Beginner English Reading: How to Gain Peer Recognition Through Interest

verb

1. become active and spew forth lava and rocks

e.g. Vesuvius erupts once in a while

Synonym: belchextravasate

2. erupt or intensify suddenly

e.g. Unrest erupted in the country
Tempers flared at the meeting
The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism

Synonym: irruptflare upflarebreak openburst out

3. become raw or open

e.g. He broke out in hives
My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries
Such boils tend to recrudesce

Synonym: recrudescebreak out

4. start abruptly

e.g. After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc

Synonym: break out

5. appear on the skin

e.g. A rash erupted on her arms after she had touched the exotic plant

6. break out

e.g. The tooth erupted and had to be extracted

Synonym: come outbreak throughpush through

7. force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up

e.g. break into tears
erupt in anger

Synonym: breakburst

8. start to burn or burst into flames

e.g. Marsh gases ignited suddenly
The oily rags combusted spontaneously

Synonym: ignitecatch firetake firecombustconflagrate

noun

1. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

e.g. he prepared for great undertakings

Synonym: undertakingtasklabor

2. a planned undertaking

Synonym: projection

noun

1. the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

Synonym: cognitionnoesis

adv

1. at the beginning

e.g. at first he didn't notice anything strange

Synonym: ab initio

adj

1. appointed to a post or duty

e.g. assigned personnel
assigned duties