Glossary of 1,500 Common English Words
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lack | ||
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to be without; n. the condition of needing, wanting or not having | ||
kiss | ||
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to touch with the mouth to show love or honor | ||
know | ||
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to understand something as correct; to have the facts about; to recognize someone because you have met and talked together before | ||
kill | ||
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to make dead; to cause to die | ||
kidnap | ||
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to seize and take away by force | ||
keep | ||
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to possess; to have for oneself | ||
kick | ||
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to hit with the foot | ||
jump | ||
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to push down on the feet and move up quickly into the air | ||
judge | ||
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to form an opinion about; to decide a question, especially a legal one; n. a public official who decides problems of law in a court | ||
join | ||
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to put together or come together; to become part of or a member of | ||
involve | ||
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to take part in; to become a part of; to include | ||
invite | ||
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to ask someone to take part in or join an event, organization or gathering | ||
investigate | ||
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to study or examine all information about an event, situation or charge; to search for the truth | ||
invest | ||
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to give money to a business or organization with the hope of making more money | ||
invent | ||
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to plan and make something never made before; to create a new thing or way of doing something | ||
invade | ||
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to enter an area or country by force with an army | ||
intervene | ||
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to come between; to come between in order to settle or solve | ||
interfere | ||
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to get in the way of; to work against; to take part in the activities of others, especially when not asked to do so | ||
insult | ||
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to say something or to do something that makes another person angry or dishonored | ||
inspect | ||
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to look at something carefully; to examine, especially by an expert | ||
injure | ||
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to cause harm or damage to a person or animal | ||
inject | ||
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to force a fluid into, such as putting medicine or drugs into the body through the skin | ||
inform | ||
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to tell; to give knowledge to | ||
influence | ||
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to have an effect on someone or something; to cause change | ||
infect | ||
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to make sick with something that causes disease | ||
increase | ||
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to make more in size or amount | ||
include | ||
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to have; to make a part of | ||
incite | ||
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to urge or cause an action or emotion, usually something bad or violent | ||
improve | ||
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to make better; to become better | ||
import | ||
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to bring from another country; n. something brought from another country, usually for sale | ||
imagine | ||
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to make a picture in the mind; to form an idea | ||
identify | ||
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to recognize someone or something and to say who or what they are | ||
hurt | ||
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to cause pain, injury or damage | ||
hurry | ||
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to do or go fast | ||
hunt | ||
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to search for animals to capture or kill them; to seek; to try to find | ||
hope | ||
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to expect; to believe there is a good chance that something will happen as wanted; to want something to happen | ||
hold | ||
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to carry or support, usually in the hands or arms; to keep in one position; to keep as a prisoner; to contain; to possess; to occupy; to organize and be involved in ("The two sides hold talks this week.") | ||
hit | ||
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to strike; to touch with force | ||
hijack | ||
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to seize or take control of a vehicle by force | ||
hide | ||
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to prevent from being seen or found; to make secret | ||
help | ||
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to give support; to assist; to make easier; n. support; aid | ||
heat | ||
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to make hot or warm; n. great warmth; that which is produced by burning fuel; energy from the sun | ||
hear | ||
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to receive sound through the ears; to receive news about | ||
heal | ||
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to return to good health; to cure; to become well | ||
have | ||
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to possess; to own; to hold | ||
head | ||
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to lead; to command; n. leader; chief; the top part of something; the highest position | ||
hate | ||
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to have strong emotions against; to consider as an enemy; opposite love | ||
harvest | ||
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to gather crops; n. the crop after it is gathered | ||
harm | ||
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to injure; to damage; n. damage; hurt | ||
happen | ||
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to become a fact or event; to take place | ||
hang | ||
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to place something so the highest part is supported and the lower part is not; to kill by hanging | ||
halt | ||
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to come or cause to come to a stop; to stop | ||
guide | ||
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to lead to; to show the way; n. one who shows the way | ||
guard | ||
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to watch and protect a person, place or thing ("He guards the president."); n. a person or thing that watches or protects ("He is a prison guard.") | ||
guarantee | ||
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to promise a result; to promise that something will happen | ||
grind | ||
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to reduce to small pieces by crushing | ||
grow | ||
