Unit 1b

1-Analyze: To study (something) closely and carefully.

2-Astrology: Is the study of the movements of the planets, sun, moon,
and stars in the belief that these movements can have an influence on
people's lives.
3-Assertive: Someone who is assertive states their needs and opinions
clearly, so that people take notice.
4-Biographical: facts, notes, or details are concerned with the events in
someone's life.
5-Binoculars: Consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side,
which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way
away.
6-Bizarre: Something that is bizarre is very odd and strange.
7-Breeze: none: is a gentle wind .
Verb1:If you breeze into a place or a position, you enter it in a very casual
or relaxed manner
Verb2:If you breeze through something such as a game or test, you cope
with it easily.
8-Clairvoyant: Someone who is believed to be clairvoyant is believed to
know about future events or to be able to communicate with dead
people.
9-Colleague: Your colleagues are the people you work with, especially in a
professional job.
10-Column: Is a tall, often decorated cylinder of stone which is built to
honour someone or forms part of a building.
11-Coincide: If one event coincides with another, they happen at the
same time.
12-Descend: If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move
downwards from a higher to a lower level.
13-Disheartened: If you are disheartened, you feel disappointed about
something and have less confidence or less hope about it than you did
before.
14-Dome: Is a round roof.
15-Effort: If you make an effort to do something, you try very hard to do
it.
16-Employee: Is a person who is paid to work for an organization or for
another person.
17-Emphasis: Is special or extra importance that is given to an activity or
to a part or aspect of something.
18-Evolve:When animals or plants evolve, they gradually change and
develop into different forms.
19-Extract: To extract a substance means to obtain it from something
else,for example by using industrial or chemical processes.
20-Faith healer: Is someone who believes they can treat and heal sick
people using prayer or supernatural powers.
21-Faith healing: Is the treatment of a sick person by someone who
believes that they are able to heal people through prayer or a
supernatural power.
22-Fortune-telling: Someone or something with the supposed ability to
foretell future events and especially the details of a person's future.
23-Gliding: To move easily without stopping and without effort or noise.
24-Graphology: Is the study of people's handwriting in order to discover
what sort of personality they have.
25-Hallucinate: If you hallucinate, you see things that are not really there,
either because you are ill or because you have taken a drug.
26-Horizontal: Something that is horizontal is flat and level with the
ground, rather than at an angle to it.
27-Hyphen: Is the punctuation sign used to join words together to make a
compound, as in 'left- handed'. People also use a hyphen to show that the
rest of a word is on the next line.

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28-Interpret: If you interpret something in a particular way, you decide
that this is its meaning or significance.
29-Lecture: Is a talk someone gives in order to teach people about a
particular subject, usually at a university or college.
30-Method: Is a particular way of doing something.
31-Palmistry: Is the practice and art of trying to find out what people are
like and what will happen in their future life by examining the lines on the
palms of their hands.
32-Paranormal: A paranormal event or power, for example the
appearance of a ghost, cannot be explained by scientific laws and is
thought to involve strange, unknown forces.
33-Psychic: If you believe that someone is psychic or has psychic powers,
you believe that they have strange mental powers, such as being able to
read the minds of other people or to see into the future.
34-Rhythm: Is a regular series of sounds or movements.
35-Reprint: Is a process in which new copies of a book or article are
printed because all the other ones have been sold.
36-Reserve: Is a supply of something that is available for use when it is
needed.
37-Role: Is one of the characters that an actor or singer can play in a film,
play, or opera.
38-Several: Is used to refer to an imprecise number of people or things
that is not large but is greater than two.
Ex:I had lived two doors away from this family for several years.
39-Transition: Is the process in which something changes from one state
to another.
40-Vivid: If you describe memories and descriptions as vivid, you mean
that they are very clear and detailed.

Mohammed Al-Mekhlafi.