1.
foster
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To bring up; nurture: bear and foster offspring. See synonyms at nurture.
2. To promote the growth and development of; cultivate: detect and foster artistic talent. See synonyms at advance.
3. To nurse; cherish: foster a secret hope.
ADJECTIVE:
1. Providing parental care and nurture to children not related through legal or blood ties: foster parents; foster grandparents; a foster home.
2. Receiving parental care and nurture from those not related to one through legal or blood ties: foster children.
prolong
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To lengthen in duration; protract.
2. To lengthen in extent.
inhibit
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To hold back; restrain. See synonyms at restrain.
2. To prohibit; forbid.
3. Psychology To suppress or restrain (behavior, an impulse, or a desire) consciously or unconsciously.
4a. Chemistry To prevent or decrease the rate of (a reaction).
b. Biology To decrease, limit, or block the action or function of
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power
NOUN:
1. The ability or capacity to perform or act effectively.
2. A specific capacity, faculty, or aptitude. Often used in the plural: her powers of concentration.
3. Strength or force exerted or capable of being exerted; might. See synonyms at strength.
4. The ability or official capacity to exercise control; authority.
5. A person, group, or nation having great influence or control over others: the western powers.
6. The might of a nation, political organization, or similar group.
7. Forcefulness; effectiveness: a novel of unusual power.
8. Chiefly Upper Southern U.S. A large number or amount.
9a. The energy or motive force by which a physical system or machine is operated: turbines turned by steam power; a sailing ship driven by wind power.
b. The capacity of a system or machine to operate: a vehicle that runs under its own power.
c. Electrical or mechanical energy, especially as used to assist or replace human energy.
d. Electricity supplied to a home, building, or community: a storm that cut off power to the whole region.
10. Physics The rate at which work is done, expressed as the amount of work per unit time and commonly measured in units such as the watt and horsepower.
11. Electricity
a. The product of applied potential difference and current in a direct-current circuit.
b. The product of the effective values of the voltage and current with the cosine of the phase angle between current and voltage in an alternating-current circuit.
12. Mathematics a. See exponent (sense 3). b. The number of elements in a finite set.
13. Statistics The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis where it is false.
14. A measure of the magnification of an optical instrument, such as a microscope or telescope.
15. powers Christianity The sixth of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.
16. Archaic An armed force.
ADJECTIVE:
1. Of or relating to political, social, or economic control: a power struggle; a power base.
2. Operated with mechanical or electrical energy in place of bodily exertion: a power tool; power car windows.
3. Of or relating to the generation or transmission of electricity: power companies; power lines.
4. Informal Of or relating to influential business or professional practices: a pinstriped suit with a power tie; met with high-level executives at a power breakfast.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To supply with power, especially mechanical power.
magic
NOUN:
1. The art that purports to control or forecast natural events, effects, or forces by invoking the supernatural.
2a. The practice of using charms, spells, or rituals to attempt to produce supernatural effects or control events in nature.
b. The charms, spells, and rituals so used.
3. The exercise of sleight of hand or conjuring for entertainment.
4. A mysterious quality of enchantment.
ADJECTIVE:
1. Of, relating to, or invoking the supernatural.
2. Possessing distinctive qualities that produce unaccountable or baffling effects.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To produce or make by or as if by magic.
force
NOUN:
1. The capacity to do work or cause physical change; energy, strength, or active power: the force of an explosion.
2a. Power made operative against resistance; exertion: use force in driving a nail.
b. The use of physical power or violence to compel or restrain: a confession obtained by force.
3a. Intellectual power or vigor, especially as conveyed in writing or speech.
b. Moral strength.
c. A capacity for affecting the mind or behavior; efficacy: the force of logical argumentation.
d. One that possesses such capacity: the forces of evil.
4a. A body of persons or other resources organized or available for a certain purpose: a large labor force.
b. A person or group capable of influential action: a retired senator who is still a force in national politics.
5a. Military strength.
b. The entire military strength, as of a nation. Often used in the plural.
c. A unit of a nation's military personnel, especially one deployed into combat: Our forces have at last engaged the enemy.
6. Law Legal validity.
7. Physics A vector quantity that tends to produce an acceleration of a body in the direction of its application.
8. Baseball A force play.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To compel through pressure or necessity: I forced myself to practice daily. He was forced to take a second job.
2a. To gain by the use of force or coercion: force a confession.
b. To move or effect against resistance or inertia: forced my foot into the shoe.
c. To inflict or impose relentlessly: He forced his ideas upon the group.
3a. To put undue strain on: She forced her voice despite being hoarse.
b. To increase or accelerate (a pace, for example) to the maximum.
c. To produce with effort and against one's will: force a laugh in spite of pain.
d. To use (language) with obvious lack of ease and naturalness.
4a. To move, open, or clear by force: forced our way through the crowd.
b. To break down or open by force: force a lock.
5. To rape.
6. Botany To cause to grow or mature by artificially accelerating normal processes.
7. Baseball a. To put (a runner) out on a force play.
b. To allow (a run) to be scored by walking a batter when the bases are loaded.
8. Games To cause an opponent to play (a particular card).
display
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1a. To present or hold up to view.
b. Computer Science To provide (information or graphics) on a screen.
2. To give evidence of; manifest.
3. To exhibit ostentatiously; show off.
4. To be endowed with (an identifiable form or character): a shrub that displays hardiness.
5. To express, as by gestures or bodily posture: a smirk that displayed contempt.
6. To spread out; unfurl: The peacock displayed its fan.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
Computer Science To provide information or graphics on a screen: a personal computer that displays and prints.
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expand
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To increase the size, volume, quantity, or scope of; enlarge: expanded her store by adding a second room. See synonyms at increase.
2. To express at length or in detail; enlarge on: expanded his remarks afterward.
3. To open (something) up or out; spread out: The bird expanded its wings and flew off.
4. Mathematics To write (a quantity) as a sum of terms in an extended form.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To become greater in size, volume, quantity, or scope: Air expands when heated. This critic's influence is expanding.
2. To speak or write at length or in detail: expand on a favorite topic.
3. To open up or out; unfold: The chair expands to form a day bed.
4. To feel expansive.
relax
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To make lax or loose: relax one's grip.
2. To make less severe or strict: relax a curfew.
3. To reduce in intensity; slacken: relax one's efforts.
4. To relieve from tension or strain: The warm bath relaxed me.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To take one's ease; rest.
2. To become lax or loose.
3. To become less severe or strict.
4. To become less restrained or tense.
structured
ADJECTIVE:
1a. Having a well-defined structure or organization; highly organized: a structured environment.
b. Arranged in a definite pattern.
2. Psychology Having a limited number of correct or nearly correct answers. Used of a test.
* structure
NOUN:
1. Something made up of a number of parts that are held or put together in a particular way: hierarchical social structure.
2. The way in which parts are arranged or put together to form a whole; makeup: triangular in structure.
3. The interrelation or arrangement of parts in a complex entity: political structure; plot structure.
4. Something constructed, such as a building.
5. Biology
a. The arrangement or formation of the tissues, organs, or other parts of an organism.
b. An organ or other part of an organism.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To give form or arrangement to: structure a curriculum; structure one's day.
unused
ADJECTIVE:
1. Not in use or put to use.
2. Never having been used.
3. Not accustomed: unused to city traffic.
4.
gradually
* gradual
ADJECTIVE:
Advancing or progressing by regular or continuous degrees: gradual erosion; a gradual slope.
NOUN: Roman Catholic Church
1. The liturgical book containing the chants for the Mass.
2. A biblical text sung between the Epistle and the Gospel of the Mass.
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valuable
ADJECTIVE:
1. Having considerable monetary or material value for use or exchange: a valuable diamond.
2. Of great importance, use, or service: valuable information; valuable advice.
3. Having admirable or esteemed qualities or characteristics: a valuable friend.
NOUN:
A personal possession, such as a piece of jewelry, having a relatively high monetary value. Often used in the plural.
various
ADJECTIVE:
1a. Of diverse kinds: for various reasons. b. Unlike; different.
2. Being more than one; several.
3. Many-sided; versatile: a person of various skills.
4. Having a variegated nature or appearance.
5. Being an individual or separate member of a class or group: The various reports all agreed.
6. Archaic Changeable; variable.
PRONOUN:
Usage Problem (used with a pl. verb) Several different people or things.
delicious
ADJECTIVE:
1. Highly pleasing or agreeable to the senses, especially of taste or smell.
2. Very pleasant; delightful: a delicious revenge.
organic
ADJECTIVE:
1. Of, relating to, or derived from living organisms: organic matter.
2. Of, relating to, or affecting a bodily organ: an organic disease.
3a. Of, marked by, or involving the use of fertilizers or pesticides that are strictly of animal or vegetable origin: organic vegetables; an organic farm.
b. Raised or conducted without the use of drugs, hormones, or synthetic chemicals: organic chicken; organic cattle farming.
c. Serving organic food: an organic restaurant. d. Simple, healthful, and close to nature: an organic lifestyle.
4a. Having properties associated with living organisms.
b. Resembling a living organism in organization or development; interconnected: society as an organic whole.
5. Constituting an integral part of a whole; fundamental.
6. Law Denoting or relating to the fundamental or constitutional laws and precepts of a government or an organization.
7. Chemistry Of or designating carbon compounds.
NOUN:
1. A substance, especially a fertilizer or pesticide, of animal or vegetable origin.
2. Chemistry An organic compound.
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hide
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To put or keep out of sight; secrete.
2. To prevent the disclosure or recognition of; conceal: tried to hide the facts.
3. To cut off from sight; cover up: Clouds hid the stars.
4. To avert (one's gaze), especially in shame or grief.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To keep oneself out of sight.
2. To seek refuge.
anounce
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To make known publicly.
2. To proclaim the presence or arrival of: announce a caller.
3. To provide an indication of beforehand; foretell: The invention of the microchip announced a new generation of computers.
4. To serve as an announcer for: announce a football game on TV.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To declare one's candidacy: was declared the front-runner even before she announced.
2. To serve as an announcer.
primary
ADJECTIVE:
1. First or highest in rank, quality, or importance; principal.
2. Being or standing first in a list, series, or sequence.
3. Occurring first in time or sequence; earliest.
4. Being or existing as the first or earliest of a kind; primitive.
5. Geology Characteristic of or existing in a rock at the time of its formation.
6. Serving as or being an essential component, as of a system; basic. See synonyms at chief.
7a. Immediate; direct: a primary effect; a primary information source.
b. Preliminary to a later stage in a continuing process: primary training.
c. Of or relating to a primary school: the primary grades.
8. Of or relating to a primary color or colors.
9. Linguistics
a. Having a word root or other linguistic element as a basis that cannot be further analyzed or broken down. Used of the derivation of a word or word element.
b. Referring to present or future time. Used as a collective designation for various present and future verb tenses in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit.
10. Electronics Of, relating to, or constituting an inducting current, circuit, or coil.
11. Of, relating to, or designating the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing.
12. Of or relating to agriculture, forestry, the industries that extract natural materials from the earth, or the products so obtained: a primary commodity.
13. Chemistry a. Relating to the replacement of one of several atoms or radicals in a compound by another atom or radical. b. Having a carbon atom attached solely to one other carbon atom in a molecule.
14. Botany Of, relating to, or derived from a primary meristem.
NOUN:
1a. One that is first in time, order, or sequence.
b. One that is first or best in degree, quality, or importance.
c. One that is fundamental, basic, or elemental.
2a. A meeting of the registered voters of a political party for the purpose of nominating candidates and for choosing delegates to their party convention.
b. A preliminary election in which the registered voters of a political party nominate candidates for office.
3. A primary color.
4. A primary flight feather.
5. Electronics An inducting current, circuit, or coil.
6. Astronomy
a. A celestial body, especially a star, relative to other bodies in orbit around it.
b. The brighter of two stars that make up a double star.
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myth
NOUN:
1a. A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society: the myth of Eros and Psyche; a creation myth.
b. Such stories considered as a group: the realm of myth.
2. A popular belief or story that has become associated with a person, institution, or occurrence, especially one considered to illustrate a cultural ideal: a star whose fame turned her into a myth; the pioneer myth of suburbia.
3. A fiction or half-truth, especially one that forms part of an ideology.
4. A fictitious story, person, or thing.
custom
NOUN:
1. A practice followed by people of a particular group or region.
2. A habitual practice of a person: my custom of reading a little before sleep. See synonyms at habit.
3. Law A common tradition or usage so long established that it has the force or validity of law.
4a. Habitual patronage, as of a store. b. Habitual customers; patrons.
5. customs a. Duties or taxes imposed on imported and, less commonly, exported goods.
b. (used with a sing. verb) The governmental agency authorized to collect these duties.
c. (used with a sing. verb) The procedure for inspecting goods and baggage entering a country.
6. Tribute, service, or rent paid by a feudal tenant to a lord.
ADJECTIVE:
1. Made to order.
2. Specializing in the making or selling of made-to-order goods: a custom tailor.
respect
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To feel or show deferential regard for; esteem.
2. To avoid violation of or interference with: respect the speed limit.
3. To relate or refer to; concern.
NOUN:
1. A feeling of appreciative, often deferential regard; esteem. See synonyms at regard.
2. The state of being regarded with honor or esteem.
3. Willingness to show consideration or appreciation.
4. respects Polite expressions of consideration or deference: pay one's respects.
5. A particular aspect, feature, or detail: In many respects this is an important decision.
6. Usage Problem Relation; reference. See Usage Note at regard.
legend
NOUN:
1a. An unverified story handed down from earlier times, especially one popularly believed to be historical.
b. A body or collection of such stories.
c. A romanticized or popularized myth of modern times.
2. One that inspires legends or achieves legendary fame.
3a. An inscription or a title on an object, such as a coin.
b. An explanatory caption accompanying an illustration.
c. An explanatory table or list of the symbols appearing on a map or chart.
irony
NOUN:
1a. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
b. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
c. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See synonyms at wit1.
2a. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.
b. An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity.
3. Dramatic irony.
4. Socratic irony.
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constitute
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1a. To be the elements or parts of; compose: Copper and tin constitute bronze.
b. To amount to; equal.
2a. To set up or establish according to law or provision: a body that is duly constituted under the charter.
b. To found (an institution, for example).
c. To enact (a law or regulation).
3. To appoint to an office, dignity, function, or task; designate.
influence
NOUN:
1. A power affecting a person, thing, or course of events, especially one that operates without any direct or apparent effort: relaxed under the influence of the music; the influence of television on modern life.
2. Power to sway or affect based on prestige, wealth, ability, or position: used her parent's influence to get the job.
3a. A person who exerts influence.
b. An effect or change produced by influence.
4a. A determining factor believed by some to affect individual tendencies and characteristics understood to be caused by the positions of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth.
b. Factors believed to be caused by the changing positions of the stars and planets in relation to their positions at the time of one's birth.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To produce an effect on by imperceptible or intangible means; sway.
2. To affect the nature, development, or condition of; modify. See synonyms at affect1.
refer
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To direct to a source for help or information: referred her to a heart specialist; referred me to his last employer for a recommendation.
2. To assign or attribute to; regard as originated by.
3. To assign to or regard as belonging within a particular kind or class.
4. To submit (a matter in dispute) to an authority for arbitration, decision, or examination.
5. To direct the attention of: refer him to his duties.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To pertain; concern: questions referring to yesterday's lecture.
2. To make mention or reference.
3. To have recourse; turn: refer to a dictionary.
educate
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To develop the innate capacities of, especially by schooling or instruction. See synonyms at teach.
2. To provide with knowledge or training in a particular area or for a particular purpose: decided to educate herself in foreign languages; entered a seminary to be educated for the priesthood.
3a. To provide with information; inform: a campaign that educated the public about the dangers of smoking.
b. To bring to an understanding or acceptance: hoped to educate the voters to the need for increased spending on public schools.
4. To stimulate or develop the mental or moral growth of.
5. To develop or refine (one's taste or appreciation, for example).
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To teach or instruct a person or group.
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fix
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1a. To place securely; make stable or firm: fixed the tent poles in the ground. See synonyms at fasten.
b. To secure to another; attach: fixing the notice to the board with tacks.
2a. To put into a stable or unalterable form: tried to fix the conversation in her memory.
b. To make (a chemical substance) nonvolatile or solid.
c. Biology To convert (nitrogen) into stable, biologically assimilable compounds.
d. To kill and preserve (a specimen) intact for microscopic study.
e. To prevent discoloration of (a photographic image) by washing or coating with a chemical preservative.
3. To direct steadily: fixed her eyes on the road ahead.
4. To capture or hold: The man with the long beard fixed our attention.
5a. To set or place definitely; establish: fixed her residence in a coastal village.
b. To determine with accuracy; ascertain: fixed the date of the ancient artifacts.
c. To agree on; arrange: fix a time to meet.
6. To assign; attribute: fixing the blame.
7a. To correct or set right; adjust: fix a misspelling; fix the out-of-date accounts.
b. To restore to proper condition or working order; repair: fix a broken machine.
c. Computer Science To convert (data) from floating-point notation to fixed-point notation.
8. To make ready; prepare: fixed the room for the guests; fix lunch for the kids; fixed himself a milkshake.
9. To spay or castrate (an animal).
10. Informal To take revenge upon; get even with.
11. To influence the outcome or actions of by improper or unlawful means: fix a prizefight; fix a jury.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To direct one's efforts or attention; concentrate: We fixed on the immediate goal.
2. To become stable or firm; harden: Fresh plaster will fix in a few hours.
3. Chiefly Southern U.S. To be on the verge of; to be making preparations for. Used in progressive tenses with the infinitive: We were fixing to leave without you.
NOUN:
1a. The act of adjusting, correcting, or repairing.
b. Informal Something that repairs or restores; a solution: no easy fix for an intractable problem.
2. The position, as of a ship or aircraft, determined by visual observations with the aid of equipment.
3. A clear determination or understanding: a briefing that gave us a fix on the current situation.
4. An instance of arranging a special consideration, such as an exemption from a requirement, or an improper or illegal outcome, especially by means of bribery.