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to develop or become bigger; to increase in size or amount | ||
govern | ||
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to control; to rule by military or political power | ||
go | ||
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to move from one place to another; to leave | ||
give | ||
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to present to another to keep without receiving payment | ||
get | ||
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to receive; to gain; to go and bring back; to become; to become the owner of | ||
gather | ||
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to bring or come together into a group or place; to collect | ||
frighten | ||
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to cause great fear | ||
gain | ||
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to get possession of; to get more; to increase | ||
freeze | ||
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to cause or to become very cold; to make or to become hard by cold | ||
free | ||
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to release; ad. not controlled by another or by outside forces; not in prison; independent; not limited by rules; without cost | ||
form | ||
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to make; to start; to shape ("They formed a swim team."); n. a kind ("Swimming is a form of exercise.") | ||
forgive | ||
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to pardon; to excuse; to remove guilt | ||
forget | ||
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to not remember | ||
force | ||
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to make someone do something or make something happen by using power; n. power, strength; strength used against a person or object; military power of a nation; a military group | ||
fool | ||
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to make someone believe something that is not true; to trick; n. a person who is tricked easily | ||
follow | ||
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to come or go after; to accept the rule or power of; to obey | ||
fly | ||
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to move through the air with wings, like a bird or airplane; to travel in an airplane or flying vehicle | ||
flow | ||
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to move like a liquid | ||
flood | ||
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to cover with water; n. the movement of water out of a river, lake or ocean onto land | ||
float | ||
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to be on water without sinking; to move or be moved gently on water or through air | ||
flee | ||
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to run away from | ||
fix | ||
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to make good or right again | ||
fit | ||
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to be of the correct size or shape ("These shoes fit my feet.") | ||
finish | ||
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to complete; to end | ||
fire | ||
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to shoot a gun; n. the heat and light produced by something burning | ||
find | ||
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to discover or learn something by searching or by accident; to decide a court case ("The jury finds the man guilty of murder.") | ||
film | ||
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to record something so it can be seen again; to make a motion picture or movie; n. a thin piece of material for making pictures with a camera; a movie | ||
fill | ||
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to put or pour something into a container until there is space for no more | ||
fight | ||
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to use violence or force; to attempt to defeat or destroy an enemy; n. the use of force; a battle | ||
feed | ||
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to give food to | ||
feel | ||
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to have or experience an emotion; to know by touching | ||
fear | ||
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to be afraid; to worry that something bad is near or may happen ("He feared falling down."); n. a strong emotion when there is danger or trouble ("He had a fear that he would fall down.") | ||
fail | ||
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to not succeed; to not reach a goal | ||
fall | ||
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to go down quickly; to come down; to drop to the ground or a lower position | ||
express | ||
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to say clearly | ||
extend | ||
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to stretch out in area or length; to continue for a longer time | ||
export | ||
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to send to another country; n. something sent to another country, usually for sale | ||
explore | ||
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to travel in a place that is not well known to learn more about it; to make a careful search; to examine closely | ||
explode | ||
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to break apart violently with a loud noise, like a bomb | ||
explain | ||
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to give reasons for; to make clear; to tell about; to tell the meaning | ||
experiment | ||
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to test; n. a test or trial carried out to prove if an idea is true or false, or to discover something | ||
experience | ||
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to live through an event, situation or condition ("She experienced great pain."); n. something that one has done or lived through ("The experience caused her great pain.") | ||
expect | ||
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to think or believe that something will happen; to wait for an event | ||
expel | ||
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to force out; to remove from; to send away | ||
expand | ||
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to make larger; to grow larger | ||
exist | ||
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to be; to live | ||
exile | ||
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to force a person to leave his or her country; to expel; n. a person who is forced to leave his or her country | ||
execute | ||
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to kill | ||
excuse | ||
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to take away blame; to pardon; to forgive; n. a reason (sometimes false) for an action | ||
examine | ||
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to study closely | ||
exchange | ||
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to trade; to give or receive one thing for another | ||
evaporate | ||
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to change from a liquid into a gas | ||
estimate | ||
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to form an opinion about a value, size or amount using less than complete information | ||
escape | ||
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to get free; to get away from; to get out of | ||
establish | ||
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to bring into existence; to create | ||
enter | ||
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to come or go into | ||
enjoy | ||
