a. muddy; swampy; resembling a marsh; boggy; soft and watery
E.g. Five to ten rhinos are killed every year, mostly during Assam's devastating floods because they have to flee Kaziranga's low marshy lands to higher hills.
n. one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; one who prepares stone for building purposes
E.g. He asked the mason to make him a tombstone.
n. one that refuses to abide or be independent; an unbranded range animal
E.g. But, a maverick is also one who cannot be identified as belonging to any specific herd.
n. public institutions that report the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television
E.g. Science fiction in media is exponentially bigger as a market than science fiction in literary form.
n. negotiator who acts as a link between parties
E.g. But Egypt's role as a mediator in this troubled region would be seriously undermined if it broke off links with Israel.
a. melodious; tuneful; of the nature of melody
E.g. She is going to sleep in melodic harmony music.
n. short note; memorandum; written proposal or reminder
E.g. The Reuters news agency claims to have seen a memo written by IMF officials.
n. monument; short note or abstract, intended for registry, exhibiting the particulars of a deed
E.g. Russia has reacted furiously to the recent relocation of a Soviet era war memorial in Tallinn.
n. objects for sale; goods
E.g. If you would like to purchase any of this merchandise, you can click on the pictures and you will be taken to a secure site to handle the transaction.
n. one who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; trafficker; trader
E.g. The merchant decided to use camels to carry his goods across the desert.
a. of or pertaining to prostitutes; tastelessly showy; lustful; deceptive; misleading
E.g. The net result is that both the news columns and the editorial columns are commonly meretricious in a high degree.
a. changeable in form; assuming different characters; polymorphic
E.g. Building up muscle mass is going to cause you to burn more calories and increase your metabolic rate.
n. chemical processes occurring within a living cell or organism to maintenance of life
E.g. When you then get down to a lower weight, the damage to metabolism is still there, invisible, affecting all your efforts to control your weight.
n. magnifier of the image of small objects
E.g. The artwork took 10 days using a single rabbit hair as a paint brush and a microscope is required to look at the masterpiece.
v. move from one country or region to another and settle there
E.g. Many Germans chose to migrate to South America in the mid-19th century.
n. movement of persons from one country or locality to another
E.g. After a period of gentle decline during the 1990s, net migration to Europe is on the rise again.
n. one whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars
E.g. Sometimes it seems like Internet marketing is just a millionaire boy club.
n. painting or drawing included in a book; copy or model that represents in a greatly reduced size
E.g. A city is a whole world in miniature, and different groups maintain a group identity which can result in them maintaining different dialects.
a. mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous
E.g. A small boy's pockets are likely to contain a miscellaneous collection of objects.
n. mistaken thought, idea, or notion; erroneous conception; false opinion
E.g. Sir, you are suffering from a misconception.
v. make less severe or harsh; moderate
E.g. Nothing Jason did could mitigate Medea's anger; she refused to forgive him for betraying her.
a. movable; not fixed; fluid; unstable
E.g. The mobile blood bank operated by the Red Cross visited our neighborhood today.
n. quality of moving freely; movement; motion
E.g. The WTO's Director General warned of a crisis of non mobility in trade negotiations.
n. long-tailed gray-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds
E.g. You will no doubt learn that the mockingbird has the prettiest song of any bird native to North America.
v. lessen the violence, severity, or extremeness of; preside over
E.g. She was chosen to moderate the convention.
v. model; fit tightly, follow the contours of ; frame; make something for a specific shape; become moldy
E.g. The furniture of grandma might mold in the old house.
a. of molecules; relating to simple or basic structure or form
E.g. In cases where no data were available, the most probable structure of a molecule was calculated using molecular mechanics.
a. made liquid by heat; glowing red-hot; being in a state of fusion
E.g. The city of Pompeii was destroyed by volcanic ash rather than by molten lava flowing from Mount Vesuvius.
a. of or relating to money; nation's currency; financial
E.g. Energy systems have external costs, as environmental and health costs, although these are difficult to assess in monetary and energy terms.
v. observe; watch; keep an eye on
E.g. In this city, religious police, government officials and squads of schoolboys monitor women and girls' behavior and appearance.
a. massive; taking a great amount of time and effort to complete; in manner of a monument
E.g. Writing a dictionary of any language is a monumental task.
n. man, human being; liable or subject to death; accompanying death
E.g. Nothing betrays the fact that he is now engaged in a mortal fight.
n. movement; act of changing location; ability or power to move
E.g. For a similar reason, a collision head-on between two cars in motion is much more violent than if one of them is at rest.
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. opening through which an animal receives food; aperture between jaws or between lips
E.g. Then put your money where your mouth is and reject all the socialist benefits you now enjoy.
n. number that may be divided by another number with no remainder
E.g. 12 is multiple of 2, 3, 4, 6.
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. metropolitan; civic; having local self-government
E.g. The streets of Baghdad are littered with rubbish since the collapse of municipal services in March.
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.
a. of very large or indefinite number; of ten thousand
E.g. In China, for example, where a number of different dialects are spoken, the same character can be pronounced in myriad ways.