vocab test 15 Flashcards
Retaliate
To strike Back, to get revenge
Translucent
Allowing only sunlight to pass through so that image is can’t be seen closely
Jut
To stick out sharply
Asset
Something valuable or useful
Immerse
To involve or occupy completely, to cover completely with liquid
Temptation
Something that temps or attracts
Ravenous
Very hungry
Facilitate
To make less difficult, to help to progress
Unfazed
Not worried or surprised
Operative
Having effect
Suspicious
Something strange or weird, cautious distrust
Guffaw
Finger in a boisterous way
Prying
To have a very strong grip on something
Heroically
Heroic, Brave or determine matter
Rowdy
Obnoxious, weird or funny
Dubiously
Hesitating or doubting
Prestigious
Having a high status in respect
Light pollution
Negative effects of human made Lights
Astronomers
Scientists who study space
Solar flare
A sudden eruption of brightness on sun’s surface
Fusion
To combine temperature, hydrogen, and atoms
Nuclear power plants
Thermal power station that generates electricity from the heat produced by the controlled fission . This heat is then used to boil water, create and steam which 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 sorts of open Warfare
Atomic bomb
A nuclear weapon that divides its destructive power from the splitting of atomic nuclear through a chain reaction called fission