week 15 Flashcards
retaliate
To strikes Back to get revenge
Translucent
Allowing to only some light to pass through so that images cannot seem clearly
jut
To stick out sharply
asset
Something valuable or useful
immerse
- To involve or occupy completely 2. To cover completely with liquid
temptation
Something that temps are attracks
ravenous
Very hungry
Facilitate
To make less difficult
Unfazed
not confused, shocked, worried, by something that has happened
Operative
function or having effect
suspicious
having or showing a cautions distrust of someone or something
Pying
excessively interested in an person’s private affairs
guffawing
to laugh loudly, especially at something sstupid that someone has done
Heroically
in a admirably, brave, or determind mannner
Rowdy
noicy and disorderly
Dubiously
whit hesitation or doubt
Prestigious
inspiring respect and admiration having high status
Light pollution
any negative effects of a human-made light
Astronomers
are scientists who study space
Solar flare
a sudden eruption or brightness on the suns surface
Fusion
a fuse of hydrogen atoms
Nuclear power plant
a thermal power station that generates electricity from the heat produced by the controlled fission. This heat is used to boil water, create steam that spins a turbine connnected to a generator, which produces electricity
Cold War
a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open war
Atomic bomb
a nuclear weapon that derives its destructive power from the slitting of the atomic nuclei through a chain reaction called fission
Invert
when you switch the positive of the numoritor and denomitnator
Reciprocals
has the same terms, but their positionsare reversed (switch the numorator and denominator of a fraction
Ratio
a way of describing a relationship between two numbers by divition
Negative number
numbers that are less than 0
Positive number what’s up
numbers that are greater than 0
