Exam: Cambridge English: C1 Advanced (CAE)

Definition: The scientific study of weather patterns and conditions over long periods of time.

Example: Climatology helps us understand how climate change affects our planet.

Definition: Relating to a gradual change or transition in characteristics, often used in biology or geology to describe variations across a gradient.

Example: The clinal variation in the species' traits was evident across the different environments they inhabited.

Definition: Related to the observation and treatment of patients in a medical setting, often emphasizing a scientific and objective approach.

Example: The doctor made a clinical assessment of the patient's condition during the examination.

Definition: In a way that relates to the observation and treatment of patients, often in a scientific or analytical manner.

Example: The doctor assessed the patient's condition clinically before making a diagnosis.

Definition: Relating to the use of statistical methods and quantitative analysis in historical research.

Example: The cliometric approach provided new insights into economic history.

Definition: The study of history that uses economic theories and mathematical techniques to analyze historical data.

Example: Cliometrics has changed the way historians interpret economic events in the past.

Definition: A piece that has been cut off or removed from something, often referring to a section taken from a newspaper or magazine.

Example: She saved the clipping from the newspaper about the local event.

Definition: Relating to a type of word that is attached to another word and cannot stand alone, often used in grammar.

Example: In some languages, clitic forms can change the meaning of a sentence without being separate words.

Definition: A word that is connected to another word and is often not stressed or is shortened in speech.

Example: In the phrase 'I'm going', 'I'm' is a clitic that combines 'I' and 'am'.

Definition: Describing someone who is foolish or lacking in social grace; also refers to something that is rough or clumsy.

Example: His cloddish behavior at the party embarrassed everyone.

Definition: The quality of being clumsy, foolish, or lacking in social grace.

Example: His cloddishness made it difficult for him to fit in at the party.