5. A difficult or embarrassing situation; a predicament. See synonyms at predicament.
6. Slang An amount or dose of something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic.
repaired
(1)
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To restore to sound condition after damage or injury; fix: repaired the broken watch.
2. To set right; remedy: repair an oversight.
3. To renew or revitalize.
4. To make up for or compensate for (a loss or wrong, for example).
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To make repairs.
NOUN:
1a. The work, act, or process of repairing.
b. An instance or a result of repairing. Often used in the plural: My car is in the shop for repairs. We checked the repairs before returning his car.
2. General condition after use or repairing: in good repair.
3. Something that has been repaired.
(2)
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To betake oneself; go: repair to the dining room.
2. To go frequently or habitually: repairs to the restaurant every week.
NOUN:
1. An act of going or sojourning: our annual repair to the mountains.
2. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
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replace
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To put back into a former position or place.
2. To take or fill the place of.
3. To be or provide a substitute for.
4. To pay back or return; refund.
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vessel
NOUN:
1. A hollow utensil, such as a cup, vase, or pitcher, used as a container, especially for liquids.
2a. Nautical A craft, especially one larger than a rowboat, designed to navigate on water.
b. An airship.
3. Anatomy A duct, canal, or other tube that contains or conveys a body fluid: a blood vessel.
4. Botany One of the tubular conductive structures of xylem, consisting of dead cylindrical cells that are attached end to end and connected by perforations. They are found in nearly all flowering plants.
5. A person seen as the agent or embodiment, as of a quality: a vessel of mercy.
cannon
NOUN:
1. A large mounted weapon that fires heavy projectiles. Cannon include guns, howitzers, and mortars.
2. The loop at the top of a bell by which it is hung.
3. A round bit for a horse.
4. Zoology The section of the lower leg in some hoofed mammals between the hock or knee and the fetlock, containing the cannon bone.
5. Chiefly British A carom made in billiards.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To bombard with cannon.
2. Chiefly British To cause to carom in billiards.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To fire cannon.
2. Chiefly British To make a carom in billiards.
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endeavor
NOUN:
1. A conscientious or concerted effort toward an end; an earnest attempt.
2. Purposeful or industrious activity; enterprise.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To attempt (fulfillment of a responsibility or an obligation, for example) by employment or expenditure of effort: endeavored to improve the quality of life in the inner city.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To work with a set or specified goal or purpose.
protest
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To object to, especially in a formal statement.
2. To promise or affirm with earnest solemnity.
3. Law To declare (a bill) dishonored or refused
4. Archaic To proclaim or make known.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To express strong objection.
2. To make an earnest avowal or affirmation.
NOUN:
1. A formal declaration of disapproval or objection issued by a concerned person, group, or organization.
2. An individual or collective gesture or display of disapproval.
3. Law
a. A formal statement drawn up by a notary for a creditor declaring that the debtor has refused to accept or honor a bill.
b. A formal declaration made by a taxpayer stating that the tax demanded is illegal or excessive and reserving the right to contest it.
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preliminary
NOUN:
1. Something that precedes, prepares for, or introduces the main matter, action, or business.
2. An academic test or examination that is preparatory to one that is longer, more complex, or more important.
3. Sports A contest to determine the finalists in a competition.
4. Sports An event that precedes the main event of a particular program, especially in boxing or wrestling.
5. Printing The front matter of a book. Often used in the plural.
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drift
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To be carried along by currents of air or water: a balloon drifting eastward; as the wreckage drifted toward shore.
2. To proceed or move unhurriedly and smoothly: drifting among the party guests.
3. To move leisurely or sporadically from place to place, especially without purpose or regular employment: a day laborer, drifting from town to town.
4a. To wander from a set course or point of attention; stray.
b. To vary from or oscillate randomly about a fixed setting, position, or mode of operation.
5. To be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of a current: snow drifting to five feet.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To cause to be carried in a current: drifting the logs downstream.
2. To pile up in banks or heaps: Wind drifted the loose straw against the barn.
3. Western U.S. To drive (livestock) slowly or far afield, especially for grazing.
NOUN:
1. The act or condition of drifting.
2. Something moving along in a current of air or water.
3. A bank or pile, as of sand or snow, heaped up by currents of air or water.
4. Geology Rock debris transported and deposited by or from ice, especially by or from a glacier.
5a. A general trend or tendency, as of opinion.
b. General meaning or purport; tenor: caught the drift of the conversation.
6a. A gradual change in position.
b. A gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention.
c. Variation or random oscillation about a fixed setting, position, or mode of behavior.
7. A gradual change in the output of a circuit or amplifier.
8. The rate of flow of a water current.
9a. A tool for ramming or driving something down.
b. A tapered steel pin for enlarging and aligning holes.
10a. A horizontal or nearly horizontal passageway in a mine running through or parallel to a vein.
b. A secondary mine passageway between two main shafts or tunnels.
11. A drove or herd, especially of swine. See synonyms at flock1.
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derive
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To obtain or receive from a source.
2. To arrive at by reasoning; deduce or infer: derive a conclusion from facts.
3. To trace the origin or development of (a word).
4. Linguistics To generate (a surface structure) from a deep structure.
5. Chemistry To produce or obtain (a compound) from another substance by chemical reaction.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To issue from a source; originate. See synonyms at stem1.
shorten
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To make short or shorter.
2. Nautical To take in (a sail) so that less canvas is exposed to the wind, thereby reducing speed.
3. To reduce in force, efficacy, or intensity.
4. To add shortening to (dough) so as to make flaky.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To become short or shorter
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publicize
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To give publicity to.
* publicity
NOUN:
1a. Information that concerns a person, group, event, or product and that is disseminated through various media to attract public notice.
b. Public interest, notice, or notoriety achieved by the spreading of such information.
c. The act, process, or occupation of disseminating information to gain public interest.
2. The condition of being public.
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magnify
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To make greater in size; enlarge.
2. To cause to appear greater or seem more important than is in fact the case; exaggerate.
3. To increase the apparent size of, especially by means of a lens.
4. To glorify or praise.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To increase or have the power to increase the size or volume of an image or a sound.
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advocate
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To speak, plead, or argue in favor of.
NOUN:
1. One that argues for a cause; a supporter or defender: an advocate of civil rights.
2. One that pleads in another's behalf; an intercessor: advocates for abused children and spouses.
3. A lawyer.
grant
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To consent to the fulfillment of: grant a request.
2. To accord as a favor, prerogative, or privilege: granted the franchise to all citizens.
3a. To bestow; confer: grant aid. b. To transfer (property) by a deed.
4. To concede; acknowledge: I grant the genius of your plan, but you still will not find backers.
NOUN:
1. The act of granting.
2a. Something granted.
b. A giving of funds for a specific purpose: federal grants for medical research.
3. Law
a. A transfer of property by deed.
b. The property so transferred.
c. The deed by which the property is so transferred.
4. One of several tracts of land in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont originally granted to an individual or a group.
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speck
NOUN:
1. A small spot, mark, or discoloration.
2. A tiny amount; a bit: not a speck of truth in her story.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To mark with specks.
swirl
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To move with a twisting or whirling motion; eddy.
2. To be dizzy or disoriented.
3. To be arranged in a spiral, whorl, or twist.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To cause to move with a twisting or whirling motion. See synonyms at turn.
2. To form into or arrange in a spiral, whorl, or twist.
NOUN:
1. A whirling or eddying motion or mass: a swirl of white water.
2. Something, such as a curl of hair, that coils, twists, or whirls.
3. Whirling confusion or disorder.
mound
NOUN:
1. A pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris heaped for protection or concealment.
2. A natural elevation, such as a small hill.
3. A raised mass, as of hay; a heap. See synonyms at heap.
4. Archaeology A large artificial pile of earth or stones often marking a burial site.
5. Baseball The slightly elevated pitcher's area in the center of the diamond.
6. Archaic A hedge or fence.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To fortify or conceal with a mound.
2. To heap into a raised mass.
particle
NOUN:
1. A very small piece or part; a tiny portion or speck.
2. A very small or the smallest possible amount, trace, or degree: not a particle of doubt.
3. Physics
a. A body whose spatial extent and internal motion and structure, if any, are irrelevant in a specific problem.
b. An elementary particle.
c. A subatomic particle.
4. Linguistics
a. An uninflected item that has grammatical function but does not clearly belong to one of the major parts of speech, such as up in He looked up the word or to in English infinitives.
b. In some systems of grammatical analysis, any of various short function words, including articles, prepositions, and conjunctions.
5. Roman Catholic Church a. A small piece of a consecrated host. b. One of the smaller, individual hosts.
6. Archaic A small division or section of something written, such as a clause of a document.
clump
NOUN:
1. A clustered mass; a lump: clumps of soil.
2. A thick grouping, as of trees or bushes.
3. A heavy dull sound; a thud.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To form lumps or thick groupings.
2. To walk or move so as to make a heavy dull sound.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To gather into or form lumps or thick groupings of.
