v. try to conceal something; disguise; hide under a false appearance
E.g. He wants to mask his disappointment.
n. craft of a construction worker; structure built of stone or brick
E.g. They offer commercial and residential masonry and tile contracting, renovations, repairs and restoration.
n. a fellow member of a team
E.g. Be sure your mate is on a standard above your own.
a. deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; inadequate; feeble
E.g. As one of 17 siblings he grew up in meager conditions and frequently used cardboard to replace holes in his sneakers when playing basketball growing up.
n. actions that are carried out by people in authority in order to achieve a particular result
E.g. Cynics suggest that these measures are aimed at winning back the voters in the run up to presidential elections in three years’ time.
a. automatic; monotonous; relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics
E.g. They are discussing a belief that the universe is a mechanical contrivance.
n. branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies
E.g. Many of common foot complaints, like heel pain, arch pain and ball of foot pain, are caused by faulty foot mechanics.
n. device; machine; the technical aspects of doing something
E.g. On the key issue of land rights, it called for a mechanism to study ancestral links to the land.
a. automated; mechanical
E.g. But on July 12, at the company's Stampede party, Nathan was tasked with operating a robotic horse that ejects a mechanized calf for lassoing.
v. changed from a solid to a liquid state especially by the application of heat
E.g. These chocolates really melt in your mouth.
v. commemorate; commit to memory; learn by heart
E.g. Do you memorize your lines for the play yet?
n. danger; a threat or the act of threatening; something that is a source of danger; threaten; intimidate
E.g. Whenever the famished great girls had an opportunity, they would coax or menace the little ones out of their portion.
n. an agenda of things to do
E.g. They worked rapidly down the menu of reports.
v. combine; unite
E.g. Their solution to crippling financial problems has been to merge with one another in an attempt to get bigger and hopefully stronger.
n. combination; union of two or more commercial corporations
E.g. For Toshiba, the merger is an attempt to distance itself from unprofitable operations by letting Fujitsu effectively oversee its cellphone business.
n. any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
E.g. No meteor shower is more spectacular than the annual Perseid showers which astronomers consider one of the most rewarding sky watching events of the year.
a. city center; one who lives in a city center
E.g. Trains are less subsidized than roads, and much more efficient in metropolitan areas.
n. bacteria; any organism of microscopic size
E.g. The microorganism term is used instead of microbes; they are very small organism size belonging to various groups.
n. a short electromagnetic wave; cook or heat in a microwave oven
E.g. You can warm the left-overs by microwave.
v. act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only; imitate
E.g. The acting students mime eating an apple.
v. be all mixed up or jumbled together;
E.g. Almost all of the 2,500 athletes who competed in Salt Lake came to mingle and party together in the final gathering of the 77 nations who'd contested the Games.
a. action of people mingling and coming into contact
E.g. All the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary parties.
n. advocating minimal reforms
E.g. Most of these recipes are beyond minimalist: they never do in two steps what can be done in one, and they need no embellishment.
v. diminish; belittle; make small or insignificant
E.g. Let's minimize the risk.
n. a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group
E.g. He was accused by Speight of dismantling the rights of the indigenous majority at the expense of the Indo-Fijian minority.
a. astonishing; amazing
E.g. I wonder whether the working class isn't perhaps a better judge of these matters since they are less likely to believe in miraculous transformations.
v. deceive; misguide
E.g. Of course it's not the policy of the CIA to mislead Congress, but they do it all the time.
a. deceptive
E.g. In some respects there is a highly misleading similarity between this school and that one.
v. alter; change
E.g. If you want to modify an existing listing, make sure the url entered below exactly matches the one that appears in our directory.
v. dampen; humidify
E.g. How long should I moisten my kitten's food?
a. boring; dull; tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
E.g. Nothing is as monotonous as the sea.
n. beast; ugly creature; someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
E.g. Their persistance is a proof that the Dragon is not only a popular monster but also a true archetype.
n. confidence; mood or spirit of a group that makes the members wants the group to succeed
E.g. Swearing on the job can reduce stress and boost employee morale, a British study has found.
n. branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
E.g. A list of online resources related to computational morphology and phonology.
a. consisting of many cells
E.g. Leo W. Buss in a pioneering monograph has explored the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms in great detail.
a. complex; versatile
E.g. He has fused his musical talent, his passion for humanity, and his community and political activism into an extraordinary, multi-faceted career.
n. a great number; many
E.g. It has since expanded to include a multitude of girls, including several recurring regulars.
a. belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; concerned with commonplaces; ordinary
E.g. Unlike other players, the CEO and Secretariat are less interested in mundane benefits than in value.
a. common to or shared by two or more parties; shared
E.g. The main thrust is to make progress on practical issues - with mutual trade and business at the top of the agenda.
a. beyond ordinary understanding
E.g. Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting.