Universidad Técnica de Ambato

ADVANCE GLOSSARYMarcelo López

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ABLAZE CARD

1

DEFINITION.-Burning fiercely.A

EXAMPLE: You shouln’t ablaze your paper because you can recycle.

ADD UP CARD

2

DEFINITION.-To be reasonable, plausible, or consistent; make sense. A

EXAMPLE: The burglar's testimony simply did not add up because je war laying.

BENEATH CARD

3

DEFINITION.-Extending or directly underneath, typically with close contact. B

EXAMPLE: beneath this floor there's a cementery.

BRICKS CARD

4

DEFINITION.-A small rectangular block typically made of fired or sun-dried clay, used in building. B

EXAMPLE: You need lots of bricks in order to build your new house.

BLAME CARD

5

DEFINITION.- To say or think that a person or thing is responsible for something bad that has happened. B

EXAMPLE: My father always blames everything on me.

BURIED CARD

6

DEFINITION.- Put or hide under ground. The definition of buried is to be covered up by something. B

EXAMPLE: A desk with piles of paperwork , books , and some other thing were buried me last night..

BULGED CARD

7

DEFINITION.-To be completely filled with something.  To become swollen or protuberant. B

EXAMPLE: Their bags bulged with books and papers.

CADDIED CARD

8

DEFINITION.-One hired to serve as an attendant to a golfer, especially by carrying the golf clubs. C

EXAMPLE: During her degree, she took a year off to work as a golf caddy in USA.

BURGLARS CARD

9

DEFINITION.-a person who commits burglary.B

EXAMPLE: She has been targeted by burglars in the past.

CHARITY CARD

10

DEFINITION .- The definition of charity is an act or feeling of kindness or goodwill or a voluntary gift of money or time to those in need.

C

EXAMPLE: Everybody knows that Charity begins at home.

CHOPPED CARD

11

DEFINITION.-Cut (something) into small pieces with repeated sharp blows using an ax or knife. C

EXAMPLE: Many chefs have learned to chop vegetables .

CRAMPED CARD

12

DEFINITION.- Feeling or causing someone to feel uncomfortably confined or hemmed in by lack of space. C

EXAMPLE: His leg was cramping so badly he could hardly move it.

CREAK CARD

13

DEFINITION.- To make a long, high sound : to make a sound like the sound made by an old door when it opens or closes. C

EXAMPLE: The old floorboards creaked under our feet.

CRAWL CARD

14

DEFINITION.- To move on your hands and knees.C

EXAMPLE: The baby crawled across the floor toward her mother.

CUT IN CARD

15

DEFINITION.-A shot in a movie that is edited into another shot or scene. C

EXAMPLE: She cut in on a station wagon, forcing the driver to brake.

CUT OFF CARD

16

DEFINITION.-A point or level that is a designated limit of something. C

Example: If you cutoff that aid it would be a disaster for him.

DAM CARD

17

DEFINITION.- A body of water confined by a barrier.D

Example : Hydro-electric dams are built which have turbines in them.

DELIGHTED CARD

18

DEFINITION: Made very happy : full of great pleasure or satisfaction. D

EXAMPLE: The children were especially delighted that there were enough cookies for each of them to have two.

FAKE CARD

19

DEFINITION.- Having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent. F

EXAMPLE: Some actors are faking in order to act in their movies.

FEATHER CARD

20

DEFINITION.- Any of the flat appendages growing from a bird's skin and forming its plumage, consisting of a partly hollow horny shaft fringed with vanes of barbs.

F

EXAMPLE: Many birds don’t have the same feathers as the fénix bird.

FED UP CARD

21

DEFINITION.- Very tired of something : angry about something that has continued for a long time. F

EXAMPLE: We've had one delay after another, and I'm starting to feel pretty fed up.

FURNITURE CARD

22

DEFINITION.-Large movable equipment, such as tables and chairs, used to make a house, office, or other space suitable for living or working.

F

EXAMPLE: The hotel rooms are equipped with original antique furniture.

FALL OUT CARD

23

DEFINITION.- To cut off relations over a quarrel former friends who have fallen out. F

EXAMPLE: Club members were soon falling out about how to spend the money they'd made washing cars.

GRIPPED CARD

24

DEFINITION.- To grab or hold (something) tightly. To get and hold the interest or attention of (someone). G

EXAMPLE: I gripped the door handle and pulled as hard as I could.

GRUNT CARD

25

DEFINITION.- To make a short, low sound : to make a grunt. G

EXAMPLE: The workers were grunting with effort as they lifted the heavy furniture.

