1. capable
Americans may regard shy people as less capable than those who are not shy.
he is wery capable
There are things that only intelligence is capable of searching for, but which it itself will never find. These things can only be found by instinct, but it will never search for them.
Yun would enclose little notes in letters from home. My father said “Since your wife is capable with brush and ink, she can write your mother's letters from home for her.”
Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring caused riots at its 1913 premiere. These days, of course, music is only capable of causing angry YouTube comment threads.
Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.
Detailed design is the work of drawing up a diagram that is capable of being manufactured from the plan set in the baseline design.
She's so stubborn. I bet if she ever gets reincarnated, she'd be a bacteria capable of living in empty space.
The capable detective was assigned to investigate the cause of the tragedy.
Don't underestimate yourself. You are capable of more than you can ever imagine. You are capable of AMAZING things.
I’m quite capable of taking care of myself / the aircraft is capable of flying 5,000 miles non-stop / she looked enthusiastic and capable / a highly capable man
He realizes that public officials are human, and that as human beings they are capable of misjudgement.
Well-meaning noobs can give advice capable of bringing about an armageddon with the potential of destroying the Earth multiple times over.
A woman is capable of failing to notice the hundred things that you've done her, and to address only the one that you haven't.
2. likely
If your spouse is a politician, then likely your name will also appear in the newspaper from time to time.
He is likely to have a book and a cracker at his meals--and then forget to eat the cracker!
It's quite likely.
We will soon most likely be charged for garbage disposal by how much of it there is.
It's better not to prattle on about meaningless things. The more you open your mouth the more likely you are to put your foot in it.
If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are likely to become dull and unintelligent.
Girls are more likely than boys to be malnourished, suffer poverty, face violence and be refused an education, according to a new report.
And since she refused to accept it, she had been living in extreme discomfort, exclaiming: "Why should we spend all the capital we are ever likely to have tying ourselves down to a place we detest!"
This robot does whatever I say. That's a big help when I'm too tired to do anything. Not too likely, huh?
According to a Cornell University study, unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted than good-looking ones.
The recent news about the Fukushima I nuclear power plant will likely strengthen the cause of the advocates who want to let our local nuclear power plant's license expire.
We are less likely to go crazy in space and more likely to accomplish our missions by using crews that are organised along family lines.
So if something is controversial it means it’s causing or likely to cause some argument
Because of the large scale of drones' likely impact on our society (and because we're talking about a federal bureaucracy) you can bet that it will be a few years before drones really take off commercially across the country.
The traditional way of learning a language may satisfy at most one's sense of duty, but it can hardly serve as a source of joy. Nor will it likely be successful.
3. be capable of
When they discover my escape they will be capable of anything!
4. potentially
Hepatitis is a potentially fatal disease. This crisis is potentially the most serious in the organization's history.
Our words are potentially ambiguous.
so, potentially, we could complete the work in 3 days
She caught sight of the tautology that she was looking for in a crowd of other, equally useless and potentially dangerous, tautologies.
Anglais mot "có khả năng"(potentially) se produit dans des ensembles:
Economy Test 045. culpable
Police have opened a case of culpable homicide against the company in charge of the construction
Él fue encontrado culpable del crimen.
6. ability
ability to listen
Sustainable development is the concept of the current generation utilizing the environment and meet human demands while not harming the ability of future generations to satisfy their own demands and interests.
If the more advanced want to improve English ability (especially reading comprehension) increasing vocabulary is the way to go.
With a high, closed collar, figure-hugging cut, and large slits at either side of a straight skirt, the qipao is unique in its ability to communicate both modesty and sensuousness.
With your ability it should be a doddle, but please don't be prideful of that but first apply yourself dilligently with everyone in your class.
This is a plan that takes into account your stature and your ability to guard. By all means do it for me.
Though it is true that every normal human being is able to use language, it is misleading to compare this with his ability to eat, sleep, or walk.
MP (magic): Ability score needed to use magic. As you use magic it drops, but with time it recovers.
I may not have much to offer in the way of learning or ability, but I want to do whatever I can for us all and humbly ask for your favor.
However, in America, sports teams are generally chosen by skill, and academic courses by ability.
The three animals tried to help the old man, the monkey using its ability to climb to collect fruit and nuts, and the fox catching fish in the stream to bring to him.
These days when I hear about these horrible incidents on the news I get the feeling that more and more young people are losing their ability to distinguish between real and virtual worlds.
In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.
A good method plays a much more important role in language learning than the vague concept of innate ability.
7. possibly
He couldn't possibly succeed.
I was just wondering if Tom could possibly still be at school.
Possibly he knows who broke the windows.
Possibly, the accident will delay his arrival.
If something is an apple, then it's either red or green, or possibly both.
Honest men and knaves may possibly wear the same cloth.
Gyoza stuffing? I made some gyoza at home but, possibly because I didn't have enough dough, I had some of the filling left over.
This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
Possibly because he's got a beard, he looks scary at first glance but he's really a kind man.
Did you possibly not notice until just now? "Er, well ... it was just so beyond my imagination that ..."
The cleanup at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could take years, possibly decades.
How could he possibly have effected that kind of change in that amount of time?
No rational person, of whatever political persuasion, could possibly object to the program.
There is a chance of showers today and possibly a thunderstorm.
We'll do everything we possibly can to help. Could I possibly borrow your bike?