Vocabulary Weekly

Week 19
Thrive

If someone or something thrives, they do well and are successful, healthy, or strong.

Ex. A man can never thrive who had a wasteful wife.

I’ll weeds are sure to thrive.

A business cannot thrive without investment.

I believe that your business will thrive more this year.

Children thrive on fresh air and good food.

Donate

If you donate something to a charity or other organization, you give it to them.

Ex. He frequently donates large sums to charity.

Others donated secondhand clothes.

Many people offered to donate blood and skin for the badly burnt worker.

The Vatican has agreed to donate $80 000 in humanitarian/emergency aid to countries
affected by the war.

Decode

If you decode a message that has been written or spoken in a code, you change it into ordinary
language.

Ex. He did not know how to decode children, for he had never seen the process in his own
home.

We decode messages in personal, social and cultural contexts.

Introduction Continuous speech processing requires the application of very many sources of
knowledge in order to decode the utterance.

Hibernate

Animals that hibernate spend the winter in a state like a deep sleep.

Ex. Some animals feed voraciously in summer and hibernate in winter.

You should hibernate before I contact with you.

They hibernate during the dry season by burrowing deep into the damp sand.

Woodchucks, like many other ground squirrels, hibernate in their underground burrows
where they are thought to sleep away the winter.
Guideline

If an organization issues guidelines on something, it issues official advice about how to do it.

Ex. The government should issue clear guidelines on the content of religious education.

The Internet Advertising Bureau has guidelines for advertising companies to follow.

Prices shown are only a rough guideline.

The first guideline is very important, not only for reducing your weight now but for
controlling it in the future.

Vague

If something written or spoken is vague, it does not explain or express things clearly.

Ex. A lot of the talk was apparently vague and general.

The description was pretty vague.

They had only a vague idea where the place was.

Trader

A trader is a person whose job is to trade in goods or stocks.

Ex. She bargained with the trader till he sold her the fruit at a low price.

The dishonest trader tried to plant a faked picture on me.

He is a well-known trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Noted

To be noted for something you do or have means to be well-known and admired for it.

Ex. In business circles he is noted for his flair and clarity of vision.

He noted the latitude and longitude, then made a mark on the admiralty chart.

He noted, with some irritation, that the letter had not been sent.

Unified

Made one; united

Ex. We need a unified team going forward and we are arranging the parting of the ways.

There is no question that we are now close to a unified theory of the earth.

The teacher unified the answer of her pupil with hers.

Newton proposed that heavenly and terrestrial motion could be unified with the idea of
gravity.
Related

If two or more things are related, there is a connection between them.

Ex. Much of the violence is related to drugs and gang warfare.

The unemployment figures are not necessarily related to the rise in prices.

The cat and the lion are related species.

Police now believe that the three crimes could be related

Fiber

A fiber is a thin thread of a natural or artificial substance, especially one that is used to
make cloth or rope.

Ex. Coconut fiber can be made into mats.

If you look at the paper under a microscope you will see the fibers.

Most vegetables contain fiber.

Obedient

A person or animal who is obedient does what they are told to do.

Ex. He was very respectful at home and obedient to his parents.

Students are expected to be quiet and obedient in the classroom.

His dog is very obedient.

Edmund was a cheerful and obedient student.

Eyewitness

An eyewitness is a person who was present at an event and can therefore describe it,
for example in a law court.

Ex. The police questioned several eyewitness to the murder.

Eyewitnesses say the police then opened fire on the crowd.

An eyewitness identified him as the shooter.

Genes

A gene is the part of a cell in a living thing which controls its physical characteristics, growth,
and development.

Ex. The gene is passed on to their children.

The gene is only part of the causation of illness.

 The disease is caused by a defective gene.

Ecosystem

An ecosystem is all the plants and animals that live in a particular area together with
the complex relationship that exists between them and their environment.

Ex. Such a rich source of food gives an ecosystem almost as diverse as the Coral Seas.

We all have an interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem.

Pollution can have disastrous effects on the delicately balanced ecosystem.

Republican

Republican means relating to a republic. In republican systems of government, power is held by

the people or the representatives that they elect.

Ex. The nations that had adopted the republican form of government.

Some families have been Republican for generations.

Plague

A plague is a very infectious disease that spreads quickly and kills large numbers of people.

Ex. A cholera plague had been killing many prisoners of war at the time.

The city is under threat from a plague of rats.

The average age at death of plague victims was 14.

Ideals

An ideal is a principle, idea, or standard that seems very good and worth trying to achieve.

Ex. The party has drifted too far from its socialist ideals.

I tried to live up to my ideal of myself.

Many men feel their body shape doesn't live up to the stereotype of the ideal man.