radiate

Various molecules of gas in the air, especially water

vapor and carbon dioxide, absorb some of this infrared

energy. They, in turn, radiate energy away in all

directions, including back to Earth.

radioactive

The equivalent of more than 40 tractor-trailers full of

radioactive trash from 39 states was buried there each year

before South Carolina lawmakers in 2000 ordered the place

to scale back because they no longer wanted the state to be

the nation's dumping ground.

radius

By the end of 2004 a total of 1,704 kiosks had been set up,

each of which served its host village and four others within a

five-kilometre (three-mile) radius.

scale

The infrastructure needed to make a large dent in the

world's emissions is daunting. What is unusual is not the

scale of investment, but that much of it has to be spent on

new capabilities.

ascend

A National Park Service spokesman said last year that

the statue's designer, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, never

intended for visitors to ascend to the crown.

descend

Weaker states will be less resilient and more likely

to descend into chaos and violence when faced with

droughts, floods, crop failures, rising sea levels, salination of

freshwater reserves, storm damage, and so on.

navigation

But this was it, I was in the car making my way

through bits of Peckham I didn't know existed, thanking

my lucky stars that a mobile phone can now can server as

satellite navigation device.