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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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lineup | n: the schedule of programs for a particular event; a list of people brought together to form a team or take part in an event | |
witness | n: a person who sees something happen, especially a crime or an accident | |
identify | v: to recognize someone or something and say or prove who or what they are | |
glimpse | n: a brief or partial view; the act of seeing something or someone for a very short time or only partly | |
flee | v: to leave by running away, especially out of fear or danger | |
culprit | n: someone who is responsible for a crime or wrongdoing | |
solid | adj: hard or firm; characterized by good substantial quality | |
rely | v: to require a specific thing or the assistance and support of someone or something to continue, run properly, or succeed. | |
consensus | n: general agreement or accord in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole | |
entertainment | n: public shows, films, television, or other performances or activities of enjoying people | |
reliable | adj: worthy of being relied on; trustworthy | |
paradox | n: a statement, situation, or person that has two opposite facts or features and therefore seems impossible, is difficult to understand, or is strange; | |
unanimity | n: a complete agreement in opinion or resolution among a specific group of people | |
apparent | adj: able to see or understand easily or clearly | |
uncertain | adj: not being sure of something; not being able to choose | |
unanimous | adj: (of two or more people) in complete agreement; (of an opinion, decision, or vote) agreed or supported by everyone in a group | |
verdict | n: an official opinion or decision made in a civil or criminal case or an inquest (= an inquiry into the cause of an unexpected death); the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision | |
variance | n: the fact or quality that two or more things are different, divergent, or inconsistent; a difference between conflicting facts, claims, or opinions | |
vary | v: to become different in terms of size, shape, etc. | |
distribute | v: to give something to a large number of individuals, or to spread or furnish something | |
toss | v: to throw something carelessly with a light motion | |
suspect | v: to consider anything to be actual or probable | |
flip | v: to turn over into a different position quickly; to throw or toss with a light motion | |
identification | n: the act or process of recognizing, proving, or designating someone or something | |
random | adj: made, done, or happening without method, conscious decision, or any regular pattern | |
confident | adj: feeling sure about your abilities or qualities or having trust in people, plans, or the future | |
unreliable | adj: not able to be trusted or depended on | |
overestimate | v: to estimate something to be greater in amount or importance than it really is | |
accuracy | n: the state or degree of being exact or correct; the ability to perform something with proficiency and without mistake | |
guilt | n: the fact of having committed something illegal; the negative feelings caused by believing or knowing that you have done something wrong | |
systemic | adj: affecting or related to the whole of something, especially the human body or a society | |
bias | n: a strong feeling in favor of or against one group of people, an idea, or thing, often not based on fair judgment | |
judgment | n: the ability to form valuable opinions and make reasonable decisions | |
incriminate | v: to make someone seem guilty of a crime or wrongdoing | |
elusive | adj: difficult to find, define, achieve, or remember | |
dub | v: to give someone or something an unofficial name or nickname; to provide movies with a voice of a foreign language | |
phantom | n: a ghost or a spirit of a dead person; something existing only in your imagination or perception | |
consistent | adj: always behaving or happening in the same way, or having the same thoughts, standards, etc. | |
precis | v: to make a summary of something, such as a text or speech; (noun) a short form of the main points of an argument or theory | |
cotton | n: a plant that is grown in warm countries and bears bolls containing seeds with soft and long hairs that are made into textile fiber and thread for sewing | |
swab | n: a small piece of soft material used by a doctor, nurse, etc., for cleaning a cut or taking a sample from somebody’s body for testing; (verb) apply, usually a liquid, to a surface | |
accidentally | adv: by chance or without planning | |
contaminate | v: to make something impure, unclean, or poisonous by contact or mixture | |
systematic | adj: done or acting according to a determined set of systems or plans: | |
deliberate | adj: done with full consciousness of nature and effects rather than by accident | |
fraud | n: the crime of gaining money or financial benefits by deceiving people; a person who makes deceitful pretenses | |
president | n: the leader of a republic, for example, the US; the person in charge of the organization such as a company, university, club, etc. | |
referendum | n: a general vote in which all the people of a country can vote on an important political or social issue | |
turnout | n: the number of people who are present at an event or vote at an election | |
voter | n: a person who votes or has a legal right to vote in a political election | |
supposedly | adv: according to what is generally assumed or believed without actually knowing for sure | |
paradoxical | adj: seemingly contradictory or absurd because of having two opposite features or facts, though it is probably true | |
theoretical | adj: relating to the concepts and principles upon which a particular topic is founded, rather than practice and experience | |
odds | n: the degree or probability that a particular thing will or will not happen | |
variability | n: the fact or quality of something being likely to vary | |
unlikely | adj: not probable or likely to happen | |
strive | v: to try very hard to do, achieve, or obtain something | |
harmony | n: the combination of simultaneous musical notes to produce a pleasing effect; an attractive combination of related things and their properties | |
disagree | v: to have or express a different opinion, idea, etc. | |
naturally | adv: as might be expected; by natural manners |