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conventional
ADJECTIVE:
1. Based on or in accordance with general agreement, use, or practice; customary: conventional symbols; a conventional form of address.
2. Conforming to established practice or accepted standards; traditional: a conventional church wedding.
3a. Devoted to or bound by conventions to the point of artificiality; ceremonious.
b. Unimaginative; conformist: longed to escape from their conventional, bourgeois lives.
4. Represented, as in a work of art, in simplified or abstract form.
5. Law Based on consent or agreement; contractual.
6. Of, relating to, or resembling an assembly.
7. Using means other than nuclear weapons or energy: conventional warfare; conventional power plants.
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consecutive
ADJECTIVE:
1. Following one after another without interruption; successive: was absent on three consecutive days; won five consecutive games on the road.
2. Marked by logical sequence.
3. Grammar Expressing consequence or result: a consecutive clause.
successive
ADJECTIVE:
1. Following in uninterrupted order; consecutive: on three successive days.
2. Of, characterized by, or involving succession: the government successive to the fallen monarchy.
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prototype
NOUN:
1. An original type, form, or instance serving as a basis or standard for later stages.
2. An original, full-scale, and usually working model of a new product or new version of an existing product.
3. An early, typical example.
4. Biology A form or species that serves as an original type or example.
collector
NOUN:
1. One that collects: a solar energy collector; a dust collector.
2. A person employed to collect taxes, duties, or other payments.
3. A person who makes a collection, as of stamps.
4. An electrode in an electron tube that collects electrons which have finished carrying current.
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bigot
NOUN:
One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
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aloft
ADVERB:
1. In or into a high place; high or higher up.
2. Nautical At or toward the upper rigging.
PREPOSITION:
On or above: birds perching aloft telephone wires.
intact
ADJECTIVE:
1. Remaining sound, entire, or uninjured; not impaired in any way.
2. Having all physical parts, especially: a. Having the hymen unbroken. b. Not castrated.
maneuver
NOUN:
1a. A strategic or tactical military or naval movement.
b. A large-scale tactical exercise carried out under simulated conditions of war. Often used in the plural.
2. A controlled change in movement or direction of a moving vehicle or vessel, as in the flight path of an aircraft.
3. A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
4a. A strategic action undertaken to gain an end.
b. Artful handling of affairs that is often marked by scheming and deceit. See synonyms at wile.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To carry out a military or naval maneuver.
2. To make a controlled series of changes in movement or direction toward an objective: maneuvered to get closer to the stage.
3. To shift ground; change tactics: The opposition had no room in which to maneuver.
4. To use stratagems in gaining an end.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To alter the tactical placement of (troops or warships).
2. To direct through a series of movements or changes in course: maneuvered the car through traffic.
3. To manipulate into a desired position or toward a predetermined goal: maneuvered him into signing the contract. See synonyms at manipulate.
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terse
ADJECTIVE:
Brief and to the point; effectively concise: a terse one-word answer.
tasteful
ADJECTIVE:
1. Having, showing, or being in keeping with good taste.
2. Pleasing in flavor; tasty.
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spring up
튀어오르다/ 갑자기 나타나다, 발생하다/ 싹이 트다/ 마음에 떠오르다
spoke
(1)
NOUN:
1. One of the rods or braces connecting the hub and rim of a wheel.
2. Nautical One of the handles projecting from the rim of a ship's steering wheel.
3. A rod or stick that may be inserted into a wheel to prevent it from turning.
4. A rung of a ladder.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To equip with spokes.
2. To impede (a wheel) by inserting a rod.
(2)
VERB:
1. Past tense of speak.
2. Archaic A past participle of speak.
march
(1)
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1a. To walk steadily and rhythmically forward in step with others.
b. To begin to move in such a manner: The troops will march at dawn.
2a. To proceed directly and purposefully: marched in and demanded to see the manager.
b. To progress steadily onward; advance: Time marches on.
3. To be arranged in an orderly fashion that suggests steady rhythmical progression.
4. To participate in an organized walk, as for a public cause.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To cause to move or otherwise progress in a steady rhythmical manner: march soldiers into battle; marched us off to the dentist.
2. To traverse by progressing steadily and rhythmically: They marched the route in a day.
NOUN:
1. The act of marching, especially:
a. The steady forward movement of a body of troops. b. A long tiring journey on foot.
2. Steady forward movement or progression: the march of time.
3. A regulated pace: quick march; slow march.
4. The distance covered within a certain period of time by moving or progressing steadily and rhythmically: a week's march away.
5. Music A composition in regularly accented, usually duple meter that is appropriate to accompany marching.
6. An organized walk or procession by a group of people for a specific cause or issue.
(2)
NOUN:
1. The border or boundary of a country or an area of land; a frontier.
2. A tract of land bordering on two countries and claimed by both.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To have a common boundary: England marches with Scotland.
depart
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To go away; leave.
2. To die.
3. To vary, as from a regular course; deviate: depart from custom. See synonyms at swerve.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To go away from; leave.
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indefinite
ADJECTIVE:
a. Unclear; vague.
b. Lacking precise limits: an indefinite leave of absence.
c. Uncertain; undecided: indefinite about their plans.
hesitant
ADJECTIVE:
Inclined or tending to hesitate.
indistinct
ADJECTIVE:
1. Not clearly or sharply delineated: an indistinct pattern; indistinct shapes in the gloom.
2. Faint; dim: indistinct stars.
3a. Hazy; vague: an indistinct memory; an indistinct notion of how to proceed.
b. Difficult to understand or make out: indistinct speech.
magical
ADJECTIVE:
1. Of, relating to, or produced by magic.
2. Enchanting; bewitching: a magical performance of the ballet.
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winter
NOUN:
1. The usually coldest season of the year, occurring between autumn and spring, extending in the Northern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox, and popularly considered to be constituted by December, January, and February.
2. A year as expressed through the recurrence of the winter season.
3. A period of time characterized by coldness, misery, barrenness, or death.
ADJECTIVE:
1. Of, relating to, occurring in, or appropriate to the season of winter: winter blizzards; winter attire.
2. Grown during the season of winter: winter herbs.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To spend the winter: wintered in Arizona.
2. To feed in winter. Used with on: deer wintering on cedar bark.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To lodge, keep, or care for during the winter: wintering the sheep in the stable.
feed
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1a. To give food to; supply with nourishment: feed the children.
b. To provide as food or nourishment: fed fish to the cat.
2a. To serve as food for: The turkey is large enough to feed a dozen.
b. To produce food for: The valley feeds an entire county.
3a. To provide for consumption, utilization, or operation: feed logs to a fire; feed data into a computer.
b. To supply with something essential for growth, maintenance, or operation: Melting snow feeds the reservoirs.
c. To distribute (a local radio or television broadcast) to a larger audience or group of receivers by way of a network or satellite.
4a. To minister to; gratify: fed their appetite for the morbid.
b. To support or promote; encourage: His unexplained absences fed our suspicions.
5. To supply as a cue: feed lines to an actor.
6. Sports To pass a ball or puck to (a teammate), especially to set up a scoring chance.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To eat: pigs feeding at a trough.
2. To be nourished or supported: an ego that feeds on flattery.
3a. To move steadily, as into a machine for processing.
b. To be channeled; flow: This road feeds into the freeway.
NOUN:
1a. Food for animals or birds. b. The amount of such food given at one time.
2. Informal A meal, especially a large one.
3. The act of eating.
4a. Material or an amount of material supplied, as to a machine or furnace.
b. The act of supplying such material.
5a. An apparatus that supplies material to a machine.
b. The aperture through which such material enters a machine.
6a. The transmission or conveyance of a local radio or television program, as by satellite, on the Internet, or by broadcast over a network of stations.
b. A program or signal so transmitted or conveyed.
7. Sports A pass of a ball or puck, especially to set up a scoring chance.
breed
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To produce (offspring); give birth to or hatch.
2. To bring about; engender.
3a. To cause to reproduce, especially by controlled mating and selection: breed cattle.
b. To develop new or improved strains in (organisms), chiefly through controlled mating and selection of offspring for desirable traits.
c. To inseminate or impregnate; mate with.
4. To rear or train; bring up: a writer who was bred in a seafaring culture.
5. To be the place of origin of: Austria breeds great skiers.
6. To produce (fissionable material) in a breeder reactor.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To produce offspring.
2. To copulate; mate.
3. To originate and develop: Mischief breeds in bored minds.
NOUN:
1. A group of organisms having common ancestors and certain distinguishable characteristics, especially a group within a species developed by artificial selection and maintained by controlled propagation.
2. A kind; a sort: a new breed of politician; a new breed of computer.
3. Offensive A person of mixed racial descent; a half-breed.
breedING
NOUN:
1. One's line of descent; ancestry: a person of noble breeding.
2. Training in the proper forms of social and personal conduct.
3. Production of offspring or young.
4. The propagation of animals or plants.
propagation
NOUN:
1. Multiplication or increase, as by natural reproduction.
2. The process of spreading to a larger area or greater number; dissemination.
3. Physics The act or process of propagating, especially the process by which a disturbance, such as the motion of electromagnetic or sound waves, is transmitted through a medium such as air or water.
