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Active Skills 3
Unit 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| confine (v) | keep within limits |
| distribute (v) | share within a group |
| duration (n) | length of time taken for something to happen |
| expedition (n) | carefully planned journey to somewhere dangerous or unfamiliar |
| exposed (adj) | not protected, open to contact with something by seeing, smelling or breathing |
| intense (adj) | having a very strong effect |
| mission (n) | important task or job |
| sacrifice (n) | not do something you want so something beter or more important can happen |
| behind schedule (adj phr) | late |
| devise (v) | plan or invent a new way of doing something |
| far-fetched (adj) | unlikely to be true, hard to believe |
| innovation (n) | a new idea or creation |
| primitive (adj) | unsophisticated, from an earlier and simpler time in history |
| principle (n) | moral rule or belief about what is right or wrong |
| steer (v) | guide or control |
| witness (v) | see something like a crime happening |