UNIT 1

UNIT 1 access n [U] (11) when you have the right or opportunity to use or see something conclude v [I] (9) to decide something after studying all the information about it very carefully conduct research vp (9) to study a subject to find information about it consume v [T] (11) to use something such […]

Intial Z

zeal: intense interest; eagerness to accomplish some object zealous: enthusiastic; filled with or motivated by zeal zone: region; portion of the surface of a sphere; zoology: part of biology which relates to the animal kingdom

Initial Y

yacht: light ship used for private pleasure trips yard: rod; stick; branch; long piece of timber; measure of length, equaling three feet yawn: open the mouth wide with a deep inhalation, usually involuntarily from drowsiness, fatigue, or boredom yearn: pain; grieve; vex; be pained or distressed; feel deep pity, sympathy, or tenderness yeast: foam, or […]

Initial W

wade: paddle; walk through relatively shallow water wag: move one way and the other with quick turns; shake to and fro; move in vibrating; cause to vibrate wage: hazard on the event of a contest; stake; engage in, as a contest; adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; hire; employ wagon: any of various […]

Initial V

vacancy: absence; emptiness vacant: void of thought or knowledge; without an occupant or incumbent vacation: leisure time away from work; act of making something legally void vaccinate: perform or produce immunity vacuum: empty area or space; electrical home appliance that cleans by suction vague: imprecise; indistinct; not clearly expressed; inexplicit vain: having no real substance, […]

Initial U

ugly: offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; disagreeable aspect; unsightly ultimate: final; being the last or concluding; fundamental; elemental; extreme ultimately: as final consequence; at last; in the end ultrasonic: supersonic; higher in frequency than the range of sound perceptible to the human ear ultraviolet: wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X […]

Initial T

table: set resolution or proposal for future consideration; hold back to a later time tablet: a small flat compressed cake of some substance; a dose of medicine tack: small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head tackle: apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; act of […]

Initial S

sack: bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer’s purchases; enclosed space sacred: concerned with religion; worthy of respect or dedication sacrifice: offering of something to god; victim offered to god; surrender or loss of profit for higher object saddle: load or burden; put harness onto animal’s back to ride sag: sink, in the […]

Initial R

rack: framework for holding objects racket: thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched; broad wooden shoe or pattern for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground radar: measuring instrument to detect distant objects […]

Initial Q

qualification: an attribute that must be met qualified: restricted; having the appropriate qualifications for an office, position, or task qualify: make such as is required; give added or requisite qualities to; make legally capable qualitative: relating to quality; having the character of quality quantitative: expressed or expressible as a quantity; relating to measurement of quantity […]