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Flashcards by Lina Maritza Camacho Lucio, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lina Maritza Camacho Lucio
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Waterlogged | Adjective 1. so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship. 2. excessively saturated with or as if with water: |
| Wetland | noun Often, wetlands. land that has a wet and spongy soil, as a marsh, swamp, or bog. |
| Whaling | noun 1. the work or industry of capturing and rendering whales; whale fishing. |
| Bailers | verb (used with object) 1. to dip (water) out of a boat, as with a bucket. 2. to clear of water by dipping (usually followed by out): to bail out a boat. verb (used without object) 3. to bail water. noun 4. Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing. |
| Which | Pronoun 1. what one?: Which of these do you want? Which do you want? 2. whichever; any one that: Choose which appeals to you. |
| Remains | verb (used without object) 1. to continue in the same state; continue to be as specified: to remain at peace. 2. to stay behind or in the same place: to remain at home; I'll remain here when you go to the airport. 3. to be left after the removal, loss, destruction, etc., of all else: The front wall is all that remains of the fort. 4. to be left to be done, told, shown, etc.: Only the dishwashing remains. 5. to be reserved or in store. noun 6. Usually, remains. something that remains or is left. 7. remains. miscellaneous, fragmentary, or other writings still unpublished at the time of an author's death. traces of some quality, condition, etc. a dead body; corpse. parts or substances remaining from animal or plant life that occur in the earth's crust or strata: fossil remains; organic remains. |
| Themselves | plural pronoun 1. an emphatic form of them or they : The authors themselves left the theater. The contract was written by the partners themselves. 2. a reflexive form of they (used as the direct or indirect object of a verb or the object of a preposition): They washed themselves quickly. The painters gave themselves a week to finish the work. The noisy passengers drew attention to themselves. |
| Poor | adjective, poorer, poorest. 1. having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: |
| Lake | noun 1. a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land. 2. any similar body or pool of other liquid, as oil. |
| Swamps | noun 1. a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation. verb (used with object) 2. to flood or drench with water or the like. 3. Nautical. to sink or fill (a boat) with water. 4. to plunge or cause to sink in or as if in a swamp. 5. to overwhelm, especially to overwhelm with an excess of something: He swamped us with work. 6. to render helpless. 7. to remove trees and underbrush from (a specific area), especially to make or cleave a trail (often followed by out). 8. to trim (felled trees) into logs, as at a logging camp or sawmill. verb (used without object) 9. to fill with water and sink, as a boat. 10. to sink or be stuck in a swamp or something likened to a swamp. 11. to be plunged into or overwhelmed with something, especially something that keeps one busy, worried, etc. |
| Marshes | noun 1. a tract of low wet land, often treeless and periodically inundated, generally characterized by a growth of grasses, sedges, cattails, and rushes. |
| Spears | noun 1. a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached. 2. a soldier or other person armed with such a weapon; spearman : an army of 40,000 spears. 3. a similar weapon or stabbing implement, as one for use in fishing. 4. the act of spearing. adjective 5. spear side. verb (used with object) 6. to pierce with or as with a spear. verb (used without object) 7. to go or penetrate like a spear: The plane speared through the clouds |
| Meaning | noun 1. what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word. 2. the end, purpose, or significance of something: What is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of this intrusion? 3. Linguistics. the nonlinguistic cultural correlate, reference, or denotation of a linguistic form; expression. linguistic content (opposed to expression ). adjective 4. intentioned (usually used in combination): She's a well-meaning person. 5. full of significance; expressive: a meaning look. |
| Scores | Puntuaciones |
| Shortcomings | Deficiencias |
| Fraud | Fraude |
| Must | Debe |
| overshadowed | Eclipsado |
| That | ese |
| Underscore | Subrayados |
| To overlap | Solapar Superponer |
| stringent | Riguroso |
| Rules | Reglas |
| Thus | Así |
| Yet | Además Todavía Incluso Sin embargo |
| Counterwaves | Contraola |
| Apponintment | nombramiento |
| ALTHOUGH | AUNQUE |
| throughout | Durante |
| Supply | Suministrar |
| Seek | Buscar |
| Lakelihood | Probabilidad |
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