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Vocab: rup to sect
Vocabulary related to: <rupt scop scrib /scrip sect>
Question | Answer |
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erupt | a sudden increase in activity or strong emotion |
rupture | an occasion when something suddenly breaks apart or bursts |
interrupt | to stop someone from continuing what they are saying or doing by suddenly saying or doing something yourself |
scope | the range of things that a subject, activity, book etc, deals with |
microscope | a scientific instrument that makes extremely small things appear large enough to be seen |
telescope | a piece of scientific equipment shaped like a tube, used for making distant objects such as stars |
oscilloscope | an instrument in which the variations in a fluctuating electrical quantity appear temporarily as a visible wave form on the fluorescent screen of a cathode-ray tube |
scribe | someone employed to copy things in writing, especially before printing was invented |
inscription | a piece of writing inscribed on a stone |
prescribe | to officially say what medicine or treatment a sick person should have |
postscript | a message written at the end of a letter below the place where you sign your name |
dissect | to cut up the body of a dead animal or person to study it |
section | one of the parts that something, such as an object or place is divided into |
intersection | the place where two or more roads, line meet and go across each other |
bisection | two parts which are divided equally |