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true
ADJECTIVE:
1a. Consistent with fact or reality; not false or erroneous.
b. Truthful.
2. Real; genuine. See synonyms at authentic.
3. Reliable; accurate: a true prophecy.
4. Faithful, as to a friend, vow, or cause; loyal. See synonyms at faithful.
5. Sincerely felt or expressed; unfeigned: true grief.
6. Fundamental; essential: his true motive.
7. Rightful; legitimate: the true heir.
8. Exactly conforming to a rule, standard, or pattern: trying to sing true B.
9. Accurately shaped or fitted: a true wheel.
10. Accurately placed, delivered, or thrown.
11. Quick and exact in sensing and responding.
12. Determined with reference to the earth's axis, not the magnetic poles: true north.
13. Conforming to the definitive criteria of a natural group; typical: The horseshoe crab is not a true crab.
14. Narrowly particularized; highly specific: spoke of probity in the truest sense of the word.
15. Computer Science Indicating one of two possible values taken by a variable in Boolean logic or a binary device.
ADVERB:
1. In accord with reality, fact, or truthfulness.
2. Unswervingly; exactly: The archer aimed true.
3. So as to conform to a type, standard, or pattern.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To position (something) so as to make it balanced, level, or square: trued up the long planks.
NOUN:
1. Truth or reality. Used with the.
2. Proper alignment or adjustment: out of true.
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deceptively
ADVERB:
In a deceptive or deceiving manner; so as to deceive.
painful
ADJECTIVE:
1. Causing pain.
2. Full of pain.
3. Requiring care and labor; irksome: a painful task.
4. Archaic Diligent; careful.
glaring
ADJECTIVE:
1. Shining intensely and blindingly: the glaring noonday sun.
2. Tastelessly showy or bright; garish.
3. Conspicuous; obvious: a glaring error. See synonyms at flagrant.
4. Staring with anger, fierceness, or hostility: glaring eyes.
excurciating
ADJECTIVE:
1. Intensely painful; agonizing.
2. Very intense or extreme: wrote with excruciating precision.
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safeguard
NOUN:
1a. One that serves as protection or a guard.
b. A mechanical device designed to prevent accidents. c. A safe-conduct.
2a. A protective stipulation, as in a contract. b. A precautionary measure.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To ensure the safety of; protect. See synonyms at defend.
impose
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To establish or apply as compulsory; levy: impose a tax.
2. To apply or make prevail by or as if by authority: impose a peace settlement. See synonyms at dictate.
3. To obtrude or force (oneself, for example) on another or others.
4. Printing To arrange (type or plates) on an imposing stone.
5. To offer or circulate fraudulently; pass off: imposed a fraud on consumers.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To take unfair advantage.
formulate
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1a. To state as or reduce to a formula.
b. To express in systematic terms or concepts.
c. To devise or invent: formulate strategy.
2. To prepare according to a specified formula.
devise
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To form, plan, or arrange in the mind; design or contrive: devised a new system for handling mail orders.
2. Law To transmit or give (real property) by will.
3. Archaic To suppose; imagine.
NOUN: Law
1a. The act of transmitting or giving real property by will.
b. The property or lands so transmitted or given.
2. A will or clause in a will transmitting or giving real property.
express
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To set forth in words; state.
2. To manifest or communicate, as by a gesture; show. See synonyms at vent1.
3. To make known the feelings or opinions of (oneself), as by statement or art.
4. To convey or suggest a representation of; depict: The painting expresses the rage of war victims.
5. To represent by a sign or a symbol; symbolize: express a fraction as a decimal.
6. To squeeze or press out, as juice from an orange.
7. To send by special messenger or rapid transport: express a package to Los Angeles.
8. Genetics
a. To cause (itself) to produce an effect or a phenotype.
b. To manifest the effects of (a gene).
c. To manifest (a genetic trait): All the mice in the study expressed the defect.
ADJECTIVE:
1. Definitely and explicitly stated: their express wish. See synonyms at explicit.
2. Particular; specific: an express plan.
3a. Sent out with or moving at high speed.
b. Direct, rapid, and usually nonstop: express delivery of packages; an express bus.
c. Of, relating to, or appropriate for rapid travel: express lanes on a freeway.
ADVERB:
By express delivery or transport.
NOUN:
1a. A rapid, efficient system for the delivery of goods and mail.
b. Goods and mail conveyed by such a system.
2. A means of transport, such as a train, that travels rapidly and makes few or no stops before its destination.
3. Chiefly British a. A special messenger. b. A message delivered by special courier.
advertise
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To make public announcement of, especially to proclaim the qualities or advantages of (a product or business) so as to increase sales. See synonyms at announce.
2. To make known; call attention to: advertised my intention to resign.
3. To warn or notify.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To call the attention of the public to a product or business.
2. To inquire or seek in a public notice, as in a newspaper: advertise for an apartment.
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yearly
ADJECTIVE: Occurring once a year or every year.
ADVERB: Once a year; annually.
NOUN: A publication issued once a year.
discriminate
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1a. To make a clear distinction; distinguish: discriminate among the options available.
b. To make sensible decisions; judge wisely.
2. To make distinctions on the basis of class or category without regard to individual merit; show preference or prejudice: was accused of discriminating against women; discriminated in favor of his cronies.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To perceive the distinguishing features of; recognize as distinct: discriminate right from wrong.
2. To distinguish by noting differences; differentiate: unable to discriminate colors.
3. To make or constitute a distinction in or between: methods that discriminate science from pseudoscience.
discriminating
ADJECTIVE:
1a. Able to recognize or draw fine distinctions; perceptive.
b. Showing careful judgment or fine taste: a discriminating collector of rare books; a dish for the discriminating palate.
2. Separating into distinct parts or components; analytical.
3. Serving to distinguish; distinctive: a discriminating characteristic.
4. Marked by or showing bias; discriminatory.
discriminatory
ADJECTIVE:
1. Marked by or showing prejudice; biased.
2. Making distinctions.
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join
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To put or bring together so as to make continuous or form a unit: join two boards with nails; joined hands in a circle.
2. To put or bring into close association or relationship: two families that were joined by marriage; join forces.
3. To connect (points), as with a straight line.
4. To meet and merge with: where the creek joins the river.
5. To become a part or member of: joined the photography club.
6. To come into the company of: joined the group in the waiting room.
7. To participate with in an act or activity: The committee joins me in welcoming you.
8. To adjoin.
9. To engage in; enter into: Opposing armies joined battle on the plain.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To come together so as to form a connection: where the two bones join.
2. To act together; form an alliance: The two factions joined to oppose the measure.
3. To become a member of a group.
4. To take part; participate: joined in the search.
NOUN:
A joint; a junction.
correspond to
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To be in agreement, harmony, or conformity.
2. To be similar or equivalent in character, quantity, origin, structure, or function: English navel corresponds to Greek omphalos. See synonyms at agree.
3. To communicate by letter, usually over a period of time.
contain
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1a. To have within; hold. b. To be capable of holding.
2. To have as component parts; include or comprise: The album contains many memorable songs.
3a. To hold or keep within limits; restrain: I could hardly contain my curiosity.
b. To halt the spread or development of; check: Science sought an effective method of containing the disease.
4. To check the expansion or influence of (a hostile power or ideology) by containment.
5. Mathematics To be exactly divisible by.
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treacherous
ADJECTIVE:
1. Marked by betrayal of fidelity, confidence, or trust; perfidious. See synonyms at faithless.
2. Not to be relied on; not dependable or trustworthy.
3. Marked by unforeseen hazards; dangerous or deceptive: treacherous waters.
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stress
NOUN:
1. Importance, significance, or emphasis placed on something. See synonyms at emphasis.
2. Linguistics a. The relative force with which a sound or syllable is spoken.
b. The emphasis placed on the sound or syllable spoken most forcefully in a word or phrase.
3a. The relative force of sound or emphasis given a syllable or word in accordance with a metrical pattern.
b. A syllable having strong relative emphasis in a metrical pattern.
4. Accent or a mark representing such emphasis or force.
5. Physics
a. An applied force or system of forces that tends to strain or deform a body.
b. The internal resistance of a body to such an applied force or system of forces.
6a. A mentally or emotionally disruptive or upsetting condition occurring in response to adverse external influences and capable of affecting physical health, usually characterized by increased heart rate, a rise in blood pressure, muscular tension, irritability, and depression.
b. A stimulus or circumstance causing such a condition.
7. A state of extreme difficulty, pressure, or strain.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To place emphasis on: stressed basic fire safety.
2. To give prominence to (a syllable or word) in pronouncing or in accordance with a metrical pattern.
3. To subject to physical or mental pressure, tension, or strain.
4. To subject to mechanical pressure or force.
5. To construct so as to withstand a specified stress.
inflection
NOUN:
1. The act of inflecting or the state of being inflected.
2. Alteration in pitch or tone of the voice.
3. Grammar
a. An alteration of the form of a word by the addition of an affix, as in English dogs from dog, or by changing the form of a base, as in English spoke from speak, that indicates grammatical features such as number, person, mood, or tense.
b. An affix indicating such a grammatical feature, as the ?s in the English third person singular verb form speaks.
c. The paradigm of a word. d. A pattern of forming paradigms, such as noun inflection or verb inflection.