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to be pleased or satisfied by something | ||
enforce | ||
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to make something be done | ||
end | ||
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to stop; to finish; n. the part which comes last | ||
elect | ||
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to choose by voting | ||
employ | ||
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to give work in return for wages | ||
ease | ||
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to reduce; to make less difficult | ||
eat | ||
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to take food into the body through the mouth | ||
earn | ||
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to be paid in return for work done | ||
drown | ||
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to die under water | ||
drop | ||
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to fall or let fall; to go lower | ||
drive | ||
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to control a moving vehicle | ||
drink | ||
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to take liquid into the body through the mouth | ||
do | ||
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to act; to make an effort | ||
dream | ||
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to have a picture or story in the mind during sleep; n. a picture or story in the mind during sleep; a happy idea about the future | ||
divide | ||
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to separate into two or more parts | ||
dive | ||
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to jump into water head first | ||
dismiss | ||
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to send away; to refuse to consider | ||
dispute | ||
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to oppose strongly by argument; n. an angry debate | ||
discuss | ||
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to talk about; to exchange ideas | ||
discover | ||
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to find or learn something | ||
disarm | ||
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to take away weapons; to no longer keep weapons; to make a bomb harmless by removing its exploding device | ||
disappear | ||
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to become unseen; to no longer exist | ||
direct | ||
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to lead; to aim or show the way ("He directed me to the theater."); ad. straight to something; not through some other person or thing ("The path is direct.") | ||
dig | ||
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to make a hole in the ground | ||
develop | ||
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to grow; to create; to experience progress | ||
die | ||
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to become dead; to stop living; to end | ||
design | ||
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to plan or create plans for | ||
desire | ||
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to want very much; to wish for | ||
destroy | ||
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to break into pieces; to end the existence of | ||
describe | ||
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to give a word picture of something; to give details of something | ||
deploy | ||
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to move forces or weapons into positions for action | ||
deplore | ||
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to regret strongly; to express sadness | ||
depend | ||
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to need help and support | ||
deny | ||
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to declare that something is not true; to refuse a request | ||
denounce | ||
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to accuse of being wrong or evil; to criticize severely | ||
demonstrate | ||
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to make a public show of opinions or feelings ("The crowd demonstrated in support of human rights."); to explain by using examples ("The teacher demonstrated the idea with an experiment.") | ||
demand | ||
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to ask by ordering; to ask with force | ||
delay | ||
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to decide to do something at a later time; to postpone; to cause to be late | ||
define | ||
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to give the meaning of; to explain | ||
defend | ||
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to guard or fight against attack; to protect | ||
defeat | ||
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to cause to lose in a battle or struggle; n. a loss; the condition of having lost | ||
declare | ||
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to say; to make a statement | ||
decrease | ||
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to make less in size or amount | ||
decide | ||
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to choose; to settle; to judge | ||
debate | ||
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to argue for or against something; n. a public discussion or argument | ||
deal | ||
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to have to do with ("The talks will deal with the problem of pollution."); to buy or sell ("Her company deals in plastic.") | ||
dance | ||
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to move the body and feet to music; n. a series of steps, usually to music | ||
damage | ||
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to cause injury or destruction; n. harm; hurt or injury, usually to things | ||
cut | ||
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to divide or injure with a sharp tool; to make less; to reduce | ||
cry | ||
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to express or show sorrow or pain | ||
cure | ||
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to improve health; to make well ("The doctor can cure the disease."); n. something that makes a sick person well ("Antibiotics are a cure for infection.") | ||
crush | ||
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to damage or destroy by great weight; to defeat completely | ||
cross | ||
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to go from one side to another; to go across | ||
criticize | ||
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to say what is wrong with something or someone; to condemn; to judge | ||
crash | ||
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to fall violently; to hit with great force | ||
create | ||
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to make; to give life or form to | ||
cover | ||
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to put something over a person or thing; n. anything that is put over a person or thing | ||
count | ||
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to speak or add numbers | ||
copy | ||
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to make something exactly like another; n. something made to look exactly like another | ||
cooperate | ||
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to act or work together | ||
cook | ||
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to heat food before eating it | ||
control | ||
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to direct; to have power over | ||
contain | ||
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to hold; to include | ||
