Driverless car/class 10 English/unit 1/word meanings

 

1. ‘Active’

   - Meaning: Engaging or ready to engage in physically energetic pursuits.

   - Synonyms: Energetic, lively

 

2. ‘Approaching’

   - Meaning: Coming nearer in distance or time.

   - Synonyms: Advancing, nearing

 

3. ‘Artificial’

   - Meaning: Made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally.

   - Synonyms: Synthetic, man-made

 

4. ‘Automation’

   - Meaning: The use of largely automatic equipment in a system of operation or production.

   - Synonyms: Mechanization, computerization

 

5. ‘Autonomous’

   - Meaning: Having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs.

   - Synonyms: Independent, self-governing

 

6. ‘Behaviour’

   - Meaning: The way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially toward others.

   - Synonyms: Conduct, demeanor

 

7. ‘Calm’

   - Meaning: Not showing or feeling nervousness, anger, or other strong emotions.

   - Synonyms: Tranquil, serene

 

8. ‘Carbon’

   - Meaning: A chemical element with symbol C, essential for all life forms.

   - Synonyms: Graphite, charcoal

 

9. ‘Challenges’

   - Meaning: A task or situation that tests someone's abilities.

   - Synonyms: Difficulties, obstacles

 

10. ‘Climb’

    - Meaning: To go up or ascend, especially by using the hands and feet or feet only.

    - Synonyms: Ascend, scale

 

11. ‘Commercial’

    - Meaning: Concerned with or engaged in commerce.

    - Synonyms: Business, trade

 

12. ‘Complex’

    - Meaning: Consisting of many different and connected parts.

    - Synonyms: Complicated, intricate

 

13. ‘Commuting’

    - Meaning: Travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis.

    - Synonyms: Traveling, journeying

 

14. ‘Cop’

    - Meaning: To deal with or handle something successfully.

    - Synonyms: Manage, handle

 

15. ‘Cracking’

    - Meaning: Solving or deciphering something.

    - Synonyms: Deciphering, solving

 

16. ‘Curb’

    - Meaning: A stone or concrete edging to a street or path.

    - Synonyms: Edge, border

 

17. ‘Deploy’

    - Meaning: Bring into effective action.

    - Synonyms: Utilize, employ

 

18. ‘Developments’

    - Meaning: A new and refined product or idea.

    - Synonyms: Advances, progressions

 

19. ‘Driverless’

    - Meaning: Operating without a human driver.

    - Synonyms: Autonomous, self-driving

 

20. ‘Effectively’

    - Meaning: In such a manner as to achieve a desired result.

    - Synonyms: Efficiently, successfully

 

21. ‘Emissions’

    - Meaning: The production and discharge of something, especially gas or radiation.

    - Synonyms: Discharges, releases

 

22. ‘Enticing’

    - Meaning: Attractive or tempting.

    - Synonyms: Alluring, tempting

 

23. ‘Estimate’

    - Meaning: To determine roughly the size, extent, or nature of something.

    - Synonyms: Approximate, gauge

 

24. ‘Experienced’

    - Meaning: Having knowledge or skill in a particular field.

    - Synonyms: Skilled, proficient

 

25. ‘Expanding’

    - Meaning: Becoming larger in size, number, or amount.

    - Synonyms: Growing, enlarging

 

26. ‘Experts’

    - Meaning: A person who is very knowledgeable about or skillful in a particular area.

    - Synonyms: Specialists, professionals

 

27. ‘Fatalities’

    - Meaning: An occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease.

    - Synonyms: Deaths, casualties

 

28. ‘Facility’

    - Meaning: A place, amenity, or piece of equipment provided for a particular purpose.

    - Synonyms: Establishment, complex

 

29. ‘Focus’

    - Meaning: The center of interest or activity.

    - Synonyms: Concentration, emphasis

 

30. ‘Glare’

    - Meaning: A strong, harsh light.

    - Synonyms: Brightness, brilliance

 

31. ‘Hailed’

    - Meaning: To call out to (someone) to attract attention.

    - Synonyms: Summoned, called

 

32. ‘Hurdles’

    - Meaning: An obstacle or difficulty.

    - Synonyms: Obstacles, barriers

 

33. ‘Infrastructure’

    - Meaning: The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.

    - Synonyms: Framework, foundation

 

34. ‘Insurance’

    - Meaning: A practice or arrangement by which a company provides a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage, illness, or death in return for payment.

    - Synonyms: Coverage, protection

 

35. ‘Liability’

    - Meaning: The state of being responsible for something, especially by law.

    - Synonyms: Responsibility, accountability

 

36. ‘Mainstream’

    - Meaning: The ideas, attitudes, or activities that are regarded as normal or conventional.

    - Synonyms: Conventional, accepted

 

37. ‘Merge’

    - Meaning: Combine or cause to combine to form a single entity.

    - Synonyms: Join, unite

 

38. ‘Navigate’

    - Meaning: Plan and direct the course of a vehicle.

    - Synonyms: Steer, pilot

 

39. ‘Notification’

    - Meaning: The action of notifying someone or something.

    - Synonyms: Alert, message

 

40. ‘Operate’

    - Meaning: Control the functioning of (a machine, process, or system).

    - Synonyms: Manage, run

 

41. ‘Prediction’

    - Meaning: A forecast or prophecy.

    - Synonyms: Forecast, prognostication

 

42. ‘Radiate’

    - Meaning: Emit energy, especially light or heat, in the form of rays or waves.

    - Synonyms: Emit, give off

 

43. ‘Redefined’

    - Meaning: To define again or differently.

    - Synonyms: Reinterpreted, revised

 

44. ‘Regulation’

    - Meaning: A rule or directive made and maintained by an authority.

    - Synonyms: Rule, directive

 

45. ‘Reliance’

    - Meaning: Dependence on or trust in someone or something.

    - Synonyms: Dependence, trust

 

46. ‘Robotaxi’

    - Meaning: A self-driving taxi.

    - Synonyms: Autonomous taxi, self-driving car

 

47. ‘Safety’

    - Meaning: The condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury.

    - Synonyms: Security, protection

 

48. ‘Scenario’

    - Meaning: A written outline of a movie, novel, or stage work giving details of the plot and individual scenes.

    - Synonyms: Outline, script

 

49. ‘Sensors’

    - Meaning: A device that detects or measures a physical property and records, indicates, or otherwise responds to it.

    - Synonyms: Detectors, transducers

 

50. ‘Serene’

    - Meaning: Calm, peaceful, and untroubled.

    - Synonyms: Tranquil, calm

 

51. ‘Signaling’

    - Meaning: To make a signal to.

    - Synonyms: Indicating, showing

 

52. ‘Sustainable’

    - Meaning: Able to be maintained at a certain rate or level.

    - Synonyms: Renewable, eco-friendly

 

53. ‘Streamline’

    - Meaning: To make (an organization or system) more efficient and effective.

    - Synonyms: Simplify, modernize

 

54. ‘Testing’

    - Meaning: The process of trying out or assessing something.

    - Synonyms: Trial, evaluation

 

55. ‘Transform’

    - Meaning: To make a thorough or dramatic change.

    - Synonyms: Change, alter

 

56. ‘Unpredictable’

    - Meaning: Not able to be predicted.

    - Synonyms: Unforeseeable, uncertain

 

57. ‘Vehicle’

    - Meaning: A thing used for transporting people or goods.

    - Synonyms: Car, automobile

 

58. ‘Vision’

    - Meaning: The ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom.

    - Synonyms: Foresight, imagination

 

59. ‘Windscreen’

    - Meaning: The front window of a car.

    - Synonyms: Windshield, front window

 

60. ‘Arrival’

    - Meaning: The action or process of arriving.

    - Synonyms: Coming, appearance

 

61. ‘Conventional’

    - Meaning: Based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed.

    - Synonyms: Traditional, standard

 

62. ‘Proficient’

    - Meaning: Competent or skilled in doing or using something.

    - Synonyms: Skilled, adept

 

63. ‘Obstacles’

    - Meaning: A thing that blocks one's way or prevents or hinders progress.

    - Synonyms: Barriers, hurdles

 

64. ‘Directive’

    - Meaning: An official or authoritative instruction.

    - Synonyms: Order, command

 

65. ‘Accountability’

    - Meaning: The fact or condition of being accountable; responsibility.

    - Synonyms: Responsibility, liability

 

66. ‘Efficiency’

    - Meaning: The state or quality of being efficient.

    - Synonyms: Effectiveness, productivity

 

67. ‘Advancing’

    - Meaning: Moving forward in a purposeful way.

