change Flashcards
(40 cards)
adapt(v)
to charge your ideas or behavour so that you can deal with a new situation.
adjust (v)
to change sth. slightly in order to make it better, more acurate or more effective.
alternate (v)
if one thing alternate with another, it happens after it and keeps being repeated.
akternate (adj)
- happening on one day, week, etc. but not on the day, week that immediately follows.
- different from sth. elseand able to be used instead of it.
alternative (n)
something that you can chose instead of sth. else.
amend (v)
to make changes to a document, law, agreement, especially in order to improve it.
convert (v)
- to change from one system, use or method to another, or to make sth. do this.
- to change your beliefs, espcially your religious beliefs, or to persuade someone to do this.
convert (n)
someone who has changed their beliefs in an important way.
decay (v)
to be gradully destroyeed as a result of a natural process f change, or to destroy something in this way.
deteriorate (v)
to become worse.
distort (v)
to change sth. such as information so that it is no longer true or accurate.
dynamic (adj)
continuosly changing, growing or developing.
endure (v)
- to suffer sth. unpleasant or difficult in a patient way over a long time.
- to last for a long time.
envolve (v)
- when a type of plant or animal evolves, it’s physical form changes over a long period of time.
- to gradually change and develop over a period of time.
influence (v)
to affect the way someone thinks or behaves or affect the way sth. happens.
innovative (adj)
new, original, advanced
last (v)
to continue existing or happening for or until a particular time.
mantain (v)
to make sth. stay the same way.
mature (v)
to start behaving like an adult and become more sensible as you get older.
modify (v)
to chage sth. slightly especially in order to improve it or to make it less extreme.
novel (adj)
new or unusual
persist (v)
to continue to do or say sth. in a determined way
potential (n)
the possibility to develop or achieve sth. in the future.
progress (v)
to continue to develop or more forward.