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Marie Set #7
| Vocabulary Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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