Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
12 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Cast |
✔verb (past tense and past participle cast) ➡️cast light on/onto something : to provide new information about something, making it easier to understand 👉🏻research findings that cast new light on the origin of our universe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ ➡️(literary) to make light or a shadow appear somewhere 🔴cast something over/on/across something 👉🏻The flames cast dancing shadows on the walls. |
|
|
Equip |
✔verb (past tense and past participle equippedpresent participle equipping) [T] ➡️1) to provide a person or place with the things that are needed for a particular kind of activity or work 🔴equip somebody/something with something 👉🏻They spent a lot of money equipping the school with new computers. 👉🏻He equipped himself with a hammer and nails. 🔴be equipped with something 👉🏻The rooms are equipped with video cameras. 🔴be equipped to do something. 👉🏻The emergency services are equipped to deal with disasters of this kind. 🔴well/poorly/fully etc equipped 👉🏻a well equipped hospital ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ ✔equipment noun [U] |
|
|
Freight |
✔Noun ➡️Cargo carried by train, truck or ship. ➖➖➖➖➖ ✔Verb |
|
|
Illuminate |
✔Verb ➡️to make a light shine on something, or to fill a place with light 👉🏻A single candle illuminated his face. ➖➖➖➖➖ ✔Illuminated adj ➡️lit up by lights 👉An illuminated sign flashed on and off. ➖➖➖➖➖ ✔Illuminating adj ➡️making things much clearer and easier to understand 👉🏻a very illuminating book ➖➖➖➖➖ ✔Illumination noun |
|
|
Intense |
✔adjective ➡️1) having a very strong effect or felt very strongly 👉🏻Young people today are under intense pressure to succeed. 👉🏻the intense heat of the desert. 👉🏻The pain was so intense I couldn’t sleep.👉🏻He took an intense interest in all religious matters. 👉🏻a look of intense dislike ➡️someone who is intense is serious and has very strong feelings or opinions – used to show disapproval 👉🏻She’s a little too intense for me. ➖➖➖➖➖ ✔intensely adverb 👉🏻He disliked Kate intensely.
|
|
|
Intensify |
✔verb (past tense and past participle intensifiedpresent participle intensifyingthird person singular intensifies) ➡️[I,T]to increase in degree or strength, or to make something do this 👉🏻In June the civil war intensified. 👉🏻His mother’s death intensified his loneliness. ➖➖➖➖ ✔ intensification / noun [singular, U] 👉🏻An intensification of fighting in the region. ➖➖➖➖ ✔intensity noun 👉🏻The intensity of the hurricane was frightening. |
|
|
Knot |
|
|
|
Mode |
✔Noun SYN Method = type |
|
|
Portable |
✔adjective ➡️1) able to be carried or moved easily
👉🏻a portable radio ➖➖➖➖➖➖ ✔portability adj |
|
|
Rugged |
✔adjective ➡️1) land that is rugged is rough and uneven ناهموار و پر از دست انداز 👉🏻a rugged coastline ➡️2) a man who is rugged is good-looking and has strong features which are often not perfect قوی و عضلانی 👉🏻his rugged good looks ➡️3) a vehicle or piece of equipment that is rugged is strongly built and not likely to break easily بادوام و محکم SYN sturdy
|
|
|
Stringent |
✔adjective ➡️a stringent law, rule, standard etc is very strict and must be obeyed 👉🏻stringent anti-noise regulations |
|
|
Tricky |
✔adjective (trickier trickiest ) ➡️1) something that is difficult to deal with or do because it is complicated and full of problems. 👉🏻I can get you tickets for the show but it’ll be tricky. ➖➖➖➖➖➖ ➡️2) a tricky person is clever and likely to deceive you SYN crafty
|
