WORDFORM 3 (DHDBBB 24-25)

steadfastly

FAST

📌strongly and without stopping:

She was == in support of women's rights.

benefactor

BENEFIT

📌someone who gives money to help an organization, society, or person

installation

INSTALL

📌the act of putting furniture, a machine, or a piece of equipment into position and making it ready to use :

Do you have to pay extra for ==?

📌the act of putting a computer program onto a computer so that the computer can use it:

You will receive a message confirming correct == of the program.

📌a place where there are buildings and equipment that have a particular, especially military, purpose:

a nuclear ==

📌an occasion when someone is put in an important job or position:

The == of the new archbishop will take place in January.

📌a form of modern sculpture where the artist uses sound, movement, or space as well as objects in order to make an often temporary work of art:

The new == adds an exciting interactive element to the museum's central atrium.

focal

FOCUS

📌central and important:

== figure

The == figure of the movie is Annette Corley, a dancer who has boyfriend troubles.

resourcefulness

RESOURCE

📌the ability to make decisions and act on your own:

This film reveals their == in overcoming appalling weather and treacherous terrain.

== in doing sth

overstretch

STRETCH

📌to try to make a person or organization do more than is possible with the available money, equipment, people, etc. :

== yourself Make sure you don't == yourself financially .

Buyers should ensure that they do not ==, but stay well within their budget.

📌to claim that something has more truth or importance than it really has:

One area in which she == is her insistence on the author's realism.

📌to reach or move a part of your body too far:

Do not == to the point where you feel pain or tingling.

📌to use the name of an existing brand (= a particular named product or service) for too many other products or services:

Loss of brand identity is a risk if a firm == a brand name to products without an established association.

methodical

METHOD

📌Methodical people do things in a very ordered, careful way:

Tom is a very == person and writes lists for everything.

📌done in a very ordered, careful way:

== work

a methodical approach

automaker

AUTO

📌a big company that makes cars:

The nation's number three == set an all-time monthly sales record in June.

unassuming

ASSUME

📌Someone who is == is quiet and shows no wish for attention or admiration:

He was shy and == and not at all how you expect an actor to be.

headfirst

HEAD

📌with your head in front of the rest of your body while you move forward:

She dived == into the pool.

free-liver

LIVE

📌a person who lives freely, indulges in pleasures, and often avoids strict rules or conventional restraints—especially when it comes to lifestyle, eating, drinking, or moral behavior.

He was a == in his youth, traveling the world and living by his own rules.

distaff

STAFF

📌involving women; female:

Giro d'Italia femminile is the == version of the famed cycling race.

‼️‼️the ==side

female members of a family; especially used to talk about people related to someone through their mother:

In 1948 Joanna's grandmother on the == side won the title.

correspondent

CORRESPOND

📌a person employed by a newspaper, a television station, etc. to report on a particular subject or send reports from a foreign country:

a war ==

📌someone who writes letters:

I'm a terrible ==- I never seem to get the time to write.

cliché-ridden

RIDE

📌describe something—usually a piece of writing, speech, or idea—that is full of clichés, meaning overused phrases, expressions, or ideas that have lost their originality or impact.

conflict-ridden

RIDE

📌describe something that is deeply affected, burdened, or overwhelmed by conflict—whether that conflict is physical, emotional, political, or interpersonal.

The region remains == after decades of civil war.

apartheid

APART

📌a system of keeping groups of people separate and treating them differently, especially when this results in disadvantage for one group:

She is a long-time critic of what she calls "gender ==" in her country.

confiscate

FISCAL

📌to take a possession away from someone when you have the right to do so, usually as a punishment and often for a limited period, after which it is returned to the owner:

Miss Edwards == my phone!

befit

FIT

📌to be suitable or right for someone or something:

She was buried in the cathedral, as == someone of her position.

atypical

TYPE

📌not having all the characteristics that you would usually expect from a particular group of things:

The social behaviour of lions is considered == of the cat family.

diabetic

DIET

📌a person who has diabetes (N)

📌relating to diabetes:

a == coma

📌made for diabetic people to eat:

== chocolate/jam

low-maintenance

MAINTAIN

📌not needing much attention, effort, help, or money:

The prospect of moving to a new, == house with a smaller garden is very attractive.

durable

ENDURE

📌able to last and be used for a long time without becoming damaged:

The machines have to be made of == materials.

embankment

BANK

📌an artificial slope made of earth and/or stones:

a river/road/railway ==

personification

PERSON

📌a person who is a perfect example of something:

She played a character who was the == of evil.

📌the act of giving a human quality or characteristic to something which is not human, or an example of this:

Nemesis, in Greek mythology, is the == of divine justice and the vengeance of the gods.

privatization

PRIVATE

📌the act of selling an industry, company or service that was owned and controlled by the government, so it becomes privately owned and controlled:

The last few years have seen the privatization of many industries previously owned by the state.

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nonsensical

SENSE

📌silly or stupid:

It's == to blame all the world's troubles on one man.

Their methods of assessment produce == results.

unstintingly

STINT

📌in a way that is extremely generous with time, money, praise, help, etc. :

give ==

Many people gave == of their time and energy to reduce the difficulties experienced by the refugees.

disproportionate

PROPORTION

📌too large or too small in comparison to something else, or not deserving its importance or influence:

== number There are a == number of girls in the class.

== to

The country's great influence in the world is == to its relatively small size.

despicably

DESPISE

📌in a very unpleasant or bad way, causing strong feelings of dislike:

I think you behaved ==.

indeterminate

DETERMINE

📌not measured, counted, or clearly known:

== number

An == number of workers have already been exposed to the danger.

outlive

LIVE

📌to live or exist longer than someone or something:

He == all of his brothers.

unprecedented

PRECEDE

📌never having happened or existed in the past:

This century has witnessed environmental destruction on an == scale.

inconceivable

CONCEIVE

📌impossible to imagine or think of:

== to

The idea that they might not win was ==to them.

It would be == for her to change her mind.

forewarn

WARN

📌to tell someone that something unpleasant is going to happen:

[ + (that) ] The employees had been == (that) the end-of-year financial results would be poor.

💐 forewarned is forarmed

said to mean that if you know about something before it happens, you can be prepared for it

ill-advised

ADVISE

📌not wise, and likely to cause problems in the future:

an == career move

meddlesome

MEDDLE

📌often getting involved in situations where you are not wanted, especially by criticizing in a damaging or annoying way

despoil

SPOIL

📌to make a place less attractive especially by taking things away from it by force:

Many of the tombs had been ==.

dauntless

DAUNT

📌showing determination and no fear:

In spite of the scale of the famine, the relief workers struggled on with == optimism.

contemptuous

CONTEMPT

📌expressing contempt:

a == manner/laugh

undershoot

SHOOT

📌to fail to achieve a particular result:

The group said it would == its sales target by a modest margin.

unbeknownst

KNOW

💐== to sb

📌without a particular person knowing:

== to me, he had rented out the apartment while I was away.

arriviste

ARRIVE

📌a person who is trying to move into a higher class in society

edgewise

EDGE

📌with the narrowest part going first:

We should be able to get the couch through ==.

extemporization

TEMPORARY

📌a performance that an actor, musician, etc. has not prepared or planned, or the act of performing in this way:

The familiar pieces are all at the beginning of the programme, followed by ==.