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an organization, a company, or a business: start learning
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It describes personal antipathy that stimulated scientific enterprise
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having or showing a wish to harm someone because you think that they harmed you; unwilling to forgive: start learning
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Extreme and unpleasantly vindictive elements of an individual scientist’s personality are revealed.
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not ashamed; without hiding behaviour or opinions that other people might consider unacceptable: start learning
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his book is the unashamedly upbeat story
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full of hope, happiness, and good feelings: start learning
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his book is the unashamedly upbeat story
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exciting and slightly shocking, especially because of relating to or suggesting sex: start learning
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A ... novel, story, film, etc. contains a lot of action or events that happen quickly. start learning
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it is a racy, pacy account
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to give something as an honour or present: start learning
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In this racy, pacy account, Sykes bestows nicknames on his seven European matriarchs
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in a way that is done or shown publicly or in an obvious way and not secret: start learning
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It is an overtly jolly book about a scientific breakthrough
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to want to have something very much, especially something that belongs to someone else: start learning
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Biographies are always coveted possessions
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a group of people or things with something in common, that exist at a particular time: start learning
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I recommend two of this year’s crop.
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causing or having a very sharp feeling of sadness: start learning
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The first is a poignant memoir
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closely connected or involved: start learning
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It is a story of a strange childhood bound up with the history of chemistry.
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giving a clear, strong message: start learning
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a neurologist has written eloquent accounts
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an arrangement of the symbols of chemical elements in rows and columns, showing similarities in chemical behaviour, especially between elements in the same columns start learning
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to move somewhere extremely quickly, usually in a straight line: start learning
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the Aurora Borealis, the dancing coloured lights that streak across polar skies.
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the fact of showing no care or respect for something: his theory – that the dancing lights arose from the interplay between the Earth’s magnetic field and charged particles streaming from the sun – was largely... start learning
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his theory was largely disregarded.
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to make the difference between two things less clear, or to make it difficult to see the exact truth about something: start learning
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some may find the blurring of fact and fiction
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easily and often becoming excited: start learning
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the excitable speculation about Birkeland’s final years a little trying.
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start learning
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Most people find him very trying. Some may find this book a little trying.
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a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder: What annoys me about these girls is their ... - they seem to have no desire to expand their horizons. start learning
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this book will shock you out of complacency,
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one of a group of people who work together: start learning
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a chilling first-hand account of a volcano eruption in 1993 that killed several of Williams’s colleagues.
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doing something dangerous and not worrying about the risks and the possible results: start learning
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He was found guilty of reckless driving. an irresistible insight into the reckless, darker side of science.
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If a reason, argument, etc. is ..., it makes you believe it or accept it because it is so strong: start learning
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It gives a compelling glimpse of the riskier aspects of scientific study.
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