continue | ||
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to go on doing or being | ||
consider | ||
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to give thought to; to think about carefully | ||
connect | ||
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to join one thing to another; to unite; to link | ||
confirm | ||
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to approve; to say that something is true | ||
congratulate | ||
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to praise a person or to express pleasure for success or good luck | ||
condemn | ||
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to say a person or action is wrong or bad | ||
compete | ||
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to try to do as well as, or better than, another or others | ||
compare | ||
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to examine what is different or similar | ||
communicate | ||
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to tell; to give or exchange information | ||
command | ||
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to order; to have power over something | ||
comment | ||
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to say something about; to express an opinion about something | ||
come | ||
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to move toward; to arrive | ||
collect | ||
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to bring or gather together in one place; to demand and receive ("collect taxes") | ||
combine | ||
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to mix or bring together | ||
close | ||
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to make something not open; ad. near to | ||
climb | ||
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to go up or down something by using the feet and sometimes the hands | ||
clean | ||
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to make pure; ad. free from dirt or harmful substances ("clean water") | ||
claim | ||
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to say something as a fact | ||
choose | ||
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to decide between two or more | ||
cheer | ||
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to shout approval or praise | ||
cheat | ||
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to get by a trick; to steal from | ||
chase | ||
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to run or go after someone or something | ||
charge | ||
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to accuse someone of something, usually a crime; n. a statement in which someone is accused of something | ||
change | ||
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to make different; to become different | ||
celebrate | ||
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to honor a person or event with special activities | ||
cause | ||
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to make happen; n. the thing or person that produces a result | ||
catch | ||
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to seize after a chase; to stop and seize with the hands | ||
care | ||
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to like; to protect; to feel worry or interest | ||
carry | ||
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to take something or someone from one place to another | ||
capture | ||
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to make a person or animal a prisoner; to seize or take by force; to get control of | ||
cancel | ||
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to end; to stop | ||
can | ||
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to be able to; to have the right to; n. a container used to hold liquid or food, usually made of metal | ||
call | ||
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to give a name to ("I call myself John."); to ask for or request ("They called for an end to the fighting.") | ||
bury | ||
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to put into the ground and cover with earth | ||
buy | ||
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to get by paying something, usually money | ||
burst | ||
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to break open suddenly | ||
burn | ||
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to be on fire; to destroy or damage by fire | ||
build | ||
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to join materials together to make something | ||
broadcast | ||
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to send information, stories or music by radio or television; n. a radio or television program | ||
bring | ||
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to come with something | ||
breathe | ||
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to take air into the body and let it out again | ||
break | ||
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to divide into parts by force; to destroy | ||
boycott | ||
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to refuse to take part in or deal with | ||
borrow | ||
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to take as a loan | ||
born | ||
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to come to life; to come into existence | ||
blow | ||
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to move with force, as in air ("The wind blows.") | ||
boil | ||
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to heat a liquid until it becomes very hot | ||
block | ||
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to stop something from being done; to prevent movement | ||
bleed | ||
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to lose blood | ||
bite | ||
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to cut with the teeth | ||
blame | ||
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to accuse; to hold responsible | ||
betray | ||
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to turn against; to be false to | ||
believe | ||
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to think; to feel sure of; to accept as true; to trust | ||
belong | ||
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to be owned by; to be a member of | ||
begin | ||
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to do the first part of an action; to start | ||
become | ||
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to come to be | ||
beat | ||
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to hit again and again | ||
bar | ||
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to prevent or block | ||
be | ||
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to live; to happen; to exist | ||
ban | ||
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to not permit; to stop; n. an official restriction | ||
balance | ||
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to make two sides or forces equal | ||
avoid | ||
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to stay away from | ||
attend | ||
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to be present at | ||
attempt | ||
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to work toward something; to try; to make an effort | ||
attach | ||
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to tie together; to connect | ||
assist | ||
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to help | ||
ask | ||
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to question; to say something is wanted ("We ask the teacher questions every day.") | ||
