TPO6 Flashcards
(52 cards)
Harness
- to control and use the natural force or power of something:
- We can harness the power of the wind to generate electricity.
dramatic
Sudden, striking, tense, powerful,
abound
verb exist in abundance
• Thrive, proliferate
• Rumours abound as to the reasons for his resignation.
• Examples of this abound in her book.
Mill
• a building containing a large machine for crushing grain into flour اسیاب •
textile
نساجي
exploit
- Use
- Abuse
- Homeworkers can easily be exploited by employers.
condense
- Abridge, shorten, compress,
* This whole chapter could be condensed into a few paragraphs.
vacuum
- Void, gap, emptiness
- space that is completely empty of all gas, especially one from which all the air has been taken away
- Her husband’s death left a vacuum in her life.
reciprocate
- Retaliate,
- to do or give something, because something similar has been done or given to you:
- When he spoke I was expected to reciprocate with some remark of my own.
illuminate
• Make light, make clear, brighten, highlight,
flicker
• Spark, glimmer, beam, gleam,
accustom
- Used to
- We were accustomed to working together.
- Her eyes quickly became accustomed to the dark.
Manufacture
Build, produce, invent,
starve
- to suffer or die because you do not have enough to eat:
- Thousands of people will starve if food doesn’t reach the city.
- pictures of starving children
Charcoal
- a black substance made of burned wood that can be used as fuel:
- cooking over a charcoal fire
blast
Explosion
furnace
كوره
bellow
• to shout loudly in a deep voice [= yell]:
- ‘That’s your problem!’ bellowed Hurley.
- Tony was bellowing orders.
retain
• Preserve, maintain, keep
monopoly
امتياز انحصاري
انحصار
turnpike
Roadway, freeway, highway
terrain
Landscape, ground, land, province, region, territory
flange
Rim,border
haul
1to pull something heavy with a continuous steady movement: