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1.Ongoing

If something isongoing, it is currently inaction/currently happening.

Synonyms: current

It warned investors it wouldstruggle to sell MTS and that such a sale would harm itsongoingbusiness.

Often in news reports, referencewill be made to an ongoing investigation because the police are in the midst ofit at the moment of reporting.

If your teachers say that therewill be ongoing testing throughout the year, you won't be done with it untilyou get out of school.

2.a perpetual struggle

continuing forever orindefinitely

Use the adjective perpetual todescribe something that never ends or changes.

The perpetual fireswhich maintain her world are suddenly cooling.

3.Driven by human curiosity

4.Reason(verb)

decide by reasoning; draw orcome to a conclusion;

We reasoned that itwas cheaper to rent than to buy a house

think logically;

The children must learn to reason

5.Lay foundations for much ofthe work that has followed

6.put forward

insist on having one's opinionsand rights recognized

Synonyms:assert

Republican governors inDemocratic-leaning states are especially vulnerable if policies putforward by Trump and the GOP Congress are disruptive in the states.

7.pick holes

8.falsify

To falsify is to alteror mangle something, like a message or document, in a way that distorts themeaning.

Three executives also wereindicted on charges that they falsified test reports.

He was convicted of falsifying healthcare records and spent nine months in prison in 2014.

prove false

falsify the theory

9.orbit(noun)

Toorbitis to follow a circular or elliptical path around a

central body.

Their work helped put John Glenn

intoorbit.

He saw Putin steadily remove

non-intelligence personnel from hisorbit.

10.spot

(n) a point located with respectto surface features of some region

The victory guaranteed White

River aspotin the quarterfinals.

catch sight of

ShespottedSam when he landed from his flight that December andimmediately leaped to embrace him.

11.speculative-speculation

Speculativedescribesvery risky and unproven ideas or chances/ not based on fact or investigation.

speculativeknowledge

By deciding not to get too

close, Harrigan effects a tentative advance toward greater, if stillspeculative, understanding.

12.deflection

a turning aside (of your courseor attention or concern)

adeflectionfrom his goal”

13.detector

Adetectoris a machine that responds to particular substances in a

consistent way.

Family:detect-detected-detective-detector

He wants to learn about malwaredetectorsand how to protect his computer from viruses.

14.to their astonishment

15.bounce

Bounceis a word for an up and down movement or recovery — like a

ball's bounce on the pavement or the stock market's rise after a crash.

He is looking tobounceback after hitting

He said in the past year, Purintonbouncedfrom one menial job to the next and was sometimes

drunk by mid-morning.

16.compelling

Compellingmeans attractive, or irresistible, or really, really convincing.

new andcompellingevidence

The statistics are undeniably

grotesque, yetcompellingin their rigid judgment.

17.particle

Aparticleis a small piece of anything.

18.geocentric

having the earth as the center

Synonyms:Ptolemaic

Antonyms:heliocentric

Every culture has leaped to thegeocentrichypothesis.

19.humour(n)

(Middle Ages) one of the four

fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and

physical state

20.aether

a medium that was once supposedto fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves

But the famous Michelson-Morley

experiment demonstrated that such anaetherdoes not exist.

21.apparatus(n)

equipment designed to serve aspecific function

Synonyms:setup

(anatomy) a group of body partsthat work together to perform a given function

Trump’sapparatusis also skillfully deploying subterfuge in order to

diminish public confidence to the point where it becomes impossible to

differentiate truths from lies.

the Harvardapparatus

22.cathode

The firm makes anodes andcathodesthat are used to purify and treat water.

n the 1990s, the Chinese

government spent vast sums building a television industry, only forcathoderay tubes to become outdated.

23.eclipse

Have you ever seen aneclipse? That's when the sun, earth or moon cross paths

and cover each other up temporarily.

Americans will also get to watch

aneclipseof

their own soon enough.

24.Pythagora

Greek philosopher andmathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem; considered to be the firsttrue mathematician (circa 580-500 BC)

25.Sicily

the largest island in theMediterranean; the Italian region on the island of Sicily

26.crater(n)

a bowl-shaped depression formedby the impact of a meteorite or bomb; a bowl-shaped geological formation at thetop of a volcano

Vehicles can’t move through most

streets because of debris and bombcraters.

27.immortal

Immortaldescribes what will never die.

For many years, Cubans regarded

him as something close toimmortal.

28.Mediteraranean

the largest inland sea; betweenEurope and Africa and Asia

29.navigational-navigation

Navigationis all about figuring out how to get somewhere.

30.supernova

a star that explodes and becomesextremely luminous in the process

n the future, they hope to

capturesupernovaat even earlier stages, within an hour or less of

the explosions happening.

31.ingenious(adj)

Somethingingeniousshows creativity and inventiveness. If someone compares you to

Einstein, they're implying that you, too, areingenious.

32.distillation

the process of purifying aliquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors

33.dissection

cutting so as to separate intopieces

34.combustion

the act of burning something

internalcombustionengine

35.discredit

Discreditmeans to cause mistrust or cast the accuracy of something into

doubt. If you say that schooling is important to you, but you never study, your

actionsdiscredityou and your words.

36.Palaeontology

the earth science that studiesfossil organisms and related remains

Synonyms:fossilology,paleontology

The research is published in the

journalPalaeontology.

37.untotored

lacking in schooling

anuntutoredgenius

Synonyms:unschooled,untaught

The point seemed to be to remind

Americans that Mr. Trump can be crude, nasty anduntutored.

38.decode

When you translate a message

from symbols or code into language, youdecodeit. British code breakers worked during World War II todecodeGermany's coded messages.

But at age 20, she was mature

enough to complete Carmen’s sentences anddecodehis facial expressions.

39.chromosome(n)

Achromosomeis a strand of DNA that is encoded with genes. In most cells,

humans have 22 pairs of thesechromosomesplus the two sexchromosomes(XX in females and XY in males) for a total of 46.

40.daunting

discouraging through fear

Somethingdauntingcan scare you off. If you have a lot of studying to do, it may

seem like adauntingtask.

The winner will face thedauntingtask of rebuilding the party and appeasing voters

who want a political war against Mr. Trump.

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