Vocabulary: The Manhattan Project

Vocabulary

  • accompany = go together with
  • although = while
  • amount = how much of something
  • attack = to use guns and bombs against an enemy in a war
  • billion = a thousand million
  • code name = secret name that is used for a project or a person
  • conduct = carry out
  • create = make
  • desert = large are of land where it is always hot and there is not much rainfall
  • destroy = damage completely
  • destructive = causing damage to people or things
  • develop =create, make something new
  • device = object, machine
  • dynamite = powerful explosive used especially for breaking rock
  • enemy = country or people you fight against in a war
  • engineer = someone whose job it is to build things, like roads, bridges, weapons etc..
  • facility = building, used for a special job
  • flee – fled = escape from
  • force = make someone do something
  • force = power
  • gigantic = very large
  • government = the people who rule a country
  • however = but
  • including = also
  • knowledge = information, what you know about something
  • laboratory = special building or house in which a scientist does experiments
  • main = most
  • mark = the sign for
  • mushroom cloud = large cloud shaped like a mushroom, caused by a nuclear explosion
  • nuclear = atomic
  • nuclear chain reaction = action that produces energy and causes more reactions of the same kind
  • physicist = person who has special training in physics
  • plutonium = radioactive metal, used to produce nuclear power and bombs
  • release= set free
  • research = to find out more about a topic or try out new things
  • scientist = person who is trained in science and works in a laboratory
  • seek – sought = ask for
  • split = divide , separate
  • successful = positive; something that worked out well
  • surrender = give up
  • throughout = in all of
  • tremendous = great, huge
  • visible = to be seen
  • weapon = here: bomb

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