n. act of departing
E.g. The departure of the migrant workers for the holiday season has also shown up how dependent the city dwellers now are on these country cousins of theirs.
v. decrease fullness of; use up or empty out
E.g. We must wait until we deplete our present inventory before we order replacements.
n. a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution
E.g. For example, a depositor opening a checking account at a bank in the United States with $100 in currency surrenders legal title to the $100 in cash, which becomes an asset of the bank.
n. depository; storehouse
E.g. Every depot storehouse is equipped with at least one air conditioned room, one cold chamber.
n. devaluation; decrease in price or value
E.g. These days we all see a depreciation of the dollar against the yen.
v. deny; take away
E.g. But another conservative paper said it was tantamount to a declaration of war to deprive a country of its right to nuclear technology.
n. by-product; something derived
E.g. Now a story or movie being derivative is not necessarily a bad thing.
n. ancestry; origin; the descendants of one individual; drop; fall; a movement downward
E.g. When the 16th century construction was destroyed by Bosnian Croat forces in November 1993, it seemed to symbolize the complete disintegration in relations between Bosnia's Muslims, Croats and Serbs and the country's descent into all-out war.
n. area with little or no vegetation; forsake; abandon
E.g. An outburst of relief as Stardust finally landed in the Utah desert after a four and a half billion kilometre journey that had taken the craft half way out to Jupiter and through the tail of a comet.
v. be worthy of; have a right to
E.g. The publishers say they are not cashing in, just treating the emergency services with the respect they deserve.
n. anything which is longing for
E.g. The villagers had a strong desire to leave there.
v. deprive of something valuable by force; rob; take as spoils
E.g. If you do not yield, I am afraid the enemy will despoil the countryside.
n. a dish served as the last course of meal
E.g. Allrecipes has more than 11370 trusted dessert recipes complete with ratings, reviews and serving tips.
v. decree or designate beforehand; fate
E.g. The eight elephants were to destine for zoos in Sydney and Melbourne have been in quarantine in Thailand since last October.
a. devastating; ruinous
E.g. Professor Paterson thinks there's merit in another plan for floating artificial marshes in the Lagoon to help break up the most destructive waves.
a. apparent; measurable
E.g. And unlike prior P. fiction, a detectable story thread develops out of "the restless progress" of the two scientists.
n. cleansing agent; substance that acts similarly to soap
E.g. You should try this new detergent to replace soap.
v. become worse; decline
E.g. The humanitarian situation in southeastern parts of the country continues to deteriorate, with increasing livestock deaths, serious shortage of water.
a. causing damage or harm; injurious
E.g. The candidate's acceptance of major financial contributions from a well known racist ultimately proved detrimental to his campaign, for he lost the backing of many of his early grassroots supporters.
a. destructive; highly critical; causing or capable of causing complete destruction
E.g. Five to ten rhinos are killed every year on average, mostly during Assam's devastating floods because they have to flee Kaziranga's low marshy lands to higher hills where they cannot be guarded.
n. an event that results in total destruction; the state of being decayed or destroyed
E.g. Only a few years ago the River Oder on the Polish-German border caused huge amounts of devastation.
a. departing from correct or accepted way; misleading; not straightforward
E.g. The story of Byzantine art, though not precisely devious, is not straightforward either.
a. completely lacking; barren or empty
E.g. You may think her mind is a total void, but she's actually not devoid of intelligence. She just sounds like an airhead.
v. dedicate; contribute
E.g. Those who trade them hunt out the fiercest insects and devote many hours to training them.
v. consume; eat greedily; destroy completely
E.g. He seemed to devour me with his flaming glance: physically, I felt, at the moment, powerless as stubble exposed to the draught and glow of a furnace: mentally, I still possessed my soul, and with it the certainty of ultimate safety.
v. analyze; examine; identify
E.g. How to diagnose a sick fish by their behavioral changes and what you can do to cure the illness.
n. conversation
E.g. The World Bank says it is currently considering the implications of the demand and called for continued dialogue with the government.
a. a regulated daily food allowance; of or relating to the diet
E.g. You have to accept the doctor’s dietary restrictions.
n. a specialist in the study of nutrition
E.g. Some professionals use the terms dietitian and nutritionist interchangeably.
n. act of dispersing or diffusing something
E.g. It is therefore important to better understand and measure the benefits of this diffusion of knowledge.
v. break down; make more concise; convert food into absorbable substances
E.g. I cannot digest all this information.
a. assiduous; industrious; hard-working
E.g. It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him; and so, instead of winning him, it only "set him up" the more and made him the more diligent to avoid betraying that he knew she was about.
ad. conscientiously; in a diligent manner
E.g. They set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard
n. a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar
E.g. The front (obverse) of the dime pictures a left-facing profile of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only four-term President of the United States of America.
n. any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era
E.g. In recent years, scientists have been more concerned with the earth colliding with comets and asteroids and comet Swift-Tuttle is big, about the same size as the asteroid that wiped out dinosaur sixty-five million years ago.
n. an oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in the molecule
E.g. Our ancestors started adding the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide principally by cutting down trees for farming; whereas methane production started with wet farming of rice.
n. a feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing
E.g. Newport pointed out that disapproval ratings for President Bush were 47 percent in January 2004, just 10 months before he won a second term.
n. catastrophe; misfortune
E.g. He's asked President Bush to declare the area a disaster zone to free up federal funds.
v. detect; perceive
E.g. I discern in the course of the morning that Thornfield Hall was a changed place.
n. act of removing a load or burden; act of shooting or firing a projectile or weapon; emission
E.g. There is a local warm water discharge from a power plant that I fish at.