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トフル あかい 21
Term | Definition | |
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abduct | to seize or detain a person unlawfully | Child molesters often abducted children within 200 feet of their home. |
accomodation | a place where one can sleep such as a hotel or campground | In Death Valley, we find the national park headquaters and overnight accomodations in this area. |
accompany | to be added to another for completion or to be with or goes with another | Landslides, mud flows and debris avalanches frequently accompany other disasters such as floods |
acquisition | the act of successfully coming into possession of something | The big company's newest acquisition is a small chain of clothing stores. |
actualize | to make real or to put into effect | Several years passed before any profits from the enterprise actualized |
adjacent | sharing a common boundary | When a customer attempts to book hotel accommodations on the Internet, it is sometimes hard to find two adjacent rooms at a discounted rate. |
adverse | bad or unfavorable; not good | Many fear that budget cuts will have an adverse effect on education. |
balmy | not severe, temperate | It is balmy in Paris and the birds and the bees are busy |
banal | without freshness or appeal due to overuse | At a garage sale, what may seem as banal objects to one person may be valued by another. |
baron | a man of great power or influence in some field of activity | a media baron who owns newspapers, television and radio stations, and even several cable networks |
basin | the region drained by a river system, an area sunk below its surroundings | a basin of cold water |
candor | unreserved, honest, or sincere expression | Her look of candor depicts a sense or realness to her characters, which is why she is a talented actress. |
capability | physical, mental, financial or legal power to perform | That kind of job is beyond my capability. [=it is too difficult for me] |
capacity | maximum amount of work that can be produced or contained | The nightclub has a 1,000-person capacity. |
catastrophic | a violent and sudden change in a feature of the earth | The effect of the war on the economy was catastrophic. |
captive | person or animal that has been taken prisoner or confined | The captive soldiers planned their escape. |
cardiac | of, near, or affecting the heart | cardiac problems/disease/surgery |
dazzling | manner of arousing admiration by an impressive display | the most dazzling display of color |
dearth | an inadequate supply | The model offers no way to explain the moon's confounding dearth of iron |
debris | an accumulation of fragments of rock | After the earthquake, rescuers began digging through the debris in search of survivors. |
decay | to become or cause to become rotten or unsound | Tomatoes that fall off the vine will decay on the ground. |