سلام زبان

Essential Words for the TOEFL- Lesson 8

 

 

accelerate crack create creep crush cultivate
dictate distinguish flaw harvest
mirror obtain particle settle transport

 

همراه با آزمون

 

 

accelerate

v. to go faster, to speed up, to (cause to) move faster
n. acceleration
n. accelerator

Syn. hasten
—opposite decelerate

The action of molecules accelerates when they are heated.
The poor condition of the motor made acceleration difficult.
measures to accelerate the rate of economic growth.
The car accelerated smoothly away.

ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

crack

n. a thin opening caused by breaking, a flaw
v. crack
Syn. fracture

Cracks in the ice allowed for fishing.
The wall cracked due to poor construction.
Don’t pour hot water into the glass or it will crack.
The window was cracked but not broken.

______________________________

create

v. to make something new
adj. creative
adv. creatively
n. creation
n. creator
n. creativity
n. creativeness
Syn. produce

Thomas Edison created numerous inventions.
Jonas Salk was an extremely creative scientist.

ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

creep

v. to move slowly and quietly close to the

ground; to begin to happen

adj. creeping
Syn. crawl
Some mistakes are beginning to creep into his work.
Ivy is a creeping variety of plant.

_______________________

crush

v. to press together so as to completely distort the shape or nature of the object
adj. crushing
n. crush
Syn. grind

The machine crushes corn to produce corn meal.
Passage of the legislation was a crushing blow to the president's program.
Don’t crush the box, there are eggs inside!
The tree fell on top of the car and crushed it.
His leg was crushed in the accident.
Two people were crushed to death in the rush to escape.
he was crushed under the wheels of a truck.

ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

cultivate

v. to plant and raise a crop; to encourage growth of a relationship or friendship

to pay special and friendly attention to (someone that one regards as useful):

adj. cultivated
n. cultivation
Syn. grow

The professionals had common interests that allowed them to cultivate a working relationship with each other.
The cultivation of diverse crops in pre-Columbian America is well documented.
Professor Gladwyn would be an acquaintance worth cultivating.
We cultivated maize and watermelons.
John always tries to cultivate people who might be able to help him professionally.

ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

dictate

v. to tell someone exactly what they must do or how they must behave
to state demands with the power to enforce

adj. dictatorial
n. dictator
Syn. impose

 

The workers were not in a position to dictate demands to management.
His boss resembled a dictator.
We’re now in a position to dictate our own demands (to the management).
We can dictate how the money will be spent.
The media cannot be allowed to dictate to the government.
Can they dictate how the money will be spent?
Federal funds have to be used as dictated by Washington.
Islamic custom dictates that women should be fully covered.
The US government attempted to dictate the terms of the agreement.

peace terms were dictated to the defeated Germany.  
you can't dictate to people how they should vote.  
the law dictated that his head should be cut.

ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

distinguish

v. to hear, see, or recognize differences
adj. distinguishable
adj. distinguished
adj. distinguishing
Syn. discriminate

Some people cannot distinguish colors well.
Anteaters are distinguished by their long noses.
His attorney argued that Cope could not distinguish between right and wrong.
a method of distinguishing cancer.
I can distinguish them by their uniforms.
Can you distinguish the different buildings at such a distance?

ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

flaw

n. a mistake, mark, or weakness that makes something imperfect
adj. flawed
Syn. defect

There is a flaw in his theory.
They noticed that the contract was flawed.
a flaw in the software.
a slight flaw in the glass.
A design flaw (=a mistake or weakness in the way. something was made) caused the engine to explode.
a flaw in a bar of steel.  
several flaws in his argument.  
an engine without any flaw.

__________________________

harvest

n. the act of collecting a crop; the crops gathered
adj. harvested
v. harvest

Syn. gather

The United States had a comparatively good grain harvest this year.
They were able to harvest the crop before the rain.

________________________

mirror

v. to show, as in a mirror
if one thing mirrors another, it is very similar to it and may seem to copy or represent it
n. mirror
Syn. reflect

The results of the study mirror public opinion.
The strength of the economy is mirrored in the standard of living of the people.
Henry's sad smile mirrored that of his son.
The economic recovery in Britain was mirrored in the US.
My experience of working in this area closely mirrors your own.

Do these opinion polls really mirror what people are thinking?

_______________________

obtain

v. to gain or secure something
adj. obtainable
Syn. gain

The university obtained a new particle accelerator.
The painting by Whistler was not obtainable.
The form is obtainable at your local post office.
I’m sorry sir, that type of camera is no longer obtainable.
you must first obtain the necessary information.  
I could not obtain a copy of her book.  
friendship is not obtainable through money.
Further information can be obtained from head office.
You will need to obtain permission from the principal.
the results obtained through these surveys.

ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

particle

n. a very small piece of something
Syn. fragment

Particles of dust can destroy electronic instruments.
Small particles of matter hold the keys to understanding the origin of life.

ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

settle

v. to establish a home; to resolve a disagreement
adj. settled
n. settlement
Syn. colonize

People arriving from the south settled in California.
The lawyers settled their differences and came to an agreement.

Rodman met with Kreeger to try and settle the dispute over his contract.We hope the factions will be able to settle their differences (=agree to stop arguing) by peaceful means.
Forensic tests should settle the question of whether Bates was actually present at the scene of the crime.
She finally settled with her former employers for an undisclosed sum.
They might be willing to settle out of court (=come to an agreement without going to a court of law) .
Many Jewish people settled in the Lower East Side.
They settled their argument/differences in a friendly way.
The two companies settled (their dispute) out of court. (=came to an agreement about it between themselves rather than letting a court of law decide about it)

ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

transport

v. to move from one place to another
adj. transportable
adj. transported
n. transportation
Syn. carry

Flying is not always the fastest way to transport passengers to their destination.
The transportation expenses of products increase their final cost.

ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

آزمون‌های درس 8 لغات ضروری آزمون تافل
(لطفا از مرورگر استاندارد و دارای فلش استفاده نمایید.)

 

آزمون شماره 1 درس 8 لغات ضروری آزمون تافل

آزمون شماره 2 درس 8 لغات ضروری آزمون تافل

آزمون شماره 3 درس 8 لغات ضروری آزمون تافل

( لطفا تا باز شدن آزمون صبور باشید.)

 

« قبلی		بعدی »