Vocabulary
Vocabulary
25 terms
To learn new vocabulary.
- Altar
- Noun
- A holy surface used for rituals.
- Example: On the south Frieze of the altar, Augustus is shown performing a religious ritual.
- en: Shrine
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- ashore
- On land.
- axe
- To close a business, stop providing a service.
- Bounce
- noun
- To rebound after having struck an object or a surface.
- en: rebound
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- Canvas
- noun
- Cloth on which artists paint with oil paints.
- en: oil painting
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- casualties
- noun
- People injured or killed in a serious accident or war.
- Example: Where US forces suffered more than 2.000 casualties during the operation.
- en: Death
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- Census
- noun
- An official periodic count of a population including information such as age, occupation.
- Example: The 1890 census was completed in record time.
- en: statistics
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- concern
- noun
- It's like an issue.
- Example: That's my concern, not yours.
- en: Issue
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- Desecrate
- verb
- To violate the sacred character of a place.
- en: violate
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- Exceed
- verb
- To be more than.
- Example: The number of Facebook accounts will exceed the number of people on the planet.
- en: surpass
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- Funding
- noun
- Money provided, especially by an organization or government.
- Example: The most expensive in the public funding universities in the western world.
- en: finance
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- Graduate
- noun
- People who finished college.
- Example: I'm a graduate of two colleges.
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- K-12
- noun
- Kindergarten to twelfth grade.
- Example: States are facing rising costs in public K-12 education.
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- Knowledgeable
- adj
- Knowing a lot about many different subjects or about one particular subject.
- Example: The head teacher was knowledgeable in each subject.
- en: well-informed
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- Meekly
- adv
- Quietly and gently.
- en: humbly
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- NIMBY
- acronym for "not in my backyard".
- Example: Not in my backyard !
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- Penniless
- adj
- Having no money.
- en: poor
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- Pledge
- To make a formal, usually public, promise that you will do something.
- en: commitment
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- Scrutiny
- Careful examination of someone or something.
- en: Monitoring
- Shift
- To change or transfer from one place, position, direction.
- en: change
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- Smuggle
- To move goods or persons illegally into or out of a country.
- en: Illegal trafficking
- Thoroughfare
- The main road through a place.
- en: Passage
- Trim down
- Synonym of reduce
- en: reduce
- Welfare
- Health, prosperity, well-being.
- en: well-being
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- Wind turbine
- Wind turbine can generate electricity.
