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Week 6 Vocabulary

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  • (noun) the act of remembering and showing respect for someone who has died or a past event
    Remembrance
  • (noun) a wide road where traffic can travel fast for long distances between large towns
    Motorway
  • (adjective) having a slanting direction or position
    Oblique
  • (noun) a bird or animal that feeds on dead animals that it has not killed itself
    Scavenger
  • (noun) advice or information aimed at resolving a problem or difficulty, especially as given by someone in authority
    Guidance
  • (verb) to leave the ground and start flying
    Take off
  • (noun) an organism such as a bacterium or fungus that makes dead plant and animal material decay
    Decomposer
  • (noun) one of the parts of something
    Component
  • (noun) a thing given in recorgnition of one's service, effort, or achievement
    Reward
  • (noun) the distance above level or surface
    Height
  • (noun) the class or group of people who have a high social rank, especially from birth
    Nobility
  • (noun) the particular combination of qualities in a person or place that makes them different from others
    Character
  • (noun) A long piece of ground with a hard surface where aircraft take off and land at an airport
    Runway
  • (noun) [1] a device for determining directions by means of a magnetic needle/s pointing to the magnetic north   [2] an instrument for describing circles
    Compass
  • (noun) animals that get their energy from eating plants, and only plants
    Herbivores
  • (adjective) free from war or violence (calm and quiet) free from worries and annoyances
    Peaceful
  • (noun) the place where you get on or off trains at a railway station
    Platform
  • (noun) the part of the earth's environment where life exists
    Biosphere
  • (noun) the process by which organic matter exposed to minerals over a long period is turned into a stony substance
    Putrefaction
  • (noun) a short holiday in a city
    City break
  • (noun) a situation in which you experience problems, usually because of something you have done wrong or badly
    Trouble
  • (verb) to begin a journey by sea
    Set sail
  • (verb) to be caused by something
    Result
  • (adjective) straight
    Right
  • (adjective) things related to land or the planet Earth
    Terrestrial
  • (adjective) not or no longer desired
    Unwanted
  • (adjective) providing encouragement or emotional help
    Supportive
  • (noun) an argument or a situation in which people do not have the same opinion
    Disagreement
  • (adjective) available as another possibility
    Alternative
  • (verb) to bear something unpleasant or annoying or to keep going despite difficulties
    Tolerate