Unit 4: Selection Vocabulary 3

All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

It wasn't clear at first as to what the bulletin was about, since the announcer, like all announcers, had a serious speech impediment.

Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody.

The picture showed the full length of Harrison against a background calibrated in feet and inches.

Nobody had ever borne heavier handicaps. He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H-G men could think them up.

Screams and barking cries of consternation came from the television set.

Geothermal plants, which are powered by the Earth’s internal heat, can run for some time without human intervention.

According to the maintenance manual for the Svartsengi Island geothermal plant in Iceland, every six months the operators must change the gearbox oil and regrease all electric motors and couplings.

Generators that convert falling water into electricity will keep working for quite a while.

Even without anything using their power, batteries gradually self- discharge.

Unfortunately, most won’t even last as long as Curiosity; eventually, they’ll succumb to space debris impacts.

If we follow a strict definition of lighting, solar-powered lights in remote locations could conceivably be the last surviving human light source.