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an organization, a company, or a business:
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enterprise
It describes personal antipathy that stimulated scientific enterprise
having or showing a wish to harm someone because you think that they harmed you; unwilling to forgive:
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vindictive
Extreme and unpleasantly vindictive elements of an individual scientist’s personality are revealed.
not ashamed; without hiding behaviour or opinions that other people might consider unacceptable:
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unashamed
his book is the unashamedly upbeat story
full of hope, happiness, and good feelings:
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upbeat
his book is the unashamedly upbeat story
exciting and slightly shocking, especially because of relating to or suggesting sex:
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racy
A ... novel, story, film, etc. contains a lot of action or events that happen quickly.
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pacy
it is a racy, pacy account
to give something as an honour or present:
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bestow
In this racy, pacy account, Sykes bestows nicknames on his seven European matriarchs
in a way that is done or shown publicly or in an obvious way and not secret:
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overtly
It is an overtly jolly book about a scientific breakthrough
to want to have something very much, especially something that belongs to someone else:
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covet
Biographies are always coveted possessions
a group of people or things with something in common, that exist at a particular time:
group
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crop
I recommend two of this year’s crop.
causing or having a very sharp feeling of sadness:
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poignant
The first is a poignant memoir
closely connected or involved:
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bound up
It is a story of a strange childhood bound up with the history of chemistry.
giving a clear, strong message:
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eloquent
a neurologist has written eloquent accounts
an arrangement of the symbols of chemical elements in rows and columns, showing similarities in chemical behaviour, especially between elements in the same columns
tablica Mendelejewa
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the Periodic Table
to move somewhere extremely quickly, usually in a straight line:
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streak
the Aurora Borealis, the dancing coloured lights that streak across polar skies.
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...
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disregard
his theory was largely disregarded.
to make the difference between two things less clear, or to make it difficult to see the exact truth about something:
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blur
some may find the blurring of fact and fiction
easily and often becoming excited:
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excitable
the excitable speculation about Birkeland’s final years a little trying.
annoying and difficult:
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trying
Most people find him very trying.
Some may find this book a little trying.
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.
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complacency
this book will shock you out of complacency,
one of a group of people who work together:
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colleague
a chilling first-hand account of a volcano eruption in 1993 that killed several of Williams’s colleagues.
doing something dangerous and not worrying about the risks and the possible results:
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reckless
He was found guilty of reckless driving.
an irresistible insight into the reckless, darker side of science.
If a reason, argument, etc. is ..., it makes you believe it or accept it because it is so strong:
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compelling
It gives a compelling glimpse of the riskier aspects of scientific study.

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