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1. unpredictable likely to change suddenly and without reason and there-

(adj) fore not able to be predicted (Ex: The hours in this job are
very unpredictable - you sometimes have to work late at
very short notice.)

2. consolidate (v) to become, or cause something to become, stronger, and

more certain (Ex: The success of their major product con-
solidated the firm's position in the market.)

3. indigenous (adj) used to refer to, or relating to, the people who originally
lived in a place, rather than people who moved there from
somewhere else (Ex: The indigenous population has long
suffered exclusion and profound injustice.)

4. secretive (adj) People who are secretive hide their feelings, thoughts,
intentions, and actions from other people (Ex: He's being
very secretive about his new girlfriend.)

5. delegate (n) a person chosen or elected by a group to speak, vote,

etc. for them, especially at a meeting (Ex: Delegates have
voted in favour of the motion.)

6. compose (v) to produce music, poetry, or formal writing (Ex: The music
was specially composed for the film.)

7. interpret (v) to decide what the intended meaning of something is (Ex:

It's difficult to interpret these statistics without knowing
how they were obtained.)

8. renounce (v) to say formally or publicly that you no longer own, support,
believe in, or have a connection with something (Ex: Her
ex-husband renounced his claim to the family house.)

9. syntax (n) the grammatical arrangement of words in a sentence (Ex:

The president's tortured syntax was often satirized.)

10. opaque (adj) preventing light from travelling through, and therefore not
transparent or translucent (Ex: I find her poetry a little too
opaque.)

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11. catastrophe (n) a sudden event that causes very great trouble or destruc-
tion (Ex: They were warned of the ecological catastrophe
to come.)

12. elude (v) If something that you want eludes you, you do not succeed
in achieving it (Ex: They had minor breakthroughs but real
success eluded them.)

13. abrupt (adj) sudden and unexpected, and often unpleasant (Ex: Our
conversation came to an abrupt end when George burst
into the room.)

14. imminent (adj) coming or likely to happen very soon (Ex: A strike is
imminent.)

15. accessory (n) something added to a machine or to clothing that has a

useful or decorative purpose (Ex: Sunglasses are much
more than a fashion accessory.)

16. splenetic (adj) used to describe a person who easily becomes angry
or annoyed, or their behaviour (Ex: He launched into a
splenetic rant about his colleagues.)

17. prevalence (n) the fact that something is very common or happens often
(Ex: The prevalence of the disease is higher in some
families.)

18. replicable (adj) that can be done in exactly the same way as before, or
produced again to be exactly the same as before (Ex: It is
always stressed that scientific results must be replicable
in order to be valid.)

19. predetermine (v) to decide or arrange something at an earlier time (Ex:

It's impossible to say how much a person's behaviour is
predetermined by their genes.)

20. operative a worker, especially one who is skilled in working with their
hands (Ex: The agreement will not become operative until
all members have signed.)

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21. latent (adj) present but needing particular conditions to become ac-
tive, obvious, or completely developed (Ex: Recent devel-
opments in the area have brought latent ethnic tension out
into the open.)

22. waive (v) to not demand something you have a right to, or not cause
a rule to be obeyed (Ex: If they waive the time limit, many
more applications will come in.)

23. concede (v) to admit, often unwillingly, that something is true (Ex: The
government has conceded that the new tax policy has
been a disaster.)

24. refute (v) to say or prove that a person, statement, opinion, etc. is
wrong or false (Ex: Further studies are thus required to
confirm or refute this association.)

25. require (v) to need something or make something necessary (Ex:

Please call this number if you require any further informa-
tion.)

26. interstate (adj) involving two or more of the states into which some coun-
tries such as the US are divided (Ex: After 1600, civil war
became far more common than inter-state warfare.)

27. consistent (adj) always behaving or happening in a similar, especially pos-

itive, way (Ex: There has been a consistent improvement
in her attitude.)

28. representative someone who speaks or does something officially for an-
(n) other person or group of people (Ex: The firm has repre-
sentatives in every major city.)

29. overshadow (v) to cause someone or something to seem less important or

less happy (Ex: Karen has always felt overshadowed by
her famous elder sister.)

30. irrelevant (adj) not related to what is being discussed or considered and
therefore not important (Ex: These documents are largely
irrelevant to the present investigation.)
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31. tenuous (adj) A tenuous connection, idea, or situation is weak and pos-
sibly does not exist (Ex: The police have only found a
tenuous connection between the two robberies.)

32. nuance (n) a very slight difference in appearance, meaning, sound,

etc. (Ex: The painter has managed to capture every nu-
ance of the woman's expression.)

33. unoriginal (adj) the same as a lot of other things and therefore not inter-
esting or special (Ex: Also in the uneducated, unoriginal,
men women who have passed through it.)

34. elaborate (adj) containing a lot of careful detail or many detailed parts
(Ex: They're making the most elaborate preparations for
the wedding.)

