50 Words With Meaning and Sentence in English
Locate
Meaning: Discover the exact place or position of.
I located the town on a map.
Validate
Meaning: Check or prove the validity or accuracy of (something)
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
Communicate
Meaning: Share or exchange information, news, or ideas.
We need to communicate with each other.
Invest
Meaning: deposit, invest, bed, put to bed, credit, embark
He invested a lot of money in stocks.
Survey
Meaning: (of a person or their eyes) look carefully and thoroughly at (someone or something), especially so as to appraise them
Their research used a survey method.
Constrain
Meaning: Compel or force (someone) to follow a particular course of action
Children are constrained to work in the way the book dictates
Allocate
Meaning: Distribute (resources or duties) for a particular purpose
I would like to allocate more time to dating, though. I need to find a girlfriend.
Precede
Meaning: Come before (something) in time.
The rain was preceded by wind.
Channel
Meaning: Direct toward a particular end or object
Jessica flipped through the channels.
Enforce
Meaning: Compel observance of or compliance with (a law, rule, or obligation)
The laws were very difficult to enforce.
Faciliate
Meaning: make (an action or process) easy or easier.
Schools were located on the same campus to facilitate the sharing of resources.
Retain
Meaning: Continue to have (something); keep possession of.
We had to retain a lawyer.
Contribute
Meaning: Give (something, especially money) in order to help achieve or provide something.
Frank isn’t contributing, is he?
Emphasize
Meaning: Give special importance or prominence to (something) in speaking or writing.
She emphasized the importance of education.
Interact
Meaning: act in such a way as to have an effect on another; act reciprocally.
Alex seems to be unable to interact normally with other people.
Obtain
Meaning: Get, acquire, or secure (something)
He worked hard to obtain his objective.
Restrict
Meaning: Put a limit on; keep under control.
He restricted his drinking to one beer a day.
Alternate
Meaning: occur in turn repeatedly.
I may suggest an alternate plan?
Adapt
Meaning: Make (something) suitable for a new use or purpose; modify.
This book is adapted for children.
Comprehend
Meaning: Grasp mentally; understand.
Example Sentences: I can’t comprehend it.
Take out
to remove sth from a place
The dentist has to take out this tooth.
Take over
to get control
The firm was badly in need of restructuring when he took over.
Take on
to accept job or responsibility
Don’t take on more responsibilities than you can handle.
Take down
to write on a paper
I can take down the messages that come in.
Take after
to resemble sb in appearance
He takes after his uncle.
Let off
Meaning; to allow sb to leave
Example Sentence; They‘ll let you off if you apologize.
Let through
Meaning; to allow to pass
Example Sentence; He was let through to the front of the queue.
Let up
Meaning; to stop or to diminish
Example Sentence; When the rain lets up, you can go to outside.
Read out
to read sth aloud
Shall I read them out?
Read for sth
to study for something
She reads her students’s essay for
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Read off
to read a list aloud
Could you read off the last four digits of the credit card again.
Dress sb down
to scold
The manager dressed them down in front of the whole school.
Make of
to have an impression about sth
Can you make anything of this information?
Make over
to renovate
The tailor made over her dress
Make for
to move toward something
I stood from the chair and made for the door.
Cut up
to cut into pieces
My mother cut up the onions and put them in the pot.
Cut out
to stop working
There are two engines. One of them cut out yesterday.
Cut down
to use less of sth
I’m trying to cut down on sugar.
