n. paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation
E.g. From the poolside patio, you can look down across West Hollywood and Beverly Hills.
n. benefactor; regular customer
E.g. We had to walk two miles to Brocklebridge Church, where our patron officiated.
n. floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make hard and convenient surface for travel
E.g. I walked a little while on the pavement after tea, thinking of you; and I beheld you in imagination so near me, I scarcely missed your actual presence.
a. special; characteristic; unusual; odd; bizarre
E.g. What I find peculiar is the notion “fundamentalists” need or deserve to be criticized.
n. foot-operated lever used for actuating or controlling a mechanism
E.g. What we've seen recently is that we really had foot on the gas pedal of greenhouse gas emissions.
v. gaze; stare; look searchingly; company with
E.g. We peer in at ten infants through the glass walls of a new-born nursery, imagining the bright futures ahead in the 80 years of life they can expect.
v. pierce; go through; permeate
E.g. You can hear her piano practice penetrate each room of the house.
n. something paid or given; payment to a person in consideration of past services
E.g. The government is struggling to persuade the general public to keep up their contributions to the pension scheme.
v. become aware of through the senses; detect
E.g. And though I don't comprehend how it is, I perceive you have acquired a degree of regard for that foolish little child Adele, too; and even for simple dame Fairfax?
n. understanding; feeling; effect or product of perceiving
E.g. Let's keep things to reality, and CNN's supposition for why this drop in perception is certainly not reality.
n. danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction
E.g. The switch hovered in the air -- the peril was desperate -- "My! Look behind you, aunt!" The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger.
v. be destroyed; pass away; become nothing
E.g. Almost a hundred people will perish in the cave unless we find them in 72 hours.
a. everlasting; continuing without interruption
E.g. Nearly 50 Virginia prisoners are being held in perpetual isolation because they refuse to cut their hair.
a. having precise or logical relevance; pertaining or relating
E.g. That policy, in pertinent part, said as follows: "A person living at other countries should not be counted as a vote."
a. stubbornly wrongheaded; directed away from what is right or good
E.g. When Jack was in a perverse mood, he would do the opposite of whatever Jill asked him.
v. cause to turn away from what is right, proper, or good; corrupt; bring to a bad or worse condition
E.g. As he was charged for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, detectives arrived at the house, taking him into custody at 5.45 p.m.
n. plea; formal message requesting something
E.g. People donate money, put their names to a petition urging governments to do more to fight AIDS.
n. dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
E.g. The petroleum product's pricing regulatory agency said in a statement it welcomed the high court's decision, and added that marketers were now free to procure products and release them to the public subject to guidelines.
a. of or pertaining to knowledge of pharmacy or preparing medicines
E.g. In order to determine if a certain pharmaceutical is effective, researchers compare medical outcomes between one group given the drug and another given a placebo.
n. art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs
E.g. Reports from every clinic, doctor, and pharmacy get broken into broad syndrome categories rather than specific diseases.
n. appearance; anything visible, in matter or spirit; extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence
E.g. International terrorism is not just a recent phenomenon.
n. traveler; one who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee
E.g. He was known as the pilgrim Pope visiting more than 100 countries and is generally acknowledged as the most well traveled world leader ever.
n. column; post
E.g. I leant against a pillar of the verandah, drew my grey mantle close about me, and, trying to forget the cold which nipped me without, and the unsatisfied hunger which gnawed me within.
n. any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle; small inflammatory dermal tumor or swelling
E.g. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it.
v. clutch; squeeze between the thumb and a finger, the jaws of a tool, or other edges
E.g. He went on so long that they had to pinch it to make it stop.
v. spot; locate or identify with precision
E.g. Scientists are hoping that the complete code of Chromosome 21 will allow them to pinpoint the individual genes responsible for each Downs Syndrome disease.
n. apparatus or model representing the solar system; display museum in which images of stars are projected onto a domed ceiling
E.g. In our debate, I mentioned the example of the more than $3 million he sought for a new projector at a planetarium in his hometown.
n. farm; an area under cultivation; a group of cultivated trees or plants
E.g. Sugar prices were so high that Hawaiian plantation owners were paying laborers a previously unthinkable $3.20 an hour.
n. cover conspicuously, as by pasting something on; adhesive tape used in dressing wounds; a hardened surface as on a wall or ceiling
E.g. The plaster is mostly removed now and we get to see the paintings in their full glory.
n. stage; a raised horizontal surface
E.g. It's now operating Russia's first offshore oil platform in the sea close to Sakhalin.
a. likely but not certain to be or become true or real
E.g. Both sides can maintain plausible deniability and simply claim a misunderstanding.
n. condition or state, especially a bad state or condition
E.g. Firstly, we are convinced that the people of our country, especially the poor, do appreciate that their plight is at the top of government's agenda.
v. dive; submerge; become suddenly lower; decrease dramatically; throw oneself into a substance or place
E.g. The hunting dogs plunge into the forest.
v. push at, as with a finger or an arm; search or look curiously; proceed in slow or lazy manner; thrust forward
E.g. The children's heads poke from under the blankets.
a. pertaining to one of the poles of the earth; of the poles
E.g. The two systems of government are polar opposites.
v. weigh; weigh in the mind; view with deliberation; examine carefully; consider attentively
E.g. I ponder for some minutes before giving the answer.
n. ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic
E.g. The toughness, strength, and translucence of porcelain arise mainly from the formation at these high temperatures of glass and the mineral mullite within the fired body.
a. mobile; easily or conveniently transported
E.g. They predict that the majority of internet connections will be by mobile communication devices closer to pocket computers than portable telephones.
n. portable case to hold loose papers; materials in such case; office or post of minister of state; a group of investments
E.g. Building a portfolio is an important step in becoming a successful writer.
n. section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole
E.g. The largest portion would go into the players' pockets, but the package included payments into a players' pension account and a donation to selected charities.