Better than my life. 11. Vocabulary and technical terms
Vocabulary and technical terms
Ancient = very, very old. Ancient Rome, ancient Egypt,…
E-anger: Anger = when you are angry
E- sadness : Sadness = when you are sad
E-hunger: hungry= when you want to eat
E-loss: loss= when you lose somebody you love, he or she dies or goes away
E-reunion: reunion = meeting again after a long time. You can meet your school friends 20 years later, and that is the reunion. (Re = again, union = coming together.)
E-happiness: happiness = when you are happy
Binary code = a form in which computers understand programs. It’s difficult for people to read, looks like abracadabra of symbols. Needs disassembling to make it readable.
Bot = an outside program. Very often it is another character in the game.
Disassembling = a process of making binary code readable for people.
Environment = everything around us: houses, streets, roads, rivers, forests,…
Experience = what you know from before
Frightened = afraid
Grab = take, take suddenly
Hammer = a tool for driving in nails. (Молоток)
Hello, you lot! = Hello to all of you. Informal greeting said to a group of people.
Maiden = a girl
Memoflash card = a card or a kind of hard disk. You have programs on them
PDA = Pocket Digital Assistant = a pocket computer
Posh = fashionable, very modern
Sadness = when you are sad
Severe = strict
Skyscraper = a very tall building, like in New York
Stunner = a special gun used in computer games.
Sword = an old weapon of knights, looks like a big long knife
Think-send = use telepathy in a digital world. You send messages in your thoughts. Actually, computers register electric impulses from your head and send them where you want
Visual = what you see with your eyes, a picture, often on a screen
Weapon = any gun, bomb, knife, ….
4-D = four dimensional.
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