v. indicate; signify directly; refer to specifically
E.g. The word “sex” is simply that—a word to denote whether a person is male or female.
a. thick; crowded closely together; compact
E.g. It's mountainous country, just a few kilometers from the border with Serbia; dense woodland surrounds the site.
n. thickness; quantity of something per unit measure, especially per unit length, area, or volume
E.g. They have knowledge about the population, housing density, types of construction and the extent of insurance cover.
v. take off; leave; set out
E.g. I too have some to see and ask after in England, before I depart for ever.
a. reliable; worthy of being depended on; trustworthy
E.g. Your dependable dog team will glide along the forested trails and frozen lakes in this winter wonderland north of Whitehorse.
n. reliance; lack of independence or self-sufficiency
E.g. The power of either Russia or China to act independently from the United States is constrained by their economic dependence on the world's remaining superpower.
a. relying on or requiring the aid of another for support
E.g. Some U.S. officials believe Pakistan wants the U.S. to remain dependent on the ISI for that intelligence.
v. represent in a picture or sculpture; portray in words; describe
E.g. Here, we can see how the author to depict Beatle John Lennon as a drug-crazed neurotic.
n. money given as a guarantee or security
E.g. In the meantime, she could keep the $400,000 in a secure investment such as a term deposit or money market fund.
a. sad; gloomy; low in spirits; dejected
E.g. Glaxo was accused of not publicizing the results of tests on one of its anti-depressants, which indicated that the drug might increase the suicidal tendencies in some depressed children who took it.
a. unoriginal; derived from another source
E.g. Although her early poetry was clearly derivative in nature, the critics thought she had promise and eventually would find her own voice.
n. removal of salt; process of removing salt from sea water in order to make drinking water
E.g. Canadian Clear Water has designed the most economical and efficient sea water desalination plants.
a. remote from civilization; left desolate or empty; abandoned
E.g. The majority of horror movies are set in deserted areas with limited proximity to towns and major cities.
a. worthwhile; worth doing or achieving; advisable
E.g. A number of other factors coincide to make a June election desirable for the government.
a. unpopulated; providing no shelter or sustenance; devoid of inhabitants
E.g. The sounds of Nature are detailed with great delicacy in this appeal, and we see that the Alps are referred to as desolate regions.
ad. with great urgency; seriously; severely
E.g. What a night it was for Germany: a desperately close race between the two candidates for Chancellor, declarations of victory by both, then the figures turned slightly in favor of Gerhard Schroeder and the Greens.
n. someone who takes spoils or plunder; one who despoils or strips by force; plunderer
E.g. Some will use Earth Day to depict America as an energy wastrel and despoiler of the earth.
n. ultimate goal; place to which one is going or directed
E.g. It's an ageing coaster and reportedly in poor condition, but even so, it should have got back to Benin - its declared destination - by now.
n. something that discourages; tending to deter
E.g. As Bush's view , North Korea is the main deterrent from a peaceful resolution.
v. ruin; lay waste; destroy; make desolate
E.g. She says the disease has the potential to devastate Sudan, as HIV spreads quickly among the nation's youth.
n. technique or means; instrument; machine used to perform one or more relatively simple tasks
E.g. Anti-gravity device could change air travel.
a. straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
E.g. You can draw a diagonal line across the page.
n. vocabulary that is for a specific group of people
E.g. The immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English.
n. study of nutrition as it relates to health
E.g. I have forwarded it to the dietetics program I attended at my university as it would be beneficial for the nutrition students to review it.
v. set apart; distinguish; perceive or show difference in or between
E.g. You can differentiate car parts by using different color markers; maybe you use one color for the left side and another for the right.
v. spread out widely; scatter freely; pour out and cause to spread freely
E.g. Hamilton wished to concentrate power; Jefferson to diffuse power.
a. widely spread or scattered; not concentrated
E.g. I hope to bring a diffuse focus into sharper detail.
v. turn aside, especially from main subject in writing or speaking
E.g. The professor does not digress from the topic and never bores his students.
n. wandering from the main path of a journey; diversion
E.g. This was the path to digression, as this is where I began to become slightly jaded.
v. weaken; make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water
E.g. A couple of years back you very loudly opposed the creation of "60 MINUTES 2", I think, that it might dilute the brand that you helped build up.
n. process of making weaker or less concentrated; decrease in the equity position of a share of stock
E.g. Receiving water taken upstream from the outfall may be specified as a source of dilution water in effluent toxicity tests.
a. emitting only a small amount of light; lacking in brightness
E.g. Night vision declines as well; therefore, trying to read labels in dim lighting may lead to errors.
n. tact; politics; negotiation between nations
E.g. Chinese diplomats have been engaging in shuttle diplomacy to try to narrow the differences between Washington and Pyongyang.
a. relating to diplomacy; marked by tact and sensitivity in dealing with others
E.g. Well, the secretary of state's trip to Canada is putting a brand new spin on the term diplomatic relations.
a. extremely bad; terrible; dreadful
E.g. The Haddan School was built in 1858 on the sloping banks of the Haddan River, a muddy location that had proven disastrous from the start.
v. throw out something from one's hand; get rid of
E.g. Right now, what we discard is an inherent part of what we consume.
n. trait of being well behaved ; act of punishing ; system of rules of conduct or method of practice
E.g. Here in the heart of conservative Texas, young criminals, murderers are forced to confront military style discipline.
v. train by instruction and practice, especially to teach self-control to
E.g. The teachers discipline the pupils rather frequently in this school.
a. trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise
E.g. The beautiful coordination of his disciplined muscles was shown in that picture.
n. formal, lengthy discussion of a subject; verbal exchange; conversation
E.g. The young Plato was drawn to the Agora to hear the philosophical discourse of Socrates and his followers.