v. restrain; prevent or forbid; hold back
E.g. Only two things inhibit him from taking a punch at Mike Tyson: Tyson's left hook, and Tyson's right jab.
n. unjust act; practice of being unjust or unfair
E.g. The release of the bold young man without trial marks a significant victory for those who mounted a vigorous campaign against the injustice he faced.
n. understanding; grasping the inner nature of things intuitively
E.g. This insight is then applied to three prominent proposals.
v. stand or rest; find support; take a stand and refuse to give way; be persistent
E.g. Since you insist, I must amend the letter of credit.
n. sudden intuition as part of solving a problem; arousing to a particular emotion or action
E.g. The theme of the ceremony is Isles of Wonder and draws much of its inspiration from Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
a. stimulating or exalting to the spirit
E.g. This is an inspiring campaign and I would do anything to support this.
v. set up; connect or set in position and prepare for use
E.g. At the same time, the company alleges Microsoft restricts how computer manufacturers can install rival software.
a. unthinking; prompted by instinct; spontaneous
E.g. As for him, offering to help is as instinctive as breathing.
v. teach; make aware of
E.g. She had to instruct the students to work on their pronunciation.
a. serving to instruct of enlighten or inform; enlightening
E.g. You get 30 chapters with instructive illustrations, including an easy-to-follow, step-by-step, six-week basic training program.
n. tool; one used by another to accomplish a purpose; device used to produce music; legal document
E.g. The bond market cheered such a short-term instrument as traders have been looking forward to trading in short-term papers.
a. serving or acting as a means or aid; helpful; relating to musical instruments
E.g. Scientists may have identified a region of the brain instrumental in the creation of dreams.
n. someone who plays a musical instrument
E.g. A multi instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments.
a. undamaged in any way; integrated; whole
E.g. Ironically, the expensive technical equipment seems intact and the weather conditions are perfect.
a. understandable; clear to the mind
E.g. This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear: very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible.
v. strengthen; magnify; increase the contrast of
E.g. The Memorandum of Understanding signed today will further intensify power trading across borders.
a. thorough; concentrated; tending to give force or emphasis
E.g. The boys will be taken to an intensive care unit where they will remain in a drug induced coma for up to five days to prevent brain damage.
v. terminate; make a break in
E.g. I talked not very fast, so they should feel free to interrupt me if they didn't understand something.
n. complication; complexity; state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution
E.g. Again and again another layer of intricacy is revealed, proving that something as small as a story can be as satisfying and moving as a Russian novel.
ad. in intricate manner; with elaboration; with perplexity
E.g. It's not just the stories they tell but the fact that they all belong to unions that weaves Hollywood so intricately into the fabric of American life.
n. trespasser; someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission
E.g. It uses image-processing software installed on its built-in micro-computer to determine whether the intruder is a threat.
a. acting or done without or against one's will
E.g. After all, the line between voluntary and involuntary is very different in the military than in the civilian world.
a. humorously sarcastic or mocking
E.g. What's truly ironic is how both sides in this polarized debate use precisely the same tactics.
a. unalterable; irreversible; impossible to retract or revoke
E.g. As Sue dropped the "Dear John" letter into the mailbox, she suddenly wanted to take it back, but she could not: her action was irrevocable.
v. supply land with water artificially; clean a wound with a fluid
E.g. How do you irrigate a wound in the wilderness setting?
n. supplying water to the land to help crops grow
E.g. In recent times, it's been badly affected by excessive irrigation and a lack of rain.
v. seclude; set apart or cut off from others
E.g. That research will isolate a large number of antibodies from humans and animals.
a. remote; secluded; placed or standing apart or alone
E.g. On their return, a long-term strategy to help these isolated communities get back to self-sufficiency will be considered.
n. separation; detachment; quality or condition of being isolated
E.g. They're tired of living in political isolation with increasingly difficult economic conditions.
n. subject; topic; problem; edition; publication; release; publish
E.g. The issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone.
v. say, state, or perform again; repeat
E.g. The more you try, the more you learn, the faster you iterate, the better you get, and the more chances that you have of being productive.
a. wandering; traveling place to place, especially to perform work or duty
E.g. Since the storm, the city had also been attracting a new kind of itinerant idealist.
a. unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut; having a rough quality
E.g. "Especially him," a Mask shouted, pointing at a man with a jagged red line on his chest.
n. substance having the consistency of semi-solid foods
E.g. Artificially sweetened fruit jelly is standardized by the FDA.
v. run or ride at a steady slow trot; give a push or shake to
E.g. I would jog around the ponds, and around them, again and again.
n. running at the pace of a slow run for exercise
E.g. People who have not been active for several months should not start their jogging program with a long or intense run.
n. sudden jerking, as from a heavy blow; sudden, strong feeling of surprise or disappointment
E.g. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.
a. shocking; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
E.g. There are truly jolting challenges waiting along this freedom road.
n. writer for newspapers and magazines
E.g. The protests mark the second anniversary of the death of Georgy Gongadze, a journalist whose headless corpse was found in a forest near Kiev.
ad. with honesty; rightfully; fairly
E.g. We ask you to govern fairly and justly, fight corruption and fulfill human rights.