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AH5 U3
vocabulary used in Unit 3 (Aim High 5)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| account | a written or spoken description of something that has happened |
| to commission | to officially ask someone to do or make something for you |
| considerably | very much or significantly |
| to craft | to make or create something by hand using special skills |
| density | the thickness of a solid, liquid or gas |
| to displace | to move or shift |
| to emerge | to appear or come forward out of nothing |
| to exacerbate | to make something worse |
| expertise | expert knowledge of something |
| irrelevant | something not important or not connected with a situation |
| monumental | huge and very important; having a great significance |
| to submerge | to put something under water |
| suspicious | showing distrust |
| to take a break | to have a rest or to relax after, or in between activities |
| volume | the amount of space that an object or a substance fills |
| prefix: ultra | prefix: far beyond average or to an extreme degree |
| prefix: mal | prefix: undesirable or bad |
| prefix: auto | prefix: done by yourself |
| prefix: semi | prefix: done or exists |
| prefix: anti | prefix: opposing or against something |
| to break down | to stop working |
| to break away | to escape |
| to break off | to come off or come apart |
| to break into | to enter by force |
| to break out | to start |
| to break up | to break something into smaller pieces |
| to aggravate | to make something (a problem, an injury...) more serious or severe |
| a breakthrough | a sudden increase in knowledge, understanding, etc. : an important discovery that happens after trying for a long time to understand or explain something |
| to enable | to make (someone or something) able to do or to be something |
| to frustrate | to cause (someone) to feel angry, discouraged, or upset because of not being able to do something |
| to overcome | to defeat (someone or something); to successfully deal with or gain control of (something difficult) |
| to persevere | to continue doing something or trying to do something even though it is difficult |
| a setback | a problem that makes progress more difficult or success less likely |
| to struggle | to try very hard to do, achieve, or deal with something that is difficult or that causes problems |