Vocabulary

• profile: To write a short description of a person or group
• universal: Existing in all places at all times for all people
• element: Essential or particular part of something
• spiral: A continuous curve round a central point
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• patent: Legal protection for inventions or ideas
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• steal: A bargain; something bought very cheaply
• fragment: Part that is broken off of something
• corporation: Big company or a combination of several companies
• problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
• manufacture: To produce large numbers of products in a factory
• zip: To compress digital documents into one file
• pod: Seed container that grows on plants
• model: Being an excellent example of
• zipper: Device with interlocking teeth to close pants, etc.
• ale: Fermented alcoholic drink made from malt
• dole: To give out money, food etc.; distribute
• jest: To mock or make fun of; joke
• hooker: Slang name for a prostitute
• bo: BO is an acronym
• ma: Familiar way to address your mother
• ta: Hard grey lustrous metallic element
• lat: Broad flat muscle on either side of the back
• ich: ICH is an acronym
• po: A European river; flows into the Adriatic Sea
• te: TE is an acronym
• nim: Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining mat
• ani: Black tropical American cuckoo
• oka: Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds; a Turkish liquid unit equal to 1.3 pintsSouth American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers
• ci: CI is an acronym