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biodiversity
range of organisms in environment
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contamination
- act of contaminating something: make it dirty and impure
- pollution, infection
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deforestation
remove trees from an area of land
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disposal
- the process of getting rid or throwing something
- discarding, dumping
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drought (drowt)
period of extremely dry weather
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exhaust (fumes) (n)
discharge of waste gases
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fumes
smoke, gas or vapor
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pollutant
- something causing pollution
- toxin, poison
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strain
- stress: intense demand on body
- *under considerable strain
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conceive
- imagine, envisage, visualize
- invent or devise something
- *conceived and written by Chuck Lorre
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devastate
damage severely
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futile
- in vain: having no practical effects
- frivolous: lacking serious value
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improbable
difficult to believe
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insoluble
cannot be dissolved in liquid
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irreparable
not repairable
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pervasive
present everywhere, present throughout something
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pristine (pres-teen)
- immaculate: so clean and neat as to look as good as new
- *the house is in pristine condition
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taxing
placing numerous and severe demands on somebody
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attain
accomplish something, reach particular state
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unprecedented
having no earlier equal or parallel
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viable
- practicable or worthwhile
- feasible, possible, sustainable, doable
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inexorable
unstoppable: impossible to stop
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