Saturday, January 12, 2008

Vocab / Sentences

1. Exploited- to make productive use of / They exploited the mountain mine.

2. Whopping- extremely large; also: EXTRAORDINARY INCREDIBLE / The car is whopping.

3. consumption- a: a progressive wasting away of the body especially from pulmonary tuberculosis b: TUBERCULOSIS C: the utilization of economic goods in the satisfaction of wants or in the process of production resulting chiefly in their destruction, deterioration, or transformation / We don't plan our household consumption.

4. Aquaculturist- the cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) especially for food / He works in aquaculture.

5. crustacean- any of a large class (Crustacea) of mostly aquatic mandibulate arthropods that have a chitinous or calcareous and chitinous exoskeleton, a pair of often much modified appendages on each segment, and two pairs of antennae and that include the lobsters, shrimps, crabs, wood lice, water fleas, and barnacles / Crabs are crustaceans.

6. Parasitic- A: a person who exploits the hospitality of the rich and earns welcome by flattery B: an organism living in, with, or on another organism in parasitism / The fish is parasitic in warm water.

7. tilapia- any of numerous African freshwater cichlid fishes often raised for food / The scientists began to study tilapia.

8. toxic- containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation; extremely harsh, malicious, or harmful / Many soldiers died because of toxic smoke.

9. terrestrial- a: of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants b: mundane in scope or character / I firmly believe that the unidentified object was not terrestrial.

10. proclivity- an inclination or predisposition toward something; especially : a strong inherent inclination toward something objectionable / I have a proclivity to colds.

11. Eschew- to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds: SHUN / I eschew bad students who smoke.

12. prejudice- injury or damage resulting from some judgment or action of another in disregard of one's rights; especially: detriment to one's legal rights or claims / I am prejudiced with regards to race.

13. Equated- a: to make equal: EQUALIZE b: to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard or obtain a correct result / When I solved the equation, I equated the formulas.

14. Arbitrary- a: not restrained or limited in the exercise of power: ruling by absolute authority b: marked by or resulting from the unrestrained and often tyrannical exercise of power / He established an arbitrary government.

15. infallible- never making mistakes or being wrong. / I remember infallible memory.

16. godfather- a man who sponsors a person at baptism / He became a godfather to the child.

17. Manipulate- to use, move or control something with skill. / He manipulates the levers very well.

18. colleague- an associate in a profession or in a civil or ecclesiastical office / He is the best colleague in my office.

19. puberty- 1: the condition of being or the period of becoming first capable of reproducing sexually marked by maturing of the genital organs, development of secondary sex characteristics, and in the human and in higher primates by the first occurrence of menstruation in the female 2: the age at which puberty occurs often construed legally as 14 in boys and 12 in girls / He is going to through puberty.

20. Accumulate- to gather or pile up especially little by little: AMASS / The king accumulated debts because of many wars.

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