Exercise 2. Read the definitions of the words. Translate and memorize them

- to affect – to cause some result or change; influence;

- to assure – 1) to tell someone something positively in order to dispel potential doubts; 2) make something certain to happen;

- boot – a sturdy item of footwear covering the foot, ankle and the lower leg;

- to cease – to stop;

- to charge – 1) to demand as a price for service rendered or goods supplied; 2) to accuse someone of something; 3) to entrust with a task; 4) to store electrical energy in a battery; 5) to load or fill to the full or proper extent;

- circulation – 1) the flow of gas or liquid around the closed system; 2) movement of something from person to person, from place to place (money, news); 3) an average number of copies of a newspaper, magazine, that are regularly sold;

- to connect – 1) to join, unite; 2) to join by telephone;

- to deplete – reduce the number or quantity of something;

- to determine – 1) to form a firm intention or decision; 2) to fix or find out exactly, by making calculations, collecting information;

- to estimate – 1) to form an opinion about; 2) to calculate in value, size, amount;

- to fail – 1) not to do what is expected, wanted or needed; 2) to be unsuccessful in (a test or exam); 3) to be unable; 4) to stop operating properly; 5) to disappoint or leave at a difficult time; 6) to lose strength, to become weak;

failure – 1) lack of success; 2) a person, attempt or thing that fails; 3) the non-performance or non-production of something; 4) inability of a business to continue, especially through lack of money;

- fluid – 1) liquid; 2) having the quality of flowing, not solid;

- to follow – 1) to come, arrive, go, leave after, move behind in the same direction; 2) to happen or take place directly after; 3) to go after in order to catch; 4) to keep in sight, watch;

- glove – a covering for the hand having separate parts for each finger;

- helmet – hard protective hat;

- to incapacitate – to make someone unable to do something;

- insole – 1) a removable sole worn in a shoe for warmth or to improve the fit; 2) the fixed inner sole of a boot or shoe;

- to irritate – 1) to make angry or impatient; 2) to make painful and sore;

- knee – the middle joint of the leg, where it bends;

- to locate – 1) to find the position of; 2) to fix or set in a certain place;

- lungs – two breathing organs in the chest of humans and some animals;

- to protect – to keep safe from harm or injury;

- rate – 1) measure, quantity or frequency; 2) the speed with which something moves, happens or changes; 3) fixed price paid or charged for something;

- regulation – an official rule or order;

- to rescue – to save from a dangerous or distressing situation;

- to search – to look at, trough, into, examine carefully and thoroughly in order to find something;

- self-contained – 1) complete, or having all that is needed, in itself; 2) not depending on or influenced by others;

- shield – a broad piece of metal, wood or strong plastic that is carried as a protection against being hit;

- simultaneous – happening or done exactly at the same time;

- to spread – 1) to cover a large area or period of time; 2) to open, reach, stretch out, so as to cover or include a greater area, be longer, wider, broader;

- sulfur – chemical element, a combustible non-metal which typically occurs as yellow crystals;

- vulnerable – exposed to being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally;

- wool – the soft thick hair which sheep and some goats have on their bodies, cloth made from it;

- wound – an injury to living tissue caused by a cut, blow, or other impact.

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