35. recall (v) to bring the memory of a past event into your mind, and
often to give a description of what you remember (Ex: The
old man recalled the city as it had been before the war.)

36. apparatus (n) a set of equipment or tools or a machine that is used for a
particular purpose (Ex: The divers checked their breathing
apparatus.)

37. correlate (v) If two or more facts, numbers, etc. correlate or are correlat-
ed, there is a relationship between them (Ex: Stress levels
and heart disease are strongly correlated.)

38. resemblance (n) the fact that two people or things look like each other or
are similar in some other way (Ex: There was a clear family
resemblance between all the brothers.)

39. coincidental (adj) happening by coincidence (Ex: Any phonetic equivalence

would be purely coincidental in these theories.)

40. disparity (n) a lack of equality or similarity, especially in a way that is

not fair (Ex: One of her priorities will be to eliminate pay
disparity between men and women for equal work.)

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41. characterization the way that people are represented in a film, play, or book
(n) so that they seem real and natural (Ex: The plots in her
books are very strong but there's almost no characteriza-
tion.)

42. interpretation (n) an explanation or opinion of what something means (Ex:

The dispute is based on two widely differing interpreta-
tions of the law.)

43. collaboration (n) the situation of two or more people working together to
create or achieve the same thing (Ex: The two playwrights
worked in close collaboration on the script.)

44. commercializa- the organization of something in a way intended to make

tion (n) a profit (Ex: The commercialization of football has turned
it from a sport into a business.)

45. resilient (adj) able to be happy, successful, etc. again after something
difficult or bad has happened (Ex: Optimists argue that the
economy may prove more resilient.)

46. inadequate (adj) "not good enough or too low in quality (Ex: This work is
woefully inadequate - you'll have to do it again.)

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48. dynamic (adj) having a lot of ideas and enthusiasm (Ex: She's young and
dynamic and will be a great addition to the team.)

49. satisfactory (adj) good or good enough for a particular need or purpose (Ex:
The teachers seem to think his work is satisfactory.)

50. adhesive (n) a sticky substance that is used for joining things together,
usually permanently (Ex: You'll need a strong adhesive to
mend that chair.)

51. dispute (n) an argument or disagreement, especially an official one

between, for example, workers and employers or two
countries with a common border (Ex: Few would dispute
his status as the finest artist of the period.)
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52. withdraw (v) to take or move out or back, or to remove (Ex: The UN has
withdrawn its troops from the country.)

53. invalidate (v) to prove that an opinion, argument, etc. is wrong (Ex:
Their overloading is closer to an assertion about their
intended use, with a type error signaled if the assertion
is invalidated.)

54. restrain (v) to control the actions or behaviour of someone by force,

especially in order to stop them from doing something,
or to limit the growth or force of something (Ex: When he
started fighting, it took four police officers to restrain him.)

55. inventive (adj) very good at thinking of new and original ideas (Ex: He is
very inventive, always dreaming up new gadgets for the
home.)

56. inexplicable (adj) unable to be explained or understood (Ex: For some inex-
plicable reason, he's decided to cancel the project.)

57. mystify (v) to confuse someone by being or doing something very

strange or impossible to explain (Ex: I was mystified by her
decision.)

58. predatory (adj) A predatory animal kills and eats other animals (Ex: The
owl is a predatory bird that kills its prey with its claws.)

59. obscure (adj) not known to many people (Ex: However, this sectoral
diversity obscures some politically salient concentrations.)

60. diverse (adj) including many different types of people or things (Ex: Stu-
dents from countries as diverse as Colombia and Lithua-
nia use Cambridge textbooks.)

61. localize (v) to limit something to a particular area (Ex: Gravity has
localized the swelling to the foot and ankle.)

62. subtle (adj) not loud, bright, noticeable, or obvious in any way (Ex: The
room was painted a subtle shade of pink.)

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63. bargain (n) something on sale at a lower price than its true value (Ex:
This coat was half-price - a real bargain.)

64. attributable (adj) caused by (Ex: Do you think that these higher-than-aver-
age temperatures are attributable to global warming?)

65. endothermic taking place or being formed by absorbing heat (Ex: In

(adj) an endothermic reaction, the temperature of the surround-
ings decreases. )

66. ambient (adj) existing in the surrounding area (Ex: The remainder of the
paper will therefore focus on ambient pollution.)

67. deficiency (n) a state of not having, or not having enough, of something
that is needed (Ex: Pregnant women often suffer from iron
deficiency.)

68. retrospective (n) a show of the work an artist has done in their life so far (Ex:
The data-collection sessions took about 11/2 hours for
each student, including the training, think-aloud protocol,
and retrospective interview.)

69. ratify (v) to make an agreement official (Ex: Many countries have
now ratified the UN convention on the rights of the child.)

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