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Cambridge VVords, İELTS
Cambridge VVords, İELTS
Universe all existing matter and space considered as a whole; the cosmos
Weightlessness the effect of gravity is canceled by the inertial (e.g., centrifugal) force
resulting from orbital flight
Commercial making or intended to make a profit
Float move or hover slowly and lightly in a liquid or the air; drift
Landmark a building or place that is easily recognized, especially one that you can use to
judge where you are
Lift shaft a vertical shaft in a building through which a lift moves to different levels
Platform a long, flat raised structure at a railway station, where people get on and off
trains
Quarry a large artificial hole in the ground where stone, sand, etc. is dug for use as
building material
Residence a home
Staircase a set of stairs inside a building, usually with a bar fixed on the wall or onto vertical
poles at the side for you to hold on to
Steel a strong metal that is a mixture of iron and carbon, used for making things that
need a strong structure, especially vehicles and buildings
Tension the state of being tight and stiff
Timber wood used for building
Cozy comfortable, pleasant, and inviting, esp. (of a room or building) because small
and warm
Cramped not having enough space or time
Futuristic strange and very modern, or intended or seeming to come from some imagined
time in the future
High-rise tall, with many floors
Modern designed and made using the most recent ideas and methods
Multi-storey
Prefabricate built from parts that have been made in a factory and can be put together quickly
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Single-storey
Ultra-modern
Construct to build something or put together different parts to form something whole
Demolish to completely destroy a building, in order to use the land for something else
Devise to invent a plan, system, object, etc., usually using your intelligence or
imagination
Haul to pull something heavy slowly and with difficulty
Reconstruct to build or create again something that has been damaged or destroyed
Support to hold something firmly or carry its weight, especially from below to stop it from
falling
Compact consisting of parts that are positioned together closely, in a tidy way, using little
space
Dated old-fashioned
Scroll to move text, information on a computer screen in order to see a different part of
it
Speculate to guess possible answers to a question when you do not have enough
information to be certain
Hindsight the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened
Implication an occasion when you seem to suggest something without saying it directly
Impact a powerful effect that something, especially new, has on a situation or person
Projection a calculation or guess about the future based on information that you have
Proportion number, amount of a group, part of something when compared to the whole
Rate the speed at which something happens or changes, or the amount or number of
times it happens or changes in a particular period
Ageing relating to getting older; used to describe a person or thing that is getting old
Long-term happening, existing, or continuing for many years or far into the future
To compound
Infrastructure the basic systems and services, such as transport and power supplies, that a
country or organization uses in order to work effectively:
Megacity a very large city, especially one with more than 10 million people living in it
Obstacle something that blocks you so that movement, going forward, or action is
prevented or made more difficult:
Overpopulation the fact of a country or city, etc. having too many people for the amount of
food, materials, and space available there:
Adjust alter or move (something) slightly in order to achieve the desired fit,
appearance, or result.
Aggravate make (a problem, injury, or offence) worse or more serious
Overcome a
difficulty
Reach/find a
compromise
Remedy a
situation
Resolve an
issue
Contamination the process of making something dirty or poisonous, or the state of containing
unwanted or dangerous substances
Deforestation the cutting down of trees in a large area, or the destruction of forests by people:
Ecosystem all t living things in an area and t way they affect each other and t environment
Emission the act of sending out gas, heat, light, etc. 2. an amount of gas, heat,
Erosion the fact of soil, stone. being gradually damaged and removed by the waves, rain
Exhaust (fumes) the waste gas from an engine, a car's, or the pipe the gas flows through
Greenhouse gases a gas that causes the greenhouse effect, especially carbon dioxide
Impact a powerful effect that something, especially something new, has on a situation
or person
Pollutant a substance that pollutes
Sustainable causing little or no damage to the environment and therefore able to continue
for a long time
Taxing difficult or needing a lot of thought or effort
Dispose of to get rid of someone or something or deal with something so that the matter is
finished
Dump to put down or drop something in a careless way