VWO 6 Vocabulary 2024-2025 PDF

Vocabulary 1 - VWO 6 - 2024-2025 Without Water, There is No Life nr derivations definitions/ synonyms antonyms/opposites 1. perish (v) to die, especially in an accident or by survive; endure...

Vocabulary 1 - VWO 6 - 2024-2025 Without Water, There is No Life nr derivations definitions/ synonyms antonyms/opposites 1. perish (v) to die, especially in an accident or by survive; endure being killed, or to be destroyed; pass away, vanish 2. existence (n) the fact of something or someone nonexistence existing; being exist (v) existent (adj) presently existing in fact; actual, real 3. grim (adj) harsh or repellent of aspect; uninviting bright; cheerful harshness grimness (n) grimly (adv) 4. intensify (v) to become greater, more serious; decrease; diminish escalate; boost intensifying (adj) increasing in strength intensification (n) 5. abundant (adj) present in great quantity; plentiful scarce, meager abundantly (adv) in an abundant manner; scarcely; meagerly extravagantly; profusely abundance (n) ample quantity; wealth; affluence scarcity; lack 6. dreadful (adj) horrible; frightening delightful; good dreadfully (adj) causing fear or dead dreadfulness (n) awfulness; horridness 7. rife (adj) (of unpleasant things) common; overflowing limited; uncommon 8. accelerated (adj) occurring or developing at a faster rate decelerated than usual; sped up accelerate (v) quicken decelerate acceleration (n) the act or process of moving faster or happening more quickly deceleration 9. primary (adj) of first rank, importance, or value; principal; essential inessential primarily (adv) 10. burdensome (adj) not easily borne; oppressive; demanding light; trivial burdensomeness (n) heaviness; onerousness 11. cyclical (adj) periodic; seasonal cycle (n) to cycle (v) move in or follow a regularly repeated cyclically (adv) sequence of events in a way that happens in a particular order, and is often repeated Intersectie VWO 2004-2025  12. reduce (v) to become or to make something smaller increase; enlarge in size; to lessen; to diminish reduced (adj) rock-bottom; decreased increased; enlarged reduction (n) increase 13. phenomenon (n) something that exists and can be seen, felt, tasted, etc. phenomenal (adj) exceeding; unbelievably great usual; ordinary phenomenally (adv) exceedingly 14. fossil (n) remains of a plant/animal preserved from a past geologic age 15. bleak (adj) unwelcoming; dreary; grim cheerful; bright bleakly (adv) bleakness (n) bareness; desolation 16. frequent (adj) common; usual occasional; sporadic frequently (adv) frequency (n) regularity; the rate at which something occurs to frequent (v) to go/visit somewhere often 17. measurement (n) the act or process of measuring; diemension to measure (v) to take the size/dimensions of something 18. tributary (n) a river or stream that flows into a larger river or a lake 19. altered (adj) made different in some way; adapted; unchanged transformed to alter (v) to change; to adapt alteration (n) change 20. oscillate (v) to move repeatedly from one position stabilize to another; fluctuate; wobble oscillation (n) 21. to allocate (v) distribute; share out; assign allocation (n) 22. stricken (adj) afflicted or overwhelmed by or as if by unaffected disease, misfortune, or sorrow; harmed to strike (v) to hit; to harm 23. isolated (adj) happening or existing only once; separate; deserted isolate (v) isolation (n) 24. to necessitate (v) to cause something to be needed, or to make something necessary; require; entail necessity (n) something needed 25. unprecedented (adj) never having happened or existed in the past; customary; familiar remarkable; novel unprecedentedly (adv) 26. excessive (adj) too much; surpassing what is normal to exceed (v) excessively (adv) 27. to mitigate (v) to cause to become less harsh; alleviate worsen; intensify mitigation (n) mitigative (adj) Intersectie VWO 2004-2025 Word pairs: Make sentences with the following word pairs to bring out their meaning. No simple sentences 1. grim (adj) / grimly (adv) 2. to cycle (v) /cycle (n) 3. unprecedented (adj) /unprecedentedly (adv) 4. frequently (adv) /frequency (n) 5. intensify (v) /intensifying (adj) Intersectie VWO 2004-2025