • to leave somewhere very quickly, in order to escape from danger:
  • His attackers turned and fled.
56
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Desiccation

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• the process of becoming completely dry

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