vocab test 15 Flashcards
retaliate
To strike back; to get revenge
Translucent
Only allowing some light to pass through so that images can’t be seen clearly
Jut
Stick out sharply
asset
Something valuable or useful
Immerse
- To involve or occupy
- completely to cover completely with water or liquid
Temptation
Something that temps are attracts
Ravenous
Very hungry
facilitate
to make less difficult; to help progress
unfazed
not surprised or worried
operative
most significant or essential
suspicious
cautious distrust
guffawing
laugh loudly
prying
excessively interested in a person’s private affairs
heroically
in a admirably brave or determined manner
rowdy
noisy and disorderly
dubiously
with hesitation, doubt, or distrust
prestigious
inspire respect, and admiration
light pollution
any negative effects of human made light
astronomers
scientist who study space
solar flare
a sudden eruption of brightness on the sun’s surface
fusion
the process of combining atoms
nuclear power plant
a thermal power station that generates electricity from heat produced by the controlled fission. This heat is then used to boil water, creating steam that spins a turbine connected to a generator, which produces electricity
cold war
a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of warfare
atomic bomb
a nuclear weapon that derives its destructive power from the splitting of atomic nuclei through a chain reaction called fission
invert
when we switch the positions of the numerator and denominator
reciprocals
has the same term, but positions
are reversed
ratio
a way of describing a relationship between two numbers by division
negative number
number less than zero
positive number
number greater than zero
