Unit 2 Flashcards

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1
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Animals that kill and eat other animals

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Predators

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2
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The animals that another animal eats for food

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Prey

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3
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The illegal catching and/or killing of animals

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Poaching

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4
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Possible and practical to do or achieve

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Feasible

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5
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hiding your feelings or actions from others

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Secretive

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Examined or considered carefully

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Assessed

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Potentially deadly

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Lethal

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Determination to do what you have decided to do

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Resolve

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If you that something will happen, you expect it to happen

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Project

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If you are to something, you are committed to doing it

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Dedicated

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11
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Someone who can give expert information or advice about that subject

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Authority

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Use this word to indicate that the information you are giving is something that you have heard, but you are not certain that it is true

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Apparently

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If you something, you accept or admit that it is true or that it exists

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Acknowledge

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14
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Based on possible ideas or situations rather than actual ones

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Hypothetical

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15
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The most important thing you have to do or deal with

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Priority

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16
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Lack of interest or concern

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Indifference

17
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Making (someone) lose courage or confidence

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Unnerving

18
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A key characteristic to someone’s identity

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Defining attribute

19
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Total defeat or destruction

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Annihilation

20
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Failed; mismanaged

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Botched

21
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Spread over a wide area

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Dispersed

22
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An unpleasant and surprising discovery

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Unwelcome revelation

23
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Giving a safe home or shelter to (something)

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Harboring

24
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To get to a state in which there aren’t any more big problems or changes

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Stabilized

25
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More powerful, successful, influential, or noticeable than others

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Dominant

26
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The process by which one living thing is eaten by another, which is then eaten by another, and so on

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Food chain

27
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Money that a government or organization provides for a particular purpose

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Funding

28
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Likely to become endangered

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Threatened

29
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Parts or elements of a larger whole

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Components

30
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If something a problem or bad situation, it made it worse

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Exacerbated

31
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Important actions that are intended to solve a particular problem

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Initiatives

32
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Keeping from harm or danger

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Safeguarding

33
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Plan of action designed to achieve a long term or overall aim

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Strategy

34
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Give up something valuable or important to obtain something else for yourself or for other people

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Sacrifice