v. praise; assign great social importance to
E.g. To celebrate Independence Day, the Paris tourist bureau will be distributing gifts to visitors from the US and draping offices and hotels in the colors of the American flag.
a. relating to the sky or the heavens; supremely good; god or angel
E.g. She spoke of the celestial joys that awaited virtuous souls in the hereafter.
n. official examination of the details of a country's population
E.g. There's been no census since the war began, but it's clear a huge proportion of Sri Lankan Tamils have been uprooted from their homes by this conflict.
a. relating to a 100-year period; occurring once every 100 years
E.g. The bridge, restored for its centenary, is a worthy contribution to future tourism in Durango state.
a. measure of temperature, used widely in Europe
E.g. On the centigrade thermometer, the freezing point of water is zero degrees.
v. protect or fight for as first place
E.g. Martin Luther King, Jr., they believe he could champion the oppressed in their struggle for equality.
n. place of worship that is smaller than and subordinate to a church; service conducted in a chapel
E.g. Slightly smaller than the shrine, the chapel is also a domed structure cruciform in plan.
n. part; nature; description of a person's attributes, traits, or abilities
E.g. Above all, though, she understood the British character and her heart belonged to this ancient old land.
v. license; authorize; hold under a lease or rental agreement of goods and services
E.g. As a result we decide to charter the school to use bigger writing for the French version.
a. morally pure in thought or conduct; decent and modest
E.g. If, however, he remarried or did not remain chaste, the money would pass to her mother.
v. practice trickery or fraud; cheat
E.g. That crook wanted to chisel me out of a hundred dollars when he sold me that "marble" statue he'd cut out of some cheap hunk of rock.
n. metal tool with a sharp edge, used to cut and shape stone, wood, or metal
E.g. With his hammer and chisel, the sculptor chipped away at the block of marble.
v. plan and oversee the development and details
E.g. He will choreograph the meeting between the two Presidents carefully.
a. of a person, slightly overweight, somewhat fat and hence soft; rounded and plump
E.g. Hi Pille, chubby is definitely better if it means more chocolate huh!
n. a thick mass or piece, amount
E.g. Mary, get me a silk thread, and a chunk of fire out of the kitchen.
v. move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point
E.g. The doctor shows me how blood to circulate in my veins on pictures.
n. boundary line of a circle, figure, area, or object
E.g. The earth has a circumference of approximately 24900 miles.
v. limit narrowly; confine; draw a line around; encircle
E.g. Although I do not wish to circumscribe your activities, I must insist that you complete this assignment before you start anything else.
v. quote; adduce as an instance
E.g. She could cite passages in the Bible from memory.
a. of or relating to nonmilitary life
E.g. The first is integrating former rebels back into civilian life.
n. one following the pursuits of civil life, especially one who is not an active member of military or police
E.g. On the other hand, all sorts of people were tried and convicted in civilian courts.
n. noise; loud outcry; expression of discontent or protest
E.g. The clamor of the children at play outside made it impossible for her to take a nap.
n. process of making things clearer or easier to understand
E.g. But a minor point of clarification is not the same thing as a countering argument.
v. make clear and comprehensible; elucidate
E.g. A Japanese delegation has started talks in North Korea to try to clarify the fate of at least ten Japanese citizens who were abducted by the communist state.
a. of or relating to a climate, or meteorological conditions
E.g. Write a report that investigates the impact of the heat island on urban climatic conditions and the potential for larger scale or even global impacts.
a. involving or based on direct observation of the patient; unemotional
E.g. He spoke in the clipped, clinical monotones typical of police testimony in court.
n. partnership; league; state of being combined into one body
E.g. The Rainbow coalition united people of all races in a common cause.
v. persuade or try to persuade by pleading or flattery; move to or adjust toward a desired end
E.g. Whenever the famished great girls had an opportunity, they would coax or menace the little ones out of their portion.
n. logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts; state of cohering or sticking together
E.g. Its coherence is evident; it is too lovely and lucid to be frustrating or dull.
v. make pieces of money from metal; invent or fabricate
E.g. Slanderers coin nasty rumors.
v. occur at the same time as; correspond
E.g. To coincide with World AIDS Day, the World Health Organization and UN AIDS are launching a campaign to treat three million HIV sufferers by the year 2005.
a. of informal spoken language or conversation; conversational or chatty
E.g. He might have to explain colloquial English to her, but he did not have to explain the intangibles of their lives and work.
a. of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony
E.g. Britain, the former colonial power, said it looked forward to working with the new government.
a. of extraordinary size; huge; gigantic
E.g. Radio City Music Hall has a colossal stage.
a. of or relating to or resembling a comet
E.g. After students understood something about cometary orbits, they could draw conclusions about why we see a given comet only once over a period of many years.
a. money-making; involved in work that is intended for the mass market
E.g. China's economic growth has been fuelled by investment in new factories and other commercial premises, many of them producing low-cost goods.
v. make commercial; apply methods of business to for profit
E.g. It gets the newer artist the ability to commercialize and help drive a revenue as well as interest to those songs that have been created twenty years ago.
n. pledge, undertaking; act of binding yourself to a course of action
E.g. My main commitment is in the promotion of human values; this is what I consider the key factor for a happy life at the individual level, family level and community level.
a. ordinary; having no remarkable features
E.g. We think the key to making this stuff more commonplace is keeping it affordable for everyone.
v. obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; travel regularly from a place of residence to another place
E.g. In exchange for cooperating with detectives on another case, criminal tried to commute his charges.