Part 4
76 advocacy: (n.) /'ædvəkəsi/
🔸Advocacy is the act of supporting or recommending something.
76 advocacy: (n.) /'ædvəkəsi/
🔸Advocacy is the act of supporting or recommending something.
🔹"Janine's strong advocacy for the event made people want to attend."
77 advocate: (v.) /'ædvəkeɪt/
🔸To advocate a plan or idea is to support or suggest it in public.
🔹"The group advocated increased spending on education and schools."
78 aerial: (adj.) /'eriəl/
🔸When something is aerial, it relates to being in the air or flying.
🔹"The aerial photographer took pictures from the air balloon."
79 aesthetic / (US also) esthetic: (adj.) /es'θetɪk/
🔸If something is aesthetic, then it is concerned with a love of beauty.
🔹"The dresses were noteworthy for their aesthetic design."
80 affair: (n.) /ə'fer/
🔸An affair is an event or a thing that happened.
🔹"My wife and I attended a formal affair over the weekend."
81 affect: (v.) /ə'fekt/
🔸To affect someone or something is to have an influence over them.
🔹"The student's poor attitude affected the other students in the class."
82 affection: (n.) /ə'fek∫n/
🔸Affection is a feeling of liking someone or something.
🔹"Amanda has a lot of affection for her little sister Sarah."
83 affirm: (v.) /ə'fɜ:rm/
🔸To affirm is to say that something is true.
🔹"Using a graph, Malcolm affirmed the success of the company."
84 afflicted: (adj.) /ə'flɪktɪd/
🔸Afflicted means to suffer physically or mentally.
🔹"He was afflicted by pain in his right arm."
85 affluent: (adj.) /'æfluənt/
🔸If someone is affluent, they are wealthy.
🔹"People in the city are usually more affluent than people in the country."
86 afford: (v.) /ə'fɔ:rd/
🔸To afford something means you have enough money to pay for it.
🔹"I've been saving my money, so I can afford to buy a new bike."
87 afraid: (adj.) /ə'freɪd/
🔸When someone is afraid, they feel fear.
🔹"The woman was afraid of what she saw."
88 against: (prep.) /ə'genst/
🔸To be against something is to be touching it or opposed to it.
🔹"They both leaned against the wall."
89 agency: (n.) /'eɪdʒənsi/
🔸An agency is a business or service set up to act for others.
🔹"I went to a travel agency to help me arrange a flight home."
90 aggregate: (adj.) /'ægrɪgət/
🔸When a number is aggregate, it is made up of smaller amounts added together.
🔹"The company totaled its aggregate sales for the entire year."
91 aggression: (n.) /ə'gre∫n/
🔸Aggression is behavior that is mean or violent to others.
🔹"The problem was only made worse by Mark's aggression."
92 aggressive: (adj.) /ə'gresɪv/
🔸If someone is aggressive, then they constantly want to fight.
🔹"Nobody liked to play games with him because he was always too aggressive."
93 agree: (v.) /ə'gri:/
🔸To agree is to say “yes” or to think the same way.
🔹"A: The food is very good in that restaurant."
"B: I agree with you."
94 agriculture: (n.) /'ægrɪkʌlt∫ər/
🔸Agriculture is the growing of food and animals.
🔹"The farmer studied agriculture in college."
95 ahead: (prep.) /ə'hed/
🔸If something is ahead of something else, it is in front of it.
🔹"The blue car drove an ahead of us."
96 aid: (v.) /eɪd/
🔸To aid someone is to help them when they need something.
🔹"The doctor aided the boy after his accident."
97 ail: (v.) /eɪl/
🔸To ail a person or group is to cause difficulty or pain.
🔹"My brother went to the doctor to see what was ailing him."
98 aim: (n.) /eɪm/
🔸An aim is a goal someone wants to make happen.
🔹"My aim is to become a helicopter pilot."
99 aircraft: (n.) /'erkræft/ (plural aircraft)
🔸An aircraft is a vehicle that flies in the sky, such as an airplane or helicopter.
🔹"At the museum in the airport, you can see a lot of old aircraft."
100 airway: (n.) /'erweɪ/
🔸An airway is the passage by which air reaches a person's lungs.
🔹"Since he was sick, mucus would occasionally get stuck in his airway."