101.tramp
eg1:The cattle themselves helped plant the fresh grass year after year for they trampled the natural seeds firtmly into the soil to be watered by the melting snow of winter and the occasional rains of spring
eg2:When workmen were tramping through a field, they found a norrow steel chimney protruding through the grass
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102.tropical
phrase for:tropical condition;tropical disease;tropical rainforest;tropical marine climate
eg1:We've known for a long time that maternal education is important,says a scholar of the London school of Hygiene and tropical Medicine.
eg2:Ecologists have assumed that tropical ecosystems were shaped entirely by natural forces
eg3:Asia extends across the frigid,temperate and tropical zones
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103.uncertainty
phrase for:life's uncertainties;the uncertainties of old age
eg1:In theory,they must prove that the EPA's foot-dragging has caused them some specific harm that regulation might remedy-a tall order in a field as fraught with uncertainty as climatology
eg2:These fluctuations of environment add another degree of uncertainty to the survival of many species
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104.urban
phrase for:urban areas;urban residents
eg1:This concentration of vehicles makes air quality in urban areas unpleasant
eg2:She examines the interplay between changing gender divisions and urban change
eg3:Once lovely countryside is absorbed by urban sprawl
sy:metropolitan;citified;municipal
ay:rustic;rural;
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105.wildlife
phrase for:wildlife zoo;wildlife area;wildlife trade
eg1:The act goes on to define public welfare, which should include'effects on soils,water,crops,vegetation,manmade materials,animals,wildlife,weather,visibiltiy and climate
eg2:Most of the wildlife are gentle and harmless in the rainforest
eg3:The pollution of the forest has seriously affected plant life and,to a lesser extent,wildlife
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106.zone
eg1:Short-day plants that flower in spring in the temperate zone are adapted to maximising seedling growth during the growing season.
eg2:There are many different climatic zones in Australia
eg3:Most of the private land in the park wasn't zoned or prorected in any way
sy:zone;district,region,area,section,belt
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107.accurate
eg1:To create accurate maps,latitude and longitude need to be known
eg2:It can take up to several hours to provide an accurate transcription of a few minutes of speech
eg3:They allow dictionaries to be more accurate and give a feel for how language is being used
sy:accurate;correct;exact;precise
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108.acoustic
eg1:Although the senses of taste and smell appear to have deteriorated, and vision in water appears to be uncertainsucn weaknesses are more than compensated for by cetaceans'well-developed acoustic sense
eg2:In the housese near the highway sepcial acoustic seal should be fitted to the doors to reduce noise
phrase for:audio visual;audio frequency
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109.attitude
phrase for:high/low atitude
eg1:Poor visibility necessitated a set of instrumental flight rules(IFR),under which the pilot relied on altitude and navigational information provided by the plane;s instrument panel to fly safely
eg2:Cook compared the time at the Royal Observatory,Greenwich to his local time determined via the altitude of the sun,moon or stars
eg3:One common type of coffee bean is called Robusta grown at altitudes of below 600metres
sy:elevation
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100.amplify
phrase for:amplify the signal
eg1:Our records are amplified with a growing body of temperature data from ice cores drilled in Antarctica,Greenland,the Peruvian andes,and other locations
eg2:Let me amplify so that you will understand the overall problem
sy:expand;increase
ay:deflate'shrink