CELESE AWL Sublist 3b

1: interact (ɪ̀ntɜǽkt)page 1 of 5
Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: The way in which the atmosphere interacts with the oceans remains a last great unknown in Earth science.
2. BNC2: Although we cannot properly analyze the fortunes of the interactive video industry here, we can at least summarize.
3. Other: Price is determined through the interaction of demand and supply.
4. Other: Jobs that involve a degree of social interaction are usually more satisfying.

2: justify (ʤʌ́stəfàɪ)

Appears in List(s): 3bLevel: AWL

1. BNC1: Invariably such products are sold at a premium price quite unjustified by the cost of their components.
2. Other: How can we justify spending so much money on arms?
3. Other: Are these experiments morally justifiable?
4. Other: There can be no justification for such rude behavior.

3: layer (léɪɜ)Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: The exact recording of layers and their finds can give many clues to the history of a site.
2. Other: Luckily, the little girl was wearing several layers of warm clothing.
3. Other: There were too many layers of management in the company.
4. Other: There was a thin layer of ice on the pavements.

4: link (lɪ́ŋk)Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: New 68040-based intelligent line modules offer high-speed links to local area networks.
2. Other: People's physical and emotional well-being are inextricably linked.
3. Other: Scientists now link certain types of cancer to the amount of junk food that people consume.
4. Other: No one disputes the direct linkage between the unemployment rate and crime.

5: locate (lóʊkèɪt)Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: This is called full indexing and provides a very rapid means of locating any given record.
2. BNC2: In order to store or retrieve information we must have some means by which the computer can refer to any location.
3. Other: The authorities have relocated thousands of families from the flooded areas.
4. Other: The residents were relocated to temporary accommodation while the work was being done.

6: maximize (mǽksəmàɪz)

Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: This menu allows you to move, minimize to an icon or maximize the window to full screen.
2. BNC2: Darwin's theory predicts that animals will strive to maximize their genetic contribution to the next generation.
3. Other: The car has a maximum speed of 120 mph.
4. Other: Aiming at profit maximization, the firm would seek to maximize output.

7: minor (máɪnɜ)

Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: It is even more worrying that relatively minor powers are now acquiring nuclear weapons.
2. BNC2: To do so, however, would be to ignore the awkward problem of adequate representation for minority interests.
3. BNC3: The experiments described above were performed more than once, with minor variations in the procedure adopted.
4. Other: It is illegal to sell cigarettes to minors.

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8: negate (nɪɡéɪt)page 2 of 5Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: Nothing in this article negates the evidence that poverty itself is a major contributor to ill-health.
2. BNC2: This move negates the last remaining advantage of the dying V2000 system developed by Philips and Grundig.
3. Other: A person can be recently infected by HIV and have a negative result.
4. Other: As these electrons are negatively charged, they will attempt to repel each other.

9: outcome (áʊtkʌ̀m)

Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: Obviously we cannot know the outcome of a new project, so let's consider how we might have proceeded 31 yearsago.
2. BNC2: Whatever the outcome, the movement and control of graphical information is here to stay.
3. Other: It was impossible to predict the outcome of the election.
4. Other: People who had heard the evidence at the trial were surprised at the outcome.

10: partner (pɒ́ɹtnɜ)Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: Work was halted in 1992 when one of the oil company partners investing in the development pulled out.
2. BNC2: The protection which is conferred by a limited partnership leads to extra rules of law.
3. Other: Japan is our principal trading partner in Asia.
4. Other: The close partnership between Britain and the US will continue.

11: philosophy (fəlɒ́səfi)

Appears in List(s): 6
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: And this of course brings us back to the practical and philosophical implications of the unstable text.
2. Other: The idea that you should treat others as you would like them to treat you is a fine philosophy of life.
3. Other: Plato is one of the most influential Greek philosophers.
4. Other: He spent the evening philosophizing on the meaning of life.

12: physical (fɪ́zɪkəl)

Appears in List(s): 6
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: The underlying physical principle and the shock wave machine have been described elsewhere.
2. BNC2: It defines the physical actions and thought processes which must be undertaken to perform a task.
3. BNC3: Each consisted of an hour's physical exercise followed by an hour's discussion.
4. Other: He came back from work exhausted, both physically and mentally.

13: proportion (pɹəpɔ́ɹʃən)Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: The most striking feature is that the agriculture sector has by far the biggest proportion of workers over 55 years old.
2. BNC2: If the idea is familiar to you, you may like to note here that proportions can also be expressed in this way.
3. Other: The fee charged by the realtor is directly proportional to the price of the property.
4. Other: A disproportionate amount of money has been spent on defense in some countries.

14: publish (pʌ́blɪʃ)Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: You may find that your local environmental group publishes a list of what is being collected for recycling in your area.
2. BNC2: There was now a modest book-publishing division, concentrating mostly on pop music books.
3. Other: He was the editor and publisher of a small town newspaper.
4. Other: We have obtained a copy of unpublished report.

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15: react (ɹiǽkt)page 3 of 5
Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: The airline industry has reacted to claims that flying is one of the most environmentally damaging forms of travel.
2. BNC2: Those contents were then tipped into a second vessel containing cold water, which both stopped and cooled thereaction.
3. Other The police presented a reactive rather than preventive strategy against crime.
4. Other: They shut down the nuclear reactor for safety reasons.

