Set 1

Front 1

Disseminate

Back 1

To spread or give out something, especially news, information, ideas, etc., to a lot of people

One of the organization's aims is to disseminate information about the disease.

Front 2

Stockroom

Back 2

a room in a shop, factory or office which is used for storing a supply of goods or materials

Front 3

Revoke

Back 3

to say officially that an agreement, permission, a law, etc. is no longer in effect

ex. The authorities have revoked their original decision to allow development of this rural area.

Front 4

Volatile

Back 4

A volatile liquid or solid substance will change easily into a gas.
likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly or suddenly become violent or angry

Food and fuel prices are very volatile in a war situation.
The situation was made more volatile by the fact that people had been drinking a lot of alcohol.

He had a rather volatile temper and can't have been easy to live with.

Front 5

Inhale

Back 5

to breathe air, smoke, or gas into your lungs

ex. She flung open the window and inhaled deeply.
She became ill shortly after inhaling the fumes.

Front 6

Inert

Back 6

not reacting chemically with other substances

Front 7

Spill

Back 7

an amount of something which has come out of a container

ex. a fuel spill on the road
Could you wipe up that spill, please?
In 1989, there was a massive oil spill in Alaska.

Front 8

Beacon

Back 8

a light or fire on the top of a hill that acts as a warning or signal

As part of the centenary celebrations a chain of beacons was lit across the region.
figurative She was a beacon of hope in troubled times.

Front 9

Aspirate

Back 9

to breathe in, or to breathe a substance into your lungs by accident

Front 10

wood pulp

Back 10

small pieces of paper, cloth or wood mixed with water until they form a soft wet mass, used for making paper

Front 11

antidote

Back 11

a chemical, especially a drug, which limits the effects of a poison

Front 12

pacemaker

Back 12

A pacemaker is a device that is placed inside someone's body in order to help their heart beat in the right way

Front 13

Binocular

Back 13

paired lenses..

Front 14

Annotate

Back 14

If you annotate written work or a diagram, you add notes to it, especially in order to explain it

Front 15

flank

Back 15

to be on both sides of someone or something:
-Lewis entered flanked by two bodyguards.
-mountains flanking the road

Front 16

buoyant

Back 16

able to stay afloat or rise to the top of a liquid or gas.
- shenavar
• figurative (of an economy, business, or market) involving or engaged in much activity : car sales were not buoyant.
• figurative cheerful and optimistic : the conference ended with the party in a buoyant mood.

Front 17

scaveng

Back 17

• Chemistry combine with and remove (molecules, radicals, etc.) from a particular medium.
** search for and collect (anything usable) from discarded waste :
ex. people sell junk scavenged from the garbage,

Front 18

self-sufficient

Back 18

1)needing no outside help in satisfying one's basic needs, esp. with regard to the production of food : I don't think Botswana, due to the climate, could ever be self-sufficient in food.
2) emotionally and intellectually independent : their son was a little bit of a loner and very self-sufficient.

Front 19

proverb

Back 19

zarbolmasal

Front 20

round-robin reading

Back 20

each student takes a turn reading a sentence

Front 21

fond

Back 21

1)having an affection or liking for : I'm very fond of Mike | he was not too fond of dancing.
2)Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Front 22

bag it up

Back 22

to put S.th. in a bag

Front 23

percolate

Back 23

1- filter gradually through a porous surface or substance : the water percolating through the soil may leach out minerals.
2- spread gradually through an area or group of people : this idea soon percolated into the Christian Church.
3- (of coffee) be prepared in a percolator : he put some coffee on to percolate.

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ecstasy

Back 24

an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement

Front 25

corpus

Back 25

a collection of written texts, esp. the entire works of a particular author or a body of writing on a particular subject

Front 26

lexicography

Back 26

the practice of compiling dictionaries

Front 27

brittle

Back 27

hard but liable to break or shatter easily : her bones became fragile and brittle.

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stiff

Back 28

not easily bent or changed in shape; rigid : a stiff black collar | stiff cardboard.

Front 29

inferior

Back 29

lower in rank, status, or quality : schooling in inner-city areas was inferior to that in the rest of the country.

Front 30

segregation

Back 30

the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart : the segregation of pupils with learning difficulties.
• the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment : an official policy of racial segregation.

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Obliterate

Back 31

destroy utterly; wipe out : figurative the memory was so painful that he obliterated it from his mind.