Thẻ ghi nhớ: Unit 16 - vocab | Quizlet

brittle

easily broken

chip

lose a small piece from the surface or edge

compact

firmly packed together

crumb

small piece of e.g. bread or cake

crush

đám đông chen lấn xô đẩy nhau

dilute

To make a liquid less concentrated

dissolve

to make or become liquid

flake

fragment, bit, chip

friction

A force that opposes motion between two surfaces that are in contact

grain

Seed of a cereal grass

grind

To mechanically break down a food into a finer texture

hollow

empty

lump

cục, tảng than

mould

shape or form

opaque

impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light

pat

a light touch or stroke

scratch

cut, scrape, or wear away the surface of

scrub

to clean something by rubbing it hard with a brush

smash

break into pieces

speck

a tiny bit of something that can barely be seen

squash

to crush something into a flat shape

squeeze

to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

stack

chồng, đống (than,củi được nén rất chặt)

stiff

difficult to bend or move

stroke

vuốt ve

stuff

to put something inside another thing

substance

A single kind of matter that is pure and has a specific set of properties.

synthetic

(adj.) made or put together by people; (n.) something artificial

built-up

with a lot of buildings

bypass

to go around

demolish

to destroy

dwell

to live or reside

estate

large area of land that has one owner

evict

to force to leave

high-rise

very tall and having a lot of floors

inner city

the older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city

occupy

to take control of a place

skyline

the outline of a city seen against the sky