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rectify

to correct something or make something right:

I am determined to take whatever action is necessary to rectify the situation.

efficacy

the ability of something to produce the intended result:

The study is a serious attempt to understand the efficacy of cash incentives as a way of promoting learning.

confound

to confuse and very much surprise someone, so that they are unable to explain or deal with a situation:

confound someone by doing something A man has confounded doctors by recovering after he was officially declared dead.

circumvent

to avoid something, especially cleverly or illegally:

Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulations.

corroborate

to add proof to an account, statement, idea, etc. with new information:

Recent research seems to corroborate his theory.

disseminate

to spread or give out something, especially news, information, ideas, etc., to a lot of people:

One of the organization's aims is to disseminate information about the disease.

biomes

a region of the earth's surface and the particular combination of climate (= general type of weather), plants, and animals that are found in it:

Tropical rainforest is a very complex biome.

diadromous

fish species that migrate between freshwater and saltwater environments during their life cycle.

euryhaline

able to tolerate a wide range of salinity.

tilapia

a fish that lives in rivers and lakes, originally from Africa but now living in many different places where it is eaten as food:

Tilapia are farmed in many parts of the world.

salinity

the fact of containing salt of the amount of salt contained in something:

You should test the salinity of the water.

demarcate

to show the limits of something:

Parking spaces are demarcated by white lines.

conflate

to combine two or more separate things, especially pieces of text, to form a whole:

She conflated the three plays to produce a fresh new work.

landfill

the process of getting rid of large amounts of trash by burying it, or a place where trash is buried:

90 percent of American trash is dumped in landfill sites.

whirl

to (cause something to) turn around in circles:

She saw a mass of bodies whirling around on the dance floor.

shrivelled

dry, smaller than normal, and covered with lines as if by crushing or folding:

Those oranges were looking old and shrivelled, so I threw them out.

interactive

An interactive system or computer program is designed to involve the user in the exchange of information:

an interactive game/video

margin

the amount by which one thing is different from another:

The Senate approved the use of military force by a margin of 52 votes to 47.

supplant

to replace:

Printed books will soon be supplanted by e-books.

immense

extremely large in size or degree:

immense wealth/value

aggregation

the process of combining things or amounts into a single group or total:

Installation art - the aggregation of objects in a space - has long dominated the visual arts.

juveniles

relating to a young person who is not yet old enough to be considered an adult:

juvenile crime Juvenile crimes make up 25 percent of all police cases.

turbulent

involving a lot of sudden changes, arguments, or violence:

a turbulent marriage

scatter

to (cause to) move far apart in different directions:

The protesters scattered at the sound of gunshots.

ambient

(especially of environmental conditions) existing in the surrounding area:

ambient conditions/lighting/noise/temperature