n. terrestrial plant-eating insect; young student in initial stages of training
E.g. Canadians are stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer while others have plenty.
a. thankful; appreciative of benefits received
E.g. He said he was feeling well and was very grateful to be there.
n. seriousness; solemn and dignified feeling; natural force between two massive bodies
E.g. We could tell we were in serious trouble from the gravity of the principal's expression.
v. scrape gently; feed on growing grasses and herbage
E.g. In the morning, if you're lucky, you'll get a visit from the two gentle horses that graze the hill.
a. wanting to get more than one can reasonably get
E.g. These people have good intentions to make a profit, but they are too greedy, which is why we have regulation.
a. sociable; seeking and enjoying the company of others
E.g. Natural selection in gregarious animals operates upon groups rather than upon individuals.
a. unrelenting; rigid; dismal and gloomy; cold and forbidding
E.g. Robert held her gaze for a long time, his expression grim and slightly troubled.
v. search blindly or uncertainly; reach about uncertainly; feel one's way
E.g. You grope for your next handhold or foothold as you slowly make your way to the top.
v. utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds
E.g. When a local historical society showed interest in preserving the Cider Barrel, he began to grumble, complaining about the "society."
v. swallow; utter or make a noise, as when swallowing too quickly
E.g. He did gulp for help after choking on a big piece of meat.
n. sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility
E.g. We greatly appreciate your support of the great Trampoline gymnastics game.
n. established disposition of the mind or character; distinctive dress, especially of a religious order
E.g. My habit is to just stare at a long stretch of river looking for any signs of fish movement.
n. type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives
E.g. So if you destroy the habitat in which these fish feed and breed then you're going to destroy sustainability of that fishery.
n. sign; feature; mark indicating quality or excellence
E.g. The government has said clean public toilets are the hallmark of a gracious society.
v. stop; stand in doubt; hesitate
E.g. Having the sun and moon halt is extraordinarily uncommon.
a. unlikely to harm or disturb anyone
E.g. He would at intervals talk with great good sense; but in general he was fondest of the company of children, whom he used to call harmless little men.
n. small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
E.g. To the beginning harmonica player it seems painfully obvious that the artists on his favorite records are playing an entirely different instrument than he is.
n. stable gear consisting of an arrangement to an animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart
E.g. The biggest danger beside not wearing your harness is that you can't function properly.
a. rough; coarse; severe; unpleasantly stern
E.g. This was a harsh blow for the families of missing people who'd waited for decades for news of them.
n. short ax used to chop wood
E.g. We split the ball open with the hatchet, and there was a spool in it.
a. showing emotional affliction or disquiet; frequently visited by a ghost
E.g. I remain haunted by a book called the Gammage Cup which I read decades ago.
a. unable to help oneself; powerless or incompetent; powerless; weak
E.g. Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up into a tree.
n. someone who drives a herd
E.g. They were found with the help of a sheep herder from the region.
a. reluctant, irresolute; tending to wait, or proceed with caution or reservation
E.g. Companies are often hesitant to hire aging employees.
v. sleep throughout winter; be in inactive or dormant state
E.g. Bears are one of the many species of animals that hibernate.
n. time of animals sleep through the winter
E.g. All they are doing is sort of fattening themselves up to go into hibernation to build their own nests next year.
v. weed, cultivate, or dig up with a tool, which has flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
E.g. He is going to hoe the flower beds.
a. sound as if echoing in a empty space; void; vain; not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
E.g. 'I'll tell it her,' said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow tone: 'sit down, both of you, and don't speak a word till I've finished.'
a. unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons
E.g. After the meal they felt rusty, and a little homesick once more.
n. terror; fear; intense dislike
E.g. But then, prepared as my mind was for horror, shaken as my nerves were by agitation, I thought the swift darting beam was a vision from another world.
a. unfriendly; showing the disposition of an enemy
E.g. The authorities say negative reports on Zimbabwe are a false creation by what they term a hostile Western media.
n. unfriendliness; hatred; state of being hostile
E.g. This opposition may take one of the forms already described, some other forms which have been overlooked, but the root of the hostility is the same in all.
n. tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills
E.g. Hummingbird is small bird in the family Trochilidae, native only to the Americas.
a. employing or showing humor; funny; amusing
E.g. What I find so humorous is that Obama has said what you guys have WANTED TO HEAR since he announced his presidency in Jan 2007.
n. strong desire for something; feel the need to eat
E.g. East Asia should meet its target of halving hunger by 2015, and Latin America and the Caribbean are not far behind.
v. throw with great force; cast; toss
E.g. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy.
n. shell; outer covering; remove the husk from
E.g. And I will give the missionary my energies, but not myself: that would be only adding the husk and shell to the kernel.
n. watery layer of the earth's surface
E.g. A hydrosphere in physical geography describes the collective mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet.
v. speculate; suppose; believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
E.g. They hypothesize that small size may have facilitated the rapid diversification among domestic dog breeds.
n. religious image; idol; important and enduring symbol
E.g. He is a pop icon designed and manufactured for the video generation.