arrive | ||
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to come to a place, especially at the end of a trip | ||
arrest | ||
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to seize a person for legal action; to take as a prisoner | ||
argue | ||
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to offer reasons for or against something; to dispute; to disagree | ||
approve | ||
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to agree with; to agree to support | ||
appoint | ||
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to name; to choose ("appoint a judge") | ||
appear | ||
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to show oneself; to come into sight; to seem | ||
appeal | ||
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to take to a higher court, person or group for a decision; to call on somebody for help | ||
apologize | ||
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to express regret for a mistake or accident for which one accepts responsibility | ||
amend | ||
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to add to or to change (a proposal or law) | ||
announce | ||
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to make known publicly; to declare officially | ||
aim | ||
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to point a gun at; n. a goal or purpose | ||
aid | ||
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to help; to support; n. help, assistance | ||
agree | ||
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to have the same belief as someone; to be willing to do something | ||
affect | ||
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to produce an effect on; to influence ("A lack of sleep affected the singer's performance.") | ||
advise | ||
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to help with information, knowledge or ideas in making a decision | ||
admit | ||
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to accept ("admitted to the United Nations"); to express one's guilt or responsibility ("He admitted that what he did was wrong.") | ||
add | ||
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to put (something) with another to make it larger; to say more | ||
act | ||
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to do something | ||
accept | ||
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to agree to receive | ||
accuse | ||
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to say a person is responsible for an act or crime; to make a statement against someone | ||
able | ||
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having the power to do something | ||
zero | ||
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the number meaning none or nothing | ||
zoo | ||
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a place where animals are kept for the public to look at and study | ||
year | ||
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a period of time equal to twelve months | ||
yesterday | ||
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the day before today | ||
wreckage | ||
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what remains of something severely damaged or destroyed | ||
worth | ||
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value measured in money | ||
world | ||
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the earth; the people who live on the earth | ||
word | ||
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one or more connected sounds that form a single part of a language | ||
woman | ||
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an adult female human | ||
wood | ||
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the solid material of which trees are made | ||
wire | ||
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a long, thin piece of metal used to hang objects or to carry electricity or electronic communications from one place to another | ||
winter | ||
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the coldest time of year, between autumn and spring | ||
wind | ||
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a strong movement of air | ||
window | ||
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an opening in a wall to let in light and air, usually filled with glass | ||
wife | ||
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a woman who is married | ||
wheel | ||
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a round structure that turns around a center | ||
while | ||
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a space of time ("Please come to my house for a while."); conj. at or during the same time ("It may not be a good idea to eat while you are running.") | ||
wheat | ||
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a grain used to make bread; the plant that produces the grain | ||
west | ||
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the direction in which the sun goes down | ||
week | ||
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a period of time equal to seven days | ||
weather | ||
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the condition of the atmosphere resulting from sun, wind, rain, heat or cold | ||
weapon | ||
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anything used to cause injury or to kill during an attack, fight or war | ||
wealth | ||
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a large amount of possessions, money or other things of value | ||
way | ||
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a path on land or sea or in the air; how something is done; method | ||
water | ||
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the liquid that falls from the sky as rain or is found in lakes, rivers and oceans | ||
war | ||
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fighting between nations, or groups in a nation, using weapons | ||
wall | ||
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the side of a room or building formed by wood, stone or other material; a structure sometimes used to separate areas of land | ||
wages | ||
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money received for work done | ||
volcano | ||
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a hill or mountain around a hole in the earth's surface that can explode, sending hot, melted rock and ash into the air | ||
voice | ||
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the sound made by creatures, especially humans, for speaking | ||
violence | ||
|---|---|---|
the use of force to cause injury, death or damage | ||
village | ||
|---|---|---|
a very small town | ||
victory | ||
|---|---|---|
a success in a fight or competition | ||
victim | ||
|---|---|---|
someone or something that is injured, killed or made to suffer; someone who is tricked | ||
version | ||
|---|---|---|
the form of something with different details than earlier or later forms | ||
vehicle | ||
|---|---|---|
anything on or in which a person or thing can travel or be transported, especially anything on wheels; a car or truck | ||
vegetable | ||
|---|---|---|
a plant grown for food | ||
value | ||
|---|---|---|
the quality of being useful, important or desired; the amount of money that could be received if something is sold | ||
valley | ||
|---|---|---|
a long area of land between higher areas of land | ||
university | ||
|---|---|---|
a place of education that usually includes several colleges and research organizations | ||
universe | ||
|---|---|---|
all of space, including planets and stars | ||
