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Vocab Unit Three
Unit Three
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Confer | to discuss something with other people so that everyone can express her opinions and decide on something; to officially give someone an award, a degree, a right etc. |
| Constrain | to stop someone from doing something he wants to do; to prevent something from developing and improving |
| Controversy | a serious argument or disagreement among many people over a plan, decision etc., over a long period of time |
| Coordinate | to organize people or things so that they work together well or succeed; to make the parts of your body move and work well together; one of a set of numbers which gives the exact position of a point ona map, computer scree, etc. |
| Corporate | belonging or relating to a big company or a group of companies acting together; shared by or involving all the members or a group |
| Criteria | the plural of criterion; a standard which is established so that a judgment or decision, especially a scientific one, can be made |
| Deduce | to make a judgment about something based on the information that you have |
| Despite | without being prevented by something even though something else exists or is true |
| Dimension | a part of a situation that affects the way you think about it; aspect; used in physics to describe measurements of physical objects in length, time, etc.; the size of something, especially when this is given as its length, height, and width; |
| Document | a piece of paper that has official information written on it; a piece of work that you write on a computer; to write about something, film it, photograph it, etc. in order to record information about it. |
| Domestic | a servant who works in a house; happening or produced within one country and not involving any other countries; relating to family relationships and life at home; used in the house or home |
| Emerge | to appear or come out from somewhere; if facts emerge, they come out after being hidden or secret; to come out of a difficult experience, often with a new quality or position; to begin to be known or noticed |
| Grant | to give someone something that they have asked for, especially official permission to do something; an amount of money given to a person or organization, especially by the government, for a particular purpose |
| Hypothesis | an idea that is suggested as an explanation for something, but that has not yet been proven |
| Implement | a tool or an instrument, especially one used in farming or building; if you implement a plan, porcess, etc., you begin to make it happen |
| Implicate | to show or claim that someone (thing) is involved in something wrong or illegal |
| Impose | forcing people to accept rules, taxes, or punishments; to force someone to have the same ideas, beliefs, etc., as you; to expect or ask someone to do something for you when this is not convenient for them |
| Mechanism | a part of a machine that does a particular job; a system that is intended to achieve something or deal with a problem; the way that something works. |
| Parameter | a set of agreed limits that control the way that something is done. |
| Philosophy | the study of what it means to exist, what good and evil are, what knowledge is, or how people should live; a set of beliefs or ideas that someone has about how to live her life, do her job, etc. |
| Regime | a government that has not been elected in fair elections a particular system of government or management, especially one you disapprove of |
| Statistic | plural statistics a collection of numbers which represents facts or measurements the science of dealing with and explaining such numbers a single number which represents a fact or measurement |
| Status | the legal position or condition of a person, group, country etc. your social or professional rank or position, considered in relation to other people respect and importance that a person or organization has because of their high social position |
| Subsequent | coming after or following something else |
| Technique | a special skill or way of doing something, especially one that has to be learned the level of skill or the set of skills that someone has |
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