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QUERY - a request that is sent to database

1) Our server is full of queries now.
2) Query that has been sent to our database was incorrect.

LATENCY - delay

1) A latency is a word connected with IT that stands for a delay between sending and receiving packets.
2) A server's latency is really inadequate to users' demands.

ENDEAVOUR - effort, ambition, labour

1) He endeavours to get a job in Google.
2) Our endeavours to prevent him from commiting a crime were purposeless.

CLUSTER - get together

1) we clustered near my house and started talking.
2) People are clustering because the local authority prepared free lemonades for everyone.

TOOLBAR - a tool that helps us using a pc or a web.

1) Microsoft shared a toolbar that is very irritating.
2) The Google toolbar in browsers is very useful.

LAUNDRY - a place in which you can wash your clothes

1) I didn't wash clothes on my own. I gave them to a laundry.
2) Laundry van arrived and guys took my dirty clothes.

TREMENDOUS - great, huge, colossal

1) He made a tremendous effort to climb that mountain.
2) It is a tremendous building. It looks like it reached skies.

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UNLEASH - prompt, trigger

1) I unleashed my emotions when they started asking about my dead dog.
2) Unleashing prisoners was one of terrorists' demands.

POP UP - appear

1) Pop-up advertisements are really annoying.
2) It suddenly popped up and bothered me.

PARATROOPER - a person who jumps from a plane using parachute

1) If you want to become a paratrooper you have to go through difficult exams.
2) Paratroopers risk their life but it gives them rush of adrenaline.

TYPE - to write

1) I have been typing for 2 hours.
2) Typing fast requires a lot of practice.

COURAGEOUS - brave

1) My friend is very curageous. He fought against 2 stronger guys to protect his wallet.
2) There are fewer and fewer courageous people in the world.

INEVITABLE - unavoidable

1) A defeat was inevitable.
2) An inevitable disaster is going to happen soon.

COMPASSION - pity, sympathy

1) He didn't unleash compassion to their victims.
2) There is no compassion while fighting in a war.

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PERVASIVE - spread widely

1) This pervasive idea made people think about this case in a completely different way.
2) The smell of his coffee was pervasive.

KNEE-JERK - automatic

1) I created a robot who answers knee-jerk.
2) I did it knee-jerk because I got used to it.

PEDESTRIAN - passer-by

1) A lot of pedestrians makes it harder to drive fast
2) Many pedestrians disturb drivers by their reckless behaviour in the street.

LOBE - a part that comprise a brain

1) Four different lobes comprise a brain.
2) One of my lobes isn't working properly now because I have problems with moving.

ABYSMAL

1) Our situation is abysmal. We have just lost our job.
2) I had to restart my computer due to abysmal error.

CRINGING - mousy, obsequious

1) He couldn't reveal that secret because he was cringing by mafia
2) I have three cringing girls in my house who cook for me.

DOABLE - sth that can be done

1) It is all doable if we work as a team.
2) Exe files are double.

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URGENT - high priority, the most important
1) Providing food during a famine is an urgent need.
2) An urgent task they were asked to do was constructing a bomb.

COUNTER-INTUITIVE - conflicting with our intuition
1) His behaviour towards me was counter-intuitive.
2) My belief about that issue was counter-intuitive.

CRINKLE - ripple, fold
1) I crinkled my eye to show that I was not talking seriously.
2) Old people have got many crinkles on their skin.

BE ON THE VERGE - be on the edge
1) I am on the verge of being depressed.
2) Being on the edge of success doesn't mean you can celebrate it.

BLISSFUL - delectable, lovable
1) Ignorance is bliss.
2) Wedded blissful is a crucial thing in our life.

WRING - squeezing, clenching something
1) I wrung his hand strongly to show who is the boss here.
2) I will wring his neck when I see her.

EPIC - full of adventures
1) 'The Lord of the Rings' is said to be an epic movie.
2) I made an epic win against opponents' team yesterday.

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FOOTPRINT - a trace left on ground or other surface.
1) If he hadn't left his footprints on table, he wouldn't be in prison now.
2) CIA couldn't investigate that case since footprints didn't match any suspect.

