Vocabulary Unit 4.

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Vocabulary Unit 4.

1. Storage: the action or method of storing something for future use.


2. Digest: break down (food) in the alimentary canal into substances that can be
absorbed and used by the body.
3. Liver: a large lobed glandular organ in the abdomen of vertebrates, involved in many
metabolic processes.
4. Insulate: protect (something) by interposing material that prevents the loss of heat
or the intrusion of sound.
5. Odor: the quality that makes a thing perceptible to the olfactory sense.
6. To drown: die through submersion in and inhalation of water.
7. Sunbathing: the activity of sitting or lying in the sun, especially to tan the skin.
8. Damage: physical harm caused to something in such a way as to impair its value,
usefulness, or normal function.
9. Lung: One of a pair of organs in the chest that supplies the body with oxygen, and
removes carbon dioxide from the body
10. Unwanted: not or no longer desired.
11. Poisonous: (of a substance or plant) causing or capable of causing death or illness if
taken into the body.
12. Harmful: causing or likely to cause harm.
13. Crossword: a puzzle in which words are filled into a pattern of numbered squares in
answer to correspondingly numbered clues and in such a way that the words read
across and down.
14. Strengthen: make or become stronger.
15. Knock off: make sense of stopping work,
16. Printing: the production of books, newspapers, or other printed material.
17. Tissue: any of the distinct types of material of which animals or plants are made,
consisting of specialized cells and their products.
18. Elderly: (of a person) old or aging.
19. Disagreement: lack of consensus or approval.
20. A pipe dream: an unattainable or fanciful hope or plan.
21. Decline: politely refuse (an invitation or offer). /
22. Bankruptcy: (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or
less; decrease.
23. Injury: physical harm or damage to someone's body caused by an accident or an
attack.
24. Ahead of: earlier than planned or expected.
25. Overwhelming: to cause to be overcome with emotion as a result of an amount of
something (work, stress, etc.)
26. Outperform: to perform better than
27. Soaring: flying or rising high in the air.
28. Decrease: make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree.
29. Infancy: the state or period of early childhood or babyhood.
30. Get cracking: to start doing something or going somewhere immediately.
31. A castle in the air: plans that have very little chance of happening. Impossible and
improbable.
32. Tailoring: the work or workmanship of a tailor.
33. Frown on: to disapprove of (something)
34. Jump all over: to criticize someone suddenly and severely
35. Pick holes in: to find mistakes in something someone has done or said, to show that
it is not good or not correct.
36. Poke (someone): to push a finger or other object into someone or something, or to
push something through or past someone or something.
37. Refund: pay back (money), typically to a customer who is not satisfied with goods or
services bought.
38. Endeavors: try hard to do or achieve something.
39. Outrun: run or travel faster or farther than.
40. Feat: an achievement that requires great courage, skill, or strength.
41. Blind: unable to see; having severely impaired or absolutely no sense of sight;
sightless
42. Struggle: make forceful or violent efforts to get free of restraint or constriction.
43. Sonar: a system that uses sound waves to find the position of objects.
44. Seizure: a condition in which one’s body moves uncontrollably for a short time.
45. Inherited trait: refers to a trait or variants encoded in DNA and passed from parent
to offspring during reproduction
46. Boredom: the state of being weary and restless through lack of interest.
47. Strip away: to remove (something that covers a surface)
48. Burn: to insult or defeat.
49. Glowing: expressing great praise.
50. Suffocate: die or cause to die from lack of air or inability to breathe.

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