tube | ||
|---|---|---|
a long, round structure through which liquids or gases can flow; a long, thin container in which they can be kept | ||
truck | ||
|---|---|---|
a heavy vehicle used to carry goods | ||
truce | ||
|---|---|---|
a temporary halt in fighting agreed to by all sides involved | ||
troops | ||
|---|---|---|
a number of soldiers in a large controlled group | ||
trouble | ||
|---|---|---|
that which causes concern, fear, difficulty or problems | ||
tribe | ||
|---|---|---|
a group of families ruled by a common chief or leader | ||
trip | ||
|---|---|---|
a movement from one place to another, usually a long distance | ||
trial | ||
|---|---|---|
an examination in a court of a question or dispute to decide if a charge is true | ||
treaty | ||
|---|---|---|
a written agreement between two or more nations | ||
tree | ||
|---|---|---|
a very tall plant that is mostly wood, except for its leaves | ||
treatment | ||
|---|---|---|
the act of treating; the use of medicine to try to cure or make better | ||
treasure | ||
|---|---|---|
a large collection of money, jewels or other things of great value | ||
treason | ||
|---|---|---|
the act of fighting against one's own country or of helping its enemies | ||
transportation | ||
|---|---|---|
the act or business of moving goods or people | ||
traffic | ||
|---|---|---|
the movement of people, vehicles or ships along a street, road or waterway | ||
tradition | ||
|---|---|---|
a ceremony, activity or belief that has existed for a long time | ||
town | ||
|---|---|---|
a center where people live, larger than a village but not as large as a city | ||
total | ||
|---|---|---|
the complete amount | ||
top | ||
|---|---|---|
the upper edge or surface; the highest part; the cover of something | ||
tool | ||
|---|---|---|
any instrument or device designed to help one do work | ||
tomorrow | ||
|---|---|---|
the day after today | ||
tonight | ||
|---|---|---|
this night | ||
today | ||
|---|---|---|
this day | ||
thing | ||
|---|---|---|
any object | ||
time | ||
|---|---|---|
that which is measured in minutes, hours, days and years; a period that can be identified in hours and minutes and is shown on a clock; a period when an event should or will take place | ||
theory | ||
|---|---|---|
a possible explanation of why something exists or how something happens using experiments or ideas, but which is not yet proven ("Other scientists are debating his theory about the disappearance of dinosaurs.") | ||
terrorist | ||
|---|---|---|
a person who carries out acts of extreme violence as a protest or a way to influence a government | ||
theater | ||
|---|---|---|
a place where movies are shown or plays are performed | ||
terror | ||
|---|---|---|
extreme fear; that which causes great fear | ||
territory | ||
|---|---|---|
a large area of land | ||
term | ||
|---|---|---|
a limited period of time during which someone does a job or carries out a responsibility ("He served two terms in Congress."); the conditions of an agreement that have been accepted by those involved in it | ||
temperature | ||
|---|---|---|
the measurement of heat and cold | ||
television | ||
|---|---|---|
a device that receives electronic signals and makes them into pictures and sounds; the system of sending pictures and sounds by electronic signals over a distance so others can see and hear them on a receiver | ||
telescope | ||
|---|---|---|
a device for making objects that are far away appear closer and larger | ||
telephone | ||
|---|---|---|
a device or system for sending sounds, especially the voice, over distances | ||
technology | ||
|---|---|---|
the use of scientific knowledge and methods to produce goods and services | ||
tears | ||
|---|---|---|
the fluid that comes out of the eyes while crying | ||
team | ||
|---|---|---|
a group organized for some purpose, often for sports | ||
tea | ||
|---|---|---|
a drink made from the plant of the same name | ||
target | ||
|---|---|---|
any person or object aimed at or fired at | ||
tax | ||
|---|---|---|
the money a person or business must pay to the government so the government can provide services | ||
tank | ||
|---|---|---|
a large container for holding liquids; a heavy military vehicle with guns | ||
system | ||
|---|---|---|
a method of organizing or doing something by following rules or a plan; a group of connected things or parts working together for a common purpose or goal | ||
sympathy | ||
|---|---|---|
a sharing of feelings or emotions with another person, usually feelings of sadness | ||
surplus | ||
|---|---|---|
an amount that is more than is needed; extra; ("That country has a trade surplus. It exports more than it imports.") | ||
surface | ||
|---|---|---|
the outer side or top of something ("The rocket landed on the surface of the moon.") | ||
sun | ||
|---|---|---|
the huge star in the sky that provides heat and light to earth | ||
summer | ||
|---|---|---|
the warmest time of the year, between spring and autumn | ||
sugar | ||
|---|---|---|
a sweet substance made from liquids taken from plants | ||
subversion | ||
|---|---|---|
an attempt to weaken or destroy a political system or government, usually secretly | ||
submarine | ||
|---|---|---|
an underwater ship | ||
substance | ||
|---|---|---|
the material of which something is made (a solid, liquid or gas) | ||
structure | ||
|---|---|---|
the way something is built, made or organized; a system that is formed or organized in a special way; a building | ||
subject | ||
|---|---|---|
the person or thing being discussed, studied or written about | ||
street | ||
|---|---|---|
a road in a city, town or village | ||
story | ||
|---|---|---|
the telling or writing of an event, either real or imagined | ||
stove | ||
|---|---|---|
a heating device used for cooking | ||
storm | ||
|---|---|---|
violent weather, including strong winds and rain or snow | ||
stone | ||
|---|---|---|
a small piece of rock | ||
steel | ||
|---|---|---|
iron made harder and stronger by mixing it with other substances | ||
steam | ||
|---|---|---|
the gas that comes from hot water | ||
statue | ||
|---|---|---|
a form of a human, animal or other creature usually made of stone, wood or metal | ||
station | ||
|---|---|---|
a place of special work or purpose ("a police station"); a place where passengers get on or off trains or buses; a place for radio or television broadcasts | ||
square | ||
|---|---|---|
a flat shape having four equal sides | ||
star | ||
|---|---|---|
a mass of gas that usually appears as a small light in the sky at night, but is not a planet; a famous person, usually an actor or singer | ||
spring | ||
|---|---|---|
the time of the year between winter and summer | ||
sport | ||
|---|---|---|
any game or activity of competition involving physical effort or skill | ||
spirit | ||
|---|---|---|
the part of a human that is not physical and is connected to thoughts and emotions; the part of a person that is believed to remain alive after death | ||
space | ||
|---|---|---|
the area outside the earth's atmosphere where the sun, moon, planets and stars are; the area between or inside things | ||
speech | ||
|---|---|---|
a talk given to a group of people | ||
south | ||
|---|---|---|
the direction to the right of a person facing the rising sun | ||
sound | ||
|---|---|---|
fast-moving waves of energy that affect the ear and result in hearing; that which is heard | ||
soldier | ||
|---|---|---|
a person in the army | ||
son | ||
|---|---|---|
a person's male child | ||
sort | ||
|---|---|---|
any group of people or things that are the same or are similar in some way; a kind of something | ||
