Do Literate women make better mothers?
Bypass (noun) Synonym: Ignore
(especially British English) a road that passes around a town or city rather than through the centre
The western bypass around the town the Newbury bypass
A medical operation on the heart in which blood is directed along a different route so that it does not flow through a part that is damaged or blocked; the new route that the blood takes
Heart bypass surgery a triple bypass operation
Campaign (noun) Synonym: Movement
Campaign (against/for something) a series of planned activities that are intended to achieve a particular social, commercial or political aim
A campaign against ageism in the workplace
The campaign for parliamentary reform an anti-smoking campaign
Today police launched (= began) a campaign to reduce road accidents.
An advertising campaign
Colleagues (noun) Synonym: teammate
A person that you work with, especially in a profession or a business
A colleague of mine from the office
We were friends and colleagues for more than 20 years.
Crusade (noun) Synonym: Expedition
Crusade (for/against something) | crusade (to do something) a long and determined effort to achieve something that you believe to be right or to stop something that you believe to be wrong
To lead a crusade against crime
a moral crusade
a crusade to give terminally ill people the right to die
(also Crusade) any of the wars fought in Palestine by European Christian countries against the Muslims in the Middle Ages
Curricullum (noun) Synonym: Syllabus
The subjects that are included in a course of study or taught in a school, college, etc.
The school curriculum
(British English) Spanish is on the curriculum.
(North American English) Spanish is in the curriculum.
Eliminated (verb) Synonym: Wiped, Removed
To remove or get rid of something/somebody
Eliminate something/somebody
Credit cards eliminate the need to carry a lot of cash.
Eliminate something/somebody from something
The police have eliminated two suspects from their investigation.
This diet claims to eliminate toxins from the body.
Eliminate somebody (from something) [usually passive] to defeat a person or a team so that they no longer take part in a competition, etc.
All the English teams were eliminated in the early stages of the competition.
She was eliminated from the tournament in the first round.
Eliminate somebody (formal) to kill somebody, especially an enemy or opponent
Most of the regime's left-wing opponents were eliminated.
Elsewhere (adverb) Synonym: Outside
In, at or to another place
The answer to the problem must be sought elsewhere.
Our favorite restaurant was closed, so we had to go elsewhere.
Details of Keats’ biography are given elsewhere
(In another part of this book, article, etc.)
Elsewhere, the weather today has been fairly sunny.
Illiterate (adjective) Synonym: Uneducated
(of a person) not knowing how to read or write
A large percentage of the rural population was illiterate.
(Of a document or letter) badly written, as if by somebody without much education
(Usually after a noun or adverb) not knowing very much about a particular subject area
Computer illiterate musically illiterate
Indicate (verb) Synonym: Point out
[transitive, intransitive] to show that something is true or exists
Indicate something
Record profits in the retail market indicate a boom in the economy.
A yellowing of the skin indicates jaundice.
The article claims that an increase in crime indicates a decline in moral standards.
[transitive] to be a sign of something; to show that something is possible or likely
A red sky at night often indicates fine weather the next day
[transitive] to mention something, especially in an indirect way
Indicate (to somebody) (that)…
In his letter he indicated to us (that) he was willing to cooperate.
Indicate something (to somebody)
He indicated his willingness to cooperate
Maternal (adjective) Synonym: Motherly
Having feelings that are typical of a caring mother towards a child
Maternal love
She didn't have any maternal instincts.
Connected with being a mother
Maternal age affects the baby's survival rate.
The effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy
[only before noun] related through the mother’s side of the family
My maternal grandfather (my mother’s father)
Mortality (noun) Synonym: Fatality
[uncountable] the state of being human and not living for ever
After her mother's death, she became acutely aware of her own mortality.
[uncountable] the number of deaths in a particular situation or period of time
The infant mortality rate (= the number of babies that die at or just after birth)
Mortality from lung cancer is still increasing.
[countable] (specialist) a death
hospital mortalities (= deaths in hospital)
Notoriously (adverb) Synonym: Infamously
In a way that is well known for being bad
Mountain weather is notoriously difficult to predict.
She is notoriously bad at writing letters.
The local bus service is notoriously unreliable.
Replicating (verb) Synonym: Duplicating
[transitive] replicate something (formal) to copy something exactly
Subsequent experiments failed to replicate these findings.
The format of the seminar day will be replicated in each Sports Council region.
[Transitive, intransitive] replicate (itself) (specialist) (of a virus or a molecule) to produce exact copies of itself
The drug prevents the virus from replicating itself.
Malnourished (adjective) Synonym: Anorexic
In bad health because of a lack of food or a lack of the right type of food
Tired, malnourished people are prone to infection.