n. severe trial; form of trial to determine guilt or innocence; difficult or painful experience
E.g. Another concern in this ordeal is the matter of proof.
a. simple and healthful and close to nature
E.g. Most of us like an organic lifestyle.
n. unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound
E.g. ORG provides you with fast loading charts of the current gold price per ounce, gram and kilogram in 23 major currencies.
n. result; end or consequence; result of a random trial
E.g. South Africa praised the outcome of the election as another indication of Africa's growing commitment to multi-party democracy.
a. sociable; going out or away; departing
E.g. From the government's side, the outgoing Prime Minister, Ivan Kostov, admitted personal responsibility for his party's crushing defeat.
a. relatively distant or remote from a center or middle
E.g. And why should the rest of us subsidize folks who live in outlying areas to commute?
v. weigh more heavily; exceed in weight, value, or importance; surpass; throw off balance
E.g. In a balancing test, the thumb on the scales can overbalance anything.
v. examine or go over carefully for needed repairs; make extensive renovations or revisions on; renovate
E.g. He proposals to overhaul the health care system.
n. representation of common ground between two things; extend over and cover a part of
E.g. He warned of the potential for gap, overlap and duplication.
v. supervise; manage; watch over and direct; examine or inspect
E.g. This caseworker had about 100 cases to oversee, which is four times the recommended number.
v. tire excessively; fatigue to exhaustion
E.g. To walk at a pace that does not overtire you.
v. reverse; overthrow; upset something
E.g. He is accused of an armed attempt to overturn the constitutional order; if he is convicted he could face life imprisonment.
n. unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen
E.g. These gases - we now know - affect something called the ozone layer, which protects the earth from the heating of the Sun's radiation.
n. someone paddling a canoe
E.g. Here's the place to list your trips and to connect with another paddler.
a. extremely careful and diligent work or effort; taking of pains
E.g. The truth is, I didn’t want to have to call any parents, so by outlining everything in painstaking detail in my newsletters, I could avoid it.
n. framed section of window or door that is filled with a sheet of glass or others; panel in a wall or door
E.g. According to Ms. Kozlowski, a glass door pane collapsed on her right leg, severing arteries and nerves.
n. sudden mass fear and anxiety
E.g. Marty shouted in panic, patting his coat, digging crazily into his pockets.
n. trousers; underwear; garment extending from waist to knee or ankle
E.g. When we got up-stairs to his room he got me a coarse shirt and pants of his, and I put them on.
n. rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
E.g. The plane that crashed into the side of a high-rise apartment comes equipped with a parachute.
v. restate text in one's own words, especially to clarify thought of others
E.g. In 250 words or less, paraphrase this article.
n. strong feeling or emotion ; fervor
E.g. In a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!' about once in a minute.
a. zealous; enthusiastic; filled with or motivated by zeal
E.g. 'Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a passionate voice. 'Would YOU like cats if you were me?'
n. way; footway; course or track; route; passage
E.g. WE went along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden.
n. someone on patrol duty; an individual or a member of a group that patrols an area
E.g. Bus patroller helps children to get on and off school buses safely.
n. sponsorship; support; state of being a sponsor
E.g. As a cooperative, we can return the profits of our successful operations to our members - the owners - in the form of a patronage refund.
n. scarcity; smallness of number; fewness
E.g. They closed the restaurant because the paucity of customers made it uneconomical to operate.
n. very poor person; one living on or eligible for public charity
E.g. Though Widow Brown was living on a reduced income, she was by no means a pauper.
n. summit; apex; maximum; prime
E.g. At its peak, a million people crammed onto the streets over the two-day festival.
n. small smooth rounded rock
E.g. For the next moment a shower of little pebble came rattling in at the window, and some of them hit her in the face.
a. special; characteristic; unusual; odd; bizarre
E.g. What I find peculiar is the notion “fundamentalists” need or deserve to be criticized.
n. teaching; art of education; science of teaching
E.g. Though Maria Montessori gained fame for her innovations in pedagogy, it took years before the methods were common practice in American.
a. subject to punishment by law
E.g. The idea of penal sanction is the essence of law.
n. strong inclination; definite liking
E.g. There is a certain penchant in true believers to ignore input which conflicts and contradicts that belief.
a. sharp; having the power of entering or piercing
E.g. The cold winter wind was so penetrating that further out-door exercise was now out of the question.
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.
v. spread gradually; cause liquid to pass through small holes; filter
E.g. Light will percolate into our house in next morning.
a. striking one object against another sharply
E.g. The drum is a percussion instrument.
ad. throughout the year; constantly; repeatedly
E.g. As a result, your garden will remain perennially healthy and alive.
a. repeated; recurring at intervals of time
E.g. Foot and Mouth is found on every continent and periodic outbreaks occur in most countries.
a. remaining without essential change
E.g. The five permanent members of the Security Council will now share the task of making an early assessment of the declaration.