Welcome back to compound nouns and adjectives, everyone! This is related to science, so check out these compounds, match the definitions and complete the rest of the tasks below.
- Outlook
- Drawback
- Outcome
- Feedback
- Outset
- Outbreak
- Cutback
- Crackdown
a. beginning, start
b. result
c. reduction in something (the amount of money spent)
d. strong action that someone in authority takes to stop a particular activity.
e. sudden start of war, disease, violence, etc
f. disadvantage
g. idea of what a situation will be like in the future/your general attitude to things
h. comments about how well or badly someone is doing something, intended to help them to do it better.
Task 2
Match 1-8 and a-h. Are the words compound nouns or compound adjectives? Are they written as one word, one word with a hyphen, or two words?
- Genetically
- set
- high
- life
- world
- break
- off
- worth
a time
b wide
c through
d while
e modified
f back
g risk
h spring