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Vocabulary Unit 12 Fernanda Calderón Mariana Rosado - Coggle Diagram
Vocabulary Unit 12 Fernanda Calderón Mariana Rosado
Vocabulary
Infertile: An infertile person, animal, or plant cannot have babies.
Decrease: To become less, or to make something become less.
Rise: To move upwards.
Barren: Unable to produce plants or fruits.
Expand: To increase in size, number, or importance, or to make something increase in this way.
Narrow: Having a small distance from one side to the other.
Advance: To go or move something forward.
Disappear: If people or things disappear, they go somewhere where they cannot be seen or found.
Forbidden: Not allowed, especially by law.
Banned: An official order that prevents something from happening.
Ascend: To move up or climb something.
Infrequent: Not happening very often.
Recycle: To use something again for a different purpose.
Unwanted objects: Objects that brake the picture from being the way it would look perfect.
A Changing World
Destruction of the balance of nature: Disrupting the elements that make nature balanced.
Interference with the food chain: Divide species and modify a food chain.
Climate change: Changes in the earth’s weather.
Destruction of the environment: Distructing natural elements form an environment.
World: He earth, with all its countries, peoples and natural features.
Energy: The strength, effort and enthusiasm required for physical or mental activity.
Earth: The world; the planet that we live on.
Disastrous effect on our lifestyles: something that changes drasticly from our life styles.
Destruction of wildlife: killing of animals.
Change of habitat for animals: when the habitar of the animals is different than what they had or need.
Species becoming extinct: Animals at risk of no longer existing.
Ground: The solid surface of the earth.
Common phrases related to:
Thin in the ground: Exist in small numbers or amounts.
For the world: For any reason.
Out of this world: Extremely enjoyable or impressive.
Costs of the world: That it is very expensive.
Think the world of you: To have an extremely high opinion of someone or something.
The world of good: Made them feel better or improved their life.
Get off the ground: To begin to operate or proceed in a successful way.
In a world of your own: Thinking your own thoughts and not giving much attention to what is happening around you.
Phrasal verb “set”
Set down: to stop and allow somebody to get off.
Set in: to begin and seem likely to continue.
Set off (two meanings):
To start a process or series of events.
To make something more attractive or easy to notice by being placed near it.
Set out (two meanings):
To arrange or display things.
To present ideas, facts, etc. in an organized way, in speech or writing.
Set up: to provide somebody with the money that they need in order to do something.