HEATED CARD

26

DEFINITION.- Made warm or hot.H

EXAMPLE: My mood can change in an instant and situation can become heated.

LUGGAGE CARD

27

DEFINITION.- The bags and suitcases that a person carries when traveling. L

EXAMPLE: Passengers are limited to two items of carry-on luggage.

NEEDLE CARD

28

DEFINITION.- A very fine slender piece of metal with a point at one end and a hole or eye for thread at the other, used in sewing. N

EXAMPLE: That hole was made with a fine sewing needle.

NOSEY CARD

29

DEFINITION.- Wanting to know about other people's lives, problems, etc. N

EXAMPLE: A nosy coworker sat down right next to us as we were having an unmistakably private conversation.

PILED CARD

30

DEFINTION.- Place (things) one on top of another.P

EXAMPLE:He has just a week to deliver a huge pile of food to Marcelo’s house.

PRAWN CARD

31

DEFINITION.- A marine crustacean that resembles a large shrimp. P

EXAMPLE: Many prawns are consider as the best sea-food as shirmp around the world.

RUBBED CARD

32

DEFINITION.- Move one's hand or a cloth repeatedly back and forth on the surface of (something) with firm pressure. R

EXAMPLE : He rubbed his hands with dove.

SCRAP CARD

33

DEFINITION.-A small piece or amount of something, esp. one that is left over after the greater part has been used. S

EXAMPLE: Scraps of metal were collected by those people in order to make something.

SLANTING CARD

34

DEFINITION.-To not be level or straight up and down.S

EXAMPLE: The sunlight slanted down through the leaves and branches of the trees.

SHORE CARD

35

DEFINITION.-Shore is the land closest to a body of water. S

EXAMPLE: Near the water's edge on the eastern shore is a colony of the rare mint pennyroyal.

SLAVE CARD

36

DEFINITION.-A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. S

EXAMPLE: By the time when my grand-father was ten, he had become his slave, doing all the housework.

SNIGGER CARD

37

DEFINITION.-a smothered or half-suppressed laugh.S

EXAMPLE: Sniggers from the audience, they were no more impressed by this than I was.

STRUGGLE CARD

38

DEFINITION.- Struggle is defined as to do something with difficulty. S

EXAMPLE: He gave the struggle his attention, might observe the feat without interest in the outcome.

STIRRED CARD

39

DEFINITION.-Move a spoon or other implement around in (a liquid or other substance) in order to mix it thoroughly. S

EXAMPLE:I have stirred the batter until it was well combined.

SORT OUT CARD

40

DEFINITION.-Classify: arrange or order by classes or categories. S

EXAMPLE: She sorted out those important things in easy groups to find them.

SUPPLE CARD

41

DEFINITION.-Readily adaptable or responsive to new situations. Capable of or showing easy or graceful movement; lithe. S

Example: She is very athlete, her supple fingers help her to achive that movements.

SWEPT CARD

42

DEFINITION.-Clean (an area) by brushing away dirt or litter. S

EXAMPLE: I've swept the floor but my mother cleaned it again.

TAKE OVER CARD

43

DEFINITION.- An act of assuming control of something, esp. the buying out of one company by another. T

EXAMPLE: I'll take over for her job until she gets back from her vacations.

TAKE UP CARD

44

DEFINITION.-To develop an interest in or devotion to. To accept or adopt for the purpose of assisting T

EXAMPLE: Ivan Vallejo took up mountain climbing in Ecuador.

TREACHERY CARD

45

DEFINITION.-Harmful things that are done usually secretly to a friend, your own country, etc. T

EXAMPLE: Things happened that first exposed the treachery of one of these two colleagues.

TRIMMED CARD

46

DEFINITION .- Decorate (something), typically with contrasting items or pieces of material. T

EXAMPLE: Trimmed steering wheel coupled with controls for both the computer and stereo.

UPWARD CARD

47

DEFINITION.-Toward a higher place, position, degree, amount, etc. U

EXAMPLE:They are moving upward socially and economically.

WAGE CARD

48

DEFINITION.- An amount of money that a worker is paid based on the number of hours, days, etc., that are worked. W

EXAMPLE: The company offers competitive wages and good benefits.

WACKY CARD

49

DEFINITION.- Funny or amusing in a slightly odd or peculiar way. W

EXAMPLE: A chance to start at the beginning of this cheerfully wacky crime video game.

WASP CARD

50

DEFINITION.-a social winged insect that has a narrow waist and a sting. It constructs a paper nest from wood pulp and raises the larvae on a diet of insects.

W

EXAMPLE: If a wasp bite you , you will have to go to the hospital by its poison.