AWL Sublist 4 Flashcards
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Approximate
Appropriate” can have different meanings depending on how it’s used:
As an adjective – It means something is suitable or proper for a particular situation.
Example: Wearing a suit is appropriate for a job interview.
As a verb – It means to take something for one’s own use, often without permission.
Example: The company appropriated funds for a new project.
Adequate
- enough in quantity or of a good enough quality for a particular purpose
- fairly good but not excellent
Attitude
noun: 1. the opinions and feelings that you usually have about something, especially when this is shown in your behavior. 2. a style of dressing, behaving etc that shows you have the confidence to do unusual and exciting things without caring what other people think
Annual
Adjective: 1.Happening once a year
2.Based on or calculated over a period of one year
Commit
Verb: 1.To do something wrong or illegal
2.To say that someone will definitely do something or must do something
Code
noun:
1.a set of rules, laws, or principles that tell people how to behave
2. a system of words, letters, or symbols that you use instead of ordinary writing, so that the information can only be understood by someone else who knows the system
Communicate
Verb: 1. exchange information - to exchange information or conversation with other people, using words, signs, writing etc. 2. tell people something - to express your thoughts and feelings clearly, so that other people understand them. 3 understand - if two people communicate, they are able to talk about and understand each other’s feelings or desires
Contrast
noun: 1. a difference between people, ideas, situations, things etc that are being compared
2. something that is very different from something else
3. the degree of difference between the light and dark parts of a television picture, X-ray, photocopy
despite
Prep, introduce a fact which makes the other part of the sentence surprising.
dimension
Noun-Part of a situation or a quality involved in it.
Noun-The length, height, width, depth, or diameter of something
Cycle
Noun–1. a number of related events that happen again and again in the same order 2. the period of time needed for a machine to finish a process
Verb–1. to travel by bicycle 2. to go through a series of related events again and again, or to make something do this
Debate
Noun:
a formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward.
Verb:
argue about (a subject), especially in a formal manner.
grant
Verb:
1. formal to give someone something or allow them to have something that they have asked for
2. to admit that something is true although it does not make much difference to your opinion
Noun:
1. an amount of money given to someone, especially by the government, for a particular purpose
emerge
Verb-To appear or come out from somewhere
Ethnic
Adj - connected with or relating to different racial or cultural groups of people
Goal
Noun
1
(in football, soccer, rugby, hockey, and some other games) a pair of posts linked by a crossbar and often with a net attached behind it, forming a space into or over which the ball has to be sent in order to score.
2
the object of a person’s ambition or effort; an aim or desired result.
error
Noun
something that is not correct : a wrong action or statement.
(count) example: I made an error in my calculations.
(noncount) example: horrifying cases of hospital error
confer
verb: confers; conferred; conferring
[no object] : to discuss something important in order to make a decision
example: The lawyer and judge conferred about the ruling.
[+ object] : to give (something, such as a degree, award, title, right, etc.) to someone or something — usually + on or upon
example: The university will confer an honorary degree on the governor.
hypothesis
Noun: An idea that is suggested as an explanation for something, but that has not yet been proved to be true.
impose
Verb:
1. if someone in authority imposes a rule, punishment, tax etc, they force people to accept it
2. to force someone to have the same ideas, beliefs etc as you
3. to expect or ask someone to do something for you when this is not convenient for them
Implement
noun: an object used to do work, surgical instruments, carpenter’s tools
verb: to begin to do or use (something, such as a plan) : to make (something) active or effective
Access
Noun–1. the right to enter a place, use something, see someone etc
2. how easy or difficult it is for people to enter a public building, to reach a place, or talk to someone
Verb–to find information, especially on a computer
implicate
V：implicate someone means to show or claim that they were involved in something wrong or criminal
N：implication
Hence
Adverb– For this reason