4. A turning or bending away from a course or position of alignment.
vogue
NOUN:
1. The prevailing fashion, practice, or style: Hoop skirts were once the vogue.
2. Popular acceptance or favor; popularity: a party game no longer in vogue. See synonyms at fashion.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To dance by striking a series of rigid, stylized poses, evocative of fashion models during photograph shoots.
jargon
NOUN:
1. Nonsensical, incoherent, or meaningless talk.
2. A hybrid language or dialect; a pidgin.
3. The specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group.
4. Speech or writing having unusual or pretentious vocabulary, convoluted phrasing, and vague meaning.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To speak in or use jargon.
vernacular
NOUN:
1. The standard native language of a country or locality.
2a. The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language.
b. A variety of such everyday language specific to a social group or region.
3. The idiom of a particular trade or profession: in the legal vernacular.
4. An idiomatic word, phrase, or expression.
5. The common, nonscientific name of a plant or animal.
ADJECTIVE:
1. Native to or commonly spoken by the members of a particular country or region.
2. Using the native language of a region, especially as distinct from the literary language: a vernacular poet.
3. Relating to or expressed in the native language or dialect.
4. Of or being an indigenous building style using local materials and traditional methods of construction and ornament, especially as distinguished from academic or historical architectural styles.
5. Occurring or existing in a particular locality; endemic: a vernacular disease.
6. Relating to or designating the common, nonscientific name of a plant or animal.
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inherit
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1a. To receive (property or a title, for example) from an ancestor by legal succession or will.
b. To receive by bequest or as a legacy.
2. To receive or take over from a predecessor: The new administration inherited the economic problems of the last four years.
3. Biology To receive (a characteristic) from one's parents by genetic transmission.
4. To gain (something) as one's right or portion.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To hold or take possession of an inheritance.
item
NOUN:
1. A single article or unit in a collection, enumeration, or series.
2. A clause of a document, such as a bill or charter.
3. An entry in an account.
4a. A bit of information; a detail. b. A short piece in a newspaper or magazine.
5. A romantically involved couple.
ADVERB:
Also; likewise. Used to introduce each article in an enumeration or list.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Archaic To compute.
amalgamate
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To combine into a unified or integrated whole; unite. See synonyms at mix.
2. To mix or alloy (a metal) with mercury.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To become combined; unite.
2. To unite or blend with another metal.
fuse
(1)
NOUN:
1. A cord of readily combustible material that is lighted at one end to carry a flame along its length to detonate an explosive at the other end.
2. often fuze A mechanical or electrical mechanism used to detonate an explosive charge or device such as a bomb or grenade.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To equip with a mechanical or electrical fuse.
(2)
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To liquefy or reduce to a plastic state by heating; melt.
2. To mix (constituent elements) together by or as if by melting; blend.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To become liquefied from heat.
2. To become mixed or united by or as if by melting together.
NOUN:
A safety device that protects an electric circuit from excessive current, consisting of or containing a metal element that melts when current exceeds a specific amperage, thereby opening the circuit.
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out-loud
ADVERB: Loud enough to be audible; aloud: read the poem out loud.
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broad
ADJECTIVE:
1. Wide in extent from side to side: a broad river; broad shoulders.
2. Large in expanse; spacious: a broad lawn.
3. Having a certain width from side to side: A sidewalk three feet broad.
4. Full; open: broad daylight.
5. Covering a wide scope; general: a broad rule.
6. Liberal; tolerant: had broad views regarding social services. See synonyms at broad-minded.
7. Relating to or covering the main facts or the essential points.
8. Plain and clear; obvious: gave us a broad hint to leave.
9. Obsolete Outspoken.
10. Vulgar; ribald: a broad joke.
11. Strikingly regional or dialectal: a broad Southern accent.
12. Linguistics Pronounced with the tongue placed low and flat and with the oral cavity wide open, like the a in father.
NOUN:
1. A wide flat part, as of one's hand.
2. Often Offensive Slang A woman or girl.
ADVERB:
Fully; completely.
wide
ADJECTIVE:
1a. Having a specified extent from side to side: a ribbon two inches wide.
b. Extending over a great distance from side to side; broad: a wide road; a wide necktie.
2. Having great extent or range; including much or many: a wide selection; granting wide powers; wide variations.
3. Fully open or extended: look with wide eyes.
4a. To the side of or at a distance from a given boundary, limit, or goal: a shot that was wide of the target.
b. Baseball Outside.
c. Sports Being near one of the side boundaries of a playing area, such as a sideline on a football field.
5. Deviating or straying from something expected or specified: a remark that was wide of the truth.
6. Linguistics Lax.
ADVERB:
1. Over a great distance; extensively: traveled far and wide.
2. To the full extent; completely.
3. To the side of or at a distance from a given boundary, limit, or goal.
4. Sports Toward or near one of the sides of a playing area: ran wide to catch a pass.
NOUN:
Sports A ball bowled outside of the batsman's reach, counting as a run for the batting team in cricket.
heavy
ADJECTIVE:
1. Having relatively great weight: a heavy load.
2. Having relatively high density; having a high specific gravity.
3a. Large, as in number or quantity: a heavy turnout; heavy casualties.
b. Large in yield or output: heavy rainfall.
4. Of great intensity: heavy activity; heavy fighting.
5a. Having great power or force: a heavy punch. b. Violent; rough: heavy seas.
6a. Equipped with massive armaments and weapons: a heavy cruiser; heavy infantry.
b. Large enough to fire powerful shells: heavy guns.
7a. Indulging to a great degree: a heavy drinker.
b. Involved or participating on a large scale: a heavy investor.
8. Of great import or seriousness; grave: heavy matters of state.
9a. Having considerable thickness: a heavy coat.
b. Broad or coarse: drew the face with heavy lines.
10a. Dense; thick: a heavy fog.
b. Slow to dissipate; strong
c. Too dense or rich to digest easily: a heavy dessert.
d. Insufficiently leavened: heavy bread.
e. Full of clay and readily saturated: heavy soil.
11a. Weighed down; burdened: trees heavy with plums.
b. Emotionally weighed down; despondent: a heavy heart.
c. Marked by or exhibiting weariness: heavy lids. d. Sad or painful: heavy news.
12a. Hard to do or accomplish; arduous: heavy going; heavy reading.
b. Not easily borne; oppressive: heavy taxes.
13. Lacking vitality; deficient in vivacity or grace: a heavy gait; heavy humor.
14. Sharply inclined; steep: a heavy grade.
15. Having a large capacity or designed for rough work: a heavy truck.
16. Of, relating to, or involving the large-scale production of basic products, such as steel: heavy industry.
17. Of or relating to a serious dramatic role.
18. Physics Of or relating to an isotope with an atomic mass greater than the average mass of that element.
19. Loud; sonorous: a heavy sound; heavy breathing.
20. Linguistics Of, relating to, or being a syllable ending in a long vowel or in a vowel plus two consonants.
ADVERB:
Heavily: The snow is falling heavier tonight than last night.
NOUN:
a. A serious or tragic role in a play.
b. An actor playing such a role.
arduous
ADJECTIVE:
1. Demanding great effort or labor; difficult.
2. Testing severely the powers of endurance; strenuous: a long, arduous, and exhausting war.
3. Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount. See synonyms at burdensome. , hard.
torrential
ADJECTIVE:
1. Resembling, flowing in, or forming torrents: torrential mountain streams; a torrential downpour.
2. Resulting from the action of fast-flowing streams: torrential erosion.
3. Flowing or surging abundantly; wild: torrential applause.
bodyguard
NOUN:
A person or group of persons, usually armed, responsible for the safety of one or more other persons.
11.
calm
ADJECTIVE:
1. Nearly or completely motionless; undisturbed: the calm surface of the lake.
2. Not excited or agitated; composed: The President was calm throughout the global crisis.
NOUN:
1. An absence or cessation of motion; stillness.
2. Serenity; tranquillity; peace.
3. A condition of no wind or a wind with a speed of less than 1 mile (2 kilometers) per hour, according to the Beaufort scale.
TRANSITIVE & INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To make or become calm or quiet: A warm bath will calm you. After the storm, the air calmed.
tranquil
ADJECTIVE:
1. Free from commotion or disturbance.
2. Free from anxiety, tension, or restlessness; composed.
3. Steady; even: a tranquil flame.
12.
remorse
NOUN:
1. Moral anguish arising from repentance for past misdeeds; bitter regret. See synonyms at penitence.
2. Obsolete Compassion.
upshot
NOUN:
1. The final result; the outcome. See synonyms at effect.
2. The central idea or point; gist.
hullabaloo
NOUN:
Great noise or excitement; uproar. See synonyms at noise.
13.
akin
ADJECTIVE:
1. Of the same kin; related by blood.
2. Having a similar quality or character; analogous.
3. Linguistics Sharing a common origin or an ancestral form.
accompany
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To be or go with as a companion.
