Vocablulary TRS501 (FE)

Global warming will accelerate the deforestation of giant glacier in Antarctica, thus lead to rising sea level. What does accelerate in this context mean?

• Speed up of a process

• Speed up of a moving vehicles

• Speed up of time

• Someone ages up quickly

A high savings rate is cited as one factor for Japan's strong economic growth because it means the availability of abundant investment capital.

The synonym is "copious".

What does it mean?

• more than enough

• smaller or les than before

• not enough

• moderate

The clouds you see in the sky, the wind that is moving the trees or the flag in your school yard, even the sunshine you feel on your face—these are all a result of Earth’s atmosphere . What does atmosphere means?

• climate change

• the air we breathe every day

• the mixture of gasses around the earth

• the weather

After the economic crisis of 1930 , there was a major shift in the American economy . What does shift means?

• be bigger

• change

• be better

• develop

The 2008 financial crisis lead to the evaporation of millionaires' money, houses and jobs. What evaporation in this context mean?

• The process of a liquid changing to a gas

• The vanishing of someone possession

• The vanishing of the sea people

• The fall of Constantinople

Students who do not wear school uniforms are in violation of school rules. Violation refer to....

• Permission

• Agreement

• Infraction

• Stimulation

Son guesses he could not fit in The Voice. That means....

• He is accepted

• He is not suitable

• He is deserving

• He has potential

It can be difficult to disentangle fact from myth. What is the meaning of myth in this context?

• A commonly believed and scientifically and historically proven true idea

• The Soviet's conquest of Berlin

• A set of stories that explain the early history a group of people or super natural events that happen in the past and can not be answered by modern science

• A commonly believed but false idea

We shouldn't confuse solitude with isolation. They are two separate things.

• the condition of being alone, especially when this makes you feel unhappy.

• the integration of a country to other country after being annexed

• the situation of being alone by choice

• the independent of former soviet countries

When I heard that the plane crashed, I presumed that Long was dead.

• to give a description of sth

• to inform sb of sth

• to state sth as truth

• to believe sth to be true