n. resolute adherence to your own ideas; being difficult to handle or overcome
E.g. Bush's stubbornness on issues such as tax cuts, education policy and the creation of a medicare prescription-drug benefit has served him well.
n. workplace for the teaching or practice of an art
E.g. The Disney corporation in the United States has announced that it's buying Pixar film studio for more than seven-billion dollars.
v. surprise greatly; amaze; make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
E.g. The news should stun all of them.
a. robust; strong; substantially made or constructed
E.g. More than 3,600 Filipinos rode out the typhoon in sturdy school buildings, town halls, and churches.
a. using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous
E.g. The design of his animated figures here recalls the stylized outlines of children's books, perhaps purposefully.
n. submersible warship; move forward or under in a sliding motion; underwater
E.g. Without British help it's clear the Russian submarine would have perished at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
v. sink; immerse; put under water
E.g. At 17.5 feet, waters begin to submerge Harriet Island Park across the river from downtown.
a. underwater; living in poverty or misery; having been hidden
E.g. They'd been pumping liquid air and nitrogen into the submerged tanks of the platform to try to stabilize it.
v. settle down; sink to a lower level or form depression; wear off or die down
E.g. The doctor assured us that the fever would eventually subside.
a. subordinate; secondary; serving to assist or supplement
E.g. This information may be used as subsidiary evidence but is not sufficient by itself to prove your argument.
v. support through finance; fund
E.g. The only thing we need to subsidize is a massive Manhattan style project to come up with better ways that won't take decades to implement.
n. something that has real or substantial existence; means of support or maintain life
E.g. In these days of inflated prices, my salary provides a mere subsistence.
n. taxonomic group that is a division of a species
E.g. DNA tests have shown that this giant creature belonged to a subspecies of tortoise found on an island that the British explorer never visited.
a. slight; be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind
E.g. His whole attitude had undergone a subtle change.
v. remove a part from the whole
E.g. This selection will show you how to subtract two numbers.
n. resident of suburb; who lives in a suburb
E.g. Your last book was about a contemporary Italian-American suburbanite and his multi-ethnic family.
a. tending to overthrow; in opposition to civil authority or government
E.g. In the meantime, Nigerian security agencies have been investigating what they call subversive activities by some foreign correspondents.
v. submit to an overpowering force; yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in
E.g. President Zardari told the two US officials that Pakistan was fighting for its survival but would not succumb to the militants.
n. utmost height; highest point of a mountain
E.g. I'm not totally convinced that the government or any certain summit is going to provide that, frankly.
n. spectacles that are darkened to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun
E.g. If it's a bright, clear day outside, you may instinctively reach for your sunglasses when you head for the door.
a. trivial; of little substance; involving a surface only
E.g. We give higher ratings to job applicants who are like us in superficial and irrelevant ways: as went to same school or share same religion.
v. replace; usurp; displace and substitute for another
E.g. As the younger generation replaces the older, the new alliances supplant the existing political coalitions.
n. something added to complete a thing, make up for a deficiency, or extend or strengthen the whole
E.g. At the same time, most studies agree that we don't get enough vitamins from our diets, so a good multivitamin supplement is advised.
ad. seemingly; believed or reputed to be the case
E.g. That sort of private payment, and the two-tiered medicine it implies, is becoming common in supposedly universal systems.
a. remainder; more than is needed; quantity much larger than is needed; remaining
E.g. Bush said the surplus is the people's money not the government.
n. uncertain cognitive state; uncertainty
E.g. He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom.
v. take back what one has said ; enclose or envelop completely
E.g. The government is expected to persuade the French to swallow their doubts on the EU Constitution and vote yes.
a. of soft and watery soil; ; low, wet, and spongy
E.g. They were sometimes held in swampy areas thick with snakes and mosquitoes.
v. swing; move back and forth or sideways; win approval or support for; convince
E.g. At this moment the crowd began to sway and struggle, and voices shouted, "It's him! it's him! he's coming himself!"
n. state or quality of being swift; speed; rapid motion; quickness; celerity
E.g. I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, or the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
a. used of organisms living together but not necessarily in a relationship beneficial to each
E.g. Symbiotic relationships may involve an organism living on another, inside another, or organisms related by mutual stereotypic behaviors.
n. sign; something visible to represent something else invisible
E.g. Often the destruction takes place in public, as a visible symbol of peace replacing war.
v. represent; signify; stand for
E.g. What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?
n. sign; indication; any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient
E.g. A patient's primary symptom is that he has pain in his shoulder up to his neck and down the right side of his body and is also feeling a little short of breath.
n. two words that can be interchanged in a context
E.g. An example of synonym is the words car and automobile.
a. having the same or a similar meaning; identical; equivalent
E.g. Even Motel 6, a name synonymous with low rates, has LCD TVs and Wi-Fi.
n. synthetic chemical compound or material; compound made artificially by chemical reactions
E.g. Two of the commonest and most widely used reactions in synthetic organic chemistry are substitution and elimination.
n. strategy; policy; plan for attaining a particular goal
E.g. It's not clear whether the tactics will do anything other than inflame tensions.
a. used for feeling; relating to sense of touch; perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible
E.g. His callused hands had lost their tactile sensitivity.
n. skill; gift; marked innate ability, as for artistic accomplishment
E.g. His main talent is campaigning and he started that years before any other candidate in history.