DISMAL - gloomy
1) Atmosphere during our dinner was dismal.
2) My friend is dismal because she lost her job.

DECISIVE - determined, ultimate.
1) Cheap price was one of decisive factors in buying it.
2) It's not my decisive opinion.

CRUNCH - crisis, lack of money.
1) It's a crunch year for our country.
2) We didn't accept their offer due to crunch of money.

KNEE-DEEP - legs covered with something that reaches one's knees.
1) I was walking on snow knee-deep.
2) My friend is stuck inside it knee-deep.

COMPOUND - aggregate of buildings located in the same place.
1) She lives in a new compound.
2) A new compound is being built nearby.

SLOPE - slant, cant
1) There are three slopes in short proximity.
2) Tom sloped and said something underhand to his mother.

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PERMEABLE - something penatrable
1)I couldn't fill in the bottle since it was permeable.
2)Ghosts are thought to be permeable.

INFANTRY - land troops
1)I joined infantry after graduating from the univeristy.
2)Infantry killed its enemies and seized another disctrict.

HAILSTROM - hail falling during a storm
1)A hailstorm destroyed windows in our house.
2)Hailstorm rod is one of weapons that druids can use in Tibia.

SHRAPNEL - small chunk from a slug.
1)We can see many shrapnels near their attack position.
2)My grandpa used to collet shrapnels from world war the second.

ABDOMINAL- something that comes from a stomach
1)Abdominal rectus is a muscle located in front of a stomach.
2)Abdominal cavity consists of a liver, diaphragm and other organs.

SANDBAG- bag filled with a sand
1) We put sandbags in front of our house in order to save it from a flood.
2) Sandbags are very essential  while a flood.

TURRET - weapon attached to tanks and other stuff like that. For example humvees.
1)Destroying turrets is one of tasks in League of legends.
2)Soldier co-opted a turret since his partner got killed.

#1 PW Singer on military robots and the future of war

 

UNFORTUNATELY MY MIC IS OUT OF ORDER. I WILL UPLOAD A NEW MOVIE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. SUBTITLES ENCLOSED BELOW.

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Subtitles:

Hello everyone. Today I'd like to mention the topic of a robot race that are involved in a war and my presentation will be based on the article listed below my video. 

First of all, the speaker talks about IED attacks that are thought to be killing the largest part of american soldiers in IRAQ.  IED bombs need to be defused by special teams called EOD. They risk their life even more than ordinary soldiers cuz insurgents pay a huge amount of money for their head.

However, they started using robots who replaced them in these dangerous tasks. Speaker talks about one of them that failed during its mission but at least he had saved team's life many times before being destroyed.

American military is creating more and more robots that help soldiers during a fight. Number of robots has changed dramatically since the begging of the conflict. 

Additionaly we have to remember that there are also other countries that take part in military race. We need to worry cuz nowadays everyone can create his own dron or other things due to its open-source. It would be a disaster if plans of these weapons found its way among terrorists.

Lastly we need to think if it's going to change our world like an atomic bomb did.  We have to be careful of using and developing them so as not to destroy our planet.

To sum up I'd like to say that robots have changed our world irreversible. Wars are guided in a completely new way as they used to be.

CHORE - duty, being responsible for something boring
1) I was involved in chore when I was taking painting course.
2) My chore is to babysit my sister.

BOUNTY - a bonus for eliminating opposing force
1) I eliminated my opponent in poker and got 20$ bounty.
2) If you kill a terrorist you will get a 5000$ bounty from government.

DEFUSE - to make a bomb less dangerous
1) We succeeded in defusing the bomb just after it had been placed.
2) We managed to defuse the bomb and save Tomek's life.

DEFRAY - to cover costs
1) Government defrayed our trip to London.
2) We didn't need to defray it since it had been payed in advance by our company.

INSURGENT - a person who has different political view and fight against government
1) Afghanistan is full of insurgents who fight for freedom and religion.
2) Insurgents created IED and placed it near the road.

OPEN-SOURCE - source available for everybody 
1) Open-source software let me change it as I wish.
2) I didn't need to buy an expensive tool since it is open-source
  
MANNING - cast
1) The manning in our company is said to be unfair
2) My application concerning director's manning status was widely approved.
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