수직VOCA Master (수직보카) 영한 Unit 26

martial

adj. 싸움의, 전쟁의
According to Cambodian legends, farmers developed a fierce martial art to defend themselves against the lions.

thump

v. 쿵쿵 거리다, 두근거리다
Her heart was thumping and she started, at every sound, rushing out to the door.

broth

n. 죽
Too many cooks do spoil the broth.

configuration

n. 배열, 환경설정
The result was to have an inefficient keyboard configuration.

holder

n. 소유자
As for publishing letters, a letter as a document becomes the property of the holder.

outbreak

n. 발발, 발생
It was World War I, just after the outbreak of hostilities.

subsidize

v. 보조금을 지급하다, 비용 일부를 지급하다
A few, unable to subsidize the property, will sell at distress prices.

clutter

v. 어질러놓다
When the information set seems less cluttered, information overload can still occur.

comb

n. 빗/ 빗질하다
Next to the doll was a small box, made of ivory, containing tiny combs and a silver mirror.

eternal

adj. 영원한, 영구적인
Early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, and unshakable.

expel

v. 쫓아내다, 제명하다
Loneliness can be uprooted and expelled only when these barriers are lowered.

pharmacy

n. 약국, 약학
I’ll be back after stopping by the pharmacy.

termination

n. 종료
One views activity as a global concept ― involving instigation, performance, and termination.

beforehand

n. 미리, 사전에
To learn about the play beforehand

encompass

v. 아우르다
Albert Einstein sought relentlessly for a so-called unified field theory ― a theory capable of describing nature’s forces within a single, all-encompassing, coherent framework.

feat

n. 위업, 솜씨
Many who have experienced a major loss often go on to achieve remarkable feats in spite of their hardships.

sanitation

n. 위생
Poor conditions such as lack of housing and worsening sanitation bring about an increase in disease.

gossip

n. 잡담, 소문, 험담
I could hear the low gossip of hens, and the lower throat singing of turkeys.

introvert

n. 내성(내향)적인 사람
Richard Lippa called a group of introverts to his lab and asked them to act like extroverts.

outfit

n. 복장, 장비
The child who is dressed in a cowboy outfit might be very noisy while playing cowboys for a brief time.

pore

n. 구멍/ 숙고하다, 주목하다
Because the membranes covering bacteria are full of pores, bacteria can exchange genetic information.

airborne

adj. 공수의, 비행 중인
The airship was completed in 1933 as part of an effort to equip the U.S. Navy with airborne military bases.

axe

n. 도끼
Two firemen immediately began smashing down the door with axes.

conducive

adj. 도움이 되는
Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship, or train

lump

n. 덩어리/ 한 덩어리로 만들다
A lump of precious metal would be found in the bottom of his pot.

precipitation

n. 강수량, 강수, 침전
Consider the habitat of these trees, such as rocky areas where the soil is poor and precipitation is slight.

standpoint

n. 견지, 관점, 입장
From the standpoint of health a single big meal is a bad practice.

vacancy

n. 빈 방, 결원, 공석
Vacancy rates climb and the downward trend becomes more severe.

tradeoff

n. 거래, 교환, 협정, 교환 조건
This is not a bad tradeoff, since being able to enjoy a sunset’s beauty seems worth an occasional fall in the dark.

inborn

adj. 타고난
Humans have an inborn tolerance for risk.

thanksgiving

n. 추수감사절
Mitchell and his colleagues studied students going home for Thanksgiving vacation.

assimilation

n. 동화
The United States seeks to eliminate these same skills by reducing existing bilingual programs, out of haste to force their assimilation.

cosmic

adj. 우주의, 장대한
We crack the cosmic codes one by one, replacing an old solution with the new one.

harness

n. 장비, 마구/ 이용하다
Peter Jenkins began teaching all sorts of people how to climb trees safely using a rope and a harness.

overtime

n. 초과 근무, 초과 근무 수당
Imagine you were asked to work overtime and you didn’t want to do it.

terrain

n. 지형, 지역
The hike covers 3 to 4 miles and includes moderately difficult terrain.

faraway

adj. 멀리 있는
There are millions of people who require different lenses to see near and faraway objects.

penetrate

v. 뚫고 들어가다, 침투하다
While the eye sees at the surface, the ear tends to penetrate below the surface.

undo

v. 원상태로 돌리다, (잠긴 것을)풀다, 망치다
Our romantic mistakes can always be undone these days.

decent

adj. 예의바른, 품위 있는, 적당한
If you know in your heart that you are a good and decent person, you can meet life’s challenges head-on.

majestic

adj. 장엄한, 위엄 있는
All the grace and beauty had gone out of the majestic river.

screenplay

n. 시나리오
The screenplay requires so much filling in by our imagination that we cannot really approximate the experience of a film by reading a screenplay.