1. Spin: to turn around and around, especially fast
The Moon spins round the Earth.
2. Pulsar: a very small dense star that sends out radio waves
Scientists have not enough knowledge about pulsars.
3. Emit: to send out a beam, noise, smell or gas
Stars emit radiation.
4. Suffice: to be enough
Management have several hours for the discussion, it must certainly suffice.
5. Peculiarity: the quality of being strange or unfamiliar, or an unusual characteristic or habit
The problem’s peculiarity could not help making them baffled.
6. Unequivocal: total, or expressed in a clear and certain way
The elections revealed an unequivocal support to the President.
7. Ferociously: fiercely and violently
The female line behaves ferociously, defending her young.
8. Accretion: gradual increase or growth by the addition of new layers or parts
A black hole’s accretion, swallowing its victim, could be seen from the very outskirts of a galaxy.
9. Binary: consisting of two parts
Sirius is a binary star.
10. Blaze: to burn brightly and strongly
The Sun will be blazing for at least 4 billion years.
11. Quandary: a state of not being able to decide what to do about a situation in which you are involved
It is turned out so that the investigator is in quandary over which version is true.
12. Whop: to hit or defeat
The story whooped them completely.
13. Minestrone: a type of Italian soup containing a mixture of vegetables and pasta
During the first seconds after its birth the universe was similar a kind of minestrone.
14. Froth: to have (cause a liquid to) or produce a lot of small bubbles which often rise to the surface
Enormous amount of water was frothed after the explosion.
15. Speck: a very small mark, piece or amount
A speck of light can avoid neutron stars.
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