English Vol. 1 Flashcards
(50 cards)
Unfettered
- released from physical or mental bonds; unrestrained
If you describe something as unfettered, you mean that it is not controlled or limited by anyone or anything.
…unfettered free trade.
Glacially
of or relating to glaciers or ice sheets.
resulting from or associated with the action of ice or glaciers:
glacial terrain.
characterized by the presence of ice in extensive masses or glaciers.
bitterly cold; icy:
a glacial winter wind.
happening or moving extremely slowly:
The work proceeded at a glacial pace.
icily unsympathetic or immovable:
a glacial stare; glacial indifference.
Chemistry.
of, relating to, or tending to develop into icelike crystals:
Bulletin
A bulletin is a short news report on the radio or television.
…the early morning news bulletin.
A bulletin is a short official announcement made publicly to inform people about an important matter.
At 3:30 p.m. a bulletin was released announcing that the president was out of immediate danger.
A bulletin is a regular newspaper or leaflet that is produced by an organization or group such as a school or church.
Twink
a young, attractive gay man with a slim, boyish appearance.
(in a role-playing game) a low-level character who is equipped with advanced-level armor and weapons obtained from a high-level character, as a gift or through real money trade:
Check out the overpowered gear on the twink who just joined our group.
An onslaught
An onslaught on someone or something is a very violent, forceful attack against them.
The press launched another vicious onslaught on the president.
If you refer to an onslaught of something, you mean that there is a large amount of it, often so that it is very difficult to deal with.
…the constant onslaught of ads on TV.
Inundated
flooded:
Desperate people in the inundated areas prayed for rescue even as the waters kept rising.
overwhelmed by a great volume of something:
The first congratulatory email was a high for all of us; then we got another, and another, and by the end of the day we had an inundated inbox.
Swaths
the space covered by the stroke of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine.
the piece or strip so cut.
a line or ridge of grass, grain, or the like, cut and thrown together by a scythe or mowing machine.
a strip, belt, or long and relatively narrow extent of anything.
Idioms
cut a swath,
to make a pretentious display; attract notice:
The new doctor cut a swath in the small community.
Striatum
線条体
線条体（せんじょうたい、striatum）は、終脳の皮質下構造であり、大脳基底核の主要な構成要素のひとつである。 線条体は運動機能への関与が最もよく知られているが、意思決定などその他の神経過程にも関わると考えられている。
Deplete
inflections: depletes, depleting, depleted
transitive verb
To deplete a stock or amount of something means to reduce it.
…substances that deplete the ozone layer.
de|plet|ed…Lee’s worn and depleted army.US books de|ple|tiondɪpliʃən…the depletion of underground water supplies.The Economist
Retrieve
If you retrieve something, you get it back from the place where you left it.
The men were trying to retrieve weapons left when the army abandoned the island.
If you manage to retrieve a situation, you succeed in bringing it back into a more acceptable state.
He, the one man who could retrieve that situation, might receive the call.
To retrieve information from a computer or from your memory means to get it back.
Computers can instantly retrieve millions of information bits.
Irrelevant
adjective
If you describe something such as a fact or remark as irrelevant, you mean that it is not connected with what you are discussing or dealing with.
…irrelevant details.
If you say that something is irrelevant, you mean that it is not important in a situation.
The choice of subject matter is irrelevant.
An amalgam
count noun
Something that is an amalgam of two or more things is a mixture of them.
A ubiquity
If you talk about the ubiquity of something, you mean that it seems to be everywhere.
Collate
transitive verb
When you collate pieces of information, you gather them all together and examine them.
Roberts has spent much of his working life collating the data on which the study was based.
If someone, or something such as a photocopier, collates pieces of paper, they put them together in the correct order.
They took sheets of paper off piles, collated them and put them into envelopes.
Implication
The implications of something are the things that are likely to happen as a result.
The Attorney General was aware of the political implications of his decision to prosecute.
The implication of a statement, event, or situation is what it implies or suggests is the case.
The implication was obvious: vote for us or it will be very embarrassing for you.
Objective
Your objective is what you are trying to achieve.
Our main objective was the recovery of the child safe and well.
adjective
Objective information is based on facts.
He had no objective evidence that anything extraordinary was happening.
ob|jec|tive|lyWe simply want to inform people objectively about events.The Times ob|jec|tiv|ityɒbdʒɛktɪvɪtiThe poll, whose objectivity is open to question, gave the party a 39% share of the vote.BBC
If someone is objective, they base their opinions on facts rather than on their personal feelings.
I believe that a journalist should be completely objective.
ob|jec|tive|lyTry to view situations more objectively, especially with regard to work.British magazines ob|jec|tiv|ity
The psychiatrist must learn to maintain an unusual degree of objectivity.US books
Subjective
Something that is subjective is based on personal opinions and feelings rather than on facts.
We know that taste in art is a subjective matter.
sub|jec|tive|lyOur preliminary results suggest that people do subjectively find the speech clearer.BBC sub|jec|tiv|itysʌbdʒəktɪvɪti
They accused her of flippancy and subjectivity in her reporting of events in their country.BBC
Ceding
inflections: cedes, ceding, ceded
transitive verb
If someone in a position of authority cedes land or power to someone else, they let them have the land or power, often as a result of military or political pressure.
Only a short campaign took place in Puerto Rico, but after the war Spain ceded the island to America.
Play write
inflections: playwrights
count noun
A playwright is a person who writes plays.
Faculty
inflections: faculties
count noun
Your faculties are your physical and mental abilities.
He was drunk and not in control of his faculties.
variable noun
A faculty is all the teaching staff of a university or college, or of one department.
The faculty agreed on a change in the requirements.
How can faculty improve their teaching so as to encourage creativity?
Liberates
inflections: liberates, liberating, liberated
transitive verb
To liberate a place or the people in it means to free them from the political or military control of another country, area, or group of people.
They planned to march on and liberate the city.
lib|era|tionlɪbəreɪʃən…a mass liberation movement.The Economist
To liberate someone from something means to help them escape from it or overcome it, and lead a better way of life.
He asked how committed the leadership was to liberating its people from poverty.
lib|er|at|ingIf you have the chance to spill your problems out to a therapist it can be a very liberating experience.British magazines lib|era|tion…the women’s liberation movement.British books
Impose
If you impose something on people, you use your authority to force them to accept it.
Fines are imposed on retailers who sell tobacco to minors.
A third of companies reviewing pay since last August have imposed a pay freeze of up to a year.
im|po|si|tionɪmpəzɪʃən…the imposition of sanctions against Pakistan.The Independent
If you impose your opinions or beliefs on other people, you try and make people accept them as a rule or as a model to copy.
Parents should beware of imposing their own tastes on their children.
If something imposes strain, pressure, or suffering on someone, it causes them to experience it.
The filming imposed an additional strain on her.
If someone imposes themselves on you, they force you to accept their company although you may not want to.
I didn’t want to impose myself on my married friends.
Vociferously
in a noisy, clamorous way:
The fans had started booing both men vociferously before the match even started, so neither felt inspired to perform.
Reel
A reel is a cylindrical object around which you wrap something such as movie film, magnetic tape, or fishing line.
…a 30-meter reel of cable.
intransitive verb
If someone reels, they move about in an unsteady way as if they are going to fall.
He was reeling a little. He must be very drunk.
If you are reeling from a shock, you are feeling extremely surprised or upset because of it.
I’m still reeling from the shock of hearing about it.
If you say that your brain or your mind is reeling, you mean that you are very confused because you have too many things to think about.
