v. put clothe on, as with office or authority; place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; endow; lay out money or capital in business
E.g. You had better let me invest it along with your six thousand, because if you take it you'll spend it.
a. incapable of being overcome or defeated; unconquerable
E.g. The president who once seemed invincible is now seen as potential vulnerable.
v. rouse to impatience or anger; annoy; provoke
E.g. Now you had better go; for if you stay longer, you will perhaps irritate me.
v. seclude; set apart or cut off from others
E.g. That research will isolate a large number of antibodies from humans and animals.
n. plan of trip; guidebook for traveler
E.g. If your itinerary is the Empire State, the Statue of Liberty, Times Square and Chinatown, a standard guidebook will do quite nicely.
n. teeth of elephant; pale or grayish yellow to yellowish white
E.g. Living in your ivory tower at Oxford, you can't imagine what it's like to go hungry.
n. door-keeper; porter; one who has the care of public building or suites of rooms
E.g. We hope that everybody has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and the janitor.
v. run or ride at a steady slow trot; give a push or shake to
E.g. I would jog around the ponds, and around them, again and again.
n. sudden jerking, as from a heavy blow; sudden, strong feeling of surprise or disappointment
E.g. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.
n. writer for newspapers and magazines
E.g. The protests mark the second anniversary of the death of Georgy Gongadze, a journalist whose headless corpse was found in a forest near Kiev.
a. pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; sanctioned or ordered by court
E.g. The rules are too deeply embedded in judicial and private practice, and judges and firms need law students to know them.
n. connection; joint; intersection; crossing
E.g. It�s at the junction of the two continents of Europe and Africa where the earth�s crust is broken and fragmented.
n. good or just reason; condition or fact of being justified
E.g. If such justification is not enough under international law, please explain why you think it is not.
n. youth; adolescent; not fully grown or developed
E.g. You know, this is sort of what I call a juvenile approach to a serious problem," the Democrat said.
a. acute; incisive; sharp ; express grief verbally
E.g. China, for example, keen to dispel its unsavory image among tourists of having poor restroom facilities, is sending twenty delegates.
n. one's relatives; family; kinfolk
E.g. For a growing number of old people, connecting with kin should be more than just a holiday affair.
v. contract into wrinkles; grow together; form into fabric by intertwining
E.g. When he broke his leg, he sat around the house all day waiting for the bones to knit.
n. hard protuberance; hard swelling or rising; bunch; lump
E.g. It didn't have an iron latch on the front door, nor a wooden one with a buckskin string, but a brass knob to turn, the same as houses in town.
n. effort expended on particular task; act of mother giving birth; time period during which mother gives birth
E.g. When Lisa went into labour, her doctor was not around, she says.
n. delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns; rope; cord that is drawn through eyelets
E.g. When having brought her ironing-table to the nursery hearth, she allowed us to sit about it, and while she got up Mrs. Reed's lace frills, and crimped her nightcap borders.
v. delay; drag; the act of slowing down or falling behind
E.g. I'm sure you've experienced jet lag before.
n. scenery; expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
E.g. From palaces to the desert mounds, remnants of this ancient culture litter the landscape.
n. gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; unobserved or imperceptible progress; slip or error; failing in duty
E.g. The mayor is apologizing, saying he's deeply sorry for a lapse of judgment.
n. any of the short hairs fringing the edge of the eyelid
E.g. There were plenty of things to question, but I never batted a lash at that.
n. freedom from normal restraints; angular distance north or south of the earth's equator
E.g. Ah, no, a certain latitude is permissible in these matters, you understand.
n. tier; a relatively thin sheet like expanse or region lying over or under another
E.g. The layer of thick smoke now covering all of southern California, thousands of firefighters are still struggling to contain ten separate blazes.
n. overall design of a page; plan or design of something that is laid out
E.g. In gymnastics, a layout is a position in which the gymnast's body is completely stretched, toes pointed and legs straight.
n. lawmaking; the act of making or enacting laws ; law enacted by a legislative body
E.g. In the last year, the Australian government has introduced legislation to tighten up the relatively relaxed domestic security.
n. simple machine consisting of a rigid bar pivoted on a fixed point and used to transmit force
E.g. A lever is a bar, with which you can pry or lift greater weights or apply greater force.
n. something that holds one back; state of being legally obliged and responsible
E.g. The other main liability is debt, which many banks used to finance risky investments, leading to the financial crisis.
v. bound or obliged in law or equity
E.g. I was conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths.
n. close relationship, connection, or link; secret love affair
E.g. Now, often, CIA agents have a liaison relationship with the host government.
a. open-minded; tolerant; broad-mindedness; having political views favoring reform and progress
E.g. His views may be not agreeable to the liberal political mainstream.
n. official or legal permission to do or own a specified thing
E.g. The effective date of the new license is January 1, 2010, you have to bring old one when driving.
n. possibility, strong probability; state of being probable
E.g. We all agree the likelihood is less, but still possible.
ad. similarly; as well; too
E.g. Dostam has a record of switching sides when convenient, and there are many supporters who would do likewise.
v. walk lamely, especially with irregularity, as if favoring one leg; move or proceed haltingly or unsteadily
E.g. Whistling to the dog, he began to limp on down the trail.
n. fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant; thread made from fibers of the flax plant
E.g. The ancient Egyptians produced fabrics from flax and wrapped their mummies in linen cloth.
n. vessel belonging to a regular line of packets, as ship or plane
E.g. Hundreds died when the liner went down; it is the first air accident this year.
v. be slow in leaving; continue or persist; stay
E.g. India is anxious to avoid inflaming tensions with China, which linger from a 1962 border war.