Passwords, Courses 7-8 : Textbook

environment /in'vaiaran'mant/, environments. 1 Someone's environment is [1] all the circumstances, people, things, and events around them that influence their life, e.g. A child can easily adjust to changes in its environment. Could the college provide a stimulating environment ...? It was cruel of you to push her into such a totally alien environment and culture. -Are we more influenced by environment or heredity? In the particular surroundings in which they live or exist, especially in a region: that of a particular land, sea, or weather conditions, e.g. There is probably still a less dramatic environment for an amphibian than in the present. Science offers us total mastery over our environment and over our destiny. 3 The environment is the natural world of land, sea, air, plants and animals that exists around towns and cities, e.g. We are fighting pollution to protect the environment. The Secretary of State for the Environment.

environmental /in'vairan'mental/ means 'concerning the environment, e.g. We must learn to live with... the environmental group Greenpeace. Environmental problems include all kinds of environmental pollution, the environmental survival of worldwide animal and plant life ... environmentally, unacceptable pollution and damage to the environment, e.g. the many difficulties which are being caused by the chemical sprays in which vegetable or animal lives, e.g. Seattle is producing an environmentally safer car.

environmentalist /in'vairan'mentalist/, environmentalists. An environmentalist is a person who is concerned with or is active in improving or protecting the natural environment, e.g. Environmentalists are pressing for more effective action in protecting about the destruction of Amazon rain forests.

world /w3:ld/, worlds, 1. The world is the planet that we live on, e.g. He attempted to sail round the world... In many parts of the world, ...one of the most famous artists in the world ...a used to refer to the people who live on this planet. 80 The famine in Ethiopia has shocked the world - used before a noun: ... the growth in world population, ...the World Snooker Championships, ...war on a world scale, ...world peace. 2. The world also refers to all the societies, institutions and ways of life for people living on this planet. They are content for the world to stay as it is, poverty, pain, and everything. ...We are now moving forward into a world which will be more and more dominated by energy crises.