soil | ||
|---|---|---|
earth in which plants grow | ||
snow | ||
|---|---|---|
soft, white pieces of frozen water that fall from the sky, usually in winter or when the air temperature is very cold | ||
sky | ||
|---|---|---|
the space above the earth | ||
slave | ||
|---|---|---|
a person owned or controlled by another | ||
skin | ||
|---|---|---|
the outer covering of humans and most animals | ||
skill | ||
|---|---|---|
the ability gained from training or experience | ||
skeleton | ||
|---|---|---|
all the bones of a human or other animal together in their normal positions | ||
size | ||
|---|---|---|
the space occupied by something; how long, wide or high something is | ||
situation | ||
|---|---|---|
the way things are during a period of time | ||
sister | ||
|---|---|---|
a female with the same father or mother as another person | ||
sickness | ||
|---|---|---|
the condition of being in bad health | ||
side | ||
|---|---|---|
the outer surfaces of an object that are not the top or bottom; parts away from the middle; either the right or left half of the body | ||
silver | ||
|---|---|---|
a valued white metal | ||
shoe | ||
|---|---|---|
a covering for the foot | ||
sheep | ||
|---|---|---|
a farm animal used for its meat and hair | ||
sex | ||
|---|---|---|
either the male or female group into which all people and animals are divided because of their actions in producing young; the physical activity by which humans and animals can produce young | ||
service | ||
|---|---|---|
an organization or system that provides something for the public ("Schools and roads are services paid for by taxes."); a job that an organization or business can do for money; military organizations such as an army, navy or air force; a religious ceremony | ||
series | ||
|---|---|---|
a number of similar things or events that follow one after another in time, position or order | ||
self | ||
|---|---|---|
all that which makes one person different from others | ||
Senate | ||
|---|---|---|
the smaller of the two groups in the governments of some countries, such as in the United States Congress | ||
seed | ||
|---|---|---|
the part of a plant from which new plants grow | ||
security | ||
|---|---|---|
freedom from danger or harm; protection; measures necessary to protect a person or place ("Security was increased in the city.") | ||
secret | ||
|---|---|---|
something known only to a few and kept from general knowledge; ad. hidden from others; known only to a few | ||
seat | ||
|---|---|---|
a thing to sit on; a place to sit or the right to sit there ("a seat in parliament") | ||
season | ||
|---|---|---|
one of the four periods of the year that is based on the earth's position toward the sun (spring, summer, autumn, winter); a period of time based on different weather conditions ("dry season", "rainy season"); a period during the year when something usually happens ("baseball season") | ||
sea | ||
|---|---|---|
a large area of salt water, usually part of an ocean | ||
science | ||
|---|---|---|
the study of nature and the actions of natural things, and the knowledge gained about them | ||
school | ||
|---|---|---|
a place for education; a place where people go to learn | ||
satellite | ||
|---|---|---|
a small object in space that moves around a larger object; an object placed in orbit around the earth | ||
sand | ||
|---|---|---|
extremely small pieces of crushed rock found in large amounts in deserts and on coasts | ||
salt | ||
|---|---|---|
a white substance found in sea water and in the ground, used to affect the taste of food | ||
sailor | ||
|---|---|---|
a person involved in sailing a boat or ship | ||
rubber | ||
|---|---|---|
a substance made from the liquid of trees with the same name, or a similar substance made from chemicals | ||
rope | ||
|---|---|---|
a long, thick piece of material made from thinner pieces of material, used for tying | ||
root | ||
|---|---|---|
the part of a plant that is under the ground and takes nutrients from the soil | ||
room | ||
|---|---|---|
a separate area within a building with its own walls | ||
rocket | ||
|---|---|---|
a device shaped like a tube that moves through air or space by burning gases and letting them escape from the back or bottom, sometimes used as a weapon | ||
rock | ||
|---|---|---|
a hard piece of mineral matter | ||
road | ||
|---|---|---|
a long piece of hard ground built between two places so people can walk, drive or ride easily from one place to the other | ||
risk | ||
|---|---|---|
the chance of loss, damage or injury | ||
river | ||
|---|---|---|
a large amount of water that flows across land into another river, a lake or an ocean | ||
right | ||
|---|---|---|
what a person legally and morally should be able to do or have ("It is their right to vote."); ad. agreeing with the facts; good; correct; opposite wrong; on the side that is toward the east when one is facing north; opposite left | ||
rice | ||
|---|---|---|
a food grain | ||
resource | ||
|---|---|---|
anything of value that can be used or sold | ||
resolution | ||
|---|---|---|
an official statement of agreement by a group of people, usually reached by voting | ||
research | ||
|---|---|---|
a careful study to discover correct information | ||
repair | ||
|---|---|---|
work done to fix something | ||
remains | ||
|---|---|---|
a dead body | ||
religion | ||
|---|---|---|
a belief in, or the honoring of, a god or gods | ||
relations | ||
|---|---|---|
understandings or ties between nations; members of the same family; people connected by marriage or family ties | ||
regret | ||
|---|---|---|
a feeling of sadness or sorrow about something that is done or that happens | ||
refugee | ||
|---|---|---|
a person who has been forced to flee because of unjust treatment, danger or war | ||
recession | ||
|---|---|---|
a temporary reduction in economic activity, when industries produce less and many workers lose their jobs | ||
reason | ||
|---|---|---|
the cause for a belief or act; purpose; something that explains | ||
rain | ||
|---|---|---|
water falling from the sky | ||
rate | ||
|---|---|---|
speed; a measure of how quickly or how often something happens; the price of any thing or service that is bought or sold | ||
railroad | ||
|---|---|---|
a road for trains; a company that operates such a road and its stations and equipment | ||
radio | ||
|---|---|---|
the system of sending and receiving signals or sounds through the air without wires | ||
radiation | ||
|---|---|---|
waves of energy from something that produces heat or light; energy from a nuclear substance, which can be dangerous | ||
radar | ||
|---|---|---|
a device that uses radio signals to learn the position or speed of objects that may be too far away to be seen | ||
purpose | ||
|---|---|---|
the reason or desired effect for doing something; goal | ||
quality | ||
|---|---|---|
that which something is known to have or be ("An important quality of steel is its strength."); amount of value or excellence ("Their goods are of the highest quality.") | ||
publication | ||
|---|---|---|
something that is published such as a book, newspaper or magazine | ||
propaganda | ||
|---|---|---|
ideas or information used to influence opinions | ||
property | ||
|---|---|---|
anything owned by someone such as land, buildings or goods | ||
project | ||
|---|---|---|
a planned effort to do something | ||
progress | ||
|---|---|---|
movement forward or toward improvement or a goal | ||
program | ||
|---|---|---|
a plan of action; the different events or parts of a meeting or show | ||
professor | ||
|---|---|---|
