Technical English

General & Technical Vocabulary

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Complex
Device
Diversion
Capacity
Erosion
Permeability
Significantly
Augmentation
Implement
Consumption
Extraction
Collateral
Flotation
Default
Stagnant
Amalgamation
Distress
Cyanidation
Migrant
Rural
Urban
Cramped
Statistics
Recruit
Import
Spell

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Genius

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Stimulus
Nucleus
Uranium
Fission
Disposal
Core
Coolant
Breeder
Radiation
Hazard
Contamination
Fiction
Fantasy
Extraterrestrial

Column B
Intricate
Instrument
Turning aside
Ability
Wearing away
Passing through
Markedly
Increase
Tool
Use
Taking out
Property pledged by a borrower
Remaining on the surface
In the absence of an alternative
Not moving or changing
Bringing together
Suffering
Process of treating something with a cyanide compound
A person who moves from one place to another
Relating to the countryside
Relating to towns and cities
Confined within narrow limits
Numerical facts systematically collected
Take people into service on contract
Bring into a country people, goods etc, from foreign countries
A condition caused by or as if by magical powers
A person having an instinctive and extraordinary capacity for creative
activity
Something that rouses people to activity
Central part of the atom
Metallic element
Division of the atom
Getting rid of
The innermost part
Cooling fluid
Producer
Giving out rays
Danger
Pollution
Not factual
Wild imagination
Not belonging to the earth

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Robot

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Sensor
Natural language
Artificial
Intelligence

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Chip

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Semiconductor

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Microprocessor

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Plying
Enforce
Fatal
Violation
Pedestrian
Stringent
Regulation
Stray
Congestion
Hazard

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Heritage

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Intact

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Panorama

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Exotic
Repository
Lush
Spectacular
Tranquil
Sanctuary
Diversity
Technology
Appropriate
Exploitation
Indigenous
Innovative
Porridge
Coagulum
Husk
Nutrition
Extraction
Inedible
Indispensable
Anticipate
Transaction

Machine which can perform some of the actions of a human being or

animal
Device composed of silicon
Of words in human communication
Electronic device producing awareness of the surroundings
The faculty of verbal expressions and the use
The capacity of a computer for learning and decision taking similar to
human intelligence
Material whose conductivity at room temperature lies between that of
metals and insulators
Electronic device which can perform a range of basic logical functions
upon given signals
Wandering
Compel
Resulting in death make sure something is followed
Non-observance (of rules etc)
A person who walks
Severe
Rules
Moving between places
Abnormal accumulation of people, traffic
Danger
An object, custom or quality which is passed down over many years
within a family or nation
Whole; unaffected; in one piece
A complete view of a wide stretch of land; a continuously changing view
or scene
Strange; unusual, and attractive
A place where things are stored
Growing thickly, very well
Of grand appearance
Calm, peaceful
An area for wild birds or animals where they may not be hunted
Variety; having differences
Scientific knowledge needed for industry
Suitable
Using, usually unfairly, for ones own benefit
Living or growing in a place where originally from
Having the quality of introducing new things, making changes
Soft food made by boiling a cereal in water or milk
Thick, sticky, solid mass
Dry outer covering of grain, seeds, etc
Nourishment
Obtaining juices by pressing, crushing, boiling
Unfit to eat
Necessary
Consider beforehand
A piece of business done between people

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Casually
Enclosure
Informal
Instantly
Feedback
Conservation

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Genetics

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Amphibian
Submergence

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Ecology

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Afforestation
Repercussion

Unmethodical, unconventional
Something included with a letter in the same package
In an unplanned, careless manner
Immediately
Response
Reservoir, a place where water is collected and stored
The scientific study of the way qualities are passed on from one
generation to the next
Organism able to live both on land and in water
Being placed under water
Biology dealing with mutual relations between organisms and their
environment
Expansion of forests
A reciprocal action or effect

Prepared By: G.Babu

Source : English for Engineers and Technologists , Combined Edition (Volumes 1 and
2)