Vocab Use of English Flashcards
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
lay waste to
To surrender under specified conditions/ To give up all resistance; acquiesce
to capitulate
occurring, located, or present between other things
intervening
Put together; created/ A past tense and a past participle of work.
wrought
To clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting arguments or proof/ To demonstrate or prove the value or validity of; justify
to vindicate
speak badly of or tell lies about (someone) so as to damage their reputation
to traduce
controlled death
managed decline
cover with wooden boards
to board up
investing to rent
buy-to-let
To flow in channels or rivulets / To burn low and unsteadily; flicker
to gutter
small, short-term unsecured loan, “regardless of whether repayment of loans is linked to a borrower’s payday.”
payday loan
An evil spirit or demon in Muslim folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses.
ghoul
cooperation
mutualism
Existence or apparent existence everywhere at the same time; omnipresence
ubiquity
to accept or believe something with enthusiasm / [for an animal] to lick something up
lap something up
To rend or tear apart/ To be or become split.
to rive
never getting better, changing, or ending
grinding (adj.)
not fluent; hesitant
faltering (adj.)
To stay in a place or be slow in leaving it, often out of reluctance/ To continue or persist / To proceed slowly; saunter
to linger
To sink below the surface of the water
to founder
Containing nothing; empty
vacant
the hypothesis that evolutionary development is marked by isolated episodes of rapid speciation between long periods of little or no change.
punctuated equilibrium
having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analysed statistically but may not be predicted precisely.
stochastic
essen or moderate the impact of (something). / store (data) in a buffer while it is being processed or transferred.
to buffer
causing harm or damage.
deleterious
destroy utterly; wipe out. / make invisible or indistinct; conceal or cover. / cancel (something, especially a postage stamp) to prevent further use.
obliterated
floating in water; not sinking. / out of debt or difficulty.
afloat
aise (something) by means of ropes and pulleys.
to hoist
roughly force (something) into place. / (of a place) be very crowded.
to ram
an incidental or secondary product made in the manufacture or synthesis of something else. / an unintended but inevitable secondary result.
by-product
discrimination in favour of able-bodied people.
ableism
interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem. / drastically alter or destroy the structure of.
disrupting
unpleasantly overpowering.
overbearing
the fact or state of diverging from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behaviour.
deviance
the action or practice of approaching passers-by in the street to ask for subscriptions or donations to a particular charity.
chugging
Fully developed; mature
ripe
scold or criticize (someone) angrily.
berate
(especially of a large group of people) move through a place in a violent and uncontrollable manner.
rampage
engage in political activity.
to politic
fall or drop straight down at high speed. /
to plummet
involve (something) as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence.
to entail
involve (something) as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence.
onslaught
(especially of a group or area) having a great deal of money; wealthy.
affluent
torment or tease (someone) with the sight or promise of something that is unobtainable.
to tantalize
a countless or extremely great number of people or things.
myriad
a large or excessive amount of something.
plethora
to examine or study something carefully; to enter into the examination or study of something.
delve into
with great care and thoroughness.
painstakingly
an impressive display or range of a particular type of thing.
array
come up with
to posit
originate in or be caused by. / remove the stems from (fruit or tobacco leaves).
to stem
the state or quality of being intelligible.
intelligibility
a condition or qualification attached to an agreement or statement.
proviso
put an end to (a rebellion or other disorder), typically by the use of force / subdue or silence (someone). / suppress (a feeling).
quell
