n. review; look back upon; remember
E.g. I had a detailed retrospect of my association with the two girls.
a. respectful; worshipful; impressed with veneration or deep respect
E.g. Though I bow my head in church and recite the prayers, sometimes I don't feel properly reverent.
v. amend; change
E.g. Later, he would revise his position and said the reason why he couldn't meet the delegates was to do with security concerns.
v. organize opposition to authority; make revolution
E.g. The people will revolt when bread prices triple again.
n. art or study of using language effectively and persuasively; insincere language
E.g. If his rhetoric is any indication, the president appears to be headed in the right direction.
a. full of rigors; harsh; rigidly accurate; precise
E.g. Disliked by his superiors, the officer candidate endured an extremely rigorous training program.
n. wavelike motion; undulation; sound like that of water running over a stony bottom
E.g. It's part of a long-term ripple effect caused by the decline in auto manufacturing jobs.
n. metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together
E.g. Can I fasten these metal plates with rivet?
a. vigorous; full of health and strength; vigorous
E.g. Those levels are expected to remain robust this year, said the ratings firm, but be somewhat below 2008.
v. plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; swirl; revolve; turn on or around an axis or a center
E.g. We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil.
v. become active; excite, as to anger or action; stir up; awaken
E.g. The dogs rouse a deer from the bushes; quickly the deer becomes the target of hunters.
v. make into a ruff; wrinkle; disturb surface of; make uneven by agitation or commotion; throw into disorder or confusion
E.g. The flags ruffle in the breeze; you can recognize them although not very easily.
a. causing, or tending to cause ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious
E.g. They saw a weed-grown, floorless room, an ancient fireplace, vacant windows, and a ruinous staircase.
n. act of making a sudden noisy break
E.g. A steam rupture occurs within a nuclear power plant when the temperature of the nuclear reactor reaches a certain level too quickly.
a. country; relating to rural areas
E.g. In the last thirty years, more than a thousand rural workers and activists have been killed in land disputes in Brazil, seven hundred and seventy-two of those in Para.
n. one who, or that which, defends or protects; defense; protection
E.g. We make copies of our computer disks as a safeguard against accidents.
v. give authorization or approval to something; penalize a state, especially for violating international law
E.g. Nothing will convince me to sanction the engagement of my daughter to such a worthless young man.
v. soak, fill, or load to capacity; cause to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance
E.g. Saturate your sponge with water until it can't hold any more.
a. scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; not enough
E.g. The movers gave me a scant hour's notice of their arrival.
n. someone who bears the blame for others
E.g. The ploy of finding a scapegoat is as old as mankind itself - when things become too difficult at home, divert attention to adventure abroad.
ad. hardly; barely; only just
E.g. It may be scarcely noticed amidst the flurry of war in Iraq, but this is something of a turning point for European defense.
v. find fault or rail with rude clamor; utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke
E.g. Don't scold him too much; he is a child anyway.
v. burn superficially; parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; affect painfully with heat; burn
E.g. The meat will scorch if you don't lower the gas.
n. extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; expression of mockery, derision, contempt, or disdain
E.g. Of course this time the object of their scorn is a representative of the real America that Democrats pretend to represent.
a. exactly and carefully conducted; by extreme care and great effort; cautious
E.g. Though Alfred is scrupulous in fulfilling his duties at work, he is less conscientious about his obligations to his family and friends.
n. line of junction formed by sewing together two pieces; line across a surface, as a crack; scar
E.g. Place the roll in the prepared loaf pan, making sure the seam is on the bottom.
v. isolate; separate; keep away from others
E.g. Seven mental health nurses and one doctor were each interviewed within 48 hours of making the decision to seclude a patient.
a. consisting of or divided into sections; separating into sections
E.g. You can arrange this sectional sofa as you need.
a. worldly rather than spiritual; not specifically relating to religion; lasting from century to century
E.g. The church leaders decided not to interfere in secular matters.
n. deposit; matter deposited by some natural process
E.g. Its effects are made worse as the ground is made up of sediment rather than hard rock and can in effect swallow buildings much like quicksand.
v. pass gradually or leak through, as if through small openings
E.g. During the rainstorm, water would seep through the crack in the basement wall and damage the floor boards.
v. isolate; separate; divide from the main body
E.g. In the Mississippi Delta, attempts were made to segregate white and Italian schoolchildren.
a. caused by earthquake or earth vibration; earthshaking
E.g. The Richter scale is a measurement of seismic disturbances.
a. seeming; outward or token appearance; show; figure; form
E.g. Foolish men mistake transitory semblance for eternal fact.
v. walk in an awkward, lazy, or unsteady manner, shuffling the feet
E.g. As you might expect of 'master race' zombies, these zombies don't shamble, they run.
n. jaunty; showy
E.g. There was a light burning in a little shanty that hadn't been lived in for a long time, and I wondered who had took up quarters there.
v. cut or clip hair; strip of something; remove by cutting or clipping
E.g. You may not care to cut a sheep's hair, but they shear sheep for Little Bo Peep.
v. shine with a weak or fitful light; glimmer intermittently
E.g. This rope is woven with a maximum amount of reflective tracers--which will make it shimmer in the night.
n. shallow place in a body of water; sandy elevation of the bottom of a body of water, sandbank or sandbar
E.g. The boat struck a shoal and fetched up all standing.
a. clever; characterized by keen awareness, sharp intelligence
E.g. As a music executive and a businessman, he's in shrewd, wildly successful and not shy about it.