2. To add to; supplement: a dish best accompanied with a robust wine.
3. To coexist or occur with.
4. Music To perform an accompaniment to.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
Music To play an accompaniment.
supplement
NOUN:
1. Something added to complete a thing, make up for a deficiency, or extend or strengthen the whole.
2. A section added to a book or document to give further information or to correct errors.
3. A separate section devoted to a special subject inserted into a periodical, such as a newspaper.
4. Mathematics The angle or arc that when added to a given angle or arc makes 180° or a semicircle. Also called supplementary angle.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To provide or form a supplement to.
complementary
ADJECTIVE:
1. Forming or serving as a complement; completing.
2. Supplying mutual needs or offsetting mutual lacks.
3. Genetics Of or relating to a group of genes that act in concert to produce a specific phenotype.
4. Biochemistry Of or relating to the specific pairing of the purines and pyrimidines between strands of a DNA or an RNA molecule.
14.
gratification
NOUN:
1a. The act of gratifying. b. The condition of being gratified.
2. An instance or a cause of being gratified.
3. Archaic a. A reward. b. A gratuity.
extravagance
NOUN:
1. The quality of being extravagant.
2. Immoderate expense or display.
3. Something extravagant. See synonyms at luxury.
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monitor
NOUN:
1. One that admonishes, cautions, or reminds, especially with respect to matters of conduct.
2. A pupil who assists a teacher in routine duties.
3a. A usually electronic device used to record, regulate, or control a process or system.
b. A receiver, such as a screen or speaker, that is used to check the quality or content of an electronic transmission: followed the broadcast on the television monitor.
c. Computer Science A device that accepts video signals from a computer and displays information on a screen; a video display.
4. Computer Science A program that observes, supervises, or controls the activities of other programs.
5. An articulated device holding a rotating nozzle with which a jet of water is regulated, used in mining and firefighting.
6a. A heavily ironclad warship of the 19th century with a low, flat deck and one or more gun turrets.
b. A modern warship designed for coastal bombardment.
7. Biology Any of various tropical carnivorous lizards of the family Varanidae, living in the East Indies, southern Asia, Africa, Australia, and New Guinea and ranging in length from several centimeters to 3 meters (10 feet).
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To check the quality or content of (an electronic audio or visual signal) by means of a receiver.
2. To check by means of an electronic receiver for significant content, such as military, political, or illegal activity: monitor a suspected criminal's phone conversations.
3. To keep track of systematically with a view to collecting information: monitor the bear population of a national park; monitored the political views of the people.
4. To test or sample, especially on a regular or ongoing basis: monitored the city's drinking water for impurities.
5. To keep close watch over; supervise: monitor an examination.
6. To direct.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To act as a monitor.
taint
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To affect with or as if with a disease.
2. To affect with decay or putrefaction; spoil. See synonyms at contaminate.
3. To corrupt morally.
4. To affect with a tinge of something reprehensible.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To become affected with decay or putrefaction; spoil.
NOUN:
1. A moral defect considered as a stain or spot. See synonyms at stain.
2. An infecting touch, influence, or tinge.
* 감염, 수치, 상처, 감염시키다. 타락하다
resuscitate
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to (= revive).
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To regain consciousness.
17.
creep
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To move with the body close to the ground, as on hands and knees.
2a. To move stealthily or cautiously.
b. To move or proceed very slowly: Traffic creeps at that hour.
3. Botany
a. To grow or spread along a surface, rooting at intervals or clinging by means of suckers or tendrils.
b. To grow horizontally under the ground, as the rhizomes of many plants.
4. To slip out of place; shift gradually.
5. To have a tingling sensation, made by or as if by things moving stealthily: a moan that made my flesh creep.
NOUN:
1. The act of creeping; a creeping motion or progress.
2. Slang An annoyingly unpleasant or repulsive person.
3. A slow flow of metal when under high temperature or great pressure.
4. A slow change in a characteristic of electronic equipment, such as a decrease in power with continued usage.
5. Geology The slow movement of rock debris and soil down a weathered slope.
6. creeps Informal A sensation of fear or repugnance, as if things were crawling on one's skin: That house gives me the creeps.
diversion
NOUN:
1. The act or an instance of diverting or turning aside; deviation.
2. Something that distracts the mind and relaxes or entertains.
3. A maneuver that draws the attention of an opponent away from a planned point of action, especially as part of military strategy.
leak
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To permit the escape, entry, or passage of something through a breach or flaw: rusted pipes that were beginning to leak; a boat leaking at the seams.
2. To escape or pass through a breach or flaw: helium leaking slowly from the balloon.
3. Informal To become publicly known through a breach of secrecy: The news has leaked.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To permit (a substance) to escape or pass through a breach or flaw: a damaged reactor leaking radioactivity into the atmosphere.
2. Informal To disclose without authorization or official sanction: leaked classified information to a reporter.
NOUN:
1. A crack or flaw that permits something to escape from or enter a container or conduit: fixed the leak in the roof.
2a. The act or instance of leaking.
b. An amount leaked: equipment used in cleaning up oil leaks.
3. Informal An unauthorized or a deliberate disclosure of confidential information.
4a. Loss of electric current as a result of faulty insulation.
b. The path or place at which this loss takes place.
indulge
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To yield to the desires and whims of, especially to an excessive degree; humor.
2a. To yield to; gratify: indulge a craving for chocolate.
b. To allow (oneself) unrestrained gratification: indulged herself with idle daydreams.
3. Roman Catholic Church To grant an ecclesiastical indulgence or dispensation to.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To indulge oneself: eyed the desserts but didn't indulge.
2. To engage or take part, especially freely or avidly: indulged in outrageous behavior; indulged in all the latest fads.
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potent
ADJECTIVE:
1. Possessing inner or physical strength; powerful.
2a. Exerting or capable of exerting strong physiological or chemical effects: potent liquor; a potent toxin.
b. Exerting or capable of exerting strong influence; cogent: potent arguments.
3. Having great control or authority.
4. Able to perform sexual intercourse. Used of a male.
communicable
ADJECTIVE:
1. Transmittable between persons or species; contagious: communicable diseases.
2. Readily communicated: communicable ideas.
3. Talkative.
impure
ADJECTIVE:
1. Not pure or clean; contaminated.
2. Not purified by religious rite; unclean.
3. Immoral or sinful: impure thoughts.
4. Mixed with another, usually inferior substance; adulterated.
5. Being a composite of more than one color or mixed with black or white.
6. Deriving from more than one source, style, or convention; eclectic: an impure art form.
copious
ADJECTIVE:
1. Yielding or containing plenty; affording ample supply: a copious harvest.
2. Large in quantity; abundant: copious rainfall.
3. Abounding in matter, thoughts, or words; wordy: ꡒI found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rulesꡓ (Samuel Johnson).
profuse
ADJECTIVE:
1. Plentiful; copious.
2. Giving or given freely and abundantly; extravagant: were profuse in their compliments.
19.
raid
NOUN:
1. A surprise attack by a small armed force.
2. A sudden forcible entry into a place by police: a raid on a gambling den.
3. An entrance into another's territory for the purpose of seizing goods or valuables.
4. A predatory operation mounted against a competitor, especially an attempt to lure away the personnel or membership of a competing organization.
5. An attempt to seize control of a company, as by acquiring a majority of its stock.
6. An attempt by speculators to drive stock prices down by coordinated selling.
TRANSITIVE VERB: To make a raid on.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: To conduct a raid or participate in one.
setback
NOUN:
1. An unanticipated or sudden check in progress; a change from better to worse.
2a. A steplike recession in a wall.
b. Any of a series of such recessions in the rise of a tall building.
3. An automatically timed setting of a thermostat to a lower temperature, as in the home at night.
frustration
NOUN:
1a. The act of frustrating or an instance of being frustrated.
b. The state of being frustrated.
2. Something that serves to frustrate.
* frustrate
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart.
b. To cause feelings of discouragement or bafflement in.
2. To make ineffectual or invalid; nullify.
20.
sentinel
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To watch over as a guard.
2. To provide with a guard.
3. To post as a guard.
spectator
NOUN: An observer of an event.
bystander
NOUN: A person who is present at an event without participating in it.
21.
condemn
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To express strong disapproval of: condemned the needless waste of food.
2. To pronounce judgment against; sentence: condemned the felons to prison.
3. To judge or declare to be unfit for use or consumption, usually by official order: condemn an old building.
4. To lend credence to or provide evidence for an adverse judgment against: were condemned by their actions.
5. Law To appropriate (property) for public use.
aggression
NOUN:
1. The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
2. The practice or habit of launching attacks.
3. Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
compassion
NOUN: Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it.
22.
stem
(1)
NOUN:
1a. The main ascending axis of a plant; a stalk or trunk.
b. A slender stalk supporting or connecting another plant part, such as a leaf or flower.
2. A banana stalk bearing several bunches of bananas.
3. A connecting or supporting part, especially:
a. The tube of a tobacco pipe.
b. The slender upright support of a wineglass or goblet.
c. The small projecting shaft with an expanded crown by which a watch is wound.
d. The rounded rod in the center of certain locks about which the key fits and is turned.
e. The shaft of a feather or hair.
f. The upright stroke of a typeface or letter.
g. Music The vertical line extending from the head of a note.
