3 Flashcards
List
My class isn’t listed there
bulletin
..on the bulletin board outside this office.
throw
I wonder if I threw it away with all the junk mail by mistake
enroll
to officially arrange to join a school, university, or course, or to arrange for someone else to do this:
enrol on/forBrE:
I decided to enrol for ‘Art for Beginners’.
enrol inespecially AmE:
Californians are rushing to enroll in special aerobics classes.
Migrate
And some migrate over very long distances
amazing
1very good, especially in an unexpected way:
He’s an amazing player to watch.
an amazing bargain
2so surprising you can hardly believe it:
It’s amazing how often you see drivers using mobile phones.
—amazingly adv:
These shoes were amazingly cheap.
Even though
Even though it’s really tiny, it migrate…
Back and forth
11back and forth going in one direction and then in the opposite direction, and repeating this several times:
We travel back and forth all the time between Canada and England.
He was pacing back and forth.
breed
bred
1[intransitive] if animals breed, they mate in order to have babies:
Eagles breed during the cooler months of the year.
Feed
Fed
to give food to a person or animal:
Have you fed the cat?
Beat
The bird beats its wings
rely
1to trust or depend on someone or something to do what you need or expect them to do➔ reliable, reliance:
I knew I could rely on David.
pollinate
BIOLOGY
to give a flower or plant pollen so that it can produce seeds:
flowers pollinated by bees
Nest
to build or use a nest:
They say eagles used to nest in those rocks.
A bird’s nest
Pollute
Polluted habitat areas
to make air, water, soil etc dangerously dirty and not suitable for people to use:
beaches polluted by raw sewage
The factory pollutes the air and water.
promote
Promoting ecological tourism
1encourage to help something to develop or increase:
a meeting to promote trade between Taiwan and the UK
Fertilizer promotes leaf growth.
2better job[usually passive]
to give someone a better more responsible job in a company
OPP demote
promote somebody to something
Helen was promoted to senior manager.
Route
Migration route
decline
How to prevent further decline in the population
Spending on information technology has declined.
capture
3animal to catch an animal after chasing or following it:
The tiger was finally captured two miles outside the village.
destination
TRANSPORT
the place that someone or something is going to:
somebody’s destination
Allow plenty of time to get to your destination.
holiday / tourist destination
Maui is a popular tourist destination.
conform
1to behave in the way that most other people in your group or society behave➔ conformist:
the pressure on schoolchildren to conform
Ali’s film conform to norms of the 20s and 30s
neatly
They don’t fit very neatly into the categories
fuse
1
CHEMISTRY
to join together physically, or to make things join together, and become a single thing:
fuse (something) together
The egg and sperm fuse together as one cell.
Pioneer
Pioneer in the field of …p
Pioneer of computer animation