a. liberal; wasteful; excessive spending
E.g. I would fly to Paris and stay in lavish hotels if someone else were paying.
a. loose and not easily controlled; lacking in rigor or strictness
E.g. In both oil and finance large sums are made in lax regulatory environments that few will ever understand or even care about.
n. someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person; generally ignorant person
E.g. His is just the layman's view of medicine.
n. dismissal of employees from their jobs
E.g. A mass layoff is defined as any firing involving at least 50 people.
n. small leaf; leaf like organ or part
E.g. The leaflet is tiny because it's meant to appeal to people who'll just glance at it before throwing it away.
v. make laws; create or pass laws
E.g. He did his best to legislate from the bench and we'll be living with his opinions for the rest of our lives.
a. relaxing; emollient; softening
E.g. I was growing very lenient to my master: I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out.
v. impose fine or tax; collect payment
E.g. Crying "No taxation without representation," the colonists demonstrated against England's power to levy taxes.
a. having form of a line; straight; consisting of lines; lineal
E.g. Most textbooks are a mass of information in linear format: one topic follows after another.
n. reading and writing; ability to read and write
E.g. Critics believe the measures will discriminate against migrants with low levels of literacy and for whom English is not their first language.
n. any animals kept for use or profit
E.g. Or, he may decide to feed it to his own livestock.
a. unwilling or reluctant; filled with disgust or aversion; dislike
E.g. The Japanese government was loath to recognize the problem, preferring to wait in hopes that its banking system would heal itself.
n. place; district; surrounding or nearby region; particular neighborhood
E.g. The "Tropical Valley" has been associated with their names since they entered the locality from the Yukon side in 1924.
n. accommodation; lodging
E.g. Wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.
a. high, tall, having great height; idealistic, implying over-optimism
E.g. Though Barbara Jordan's fellow students used to tease her about her lofty ambitions, she rose to hold one of the highest positions in the land.
v. be lazy or idle; move, stand, or recline in relaxed manner
E.g. They loll around in their chairs watching television.
v. appear or take shape, usually in enlarged or distorted form
E.g. The shadow of the gallows would loom threateningly above the small boy.
a. strongly opposed; hateful; unwillingness to do something
E.g. The club would be loth to see him move to a rival Premier League club under freedom of contract next summer.
v. make smooth or slippery
E.g. When we last moved, our home inspector recommended using wipes to lubricate all of the window tracks.
a. easily understood; clear; intelligible
E.g. So in lucid moments, you structure your life to serve your own best interest.
n. moment of calm; a period of calm weather; temporary quiet and rest
E.g. Not wanting to get wet, they waited under the cover for a lull in the rain.
a. shining; emitting light, especially emitting self-generated light
E.g. The sun is a luminous body.
v. stealthily lie in waiting; exist unperceived
E.g. Who knows what evil can lurk in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.
n. waterproof long coat made of rubberized cloth
E.g. He hung his mackintosh and hat on the rack in the comfortable square hall and turned to her for direction.
v. make mad; drive to madness; craze; excite violently with passion; make very angry
E.g. It may madden me if she will be chosen instead of me.
a. generous; high-minded; chivalrous
E.g. The last area where Obama should be magnanimous is on Defense policy.
n. powerful or influential person, especially in business or industry
E.g. The former telecommunications magnate is now living overseas, mostly in Dubai and Montenegro, to avoid imprisonment on a corruption conviction.
v. intensify; increase; make greater in size; enlarge
E.g. If increasing the text size via the browser or Windows options does not make text easy to read, then the next step is to magnify the screen.
v. wound seriously; cause permanent loss of function of limb or part of body
E.g. The hospital was crowded, we believe the railroad accident to maim lots of people.
n. tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears
E.g. Their task was to carry the maize from the field to our courtyard.
a. stately; royal; relating to a monarch
E.g. And above it all the great man sat and beamed a majestic judicial smile upon the entire house, and warmed himself in the sun of his own grandeur.
a. injurious; tending to cause death; disposed to do evil
E.g. An experimental development of this field is to use this ray that concentrates in malignant brain tumors.
a. capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable
E.g. Gold is a malleable metal, easily shaped into bracelets and rings.
n. state of poor nutrition
E.g. It says malnutrition rates are close to emergency levels and is calling on the public to donate money for clean water, medicine and sanitation.
v. treat ill; abuse; treat roughly.
E.g. We all are obliged not to maltreat any child and parents have a particular duty to care for their children.
n. warm-blooded vertebrate having skin covered with hair
E.g. North America Grizzly Bear: This is a mammal, that is 5 to 8 ft tall, weighs about 800 pounds, and lives to be 25 yrs old.
n. handcuff; shackle for hand or wrist; instrument of iron for fettering the hand
E.g. Then he commanded to cast her into prison and manacle and fetter her.
n. craze; madness; an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
E.g. This wasn't some fine print side effect of the medication; I was experiencing a full blown medication-induced mania and I was out of control.
a. various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated
E.g. The same threat is repeated in manifold forms to awaken the careless.
a. relating to, or adjacent to the sea; nautical
E.g. We are working to enhance defense and security cooperation in maritime security and combating organized crime.