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Inventive and Creative Minds

UNIT 3  : CREATIVE INVENTIVE MINDS

Words

Definition

Create

Make something exist

Invent

Make/ create something new

Discover

Learn or find out about something

Design

Decide how something will look and work

Devise

Create/ invent a plan/ a subject / an object

Originate

Begin something new

Via

Through

To release 

To launch

To dedicate… to …

To devote one's time to

Giant

Very large

To envision

To imagine a future generation

Initial

First

Eager (adj)

Full of strong desire

Passion

Strong feeling / love / hate / anger

To manufacture

To make / to produce goods

Intensive

Deep

Renowned

Famous

To occur

To happen / to take place

To enable

To make it possible for someone to do something

To magnify

To make sth bigger than it really is

To share the credit for

To share praise and respect

Guidance

Help or advice given to someone

Patent

The right to be the only person to use or sell a product or invention

Endowment

Money paid to provide a regular income for school

Actual

Real / exact

Chair

Professorship

Glee

A feeling of great pleasure/ happiness

Metaphor

An imaginative use of a word to describe someone

A bay

A tree / a part of a large lake

To toss

To move up and down

Paradox

A statement containing opposite ideas

Couch

A long comfortable seat

Pensive

Thinking deeply about … in a sad way

To wander

To walk around … without a sense of purpose or direction

To wonder

To feel curious about …/ to feel surprise and admiration

Gay [gei]

Happy / cheerful

Simile

A comparison usually used with ‘as'/ ‘like'/ ‘as though'

Bliss

Great joy / perfect happiness

A host

Someone who receives others as guest

Omnipresent

Be present everywhere at all times

A strong effect

Impact

Surprising

Astonishing

To change/ to modify

To shift from…to…

Last / final

Ultimate

Kingdom

Realm

To face

To confront

Fears/ issues/worries

Concerns

Strong

Iron-fisted

To inhabit

To reside

Essential/ very important

Key

sound (n)

A sensation detected by ears

To opt out of

To choose not to be involved

Trend/ trendy (adj)

General tendency

Diversity

The state of being varied

To strengthen

To make strong

To retain

To keep something / to secure

At the expense of

With the sacrifice of…/

Recognition

Public praise/ reward

Significant

Considered important

Potential

Capable of being developed

to hold someone accountable for sth

To consider someone responsible for…

 

 

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