TECHNOLOGY
Browse: to search for and read hypertext, esp. on the internet.
Charge: to put electrical energy into.
Plug in: to connect to an electrical power source.
Press: to click on something, the image, or a file, for example.
Scroll: (on a computer display) to move a cursor smoothly, causing new data to replace old on the monitor.
Stream: listen to sound or view images on a computer without having to download the material previously.
Swipe: to slide (a magnetic card) quickly through an electronic device that reads data.
Switch off: to cause (a device) to stop operating by or as if by moving a switch, knob, or lever; turn off.
Switch on: to cause (a device) to operate by or as if by moving a switch, knob, or lever; turn on.
Tap: to enter information or produce copy by tapping on a keyboard.
Text: to send a text message from a mobile phone.
Unplug: to disconnect (an appliance, a telephone, etc.) by removing a plug; to disconnect by removing a plug from an electrical connection.
Update: to incorporate new or more accurate information in (a database, program, procedure, etc.).
TECHNOLOGY ADJECTIVES
Automatic: having the capability of operating independently without human aid;
Convenient: suitable or agreeable to the purpose; useful; helpful.
Efficient: performing or functioning effectively with the least waste of time and effort; competent. Satisfactory and economical to use.
Fixed: Fixed computer that is not portable.
Heavy: of great weight; hard to lift or carry.
High-quality: Product or high quality material.
Impractical: Not practical or useful.
Inconvenient: not easily reachable or close at hand; not suiting one’s needs or purposes.
Inefficient: not efficient; unable to effect or achieve the desired result with reasonable economy of means.
Light: Something of little weight; not heavy.
Low-quality: Product or material of poor quality.
Manual: operated by hand rather than mechanically; a book giving instructions on how something works or on how to do something.
Reliable: capable of being relied on; always or often dependable in character, judgment or result.
Useful: Being of use of service; serving some purpose; of practical use; as for doing work; producing material results.
Useless: without useful qualities; of no practical good; not serving the purpose or any purpose.
SPORT VERBS AND NOUNS
Archery: the practice of shooting with a bow and arrow at a target.
Athletics: sports or exercises engaged in by athletes. People who play a sport.
Kayaking: to go or travel by kayak.
Rock climbing: It is a sport in which you climb on the rock or the mountain.
Trail biking: is biking practiced by roads or dirt tracks
Wakeboarding: the sport of riding over water on a short surfboard and performing stunts while holding a rope towed by a speedboat.
SHOPPING VERBS
Saving up: to save money with some purpose.
Be worth: Do something that makes up for it.
Afford: to be able to do or spare something, esp. without incurring financial difficulties or without risk of undesirable consequences.
Borrow: to obtain (something) with a promise to return it; to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent.
Lend: to grant the use of (something) on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned; to give (money) on condition that it is returned and that interest is paid for its temporary use.
Waste: to use up or spend to no profit; squander.
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