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Unit 6 Vocabulary
Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abandon | to leave someone, especially someone you are responsible for; to stop doing something because there are too many problems and it is impossible to continue |
| appendix | a part at the end of a book containing additional information; a small part at the beginning of your large intestine which has little or no use |
| cease | to stop doing something or stop happening |
| channel | a particular television station and all the programs broadcast by it; water that connects two larger areas of water |
| clarify | to make something clearer and easier to understand by explaining it in more detail |
| conform | to behave in the way that most other people in your group or society behave |
| detect | to notice or discover something, especially something that is not easy to see, hear, etc. |
| diminish | to become smaller or less important, or to make something do this |
| dispose | to get rid of something, especially something that is difficult to get rid of |
| drama | a movie, television program, play, etc. that is serious rather than humorous; the study of acting and plays |
| identical | exactly the same |
| infer | to form an opinion that something is probably true because or other information that you already know |
| insert | to put something inside or into something else |
| isolate | to make someone feel separate from other people in a society or group, and make him feel lonely or unhappy |
| minimize | to make the degree or amount of something as small as possible; to click on a special part of a window on a computer screen so that it is represented as a small picture |
| quote | to repeat exactly what someone else has said or written; to tell a customer the price you will charge them for a service or a product |
| release | to stop holding something that you have been holding tightly or carefully; to make a record, CD, movie etc. available for people to buy or see |
| reverse | to change something, such as a decision, judgment, or process so that it is the opposite of what it was before or so that it goes back to what it originally was; to turn something over, so as to show the back of it or so that it faces the opposite way |
| sole | the sole person, thing etc. is the only one; the bottom surface of your foot, especially the part you walk or stand on; to put a new sole on a shoe |
| survive | to continue to live after an accident, war, illness; to continue to exist in spite of many difficulties and dangers |
| tense | feeling very nervous and worried because something bad that might happen; to make your muscles tight and stiff; any of the forms of a verb that show an action or state in the past, present, or future time |
| theme | a main subject or idea in a piece of writing, speech, movie, etc.; music or a song that is often played during a movie or musical play or at the beginning and end of a television or radio program |
| topic | a subject that people talk or write about |
| visible | something that is visible can be seen; someone who is visible is in a situation in which many people can notice him or her |
| visual | relating to seeing |