a. cold
E.g. I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons.
n. courtesy towards women
E.g. In truth there was no such code; chivalry as a set of ideals and duties changed throughout the Middle Ages to meet new socio-economic realities.
n. band or organized company of singers, especially in church service
E.g. TSome people will say that being in choir is lots of involvement because you have both rehearsals and services, which is true.
v. breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; reduce the air supply
E.g. He so worked upon his feelings with the pathos of these dreams, that he had to keep swallowing, he was so like to choke; and his eyes swam in a blur of water, which overflowed when he winked, and ran down and trickled from the end of his nose.
v. hew; cut by striking with a heavy sharp tool, such as an ax
E.g. Jim told me to chop off the snake's head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of it.
n. combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
E.g. His views, and those of many of his counterparts in other European countries, may be unpalatable to the liberal political mainstream, but they clearly struck a chord among a portion of the population which is increasingly unsettled by the growing number of immigrants to Europe.
n. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
E.g. This chore duty is an extension of the laundry duty.
n. art of representing dances in written symbols; arrangement of dances
E.g. Merce Cunningham has begun to use a computer in designing choreography. A software program allows him to compose arrangements of possible moves and immediately view them onscreen.
n. any utterance produced simultaneously by a group
E.g. 'But who is to give the prizes?' quite a chorus of voices asked.
n. a gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere
E.g. Without special equipment the chromosphere cannot normally be seen due to its being washed out by the overwhelming brightness of the photosphere.
a. arranged in order of time of occurrence
E.g. A public library sponsored guide to resume and cover letter writing, chronological samples and resume templates.
n. beverage made from juice pressed from apples
E.g. When my parents have too much cider, they let some of it turn into vinegar.
n. act of showing regard for others; courteous behavior; politeness; citizenship
E.g. I believe deeply in civility, and generally insist upon it at my place.
n. culture
E.g. It seemed glorious sport to be feasting in that wild, free way in the virgin forest of an unexplored and uninhabited island, far from the haunts of men, and they said they never would return to civilization.
n. demand for something as rightful or due
E.g. They struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day.
v. be moist or glutinous; stick or adhere; produce or cause to clang
E.g. It just takes a conscious effort to clam when everyone around you is hysterical, and the consideration of some other tips included in this book.
v. applaud; slap; strike together with a sharp sound, as one hard surface on another
E.g. "Fairfax will smile you a calm welcome, to be sure," said I; "and little Adele will clap her hands and jump to see you: but you know very well you are thinking of another than they, and that he is not thinking of you."
n. assigning to a class or category
E.g. The US government agency responsible for classifying viruses, the Centre for Disease Control, says it was in the process of deciding whether to change the strain's classification when it was informed that it had been widely circulated.
v. declare unavailable, as for security reasons; arrange or order by classes or categories
E.g. The US government agency responsible to classify viruses, the Centre for Disease Control, says it was in the process of deciding whether to change the strain's classification.
n. clergymen collectively; body of people ordained for religious service
E.g. But in the Middle Ages, there was no formal ban on marriage for the clergy.
n. a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
E.g. The explanation of the intent of matrimony was gone through; and then the clergyman walked a step further forward, and, bending slightly towards him.
v. cut, cut off, or cut out with or as if with shears; cut off the edge of:
E.g. They clip nearly two seconds off the world record.
v. congest; jam
E.g. The ash had to be removed from the tarmac less it clog the engines of the planes, endangering passengers who've already been through a harrowing ordeal.
a. awkward; showing lack of skill or aptitude
E.g. I did the same thing except with a Bunker Buster, but the shock wave made me stumble and made me look like a clumsy loser.
n. device for gripping and holding; tense, critical situation
E.g. I shouldn't be surprised, I guess, since the car has 158,000 miles on it, and the clutch is the original one.
v. combine; fuse; grow together; come together so as to form one whole; unite
E.g. Through it all, he tries to cling to a trembling grip on reality, as love and pain coalesce into a shocking.
v. arrange laws, rules as a code; classify; arrange or systematize
E.g. We need to take the varying rules and regulations of the different health agencies and codify them into a national health code.
a. adhesive; cohesive; sticking together ; logical; sound; capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
E.g. If the EU is to form any kind of coherent common foreign policy, it needs France and Britain singing from the same song sheet.
a. cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated
E.g. They created a cohesive organization as plan.
n. a series of connected spirals or concentric rings formed by gathering or winding; spiral pipe or series of spiral pipes
E.g. A divergent bundle of electrons passing through the coil is focused to a point.
n. coins collectively
E.g. The earliest Roman coinage followed that of the Greek colonies in Southern Italy.
a. concerning; simultaneous
E.g. Two lines that lie on top of one another are called coincident lines.
v. breakdown; failure
E.g. The streets of Baghdad are littered with putrefying mounds of rubbish that have been accumulating since the collapse of municipal services in March, with the arrival of coalition forces.
a. common; assembled into or viewed as a whole
E.g. But many ordinary people here regard the demolitions as a kind of collective punishment.
v. bump; hit; conflict
E.g. Two small planes collide over Florida Everglades and crash into swamp, no survivors.
n. crash; conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals
E.g. The collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction.
n. colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
E.g. Ziad typically adopts the colloquialism of his generation and effectively captures village and mountain dialects as well.
n. a commissioned military officer
E.g. The colonel in charge of the rubbish clearing operation, Keith Schollom, told me this was literally a mountain of a problem to be dealing with.
n. blend; union
E.g. The religious crisis, which caused the Kaduna riots, has now taken on an ethnic dimension and this combination poses a threat to Nigeria's unity.
v. blend; fuse; merge
E.g. Re-branded as one-army recruitment, the latest drive will, for the first time, combine recruiting to both the regular and territorial army.