n. a work produced by hand labor
E.g. The number and variety of handicraft courses which grant an appreciation for the skill, time and money needed to produce high quality craftwork.
a. being involved in doing something rather than just talking about it
E.g. This was a man who had a hands-on approach to government and is widely credited with taking the country from poverty to prosperity.
a. convenient; close
E.g. And "mate" is also handy at official functions when you can't remember a name.
v. become hard or harder
E.g. The cold might harden the butter.
a. damaging; noxious; detrimental; dangerous
E.g. The pesticide is chemicals which farmers put on their crops to kill harmful insects.
a. concordant; accordant; suitable and fitting
E.g. I had imbibed from her something of her nature and much of her habits: more harmonious thoughts.
v. correspond; sing or play in harmony; go together
E.g. As a leader, he must harmonize one's goals with one's abilities.
n. compatibility in opinion and action; an agreeable sound property
E.g. I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage.
v. accelerate; quicken
E.g. Her spirit seemed to hasten to live within a very brief span as much as many live during a protracted existence.
v. breed; emerge from the egg
E.g. It is not easy to watch that young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch.
n. a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions
E.g. The park authorities operated a trout hatchery.
n. any recently hatched animal
E.g. Overheating a hatchling bird will kill it quickly.
v. be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place; bother; disturb
E.g. Jason will once again haunt the cursed campgrounds of Crystal Lake, but this time, hockey-masked Jason is the real killer.
n. danger; risk
E.g. And across Baghdad there are hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of rubbish, and this is proving to be an increasingly serious health hazard.
a. dangerous; reckless; daring; inclined to run risks
E.g. People who employ pregnant women and children in hazardous occupations do so because such labor is cheaper than the labor of adult men, it's a simple matter of maximizing profits.
v. cure; make or get healthy again
E.g. Blair memorably described the continent as a scar on the conscience of the world and insisted that the international community could heal it.
a. curative; natural process by which the body repairs itself
E.g. But she never suspected that she was not an angel of healing and the balm of Gilead in disguise, to the suffering neighbors.
a. conducive to good health of body or mind
E.g. Granada is high in elevation and has a dry, healthful climate.
n. crowd or throng; a great number of persons; pile or mass
E.g. When suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
n. back part of the human foot; lower end of a ship's mast
E.g. There was a cross in the left boot heel made with big nails, to keep off the devil.
n. assistant
E.g. As a conductress of Indian schools, and a helper amongst Indian women, your assistance will be to me invaluable.
n. bravery; qualities of hero or heroine
E.g. He showed great heroism in battle.
a. consisting of dissimilar elements or parts; completely different
E.g. This year's entering class is a remarkably heterogeneous body: it includes students from forty different states and twenty-six foreign countries, some the children of billionaires, others the offspring of welfare families.
n. arrangement by rank or standing; series in which each element is graded or ranked
E.g. To be low man on the totem pole is to have an inferior place in the hierarchy.
n. a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other
E.g. His absence is the hinge of our plan.
n. allusion; clue; brief or indirect suggestion
E.g. Give me a hint about the big news.
n. a large group or crowd; wandering troop or gang; a moving crowd
E.g. Before Christmas the store will treat a special horde of shoppers.
n. bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance
E.g. Hornbill is bird characterized by a long, down-curved bill.
n. cultivation of plants
E.g. A unique post secondary educational opportunity that blends academic ornamental horticulture studies and practical training at this school.
n. a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines
E.g. Student-built robotic hovercraft will simulate Arctic rescue and service missions in a year-end engineering challenge tomorrow.
n. core port; nucleus; heart; center
E.g. It aims to compete with aviation hub like Singapore.
v. crouch or curl up ; mass; heap; crowd or draw together
E.g. Tomaz Humar had spent nearly a week to huddle on a ledge six-thousand meters up Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth highest mountain.
n. densely packed group or crowd, as of people or animals; small private conference or meeting
E.g. If Moss and Brandon Marshall could coexist in one huddle, then it's a risk that's worth taking for Miami.
n. color; appearance; particular gradation of color
E.g. The aviary contained birds of every possible hue.
a. containing a high amount of water or water vapor
E.g. She could not stand the humid climate and moved to a drier area.
n. dampness; moisture
E.g. But too much or too little humidity can produce a host of difficulties for householders.
v. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
E.g. Please do not humiliate anyone in a restaurant or supermarket.
n. bump; arch one's back
E.g. I roused him out and say: Get up and hump yourself, Jim! There isn’t a minute to lose.
n. big storm; severe tropical cyclone
E.g. There's speculation that increased hurricane activity is related to global warming: two scientific papers this year have linked their intensity to climate change.
v. bustle; cause to move furtively and hurriedly
E.g. When the boat was gone the king made me paddle up another mile to a lonesome place, and then he got ashore and says: "Now hustle back, right off, and fetch the duke up here, and the new carpet-bags.