18 Flashcards
Spend
Money:
spend something on something
More money should be spent on education.
spend something on somebody
Mum never spends any money on herself.
TIME
spend time etc with somebody
I want to spend more time with my family.
spend time etc in/at something
We’ll have to spend the night in a hotel.
His childhood was spent in Brazil.
spend time etc doing something
Stacey spends all her free time painting.
Grumble
Parents grumbling about youngsters being stuck indoors by themselves
grum‧ble /ˈɡrʌmbəl/ ●○○ verb
1 [intransitive, transitive] to keep complaining in an unhappy way SYN moan
grumble about/at
Farmers are always grumbling about the weather.
grumble that
A few passengers grumbled that their cabins were too small.
‘This is boring, ’ Kathleen grumbledh.
Rip
To remove something quickly and violently
Modest
NOT PROUD someone who is modest does not want to talk about their abilities or achievements OPP immodest, boastful
modest about
He was always modest about his role in the Everest expedition.
You’re too modest! You’ve been a huge help to us.
2 NOT BIG not very great, big, or expensive
a modest increase in costs
She had saved a modest amount of money.
The new service proved a modest success.
Incline
noun) inclination (adjective) inclined (verb) incline
Likely to do something or behave in particular way
Devastating
devastating effect/impact
devastating results/consequences
badly damaging or destroying something
Acid rain has a devastating effect on the forest.
Admit
اعتراف کردن
قبول کردن
راه دادن
پذیرش کردن
(noun) determination determiner (adjective) determined indeterminate predetermined (verb) determine (adverb) determinedly
de‧ter‧mi‧na‧tion /dɪˌtɜːməˈneɪʃən $ -ɜːr-/ ●●○ W3 noun
1 [uncountable] the quality of trying to do something even when it is difficult
determination to do something
Yuri shows great determination to learn English.
عزم اراده
his dogged determination (=very strong determination) to succeed
2 [countable, uncountable] formal the act of deciding something officially
determination of
تعیین
the determination of government policy
3 [countable] formal the act of finding the exact level, amount, or cause of something
determination of
accurate determination of the temperature
Timber
Lumber
tim‧ber /ˈtɪmbə $ -ər/ ●●○ noun
1 [uncountable] British English wood used for building or making things SYN lumber American English
a bench made of timber
Anxiety n
anxious adj
anxiously adv
Anxious about anxious for anxious that
anxiety about/over There is (considerable anxiety) among staff about job losses.
deep/acute/great anxiety
approximate Word family (noun) approximation (adjective) approximate (verb) approximate (adverb) approximately
a good/close/reasonable approximationتخمین
Approximate as verb
to be close to be similar
Your story only approximates to the real facts.
Devastate verb devastation noun devastated adjective devastating adjective devastatingly adverb
Destroy
Exaggerate v
exaggeration n
Exaggerated adjective
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it’s easy/difficult/impossible to exaggerate something
It’s difficult to exaggerate the importance of sleep.
Incline v
Inclination / incline noun
Inclined adj
تمایل داشتن
تمایل
متمایل خواهان مایل
Isolate verb
Isolation / isolationism/ isolationist noun
Isolated / isolationist adj
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