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©Prasto Wardoyo/Reuters via CNN Vocabulary: I will read the words, meanings, and sample sentences. Then, repeat after me. escalating /EH-skuh-lay-ting/ [adjective] – increasing in price, amount, rate, etc. The police are struggling to contain the escalating number of crimes in the area. prosperity /pro-SPER-i-tee/ [noun] – the state of being successful and having a lot of money I wish you a life of prosperity and happiness. revere /ri-VEER/ [verb] – to greatly respect and admire someone or something The students revere Professor Brown for his outstanding teaching skills. archipelago /ahr-kuh-PEL-uh-goh/ [noun] – a group of small islands or an area of sea in which there are many small islands Okinawa…
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Vocabulary: I will read the words, meanings, and sample sentences. Then, repeat after me. overloaded /oh-ver-KOHD-id/ [adjective] – having or supplied with too much of something The plane was so overloaded it couldn’t leave the ground. lorry /LAWR-ee/ [adjectve] – relating to a truck The accident was clearly the lorry driver’s mistake. closure /KLOH-zher/ [noun] – the fact of a business, organization, etc. stopping operating The closure of the mine was the single most important factor in the town’s decline. quayside /KEE-sahyd/ [noun] – the edge of a quay, near the water The ship settled on the quayside. premium /PREE-mee-uhm/ [adjective] – an amount that is more than usual The…
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©Getty Images Vocabulary: I will read the words, meanings, and sample sentences. Then, repeat after me. march /mahrch/ [noun] – an event in which a large number of people walk through a public place to express their support for something, or their disagreement with or disapproval of something The march was a symbolic gesture of anger at the newly appointed government official. movement /MOOV-muhnt/ [noun] – a group of people with a particular set of aims or ideas They cooperated in the movement to raise cancer awareness. sacrifice /SAK-ruh-fahys/ [verb] – to give up something that is valuable to you in order to help another person She had to sacrifice…
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©University of Aberdeen via BBC Vocabulary: I will read the words, meanings, and sample sentences. Then, repeat after me. ice stupa /ahys STOO-puh/ [noun] – a form of glacier grafting technique that creates artificial glaciers used for storing winter water Some towns are using ice stupas to increase their water supply. arid /AR-id/ [adjective] – very dry and without enough rain for plants The Atacama Desert is the aridest place in the world. wastewater /WEYST-waw-ter/ [adjective] – water that is not clean because it has already been used in homes, businesses, factories, etc. The golf course management uses wastewater to irrigate the grass. sub-zero /suhb-ZEER-oh/ [adjective] – temperatures below zero…
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Vocabulary: I will read the words, meanings, and sample sentences. Then, repeat after me. hydrogen /HAHY-druh-juhn / [noun] – a chemical element that is the lightest gas, has no color, taste, or smell, and combines with oxygen to form water Hydrogen combines chemically with oxygen to form water. emission /ih-MISH-uhn/ [noun] – the act of sending out gas, heat, light, etc. Carbon dioxide emissions, for example, should be kept at their current levels. subsidy /SUHB-si-dee/ [noun] – money given as part of the cost of something, to help or encourage it to happen The subsidy for company cars is to be phased out next year. consultation /kon-suhl-TEY-shuhn/ [noun] – a…
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