n. ornament, hanging from a necklace; one of a matched pair; a companion piece
E.g. The grateful team presented the coach with a silver chain and pendant engraved with the school's motto.
v. pierce; go through; permeate
E.g. You can hear her piano practice penetrate each room of the house.
n. pleasing, agreeable scent or odor
E.g. As British companies withdraw Jade's top-selling perfume from the shelves, it's losing work for people in Mumbai where its bottles are manufactured.
n. outer boundary length; closed curve bounding a plane area
E.g. Find the largest possible width if the the perimeter is at most 64 cm.
n. duration, continuance, term; end of something
E.g. Death put a period to his endeavors.
n. publication that appears at fixed intervals
E.g. Total operating revenues in the periodical publishing industry increased in 2005 from the previous year.
a. located in outer boundary; unimportant; auxiliary
E.g. We lived, not in central London, but in one of those peripheral suburbs that spring up on the outskirts of a great city.
a. liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or decay
E.g. Travel tickets are like perishable goods: If a company doesn't sell seats, then they lose them.
a. penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through
E.g. If your jogging clothes weren't made out of permeable fabric, you'd drown in your own perspiration.
v. make something last; preserve from extinction
E.g. Some critics attack The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because they believe Twain's book to perpetuate a false image of Blacks in this country.
a. puzzling; lacking clarity of meaning; complicated
E.g. This paper will be perplexing to someone who knew nothing about its topic.
n. process of the sweat glands of skin secreting a salty fluid
E.g. She found three things essential for success in weight loss: diet, exercise, and perspiration.
n. persistently annoying person; organism that injures livestock or crops
E.g. They warn it could take years to eradicate the pest.
a. tending to produce infectious disease; destructive
E.g. What was remarkable was that the Allies having spent nearly six years fighting to destroy this pestilential horror in the heart of Europe.
n. one of the often brightly colored parts of flower, immediately surrounding reproductive organs
E.g. Each large outer petal is curved and cup-shaped, yet each has its finishing point which makes the blossom starry.
n. plea; formal message requesting something
E.g. People donate money, put their names to a petition urging governments to do more to fight AIDS.
n. process of turning some plant material into stone
E.g. This dynamic process allows for the ability to translate the original text, thus giving that text a flexibility which refuses its petrifaction.
n. picture or likeness obtained by photography
E.g. Have you seen my photograph in the newspaper?
a. relating to the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit
E.g. Because you know, every intelligent person knows, that the physical is the basis for the mental and the moral.
a. pertaining to science of the function of living organisms
E.g. To understand this disease fully, we must examine not only its physiological aspects but also its psychological elements.
v. penetrate; make a hole into
E.g. Did the needle pierce her flesh?
n. originator; explorer
E.g. He went west as pioneer with only the possessions he could carry with him.
v. open up an area or prepare a way; settle a region
E.g. The surgeons of this hospital pioneer organ transplants.
v. provoke or arouse; excite to anger; wound pride of
E.g. "I know something you don't know," said Lucy, trying to pique Ethel's interest.
n. promise solemnly and formally; binding commitment to do something
E.g. The world leaders celebrated the year 2000 with a solemn pledge to reduce poverty and hunger by 2015.
v. move in a way that cutting or going through something; cultivate; farm; break and turn over earth
E.g. Farmer Jones will plow his east field next week.
n. purse; wallet; pocket-sized paperback book
E.g. That car is too expensive for my pocketbook.
n. profession devoted to governing and political affairs; study of government of states and other political units
E.g. The surest bet in British politics at the moment is that Gordon Brown will become the next prime minister.
v. make impure; make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter
E.g. The industrial wastes pollute the lake.
a. of common people; suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain
E.g. Just a week before the announcement, Cameron outlined his ideas on how to create what he called popular capitalism.
n. quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after
E.g. Chancellor Merkel's own popularity ratings have taken a battering.
a. mobile; easily or conveniently transported
E.g. They predict that the majority of internet connections will be by mobile communication devices closer to pocket computers than portable telephones.
n. portraiture; picture; likeness of a person, especially one showing the face
E.g. Are we safe to assume that this portrait is of the same scene we've seen in that picture?
n. painter or drawer of portraits
E.g. Painter and portraitist, Adrian Gottlieb, offers instruction in painting methods developed from the Renaissance through the early 20th century.
v. pretend to be someone you are not; assume a posture as for artistic purposes
E.g. We don't know the woman who pose for Leonardo so often.
v. occupy in person; hold or actually have in one's own keeping; have and hold; have the legal title to
E.g. The most important thing which an enterprise should possess is the ability to believe in oneself.
a. of or relating to the system for delivering mail
E.g. If you send a letter and misspell the street name, a sharp-eyed postal worker can still make sure it reaches its destination.
n. person in charge of a post office
E.g. People from all over the world send valentine cards to the village so the postmaster can stamp them with its special postmark - a teddy bear holding a heart.
n. position or arrangement of the body and its limbs
E.g. He has a warm smile on his face but his posture is firm and his eyes are open and locked directly into our eyes.
n. metallic or earthen vessel for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, or for plant
E.g. Well, what of that? Suppose you find a brass pot with a hundred dollars in it.