【個人的メモ】IELTSの勉強して知った (自分にとっての) 25の新語
My new words in IELTS test．
特別な整理もなく，羅列します…
- vulnerable = difficult to defend. I know the word “vulnerability” as a technical term.
- entrench = establish solidly
- smallholder = small farmer
- adverse = opposing. I know the word “adversarial” as a techical term in GAN!
- intuitive = perceiving directly, without rational thought
- prevalent = widespread
- mitigate = to make milder
- intervene (in-ter-VEEN) = to come between things/people
- procure = to get things for the purpose
- alleviate (uh-LEE-vee-eyt) = to make easier ~ mitigate
- hold up = show / raise up
- welfare = financial assistance to an individual/family from a city/state/national government
- subside = to sink to a lower level
- regarding = concerning
- compensate (KOM-puhn-seyt) = to counterbalance
- strangle = to kill by stopping the breath ~ choke
- beneficiary = a person who get benefits
- adequate (AD-i-kwit) = sufficient
- contend = to struggle in opposition
- yield = (1) to give up, (2) to produce
- peasant = farmer
- autonomous (aw-TON-uh-muh-s) = having autonomy; not subject to control from outside
- bargain = affordable purchase
- dictate = make an order, especially to write
- irrigate = to make a thing wet
