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| abandon | to leave someone, especially someone you are responsible for; to go away from a place, vehicle etc permanently, especially because the situation makes it impossible for you to stay |
| accompany | to go along with (someone or something); join with |
| accumulate | to gradually get more and more money, possessions, knowledge etc over a period of time |
| ambiguous | having two or more possible meanings or interpretations; unclear; uncertain; obscure |
| append | to affix or attach; to add something to a piece of writing |
| appreciate | to understand how serious or important a situation or problem is or what someone's feelings are |
| arbitrary | decided or arranged without any reason or plan, often unfairly |
| automate | to start using computers and machines to do a job, rather than people |
| bias | a line diagonal to the grain of a woven cloth |
| chart | information that is clearly arranged in the form of a simple picture, set of figures; |
| clarify | to make something clearer or easier to understand |
| commodity | a product that is bought and sold |
| complement (n) | something that completes or perfects; something that goes well with a thing or makes a perfect addition to it |
| conform | to behave in the way that most other people in your group or society behave |
| contemporary | someone who lived or was in a particular place at the same time as someone else; of or belonging to the present time; current; modern |
| contradict | to say the opposite of; deny the truth of |
| crucial | extremely important; everything else depends on it; deciding the success or failure of something |
| currency | the money that is used in a country |
| denote | to mean something |
| detect | to discover or notice |
| deviate | to turn away from a direct course or one that has already been set |
| displace | to take the place or position of something or someone |
| drama | a play for the theatre, television, radio etc, usually a serious one, or plays in general; an exciting event or set of events, or the quality of being exciting |
| eventual | sure to happen at some time in the future |
| exhibit (v) | to show something in a public place so that people can go to see it |
| exploit (v) | to make full use of and gain from; to use for one's own advantage and in a way that is unfair to the thing or person being used |
| fluctuate | to vary or change irregularly; rise and fall |
| guideline | rules or instructions about the best way to do something |
| highlight | to give particular emphasis or prominence to, or to be the most prominent thing or part of |
| implicit | suggested or understood without being stated directly; absolute and unconditional; unquestioning |
| induce | to persuade someone to do something, especially something that does not seem wise |
| inevitable | certain to happen and impossible to avoid |
| infrastructure | the basic facilities and equipment, esp. of a technological nature, that are necessary for a system or organization to function |
| inspect | to look at with care in order to find any problems |
| intense | strong or very deep; having a very great degree of something, such as heat, or being in a very great degree or state |
| manipulate | to make someone think and behave exactly as you want them to, by skilfully deceiving or influencing them |
| minimise | to make as small as possible |
| nuclear | coming from or using the central part of atoms; the energy produced when the nucleus of an atom is either split or joined with the nucleus of another atom |
| offset | to make up for or balance; to make something look better by being close to it and different |
| paragraph | a group of sentences in writing that develop an idea together |
| plus | used when one number is added to another |
| practitioner | someone who regularly does a particular activity; someone who works as a doctor or a lawyer |
| predominant | more powerful, more common, or more easily noticed than others |
| prospect | something that is expected or very likely to happen |
| radical | very great or complete; extreme; very new and different, and are against what most people think or believe |
| random | made or done without purpose or pattern; made or done by chance |
| reinforce | to add strength to or increase the effect of |
| restore | to bring something back to an earlier or normal condition |
| revise | to change or make different |
| schedule | a list of times when certain events will happen |
| tense | feeling worried, uncomfortable, and unable to relax; pulled or stretched tight |
| terminate | if something terminates, or if you terminate it, it ends |
| theme | the main subject or idea in a piece of writing, speech, film etc |
| thereby | with the result that something else happens |
| uniform | a particular type of clothing worn by all the members of a group or organization such as the police, the army etc |
| vehicle | a machine with an engine that is used to take people or things from one place to another, such as a car, bus, or truck |
| via | travelling through a place on the way to another place; |
| virtual | using a particular person, machine etc to send something |
| visual | relating to seeing |
| widespread | existing or happening in many places or situations, or among many people |
| demote | to make someone's rank or position lower or less important |
