Vocabulary

VOCABULARY

1.-DETOUR

N.

1. A roundabout way or course, especially a road used temporarily instead of a main route.

2. A deviation from a direct course of action.

To go or cause to go by a roundabout way.

A deviation from a direct, usually shorter route or course of action

VB

To deviate or cause to deviate from a direct route or course of action

Deviation from those parts of a route where movement has become difficult or impossible to ensure continuity of movement to the destination. The modified part of the route is known as a "detour.

SYNONYM

Bypass, byway, circuitous route, deviation, diversion, indirect course, roundabout way.

SENTENCE

It would be preferable if national governments channelled this money directly to their local governments without a European detour.

2.-DUMPED

V. dumped, dump•ing, dumps

V.TR. 1. To release or throw down in a large mass.

2. To empty (material) out of a container or vehicle: dumped the load of stones. To empty out (a container or vehicle), as by overturning or tilting.

3. To get rid of; discard: a fine for dumping trash on public land; dumped the extra gear overboard. Informal To discard or reject unceremoniously: dump an old friend.

4. To place (goods or stock, for example) on the market in large quantities and at a low price.

5. Computer Science To transfer (data stored internally in a computer) from one place to another, as from a memory to a printout, without processing.

6. Slang To knock down; beat.

SYNONYM

Fling down, let fall, and throw down

SENTENCES

1. A place where refuse is dumped: a garbage dump; a nuclear waste dump.

2. Are the prices dumped prices?

3.-COP

A cop is a policeman or policewoman. Frank didn't like having the cops know where to find him.

Cop-out.- ( cop-outs plural ) If you refer to something as a cop-out, you think that it is a way for someone to avoid doing something that they should do.

N-COUNT.- disapproval

To decline to vote is a cop-out..., The film's ending is an unsatisfactory cop-out.

Cop out.- Abandon, desert, dodge, quit, renege, renounce, revoke, skip, skive (Brit. slang) withdraw

PHRASAL VERB:

To avoid fulfilling a commitment or responsibility; renege: copped out on my friends; copped out by ducking the issue.

SYNONYM

Policeman or Policewoman

Abandon, desert, dodge, quit, renege, renounce, revoke, and skip, skive

SENTENCES

A cops-and-robbers film, television programme, or book is one whose story involves the police trying to catch criminals.

4.-ALIVE

ADJ.

Having life; living.

In existence or operation; active: keep your hopes alive.

Full of living or moving things; abounding: a pool alive with trout.

Full of activity or animation; lively: a face alive with mischief.

ALIVE TO

Aware of; sensitive to: alive to the moods of others. Alert to, awake to, aware of, cognizant of, eager for, sensible of, sensitive to, susceptible to

ALIVE WITH

Abounding in, bristling with, bustling with, buzzing with, crawling with, hopping with, infested with, jumping with, lousy with (slang) overrun by, packed with, swarming with, teeming with, thronged with

SYNONYMS

Animate, active.

SENTENCES

The word of God is alive and active

Our prayers are with those who are still alive but remain in peril.

5.- REINDEER

N

A large deer of the Arctic and northern regions of Eurasia and

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