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power in English:

1. powerful powerful


He is powerful.
He has powerful connections in the publishing industry.
A nation need not necessarily be powerful to be great.
In South Korea, the most powerful member of a family, usually the oldest living male, has the power to send members of his family to a psychiatric hospital as he sees fit.
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
That is what I will try to do – to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.
In real life kings are powerful, but in chess they're pretty much worthless.
When two powerful forces with opposite ideals come face to face, it's time for a showdown.
Last week the powerful Keidanren called on Tokyo to lift the ban.
What would happen if two powerful nations with different languages - such as United States and China - would agree upon the experimental teaching of Esperanto in elementary schools?
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
In ancient Rome, the bodyguards who surrounded the wealthy and powerful to protect them when they walked the streets, were called satellites.
The powerful farming lobby is pressurizing the government to change the law.
A dog’s powerful sense of smell helps it find illegal objects in people’s luggage.
Undoubtedly, one of the film's biggest assets is Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who gives a powerful performance as the title character.

English word "power"(powerful) occurs in sets:

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2. control over people and events control over people and events



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Cambridge Objective Advanced - Unit 2

3. a natural ability a natural ability



4. powerless


The president appeared powerless.
The army was powerless against such an invasion.
The police seemed powerless to stop the murders.
[+ to do sth] The police were powerless to stop the fighting. When the huge wave hit the boat, he was powerless. He could only stand and watch as the boat sunk.
Human beings are powerless before nature.
She's weak, powerless. A mere human.

English word "power"(powerless) occurs in sets:

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5. is the ability to stimulate productive action



6. the ability to control or influence people or events



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WORDLIST 8 BEHAVIOUR

7. electronic


The good thing about this electronic dictionary is that it's easy to carry.
Electronic news media is our primary source of information.
This singer's genre of music is electronic.
He spends a lot of money on electronic equipment.
Electronic commerce began to spread rapidly.
Once you get used to electronic media, you can no longer do without them.
At Wimbledon there are now special electronic machines to judge the serves.
The amount of smoke that comes out of an electronic cigarette isn't bad at all.
Do you have an electronic typewriter?
Theremin: The world's first electronic musical instrument, made by Russian physicist Lev Sergeivitch Termen in 1920.
Japanese cameras, cars, and hi-fi equipment are used widely abroad, and few modern industries can manage without advanced electronic equipment developed in Japan.
In recent years electronic computers have become increasingly important.
I bought a new ball point pen with an electronic watch especially for this test.
All that's required is one injection and some electronic devices.
electronic car

8. prestige


a prestige hotel
You know, for a man of renowned prestige and rang he has a remarkably poor taste.
Several universities in this country enjoy great prestige.
I tried to repair his damaged prestige.
It is often assumed that this success means wealth, prestige or fame.

9. empower


I empower you to destroy all the documents.
The President is empowered to appoint judges to the Supreme Court.
Education can empower you.
A good education empowers people and gives them the confidence to succeed in life.
The boss empowered employees to decide about many matters.
The Voting Rights Act was needed to empower minority groups.
The first step in empowering the poorest sections of society is making sure they vote
This amendment empowers the president to declare an emergency for a wide range of reasons.
the law would empower to designate
So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, and who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity.

English word "power"(empower) occurs in sets:

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10. force


I consider the Jehovah's witnesses who knock on my door all the time to be no different from religious zealots trying to force their beliefs on me.
Don't force me.
Some learned writers have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram, because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.
Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
The restraining role that the community once played is losing its force as adults become reluctant to reprimand other people's unruly children.
Among the people of the colonies suffering under Earth's tyranny a force emerges intending to overthrow the status quo through terrorism.
Up till now America has called itself the world's police and continued suppression relying on military force.
Career opportunities, flex-time, satellite offices, and more childcare facilities are required to make women at home join the work force.
Boeing's safety experts have joined others in the industry to form an international task force to try to eliminate one particular kind of air crash known as controlled flight into terrain, CFIT.
This is not about my capabilities. Even if I never had heard the slightest sound of english, I still could kneel down and put my face on the ground to show my submission. But who can force me into that?
The sexes differ, not only in stature and muscular force, but perhaps even more decisively in temperament, and this must early have given rise to a corresponding division of labour.
The police were able to control the crowd by sheer force of numbers. The force of gravity. Fishermen are always at the mercy of the forces of nature. Force of habit.
They are forced to commit further, often more violent crimes, until the situation gets totally out of control.

11. take


Take care.
It is not necessary for you to take his advice if you don't want to.
We must take protective measures against floods.
Take one tablet a day until all of the medicine is gone.
Take lots of vitamin C to avoid catching cold.
Tom doesn't know whether he should take on the job or not.
Because I didn't take the bus, I'm still not home.
Taking a hot bath helps me take my mind off my worries.
You'll save yourself a lot of time if you take the car.
If you take a close look, you'll find that your friends and you have similar personalities.
Don't take it for granted that the nature is always there to help us.
Instead of cleaning the house today, I think I'll take a walk.
Thanks for having explained to me at last why people take me for an idiot.
On weekends, I take my dogs out for a long walk in the park.
Although teachers give a lot of advice, students don't always take it.

12. pot


If you put more tea leaves into the pot, the tea will taste better.
He is such a tidy person. Every pot and pan is in its place.
A pot belly is an occupational hazard for office workers.
pot on table
An inexperienced stock speculator could easily let his business go to pot and lose his entire fortune.
The United States has long been known as a "melting pot" because most of its people are descended from immigrants.
When I moved into my new home, I just brought with me the things that I needed for cooking, an earthen rice cooker, an earthenware pot and an earthen charcoal brazier.
Step 1. Heat the vegetable oil (0.5L) (any grease or a mixture of oil and grease) in the pot on high heat, add sliced onions (400g), fry until the onions take a yellow color, then add meat (any kind) (1kg).
I found a pot in which there were several old coins.
Having hit a streak of bad luck, my fortune had gone to pot in no time.
What do you mean you dropped the ladle in the pot? How are we going to serve the homeless now?
Michael was smoking pot with some friends.
I cook soup in a big pot / I just made a pot of coffee / Tom put the pot back on the stove
The food stuck to the pot because it had been left on the cooker too long.
Where's Jack? He's potting in this joint on the corner, as usual.

13. power


Power brings corruption.
Tim produced a perfect alveolar trill for a straight minute. The rest of the Spanish class envied and despised this vulgar display of power.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Keeping Mario in a state in which he can throw fireballs is a delicate process; that newfound power sometimes makes one cocky and careless.
The power delivered by a one square metre solar panel is approximately one watt. Therefore it is currently difficult to harvest solar energy on a grand scale.
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
Ursula and Chelsea are battling over the boy they both have a crush on. Judging from the blood and teeth everywhere, this seems to be more of a matter of power than love.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
Zipang The Power Polack, a ferocious Polish berserker, flailed around wildly, charging into enemy ranks crazily without armor.
Shurrup! Don't make such a fuss over a little headache. I'm flat out of magical power - this is all your fault!
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it.
In South Korea, the most powerful member of a family, usually the oldest living male, has the power to send members of his family to a psychiatric hospital as he sees fit.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.