Hard Words to Spell: Study Tools

n. agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole

n. a line or outline which gradually deviates from being straight for some or all of its length

ad. without question and beyond doubt, without doubt (used for emphasis)

n. the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess

n. short bar with weight at each end, stupid person

v. cause to feel awkward or ashamed; hamper or impede

n. someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it

n. an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service

v. be or do something to a greater degree, be superior or better than some standard

v. fill with sublime emotion, make (someone) feel very happy

n. everything that exists anywhere, the state or fact of existing

a. characterized by intense emotion, like or suggestive of fire

a. relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world

v. determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation, measure precisely and against a standard

a. feeling or showing gratitude, affording comfort or pleasure

v. give surety or assume responsibility, make certain of

v. annoy continually or chronically, exhaust by attacking repeatedly

n. (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot

n. a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system, the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body

a. full of or characterized by humor, causing lighthearted laughter and amusement