[3:45] Daily English Listening Practice: Blind Listening + Repetition + Bilingual Text for Easy Listening Improvement

noun

1. any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia
fabled to warn of crocodiles

Synonym: monitor lizardvaran

2. a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble

3. electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions

4. display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor

Synonym: monitoring device

5. someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided

Synonym: admonisherreminder

6. someone who supervises (an examination)

Synonym: proctor

noun

1. a poor example

e.g. it was an apology for a meal
a poor excuse for an automobile

Synonym: apology

2. a note explaining an absence

e.g. he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him

3. a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.

e.g. he kept finding excuses to stay
every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job
his transparent self-justification was unacceptable

Synonym: alibiexculpationself-justification

noun

1. intense nervous anticipation

e.g. in a fever of resentment

2. a rise in the temperature of the body
frequently a symptom of infection

Synonym: febrilityfebricitypyrexiafeverishness

noun

1. (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus

Synonym: teras

2. an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts

3. a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed

Synonym: freakmonstrositylusus naturae

4. someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

Synonym: giantgoliathbehemothcolossus

5. a cruel wicked and inhuman person

Synonym: fienddevildemonogre

noun

1. the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)

Synonym: stultificationimpairmentdeadening

2. irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels
can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis

Synonym: irregularity

noun

1. arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)

e.g. the advent of the computer

Synonym: advent

2. the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse

Synonym: orgasmclimaxsexual climax

3. the act of drawing spatially closer to something

e.g. the hunter's approach scattered the geese

Synonym: approachapproaching

4. the temporal property of becoming nearer in time

e.g. the approach of winter

Synonym: approachapproaching

noun

1. an event that happens

Synonym: occurrenceoccurrentnatural event