a. not subject to duty or obligation; not subject to taxation
E.g. Because of his flat feet, Foster was exempt from serving in the armed forces.
n. permission not to do something
E.g. The government had argued that scrapping the exemption would have been deeply unhelpful to Britain and other member states.
n. passage or way out; act of going away or out
E.g. They took the second exit on the throughway.
n. patch; wide and open extent, as of surface, land, or sky
E.g. The line of vision from the flight deck towards the horizon will actually portray a white even expanse which is uniformly level.
v. oust; discharge; force or drive out
E.g. He is not planning to expel foreign companies as he needs their expertise and technology to extract and upgrade Venezuela's heavy crude oil.
n. payment or expense; output
E.g. When you are operating on an expense account, you must keep each receipt of expenditure.
a. precisely and clearly expressed; definite; outspoken
E.g. Don't just hint around that you're dissatisfied: be explicit about what's bugging you.
v. make use of, sometimes unjustly
E.g. Cesar Chavez fought attempts to exploit migrant farm workers in California.
a. rapid increase; of or involving exponents
E.g. We see the exponential growth in these years.
ad. particularly; specifically; in an explicit manner
E.g. He stated expressly that the needed the money by tomorrow.
v. open or straighten something out; unbend; prolong
E.g. The station will be allowed to fly unmanned until February or March, in the hope that private sponsors can be persuaded to extend its life.
n. outside; external or outward appearance
E.g. I like the interior but the exterior is a bit plain, stale, and hard looking.
a. no longer existing or living; vanished; dead
E.g. There are about 35 different kinds of extinct kangaroos in these deposits, none of them looked like anything we know today because they didn't hop.
v. praise highly; glorify; celebrate
E.g. In his speech, the president will extol the astronauts, calling them the pioneers of the Space Age.
n. passage from a literary work; an excerpt; something extracted
E.g. Here is an extract from the Association for psychological science on-line journal.
a. real; actual; based on fact
E.g. He insisted to tell her the factual accuracy.
a. loyal; worthy of trust or belief; reliable
E.g. Series will remain faithful to the old show, while introducing new recruits to fight alongside the original characters.
n. quality or character of being faithful; fidelity; truth; loyalty
E.g. However, faithfulness is to be a hallmark of a true Christian.
a. treated or thought of with great kindness or partiality; favorite
E.g. Myanmar is also known as Burma, a term favored by exiles and dissidents including Suu Kyi.
n. machine that automatically provides a supply of some material; one that supplies food:
E.g. The feeder discharged feed into a trough for the livestock.
n. movement aimed at equal rights for women
E.g. Asking me if I believe in feminism is like asking me if I believe in integration.
n. one who advocates equal rights for women
E.g. Hughes broke his silence over his relationship with Plath; she committed suicide in 1963 and her many feminist supporters have held Hughes responsible for her death.
a. offering fun and gaiety; joyous; celebratory
E.g. It was my first exposure to foreign cultures in festive costumes, and may have provided me early inspiration to explore distant shores.
a. marked by intense agitation or emotion
E.g. In those days, banking was not national, and New York and Chicago were in feverish competition.
n. management of money and credit and banking and investments; subsidizing; fund
E.g. Mr. Brown's views on economic matters are pretty well established and internationally he's known among finance ministers for his grasp of detail.
v. provide or raise the funds or capital for; supply funds to
E.g. He may finance his second daughter through law school.
a. monetary; pertaining or relating to money matters
E.g. Henry Paulson told an audience that reforming the financial and banking system would be the only way to ensure that China's economic miracle is sustainable over the long term.
n. refinement and delicacy of performance; skillful, subtle handling
E.g. The pilot's flying finesse is the hot topic in offices, restaurants and shops across the nation.
a. make resistant to fire
E.g. They are kept for safety mainly in underground fireproof bunkers.
n. natural talent or aptitude
E.g. He'd been slim with a full head of wavy Black-Irish hair and a certain flair for fashion and humor.
n. quality of being adaptable or variable
E.g. He enjoyed the flexibility of his working arrangement.
a. pliant; elastic; capable of being bent or flexed; pliable
E.g. The way of life is very beautiful for those people, who work from home, enjoys having less pressure and they can work in flexible hours at their own convenience.
n. massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with fracture and sharp edge
E.g. Raw materials such as flint were systematically exploited, and mining started to appear.
n. low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding
E.g. The Virgin River at the upper end of Zion Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah, has almost no floodplain at all.
n. plants of a region or era; plants considered as a group; bacteria that normally inhabit bodily organ
E.g. One of the more remarkable features of the flora is the close relationship at the genera level with certain forests in West Africa.
a. relating to or associated with flowers
E.g. Every effort will be made to accommodate sponsor’s first choice in floral display location, however, selection is on a first come, first served basis.
v. move or act clumsily and in confusion
E.g. Bewildered by the new software, we flounder until Jan shows her how to get started.
a. luminous; bright; emitting visible light
E.g. The proposal for genetic modification involves inserting a fluorescent protein into the virus.
a. obscured by fog
E.g. He could barely see through the fogged window.
a. obscured by fog; indistinct or hazy in outline
E.g. Have you ever driven on a foggy road that you know very well?