Terms in fundamental vacubulary 8
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| Word | Meaning | Context |
|---|---|---|
| accomplish | to finish something successfully or to achieve something | They have accomplished their mission successfully. |
| anchor | a heavy metal object, which is dropped from a boat into the water to prevent the boat from moving away | |
| awaken | to stop sleeping or to make someone stop sleeping | Please awaken me at six. |
| blush | to become pink in the face, usually from embarrassment | She blushed at the mention of her lover\'s name |
| bush | a plant with many small branches growing either directly from the ground or from a hard woody stem, giving the plant a rounded shape | He lost his way in the bushes. |
| compete | to try to be more successful than someone or something else | It\'s difficult for a small supermarket to compete against/with the big supermarkets |
| consequence | an often bad or inconvenient result of a particular action or situation | I\'m quite willing to accept the consequence. |
| courage | the ability to control your fear in a dangerous or difficult situation | I have no courage to do that. |
| debate | n. vi. vt.(a) serious discussion of a subject in which many people take part | A fierce debate on the tax cut was going on. |
| accomplish | to finish something successfully or to achieve something | They have accomplished their mission successfully. |
| anchor | a heavy metal object, which is dropped from a boat into the water to prevent the boat from moving away | |
| awaken | to stop sleeping or to make someone stop sleeping | Please awaken me at six. |
| blush | to become pink in the face, usually from embarrassment | She blushed at the mention of her lover\'s name |
| bush | a plant with many small branches growing either directly from the ground or from a hard woody stem, giving the plant a rounded shape | He lost his way in the bushes. |
| compete | to try to be more successful than someone or something else | It\'s difficult for a small supermarket to compete against/with the big supermarkets |
| consequence | an often bad or inconvenient result of a particular action or situation | I\'m quite willing to accept the consequence. |
| courage | the ability to control your fear in a dangerous or difficult situation | I have no courage to do that. |
| debate | n. vi. vt.(a) serious discussion of a subject in which many people take part | A fierce debate on the tax cut was going on. |
| descend | v.FORMAL to go or come down | He descended into a cellar. |
| earnest | a.serious or determined, especially too serious and unable to find your own actions amusing | Mary is an earnest worker. |
| enforce | vt.to make people obey a law, or to make a particular situation happen or be accepted | It isn\'t always easy for the police to enforce speed limits |
| frustrate | vt.to make someone feel annoyed or discouraged because they cannot achieve what they want | It frustrates me that I\'m not able to put any of my ideas into practice. |
| glorious | a.deserving great admiration, praise and honour | a memorial to the glorious dead of two world wars |
| haste | n.(too much) speed | More haste, less speed, the report was prepared in haste and contained several inaccuracies |
| lame | a.(especially of animals) not able to walk correctly because of physical injury to or weakness in the legs or feet | She\'s lame---she nearly died of polio. |
| realistic | accepting things as they are in fact and not basing decisions on unlikely hopes for the future | It isn\'t realistic to expect people to work for so little money. |
| mild | a.not violent, severe or extreme | He has suffered a mild heart attack - nothing too serious. |
| mourn | vt.to feel or express great sadness, especially because of someone\'s death | Queen Victoria mourned Prince Albert/Prince Albert\'s death for 40 years. |
| penalty | n.a punishment, or the usual punishment, for doing something that is against a law | The penalty for spitting is US$10. |
| reveal | vt.to make known or show something that is surprising or that was previously secret | He was jailed for revealing secrets to the Russians. |
| sacrifice | v.n.to give up something that is valuable to you in order to help another person | We had to make sacrifices in order to pay for our children\'s education. |
| slender | a.thin and delicate, often in a way that is attractive | She\'s got a beautiful slender figure. |
| sparkle | to shine brightly with a lot of small points of light | The diamond sparkled in the sunlight. |
| stain | to leave a mark on something which is difficult to remove | Tomato sauce stains terribly - it\'s really difficult to get it out of clothes |
| stream | n.water that flows naturally along a fixed route formed by a channel cut into rock or earth, usually at ground level | a mountain stream |
| tasty | a.describes food which has a strong and very pleasant flavour | The soup is very tasty. |
| tribe | n.a group of people, often of related families, who live together, sharing the same language, culture and history, especially those who do not live in towns or cities | America used to be the home of Indian tribes. |
| wreck | vi.vt.n.to destroy or badly damage something | The ship was saved from wreck. |
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