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vocabulary list #4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ferry | (noun) a boat that carries people/cars across water. |
| grumpy | (adj) easily annoyed; in a bad mood |
| easygoing | (adj) not easily upset, annoyed, or worried |
| domineering | (adj) controlling and not caring about other's feeling |
| key | (adj) very important and necessary |
| ambitious | (adj) determinated to be successful |
| vision | (noun) an idea of what something should be |
| coffin | (noun) a box in which a corpse is buried |
| cramped | (adj) not enough space for everything you have |
| stuffy | (adj) not enough fresh air and too warm |
| the bends | (noun) a painful condition that happens when you come up from a great deep water too quickly (decompression sickness) |
| recuperative | (adj) helping to recover from illness or exhaustion (v. recuperate) |
| bribery | (noun) the practice of offering money or a gift that you illegally give someone to persuade them to do something for you |
| ruin | (verb) destroy completely |
| mammoth | (adj) huge, gigantic, massive (very, very) |
| agitated | (adj) anxious, nervous and upset |
| elite | (adj) small group of powerful & important people |
| jeopardy | (noun) danger of being lost or harmed |
| shimmer | (verb) to shine with a light that seems to move slightly |
| sleek | (adj) having a smooth attractive line (elegant shape or design) |
| dominance | (noun) the fact of being more powerful, more important, or more noticeable than other people or thing |
| strip away | (verb) to remove or peel something from something completely |
| fetch | (verb) to go or come after and bring or take back |
| paramount | (adj.) more important than anything else; supreme |
| rumor | (noun) gossip about people that may/ may not be true |
| exceed | (verb) to go beyond the expected amount |
| hoist | (verb) to raise or lift something, esp. using equipment |
| overshadow | (verb) to make someone or something else seem less important |
| counted | (verb) to include (someone or something) in a total |
| diversify | (verb) to change something or to make it change so that there is more variety |
| boom | (noun) a rapid increase in growth or economic success |
| emerge | (verb) to appear or come out from somewhere |
| snap up | (verb) to buy or obtain something quickly because it is cheap or you want it very much |
| disclose | (verb) to make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret |
| craze | (noun) something that is extremely popular at the moment |
| stretch(es) | (verb) to make (something) wider or longer by pulling it |
| gauge | to measure (something) exactly |
| mock | (adj) not real, but intended to be very similar |
| frantic | (adj) extremely hurried and used a lot of energy, but not very organized |
| gargantuan | (adj) extremely large |
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