Vocabulary Test 15 Flashcards
retaliate
to strike back;to get revenge
Translutent
allowing only some light to pass through so that images can’t be seen clearly
jut
stick out sharpley
asset
something valuable or useful
temptation
something that tempts or attracts
immerse
- To involve or occupy completely
2.to cover completly with liquid
ravenous
very hungry
facilitate
to make less difficult; to help to progress
suspicious
having or showing a cautious distrust of someone
unfazed
not disrupted worried, or surprised
operative
functioning or have effect
guffawing
laugh in a loud or doisterous way
heroically
in a admirably brave or a ditermined manner
prying
excessivly interested in a person’s private affairs.
rowdy
noisy and disorderly
dubiously
with hositation or doubt
prestigious
inspire respect and admiration; having high status
light pollution
any negative effects of human made light
astronomers
a scientists who study space
solar flare
a sudden eruption of brightness on the sun’s surface
fusion
process of combining atoms
unclear power plant
a thermal power station that generates electrisity from the 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 droduce electricity
cold war
a state of politycal hospility between countries caracterised by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare
atomic bomb
a unclear weapon that derives its destructive power from the splitting of atomic unclei through a chain reaction called fission