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Nova S42E7: English vocabulary

Season 42, Episode 7Documentary

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  • deprecate

    to say that you do not approve of something

  • hurtle

    to move very fast, often in a wild or uncontrolled way

  • cannoned

    to hit or move into something with sudden force

  • rhesus

    a rhesus monkey, a small brown monkey often used in research

  • abstracted

    lost in thought and not paying attention

  • permeate

    to spread through something and fill it; to pass into every part of something

  • amenable

    willing to accept suggestions or changes

  • ratting

    the act of hunting or trapping rats

  • visceral

    strong and instinctive, rather than calm or logical

  • mooned

    to show your bare buttocks to someone as a joke or insult

  • audacious

    showing a willingness to take bold risks

  • dissonance

    a lack of harmony between musical notes or sounds

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  • eon

    a very long period of time

  • meander

    to move or travel in a slow, relaxed, or indirect way

  • feathering

    the feathers fixed to the back of an arrow or dart to help it fly straight

  • regularity

    the quality of happening or appearing at regular intervals

  • interconnect

    to connect things so that each one is linked to the others

  • fascinate

    to attract and hold someone's attention or interest strongly

  • clouding

    the act or process of becoming less clear or transparent

  • lemur

    a small primate that lives in trees and is native to Madagascar

  • variability

    the fact that something changes or can be different

  • practicality

    the quality of being useful and easy to use in real life

  • meteorologist

    a person who studies weather and predicts it

  • quantify

    to describe or measure something in numbers

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