n. backbone; vertebrate; thorn; a sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf
E.g. Non-profit medical society focused on improving spine medicine through advocacy, research and education.
v. cause fluid to scatter in flying masses; strike and dash about, as water, mud
E.g. Their manure, which emerges as a liquid, tends to splash everywhere, including into milking equipment.
v. break apart; cut; devide
E.g. They split up after a year of marriage.
a. arising without external cause; growing without cultivation or human labor
E.g. The children's inherent love of learning is encouraged by giving them opportunities to engage in spontaneous, meaningful activities under the guidance of a trained adult.
n. a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle
E.g. The tea was ladled out from the cans with a long tin spoon and poured into the earthenware mugs.
a. completely neat and clean
E.g. Everyone wants to arrive in a spotless dress.
n. a quantity of small objects flying through air
E.g. Telescopes across the world, and in Earth orbit, will be watching the giant spray of debris thrown out by the impact.
v. develop suddenly; jump; move forward by leaps and bounds
E.g. New businesses would spring up rapidly in this area.
n. a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets; crush; press; depress
E.g. Squash is characterized as a "high-impact" exercise that can place strain on the joints, notably the knees.
n. a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail
E.g. The squirrel is a small or medium-sized rodent.
n. balance; constancy
E.g. Earlier this week EU governments voted to bend the rules of the stability pact so that France and Germany wouldn't be penalized for breaking the rules on budget deficits.
v. become stable or more stable
E.g. They'd been pumping liquid air and nitrogen into the submerged tanks of the platform to try to stabilize it but, with steep waves, they were fighting a losing battle.
n. an orderly pile; heap; a large number ; arrange in pile
E.g. Sometimes a stack of people would come there, horseback, from ten or fifteen mile around, and stay five or six days, and have such junketings round about and on the river, and dances and picnics in the woods daytimes, and balls at the house nights.
n. a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns
E.g. They will not be able to escort the stagecoach all the way.
n. a way of access consisting of a set of steps
E.g. Following the superintendent's guidance, we had to thread some intricate passages, and mount a staircase before we reached her apartment.
n. criteria; basis for comparison
E.g. And this will bring us to a final standard product of the human genome fully and publicly available for all to use for biomedical research.
n. a mental position from which things are viewed
E.g. As theorized by Nancy Hartsock in 1983, standpoint feminism is founded in Marxist ideology.
a. bare; complete or extreme
E.g. The weeping figure with his head bowed as the earlier death sentence was passed, stood in stark contrast to the confident and charismatic man who brought down democracy in May 2000.
n. act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
E.g. He said the lack of sustainable food production was contributing to severe shortages which threatened more than thirty million Africans with starvation.
n. a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data
E.g. Potential recruits will be encouraged to use an online tool to test their motivational profile and will be enticed by statistics claiming more than one thousand different jobs in the army across one hundred and forty different trades.
a. barren; infertile; incapable of reproducing; free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms
E.g. The surgical instrument unit includes a tripod having at least two articulating arms, one of which extends into a sterile operating area.
n. a decorative pin that is worn in a necktie
E.g. There is a very good selection of stickpin in gold and silver plate, sterling, and gold.
n. arousing an organism to action
E.g. Based on years of research, the military learned that early neurological stimulation exercises could have important and lasting effects.
n. any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
E.g. Stimulation in general refers to how organisms perceive incoming stimuli.
n. a craftsman who works with stone or brick
E.g. I am a stonemason avail for quality new install and repair work (stone, brick, tile, pavers, etc).
a. dependable; stocky; euphemisms for fat
E.g. John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old, large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage.
n. belt; band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag
E.g. The strap was broke off of it, but, barring that, it was a good enough leg, though it was too long for me and not long enough for Jim, and we couldn't find the other one, though we hunted all around.
a. arduous; intense; performed with much energy or force;
E.g. These are the men who fear the strenuous life, who fear the only national life which is really worth leading.
n. a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
E.g. An eight hour general strike was held on Thursday in protest over what they say is the deteriorating law and order situation across the country.
a. demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; binding; rigid
E.g. I think these regulations are too stringent.
n. a kind or category; band; ribbon
E.g. Businessmen of every stripe joined in opposition to the proposal.
n. blow; light touch; sudden loss of consciousness for brain blood vessel lacking oxygen
E.g. The doctors need to preserve and re-route those veins or both twins risk suffering a stroke.
a. breathtaking; strikingly beautiful or attractive
E.g. His self portraits are perhaps the most stunning.
n. difficult or unusual or dangerous feat usually done to gain attention
E.g. It was during Palance's acceptance speech that he pulled his most famous stunt of all; he dropped to the ground and performed one-armed push-ups.
n. act of subdividing; an administrative division of larger organization
E.g. Lava from Kilauea Volcano on Thursday crept toward a largely abandoned subdivision on the Big Island.
a. beneath the surface of the water; undersea
E.g. Prickly Sharks are found mostly in submarine canyons and its numbers are being depleted due to overfishing.
n. a section of a section; a part of a part
E.g. Please prepare each subsection title for this paper.
n. company owned by the parent company or holding company
E.g. The profits don't stay with the Dublin subsidiary, which reported pretax income of less than 1 percent of sales in 2008, according to Irish records.
n. direct financial aid by government
E.g. Without this subsidy, American ship operators would not be able to compete in world markets.
a. consecutive
E.g. For decades, successive French governments have sought solutions to the Corsica problem; none has yet worked.