16: register (ɹéʤɪstɜ)

Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: The drug companies condemn the imports as unfair because they alone must foot the registration costs.
2. BNC2: You can store each vehicle by its registration and then call up details as and when needed.
3. Other: The earthquake registered 7.2 on the Richter scale.
4. Other: The delegation registered a formal protest with US embassy officials Wednesday.

17: rely (ɹɪláɪ)

Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: Moreover, to be able to perform a reliable statistical analysis the sample size must be considerably larger.
2. BNC2: The developing world has no choice but to build a self-reliant system of food production.
3. BNC3: Britain does not have to rely solely on its own mines for some kinds of metals.
4. BNC4: Yet without a reasonably comprehensive task description the total system performance may be unreliable orunpredictable.

18: remove (ɹimúv)

Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: Wear a face mask when removing this type of system.
2. BNC2: The Royal Commission wants more grants for home owners to remove lead pipes.
3. Other: Reference books may not be removed from the library.
4. Other: What they expected to be the removal of a small lump turned out to be major surgery.

19: scheme (skím)

Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: The Commission's scheme, Cities Without Cars, is to be launched this summer.
2. BNC2: Designing and conducting training schemes is expensive and is not undertaken without good reasons.
3. Other: The king's enemies were scheming to take power from him.
4. Other: The basic structure of DNA is represented in the schematic diagram below.

20: sequence (síkwəns)

Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: Only the card's genuine owner knows what sequence of keys to press.
2. Other: The project is nothing less than mapping every gene sequence in the human body.
3. Other: The scientist described the sequence of events leading up to the discovery.
4. Other: The pages are numbered sequentially.

21: sex (séks)

Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: The sex and age distribution of the healthy control group was comparable with that of the patient group.
2. BNC2: They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other.
3. Other: Groups like ours are committed to eradicating racism and sexism.
4. Other: Sexually transmitted disease, or STD, is a disease that one person passes to another through having sex, such as
AIDS or herpes.

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22: shift (ʃɪ́ft)

page 4 of 5
Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: The type of off-farm work varied but many were in an oil-related industry, working shifts at Flotta oil terminal.
2. Other: Media attention has shifted recently onto environmental issues.
3. Other: Companies were reacting too slowly to shifts in consumer demand.
4. Other: They lost their way in the shifting sands of the Sahara.

23: specify (spésəfàɪ)

Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: The table that specifies the names and properties of contexts is called the context-table .
2. BNC2: Finally the company is promising transaction processing software at a future, unspecified date.
3. Other: The rules clearly specify that competitors must not accept payment.
4. Other: It logs into a variety of electronic news sources and looks for articles with keywords specified by the user.

24: sufficient (səfɪ́ʃənt)

Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: In both cases it may be difficult to acquire sufficient information for a complete evaluation of the situation.
2. BNC2: The need for a greater degree of self-sufficiency in timber has been proposed as a national priority.
3. Other: Students must reach a sufficiently high standard to pass.
4. Other: Food that is insufficiently cooked can lead to food poisoning.

25: task (tǽsk)Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: It defines the physical actions and thought processes which must be undertaken to perform a task.
2. Detectives are now faced with the task of identifying the body.
3. Monkeys can be taught to do simple tasks.
4. The task of the union representative is to fight on behalf of the members.

26: technical (téknɪkəl)

Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL1. BNC1: Innovations are an unusual and energetic company with considerable in-house technical know-how.
2. BNC2: The documentation is comprehensive and should help you master the more technical aspects of the program.
3. Other: I didn't understand all the technical terms.
4. Other: It could soon be technically possible to produce a human being by cloning.

27: technique (tekník)

Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: This technique is used extensively in the example file handling programs in the second part of this manual.
2. BNC2: One of the most important techniques of data analysis described in the text is entity modeling.
3. BNC3: Entity modeling can be used as an aid to communication as well as a technique for finding out information.
4. Other: There are various techniques for dealing with industrial pollution.

28: technology (teknɒ́ləʤi)

Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: Technological developments have been at a fast pace since the 1950s.
2. BNC2: Wild animals are not alone in suffering from some of the technological advances of modern agriculture.
3. BNC3: A wide range of information technologies are in use producing substantial amounts of data.
4. Other: This is the most technologically advanced factory in Europe.

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29: valid (vǽləd)page 5 of 5
Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: The user can enter a valid name of a VMS file, up to 50 characters long, into which the report output will be placed.
2. Other: The editorial in the Financial Times says this argument has lost much of its validity.
3. Other: Many scientists plan to wait until the results of the study are validated by future research.
4. Other: Later findings invalidated the theory.

30: volume (vɒ́ljum)

Appears in List(s): 3b
Level: AWL

1. BNC1: The volume of information that would have to be absorbed is simply too great.
2. BNC2: In a famous library somebody found that the first two volumes had vanished.
3. Other: The volume of traffic on the roads has increased dramatically in recent years.
4. Other: The petrol tank has a volume of 20 gallons.