    - Syn

 

onyms: Progressing, approaching

 

68. ‘Intricate’

    - Meaning: Very complicated or detailed.

    - Synonyms: Complex, elaborate

 

69. ‘Complicated’

    - Meaning: Consisting of many interconnecting parts or elements.

    - Synonyms: Complex, intricate

 

70. ‘Energetic’

    - Meaning: Showing or involving great activity or vitality.

    - Synonyms: Vigorous, lively

 

71. ‘Efficient’

    - Meaning: Achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.

    - Synonyms: Effective, streamlined

 

72. ‘Eco-friendly’

    - Meaning: Not harmful to the environment.

    - Synonyms: Green, sustainable

 

73. ‘Mechanization’

    - Meaning: The process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery.

    - Synonyms: Automation, industrialization

 

74. ‘Industrialization’

    - Meaning: The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.

    - Synonyms: Urbanization, mechanization

 

75. ‘Prognostication’

    - Meaning: The action of foretelling or prophesying future events.

    - Synonyms: Prediction, forecast

 

76. ‘Foresee’

    - Meaning: Be aware of beforehand; predict.

    - Synonyms: Predict, anticipate

 

77. ‘Anticipate’

    - Meaning: Regard as probable; expect or predict.

    - Synonyms: Expect, foresee

 

78. ‘Tranquil’

    - Meaning: Free from disturbance; calm.

    - Synonyms: Peaceful, serene

 

79. ‘Casualties’

    - Meaning: A person killed or injured in a war or accident.

    - Synonyms: Victims, fatalities

 

80. ‘Victims’

    - Meaning: A person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action.

    - Synonyms: Casualties, sufferers

 

81. ‘Specialists’

    - Meaning: A person who concentrates primarily on a particular subject or activity; a person highly skilled in a specific and restricted field.

    - Synonyms: Experts, professionals

 

82. ‘Professionals’

    - Meaning: A person engaged or qualified in a profession.

    - Synonyms: Specialists, experts

 

83. ‘Skilled’

    - Meaning: Having or showing the knowledge, ability, or training to perform a certain activity or task well.

    - Synonyms: Proficient, adept

 

84. ‘Adept’

    - Meaning: Very skilled or proficient at something.

    - Synonyms: Skilled, proficient

 

85. ‘Simplify’

    - Meaning: Make (something) simpler or easier to do or understand.

    - Synonyms: Streamline, reduce

 

86. ‘Reduce’

    - Meaning: Make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.

    - Synonyms: Decrease, diminish

 

87. ‘Diminish’

    - Meaning: Make or become less.

    - Synonyms: Reduce, decrease

 

88. ‘Decrease’

    - Meaning: Make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree.

    - Synonyms: Reduce, diminish

 

89. ‘Discharges’

    - Meaning: Tell (someone) officially that they can or must leave, in particular.

    - Synonyms: Releases, emissions

 

90. ‘Releases’

    - Meaning: Allow or enable to escape from confinement; set free.

    - Synonyms: Discharges, emissions

 

91. ‘Man-made’

    - Meaning: Made or caused by human beings (as opposed to occurring or being made naturally).

    - Synonyms: Artificial, synthetic

 

92. ‘Synthetic’

    - Meaning: Made by chemical synthesis, especially to imitate a natural product.

    - Synonyms: Artificial, man-made

 

93. ‘Emit’

    - Meaning: Produce and discharge (something, especially gas or radiation).

    - Synonyms: Release, radiate

 

94. ‘Give off’

    - Meaning: Emit (a smell, light, vapor, etc.).

    - Synonyms: Emit, radiate

 

95. ‘Steer’

    - Meaning: Guide or control the movement of (a vehicle, vessel, or aircraft).

    - Synonyms: Navigate, pilot

 

96. ‘Pilot’

    - Meaning: A person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft.

    - Synonyms: Navigate, steer

 

97. ‘Gauge’

    - Meaning: Estimate or determine the magnitude, amount, or volume of.

    - Synonyms: Measure, estimate

 

98. ‘Measure’

    - Meaning: Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units.

    - Synonyms: Gauge, estimate

 

99. ‘Foretell’

    - Meaning: Predict (the future or a future event).

    - Synonyms: Predict, prophesy

 

100. ‘Prophesy’

    - Meaning: Say that (a specified thing) will happen in the future.

    - Synonyms: Predict, foresee