The document defines and provides examples for several words related to volunteering, including volunteer, voluntary, and voluntarily. It also defines terms like clean up, mow, lawn, organize, baseball, advantage, disadvantage, handicap, comfort, donate, overcome, participate, suffer from, remote, and mountain. The definitions are concise and focus on the essential meaning and typical usage of each word.
The document defines and provides examples for several words related to volunteering, including volunteer, voluntary, and voluntarily. It also defines terms like clean up, mow, lawn, organize, baseball, advantage, disadvantage, handicap, comfort, donate, overcome, participate, suffer from, remote, and mountain. The definitions are concise and focus on the essential meaning and typical usage of each word.
The document defines and provides examples for several words related to volunteering, including volunteer, voluntary, and voluntarily. It also defines terms like clean up, mow, lawn, organize, baseball, advantage, disadvantage, handicap, comfort, donate, overcome, participate, suffer from, remote, and mountain. The definitions are concise and focus on the essential meaning and typical usage of each word.
to offer to do something without being forced to do it or without getting paid for it
---> volunteer (n)
---> voluntary (a) Ex: She volunteered ---> voluntarily (adv) her services for relief work clean up (v) the act of making a place clean and tidy
Ex: She is cleaning up a room
mow (v) to cut plants, such as grass or wheat, that have long, thin stems and grow close together lawn (n) an area of grass, especially near to a house or in a park, that is cut regularly to keep it short organize (v) to make arrangements for something to happen
--> organization (n)
--> organizer (n)
Ex: They organized a club
baseball (n) a game played especially in North America by two teams of nine players, in which a player hits a ball with a bat (= stick) and tries to run around four bases on a large field before the other team returns the ball advantage disadvantage (n,v) a condition giving a greater chance of success
--> advantageous (a)
Ex: She had the advantage of a good
education handicap (n,v) a condition in which part of your body or mind has been permanently damaged or does not work normally
--> handicapped (a)
--> the handicapped (n) comfort (n) a pleasant feeling of being relaxed and free from pain donate (v) to give money or goods to help a person or organization
--> donation (n)
--> donor (n) overcome (v) to defeat or succeed in controlling or dealing with something participate in = take part in = join in(v)
Ex: They'll participate in a competition
next week suffer from (v) to experience physical or mental pain
--> suffering (n)
--> sufferings (n) remote (a) move to another place mountain (n) a raised part of the earth's surface, much larger than a hill, the top of which might be covered in snow