[7:23] Selected English Listening Passages for Beginners with School Subject Introductions

noun

1. the quality of being arresting or highly emotional

2. the literary genre of works intended for the theater

3. a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage

e.g. he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway

Synonym: playdramatic play

4. an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

Synonym: dramatic event

noun

1. study of the earth's surface
includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation

Synonym: geographics

noun

1. the occupation of a house painter

e.g. house painting was the only craft he knew

Synonym: house painting

2. the act of applying paint to a surface

e.g. you can finish the job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush

3. creating a picture with paints

e.g. he studied painting and sculpture for many years

4. graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface

e.g. a small painting by Picasso
he bought the painting as an investment
his pictures hang in the Louvre

Synonym: picture

noun

1. the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

Synonym: generationpropagation

2. an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division
the product of two numbers is computed

e.g. the multiplication of four by three gives twelve
four times three equals twelve

Synonym: times

3. a multiplicative increase

e.g. repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors
this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth