Unit 5: Week 2

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words only definitions & notes
  1. benefit
    derive an advantage from
  2. maintain
    keep in a certain state, position, or activity
  3. conventional
    conforming with accepted standards
  4. resistant
    disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority
  5. peaceful
    not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war
  6. practical
    concerned with actual use
  7. reconsider
    think about again, usually with a view to changing the mind
  8. source
    a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
  9. turbine
    an engine that causes a bladed rotor to rotate
  10. power plant
    an electrical generating station
  11. economic
    using the minimum of time or resources for effectiveness
  12. industry
    the action of making of goods and services for sale
  13. editorial
    an article giving opinions or perspectives
  14. environmentalist
    someone who works to protect nature from destruction
  15. tourism
    the business of providing services to travelers for pleasure
  16. business
    a commercial or industrial organization
  17. profitable
    yielding material gain
  18. summarize
    briefly present the main points of something
  19. synthesize
    combine so as to form a more complex product
  20. opinion
    a personal belief or judgment
  21. claim
    an assertion that something is true or factual
  22. evidence
    knowledge on which to base belief
  23. pun
    a humorous play on words
  24. idiom
    expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words
  25. adage
    a condensed but memorable saying embodying an important fact
  26. voice
    expressing in coherent verbal form
Created on Wed Nov 04 13:51:10 EST 2020 (updated Tue Nov 10 14:44:46 EST 2020)

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