Expert 7.5 U1

needing to be dealt with immediately

• urgent
• trivial
• insignificant
• minor

to think or guess that something is smaller, cheaper, easier etc than it really is

• underestimate
• overestimate
• exaggerate
• overvalue

if a situation is conducive to something, it provides conditions that make it easy for you to work, rest, etc.

• conducive
• hindering
• obstructive
• unfavorable

if people or things have potential, they have a natural ability or quality that could develop to make them good

• potential
• limitation
• incapacity
• inadequacy

to take someone’s attention away from something by making them look at or listen to something else

• distract
• focus
• concentrate
• absorb

the effect or influence that an event, situation, etc has on someone or something

• impact
• cause
• origin
• source

to make certain (that something will happen properly)

• ensure
• neglect
• ignore
• overlook

if two things alternate, or if you alternate them, they happen one after the other in a repeated pattern

• alternate
• continue
• sustain
• persist

to combine things in order to make them more effective or easier to deal with

• consolidate
• separate
• divide
• fragment

to give support to an opinion, idea, or feeling, and make it stronger

• reinforce
• weaken
• undermine
• erode