n. degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste
E.g. There was a tinge of sadness in her voice.
v. walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.
E.g. I reach up to grab the next chair so that I can toddle on my merry way.
n. exhausting labor or effort; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey
E.g. Three days and nights of toil and hunger in the cave were not to be shaken off at once, as Tom and Becky soon discovered.
a. capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.
E.g. Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book.
a. having no tone; unmusical.
E.g. Long pauses came between each of these remarks; they were uttered in toneless and monotonous voices.
n. rushing stream; flood; heavy downpour
E.g. You can see the torrent run downhill in day after day heavy rains.
n. practice of traveling for pleasure; business of providing tours and services for tourists
E.g. He has declared that tourism is a human right and those too poor to afford it should have their travel subsidized by the taxpayer.
n. expanse of land or water; system of organs that perform a specialized function; leaflet or pamphlet
E.g. At one corner of the tract is a large Sultan Center wholesale outlet.
n. friction between body and surface on which it moves
E.g. Traction refers to the friction between a drive member and the surface it moves upon, where the friction is used to provide motion.
v. destroy; step on
E.g. It is better, therefore, for the insignificant to keep out of his way, lest, in his progress, he should trample them down.
n. a state of peace and quiet
E.g. Enjoy tunes in the tranquility of your garden or patio without spoiling the landscaping.
v. surpass; exceed; pass beyond the limits of
E.g. To transcend is to go beyond and penetrate the mundane into a deeper truth or trust.
v. pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; transfer by pouring
E.g. "I think that to transfuse emotion," he writes, "to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer's is the peculiar function of poetry."
v. pass over or beyond; surpass
E.g. You may transgress this programming if the circumstances are right.
n. small electronic device containing a semiconductor and having at least three electrical contacts
E.g. Gordon Moore, father of the law that bears his name, called it the biggest change in transistor technology since the 1960s.
a. partly transparent; transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen
E.g. We could not recognize the people in the next room because of the translucent curtains that separated us.
v. forward; send from one person or place to another
E.g. They transmit his secret to the whole town.
v. go through or across, often under difficult conditions
E.g. When you traverse this field alone, be careful of the bull.
n. systematic, usually extensive written discourse on a subject
E.g. He is preparing a treatise on the Elizabethan playwrights for his graduate degree.
v. make threefold or triple; play or sing the highest part or most acute sounds
E.g. Profits in our company will treble based on last year.
n. branch that flows into the main stream; tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
E.g. A tributary is a stream or river which flows into a mainstream river, and which does not flow directly into a sea.
v. flow in drops; run or flow slowly; drip
E.g. That wealth has yet to trickle down to Indian villages where over sixty percent of Indians live.
n. one of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, and parallel to it; hot and humid place
E.g. We were a tropic planet prior to the ice age and we are returning to it.
n. organization of performers and associated personnel
E.g. A troupe of authentic belly dancers has been performing in the Cleveland, Ohio area since 2002.
n. wandering from business or duty; one who is absent without permission, especially from school
E.g. This is not the first time that this solution has been proposed to keep truant students in class.
n. brass musical instrument with brilliant tone
E.g. And near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other.
n. tumor; abnormal growth of tissue resulting from uncontrolled, progressive multiplication of cells
E.g. The woman who has the inoperable brain tumour is going to die and she wants someone to benefit from her kidneys.
n. noise, as made by a crowd; riot or uprising
E.g. She could not make herself heard over the tumult of the mob.
a. characterized by unrest or disorder
E.g. Tony Blair's entering a turbulent week.
n. act or result of turning over; upset; amount of money turned over or drawn in a business in a specified time; amount of people replaced in a business
E.g. Wal-mart's turnover is the highest of any major retailer in the country, by almost twice as much.
n. tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific; violent whirlwind
E.g. The most important thing about when a typhoon is approaching, it's a lot like when a hurricane is approaching in the U.S.
a. dictatorial; domineering; authoritarian
E.g. I have nothing to speak to that tyrannical government.
n. tire; covering for a wheel, usually made of rubber reinforced with cords of nylon
E.g. There is no tread on the tyre, you should put on a new one to keep your car safe.
a. wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays
E.g. Glass is almost perfectly opaque to deep ultraviolet, which is why it's hard to get a tan through a window.
v. charge below or under; charge less than is usual or suitable
E.g. Because the company had to undercharge for shipping costs to attract customers, it actually lost money on most of the items it sold.
v. experience; suffer; pass through
E.g. In February, a court ruled that Mr. Doe should undergo a DNA test.
v. be located under or below; be the support or basis of; account for
E.g. In turn, some of these ideas also underlie the Risch algorithm, which is used in Mathematics for indefinite integration.
v. mark a line below, as words; underscore.
E.g. You can highlight, underline, bookmark, or otherwise notate your favorite sections.
v. take on; embark on; assume
E.g. Can we expect mini robots to undertake major tasks?
v. write under something else; subscribe; assume financial responsibility for; guarantee against failure
E.g. Have we checked with China to see if they want to underwrite all this?