4. The main line of descent of a family.
5. Linguistics The main part of a word to which affixes are added.
6. Nautical The curved upright beam at the fore of a vessel into which the hull timbers are scarfed to form the prow.
7. The tubular glass structure mounting the filament or electrodes in an incandescent bulb or vacuum tube.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To have or take origin or descent.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To remove the stem of.
2. To provide with a stem.
3. To make headway against: managed to stem the rebellion.
(2)
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To stop or hold back by or as if by damming; stanch.
2. To plug or tamp (a blast hole, for example).
3. Sports To point (skis) inward.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
Sports To point skis inward in order to slow down or turn.
impart
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To grant a share of; bestow: impart a subtle flavor; impart some advice.
2. To make known; disclose: persuaded to impart the secret.
3. To pass on; transmit: imparts forward motion.
23.
acclaim
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To praise enthusiastically and often publicly; applaud. See synonyms at praise.
2. To acknowledge or declare with enthusiastic approval.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: To shout approval.
NOUN: Enthusiastic applause; acclamation.
prop up
지지하다
* prop
(1)
NOUN:
1. An object placed beneath or against a structure to keep it from falling or shaking; a support.
2. One that serves as a means of support or assistance.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To support by placing something beneath or against; shore up.
(2)
NOUN: A theatrical property.
(3)
NOUN: Informal A propeller.
24.
embrace
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To clasp or hold close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection.
2a. To surround; enclose: We allowed the warm water to embrace us.
b. To twine around: a trellis that was embraced by vines.
3. To include as part of something broader. See synonyms at include.
4. To take up willingly or eagerly: embrace a social cause.
5. To avail oneself of.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To join in an embrace.
NOUN:
1. An act of holding close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection; a hug.
2. An enclosure or encirclement: caught in the jungle's embrace.
3. Eager acceptance: your embrace of Catholicism.
take up
들어올리다, 체포하다, (차에)태우다, 흡수하다, (시간․장소를) 차지하다, (일을) 시작하다, 처리하다, (모집에) 응하다,빚을 청산하다, 숙소를 정하다.
take-up
NOUN:
1. The act of taking or tightening up.
2. A device for reducing slack or taking up lost motion, as one in a loom.
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draft
NOUN:
1. A current of air in an enclosed area.
2. A device that regulates the flow or circulation of air.
3a. The act of pulling loads; traction.
b. Something that is pulled or drawn; a load.
c. A team of animals used to pull loads.
4. Nautical The depth of a vessel's keel below the water line, especially when loaded: a river vessel of shallow draft.
5. A heavy demand on resources.
6. A written order directing the payment of money from an account or fund.
7a. A gulp, swallow, or inhalation.
b. The amount taken in by a single act of drinking or inhaling.
c. A measured portion; a dose.
8a. The drawing of a liquid, as from a cask or keg.
b. An amount drawn: ordered two drafts of ale.
9a. The process or method of selecting one or more individuals from a group, as for a service or duty: a candidate who did not pursue the nomination, but accepted a draft by the party convention.
b. Compulsory enrollment in the armed forces; conscription.
c. A body of people selected or conscripted.
10. Sports A system in which the exclusive rights to new players are distributed among professional teams.
11a. The act of drawing in a fishnet. b. The quantity of fish caught.
12a. Any of various stages in the development of a plan, document, or picture: a preliminary draft of a report; the final draft of a paper.
b. A representation of something to be constructed.
13. A narrow line chiseled on a stone to guide a stonecutter in leveling its surface.
14. A slight taper given a die to facilitate the removal of a casting.
15. An allowance made for loss in weight of merchandise.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To select from a group for some usually compulsory service: drafted into the army.
2. To select from a group for placement on a sports team.
3. To draw up a preliminary version of or plan for.
4. To create by thinking and writing; compose: draft a speech.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To work as a drafter.
2. To move, ride, or drive close behind a fast-moving object so as to take advantage of the slipstream, especially in a race.
ADJECTIVE:
1. Suited for or used for drawing heavy loads: oxen and other draft animals.
2. Drawn from a cask or tap: draft beer.
inflict
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To deal or mete out (something punishing or burdensome); impose: inflicted heavy losses on the enemy; a storm that inflicted widespread damage.
2. To afflict.
pull up
근절하다, 끌어올리다, (차를) 세우다, 꾸짖다
pull-up = chin-up
NOUN:
The act or an instance of chinning oneself, practiced especially as a fitness exercise.
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predominant
ADJECTIVE:
1. Having greatest ascendancy, importance, influence, authority, or force.
2. Most common or conspicuous; main or prevalent: the predominant color in a design.
intermittent
ADJECTIVE:
1. Stopping and starting at intervals. See synonyms at periodic.
2. Alternately containing and empty of water: an intermittent lake.
27.
induce
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To lead or move, as to a course of action, by influence or persuasion. See synonyms at persuade.
2. To bring about or stimulate the occurrence of; cause: a drug used to induce labor.
3. To infer by inductive reasoning.
4. Physics a. To produce (an electric current or a magnetic charge) by induction.
b. To produce (radioactivity, for example) artificially by bombardment of a substance with neutrons, gamma rays, and other particles.
5. Biochemistry To initiate or increase the production of (an enzyme or other protein) at the level of genetic transcription.
6. Genetics To cause an increase in the transcription of the RNA of (a gene).
28.
strenuous
ADJECTIVE:
1. Requiring great effort, energy, or exertion: a strenuous task.
2. Vigorously active; energetic or zealous.
29.
earnest
(1)
ADJECTIVE:
1. Marked by or showing deep sincerity or seriousness: an earnest gesture of goodwill.
2. Of an important or weighty nature; grave. See synonyms at serious.
(2)
NOUN:
1. Money paid in advance as part payment to bind a contract or bargain.
2. A token of something to come; a promise or an assurance.
acute
ADJECTIVE:
1. Having a sharp point or tip.
2. Keenly perceptive or discerning.
3. Reacting readily to stimuli or impressions; sensitive: His hearing was unusually acute.
4. Of great importance or consequence; crucial: an acute lack of research funds.
5. Extremely sharp or severe; intense: acute pain; acute relief.
6. Medicine
a. Having a rapid onset and following a short but severe course: acute disease.
b. Afflicted by a disease exhibiting a rapid onset followed by a short, severe course: acute patients.
7. Music High in pitch; shrill.
8. Geometry Having an acute angle: an acute triangle.
rigorous
ADJECTIVE:
1. Characterized by or acting with rigor: a rigorous program to restore physical fitness.
2. Full of rigors; harsh: a rigorous climate.
3. Rigidly accurate; precise. See synonyms at burdensome.
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aggressive
ADJECTIVE:
1. Characterized by aggression: aggressive behavior.
2. Inclined to behave in an actively hostile fashion: an aggressive regime.
3. Assertive, bold, and energetic: an aggressive sales campaign.
4. Of or relating to an investment or approach to investing that seeks above-average returns by taking above-average risks.
5. Fast growing; tending to spread quickly and invade: an aggressive tumor.
6. Characterized by or inclined toward vigorous or intensive medical treatment: an aggressive approach to treating the infection.
7. Intense or harsh, as in color.
charismatic
ADJECTIVE:
1. Of, relating to, or characterized by charisma.
2. Of, relating to, or being a type of Christianity that emphasizes personal religious experience and divinely inspired powers, as of healing, prophecy, and the gift of tongues.
NOUN:
A member of a Christian charismatic group or movement.
inert
ADJECTIVE:
1. Unable to move or act.
2. Sluggish in action or motion; lethargic. See synonyms at inactive.
3. Chemistry Not readily reactive with other elements; forming few or no chemical compounds.
4. Having no pharmacologic or therapeutic action.
flaccid
ADJECTIVE:
1. Lacking firmness, resilience, or muscle tone. See synonyms at limp.
2. Lacking vigor or energy: flaccid management.
multihued
* hue
빛깔, 색조, 특색, 경향, (추척의) 고함소리
combative
ADJECTIVE: Eager or disposed to fight; belligerent. See synonyms at argumentative.
argumentative
ADJECTIVE:
1. Given to arguing; disputatious.
2. Of or characterized by argument: an argumentative discourse.
antagonistic
NOUN:
1. One who opposes and contends against another; an adversary.
2. The principal character in opposition to the protagonist or hero of a narrative or drama.
3. Physiology A muscle that counteracts the action of another muscle, the agonist.
4. Biochemistry A chemical substance that interferes with the physiological action of another, especially by combining with and blocking its nerve receptor.
confrontation
NOUN:
1. The act of confronting or the state of being confronted, especially a meeting face to face.
2a. A conflict involving armed forces: a nuclear confrontation.
b. Discord or a clash of opinions and ideas: an age of ideological confrontation.
3. A focused comparison: an essay that brought elements of biography, autobiography, and general European history into powerful, meaningful confrontation.
bellicose
ADJECTIVE:
Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious. See synonyms at belligerent.
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