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Marie Set #7

Vocabulary WordMeaning
risky to IMPLEMENT complicated technology (n. implementation) risky to START USING complicated technology
governments and individuals ALIKE BOTH governments and individuals
DISCOURAGED by repeated failure (n. discouragement) LOST MOTIVATION by repeated failure
discouraged from voting ALTOGETHER discouraged from voting COMPLETELY
SUFFICIENT experience to develop confidence (n. sufficiency, adv. sufficiently) ENOUGH experience to develop confidence
INSUFFICIENT experience to develop confidence (n. insufficiency, adv. insufficiently) NOT ENOUGH experience to develop confidence
1. the DEMISE of the dinosaurs the DEATH of the dinosaurs
2. the DEMISE of the company the END of the company
temperature ALTERATIONS (v. to alter) temperature CHANGES
1. THROUGHOUT the era COMPLETELY DURING the era
2. THROUGHOUT the city EVERYWHERE IN the city
1. SHALLOW seas NOT DEEP seas
2. A teenager's interests are often SHALLOW. A teenager's interests are often NOT SERIOUS.
DIVERSE sources (n. diversity. adv. diversely) sources DIFFERING FROM ONE ANOTHER
1. MILD climate (adv. mildly) NOT UNCOMFORTABLE climate
2. MILD personality (adv. mildly) GENTLE personality
3. MILD painkiller (adv. mildly) NOT STRONG painkiller
4. MILDLY aware (adj. mild) A LITTLE aware
1. FRIGID winters (n. frigidity) VERY COLD winters
2. emotionally FRIGID (n. frigidity) emotionally UNFEELING
1. The seas BUFFERED the temperature of the nearby air. (n. buffer) The seas KEPT the temperature of the nearby air FROM CHANGING.
2. BUFFERS the noise (n. buffer) PROTECTS AGAINST the noise
3. act as a BUFFER (v, to buffer) act as PROTECTION IN BETWEEN
1. FREQUENT problems (v. to frequent, n. frequency, adv. frequently) problems HAPPENING OFTEN
2. a FREQUENT visitor (v. to frequent, n. frequency, adv. frequently) a visitor who COMES OFTEN
3. restaurant FREQUENTED by local politicians (n. frequency, adj. frequent, adv. frequently) restaurant where local politicians OFTEN GO
4. FREQUENCY of automobile accidents (v. to frequent, adj. frequent, adv. frequently) the NUMBER of automobile accidents DURING AN AMOUNT OF TIME
ADEQUATE hotel (n. adequacy, adv. adequately) GOOD ENOUGH hotel
1. CONSTANT headaches (adv. constantly) REGULAR headaches
2. CONSTANT weight UNCHANGING weight
1. ocean BASINS A DEEPER PART of the ocean
2. washed clothes in a BASIN washed clothes in a SINK or BUCKET
1. cannot TOLERATE extreme temperature changes (n. toleration, adj. tolerable, adv. tolerably) cannot LIVE WITH extreme temperature changes
2. does not TOLERATE laziness (n. toleration adj. tolerable, adv.. tolerably) does not PERMIT laziness
1. If true, THOUGH If true, HOWEVER
2. THOUGH he doesn't want to ALTHOUGH he doesn't want to, EVEN THOUGH he doesn't want to
TORRID summers EXTREMELY HOT summers
cold-blooded animals were not affected, WHEREAS dinosaurs died cold-blooded animals were not affected, WHILE dinosaurs died
1. too crippled to COPE (adj. coping) too crippled to OVERCOME
2. COPE WITH difficulties (adj. coping) NOT BE OVERCOME BY difficulties
3. COPING actions (v. to cope) actions FOR NOT BEING OVERCOME
FLUCTUATIONS in prices (v. to fluctuate) MOVEMENTS UP AND DOWN in prices
1. APPEALING hypothesis (v. to appeal, n. appeal, adv. appealingly ATTRACTIVE hypothesis
2. an APPEAL for help (v. to appeal, adj. appealing, adv. appealingly) a REQUEST for help
disappear ABRUPTLY (adj. abrupt) disappear SUDDENLY
1. DETERMINING how long it took (n. determination) FINDING OUT how long it took
2. DETERMINE where to live (n. determination) DECIDE where to live
3. DETERMINATION to succeed (v. to determine) WILLPOWER to succeed
1. PREFERENTIAL treatment (v. to prefer, n. preference, adv. preferentially) BETTER treatment THAN OTHERS GET
2. a PREFERENCE for smaller cars (v, to prefer, adj. preferential, adv. preferentially) LIKING smaller cars BETTER
Created by: jeffbeller
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