n. mental action or power; intellectual activity; intellectuality
E.g. There are some programs, starting in the fifth grade, which gets kids to think about the heroic mentality, the heroic imagination.
a. interested in making money; profit oriented; hired for service in foreign army
E.g. South African involvement in mercenary activities was approved in the National Assembly on Tuesday.
n. virtue; admirable quality or attribute; credit
E.g. I believe that giving work based on gender and not on merit is sexism.
n. implied comparison; one thing conceived as representing another; symbol
E.g. While maybe the metaphor is a little stretched, Sharon's comparison is mostly brilliant.
v. be all mixed up or jumbled together;
E.g. Almost all of the 2,500 athletes who competed in Salt Lake came to mingle and party together in the final gathering of the 77 nations who'd contested the Games.
a. the fewest; the least possible
E.g. In order to make it work, you need a certain minimal area of collective surface.
n. act of serving; government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister
E.g. The ministry has tried to develop a management strategy this year but it has not been implemented because of scarce resources.
n. a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group
E.g. He was accused by Speight of dismantling the rights of the indigenous majority at the expense of the Indo-Fijian minority.
n. failure of administration or management; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination
E.g. Stay with us for this very special hour, as we look for the answers and examine this very important case, a case that many are calling a miscarriage of justice.
n. behavior that causes discomfiture or annoyance in another; tendency to play pranks or cause embarrassment
E.g. The branches of government - executive, legislative and judicial - are equal, so each can prevent the others from causing too much mischief.
n. bad fortune or ill luck; bad luck
E.g. The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
a. based or acting on error; misled; lacking proper guidance
E.g. It was exactly this type of misleading rhetoric that led us into a misguided war.
n. weapon that is thrown or projected; rocket carrying instruments or warhead
E.g. U.S. defense officials say they believe the missile is a long-range Taepodong-2.
n. visible watery vapor suspended in atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog; haze before the eyes that blurs the vision
E.g. The waves were enormous, and the air was filled with salty mist.
a. movable; not fixed; fluid; unstable
E.g. The mobile blood bank operated by the Red Cross visited our neighborhood today.
n. prevailing style; manner; way of doing something; fashion or style
E.g. The main mode is the regular one that keeps the vehicle's straight ahead motion in check.
a. humble; less ambitious; moderate
E.g. It was a very modest affair, a gathering of Caribbean musicians in an area of London, where many West Indian immigrants had settled in the 1950s.
n. standard or unit of measurement; self-contained component of a system; unit of education covering a single topic
E.g. Jaguar recalled 67,798 cars in April after discovering a defect in an electronic module that could cause cars to slip into reverse gear.
a. slightly wet; damp or humid
E.g. It grows 3 to 5 feet high and wide in moist soil and partial shade and blooms white from June to September.
n. product of a body's mass and its velocity; impelling force or strength; impetus
E.g. He says he's trying to gain momentum from the U.N. to the G-20, to this Copenhagen summit in December.
n. government under a single ruler
E.g. It remains unclear what will happen to the current king, if the monarchy is abolished.
n. exclusive control or possession of something; domination
E.g. While Russia has been keen to maintain its pipeline monopoly, the US has promoted routes which, as far as possible, are free from its rivals' control.
a. marvelous; strange; extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness
E.g. Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he would hardly notice the other niggers.
n. set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct
E.g. If we feel distress when we kill an in-game opponent, it may be because it violates our ingrained sense of morality; we know killing is bad, even when it's virtual.
a. caused by disease; pathological or diseased; unhealthy or unwholesome
E.g. He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses.
n. transferring property title as security for the repayment of a loan
E.g. I can buy the house only if a mortgage for 2000 dollars is available.
v. stimulate; impel; provide with an incentive; move to action
E.g. In order to motivate someone, you must have an understanding of the driving factors behind that person.
n. short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; maxim
E.g. I often win money at cards but never save a penny. "easy come, easy go" is my motto.
v. express or to feel grief or sorrow; grieve; be sorrowful
E.g. There should have been even dearer ones to bear his name and mourn his loss.
n. hair growing on the human upper lip, especially when cultivated and groomed
E.g. A compact man with a trim moustache, Rouse builds high-end spec houses by day and high-flying rockets at night.
v. proliferate; increase; combine by multiplication
E.g. This isn't the first time Singapore's leaders have asked citizens to go forth and multiply for the good of the nation.
a. having or suggesting great physical power; of or relating to or consisting of muscle
E.g. New work contained the starting-point for a method of investigation, which made it possible to trace the development of heat in muscular movements.
v. multiply, grow, or expand rapidly
E.g. Between 1990 and 1999, the population of Silicon Valley kept to mushroom; with the rapidly increasing demand for housing, home prices skyrocketed as well.
v. call together; cause to come together; gather; summon up
E.g. Fritz says if the best answer you can muster is "Georgetown," you're definitely not going to win.
n. legend; fable; a traditional story accepted as history
E.g. Through the media of myth and her beautiful painting, Saj offers us alternative ways of thinking about such cosmic issues.
n. study of myths; collection of myths
E.g. They fear the blue, which, in mythology, is the color of purity and holiness.
ad. by name; by particular mention; expressly; that is to say
E.g. Lydia briefly stated the business in hand, namely to choose a secretary and treasurer for the committee.
n. feeling of sickness in stomach by an urge to vomit; strong aversion; disgust
E.g. Side effects include dizziness, nausea, and falling asleep.
a. relating to, or adjacent to the sea; relating to marine shipping or navigation
E.g. We really don't yet have technology that can effectively detect the presence of radiation in naval cargo.
n. guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
E.g. Such frequencies can be extremely valuable to companies which provide wireless services such as mobile phone networks or satellite navigation systems.