a teacher at a college or university | ||
profit | ||
|---|---|---|
money gained from a business activity after paying all costs of that activity | ||
profession | ||
|---|---|---|
a job that requires special training | ||
problem | ||
|---|---|---|
a difficult question or situation with an unknown or unclear answer | ||
process | ||
|---|---|---|
an operation or series of changes leading to a desired result | ||
prize | ||
|---|---|---|
something offered or won in a competition; something of value that one must work hard for to get | ||
prison | ||
|---|---|---|
a place where a person is kept as punishment for a crime | ||
price | ||
|---|---|---|
the amount of money for which anything is bought, sold or offered for sale | ||
pressure | ||
|---|---|---|
the force produced when something is pushed down or against something else | ||
president | ||
|---|---|---|
the chief official of a country that is a republic; the leader of an organization | ||
power | ||
|---|---|---|
the ability to control or direct others; control; strength; ruling force; force or energy used to do work ("Water power turns the wheel.") | ||
position | ||
|---|---|---|
a place; the way of holding the body; the way a thing is set or placed; a job (or level of a job) in an organization | ||
port | ||
|---|---|---|
a city where ships load or unload goods; a place on a coast where ships can be safe from a storm | ||
population | ||
|---|---|---|
all the people in a place, city or country | ||
poor | ||
|---|---|---|
people with little or no money; ad. lacking money or goods; of bad quality | ||
politics | ||
|---|---|---|
the activities of government and of those who are in public office | ||
policy | ||
|---|---|---|
an established set of plans or goals used to develop and make decisions in politics, economics or business | ||
police | ||
|---|---|---|
a government agency responsible for guarding the public, keeping order, and making sure people obey the law; members of that agency | ||
poison | ||
|---|---|---|
a substance that can destroy life or damage health | ||
poem | ||
|---|---|---|
words and their sounds organized in a special way to express emotions | ||
plenty | ||
|---|---|---|
all that is needed; a large enough amount | ||
plastic | ||
|---|---|---|
a material made from chemicals that can be formed and made into things | ||
planet | ||
|---|---|---|
a large object in space that orbits the sun ("Earth is a planet.") | ||
pipe | ||
|---|---|---|
a long, round piece of material used to move liquid or gas | ||
pig | ||
|---|---|---|
a farm animal used for its meat | ||
pilot | ||
|---|---|---|
one who guides or flies an airplane or helicopter | ||
piece | ||
|---|---|---|
a part of something larger | ||
picture | ||
|---|---|---|
something that shows what another thing looks like; an idea or representation of something as seen by the eye; a painting; what is made with a camera | ||
physics | ||
|---|---|---|
the study of motion, matter and energy | ||
person | ||
|---|---|---|
a man, woman or child | ||
period | ||
|---|---|---|
an amount of time within events, restrictions or conditions | ||
percent | ||
|---|---|---|
a part of every hundred ("Ten is ten percent of one hundred.") | ||
people | ||
|---|---|---|
any group of persons; all the persons of a group, race, religion or nation ("the American people") | ||
peace | ||
|---|---|---|
the condition of freedom from war, fighting or noise; rest; quiet | ||
patient | ||
|---|---|---|
a person being treated by a doctor for a health problem | ||
path | ||
|---|---|---|
a narrow way for walking; a way along which something moves | ||
past | ||
|---|---|---|
the time gone by; the time before; ad. recent; immediately before; former | ||
passport | ||
|---|---|---|
a document permitting a person to travel to another country | ||
passenger | ||
|---|---|---|
a person travelling by airplane, train, boat or car who is not the pilot or driver | ||
party | ||
|---|---|---|
a group of people working together for a political purpose; a group of people or friends gathered together for enjoyment | ||
part | ||
|---|---|---|
something less than the whole; not all of something | ||
parliament | ||
|---|---|---|
a government lawmaking group | ||
parent | ||
|---|---|---|
a father or mother | ||
parade | ||
|---|---|---|
a group of people and vehicles moving together to celebrate a special event or anniversary | ||
parachute | ||
|---|---|---|
a device that permits a person or thing to fall slowly from an airplane or helicopter to the ground | ||
paper | ||
|---|---|---|
a thin, flat material made from plants or cloth often used for writing | ||
pan | ||
|---|---|---|
a metal container used for cooking | ||
pain | ||
|---|---|---|
a hurt or suffering somewhere in the body | ||
opinion | ||
|---|---|---|
a belief based on one's own ideas and thinking | ||
oil | ||
|---|---|---|
a thick liquid that does not mix with water and that burns easily; a black liquid taken from the ground and used as fuel | ||
official | ||
|---|---|---|
a person with power in an organization; a representative of an organization or government; ad. of or about an office; approved by the government or someone in power | ||
officer | ||
|---|---|---|
a person in the military who commands others; any person who is a member of a police force | ||
office | ||
|---|---|---|
a room or building where business or work is done; a public position to which one is elected or appointed | ||
offensive | ||
|---|---|---|
a military campaign of attack; ad. having to do with attacking | ||
ocean | ||
|---|---|---|
the area of salt water that covers almost seventy-five percent of the earth's surface; any of the five main divisions of this water | ||
number | ||
|---|---|---|
a word or sign used to show the order or amount of things | ||
nothing | ||
|---|---|---|
not anything; no thing | ||
north | ||
|---|---|---|
the direction to the left of a person facing the rising sun | ||
normal | ||
|---|---|---|
the usual condition, amount or form; ad. usual; what is expected | ||
noon | ||
|---|---|---|
the middle of the day; twelve o'clock in the daytime | ||
noise | ||
|---|---|---|
sound, especially when loud | ||
night | ||
|---|---|---|
the time between when the sun goes down and when it rises, when there is little or no light | ||
news | ||
|---|---|---|
information about any recent events, especially as reported by the media | ||
navy | ||
|---|---|---|
the part of a country's military force trained to fight at sea | ||
nature | ||
|---|---|---|
all the plants, animals and other things on earth not created by humans; events or processes not caused by humans | ||
native | ||
|---|---|---|
someone who was born in a place, not one who moved there | ||
nation | ||
|---|---|---|
a country, together with its social and political systems | ||
mystery | ||
|---|---|---|
something that is not or cannot be explained or understood; a secret | ||
music | ||
|---|---|---|
the making of sounds by singing or using a musical instrument | ||
movie | ||
|---|---|---|
a motion picture; a film | ||
movement | ||
|---|---|---|
the act of moving or a way of moving; a series of acts or efforts to reach a goal | ||
mountain | ||
|---|---|---|
a part of the earth's surface that rises high above the area around it | ||
motion | ||
|---|---|---|
a movement; a continuing change of position or place | ||
mother | ||
|---|---|---|
the female parent; a woman who has a child or children | ||
morning | ||
|---|---|---|
the early part of the day, from sunrise until noon | ||
moon | ||
|---|---|---|
the bright object often seen in the night sky that orbits the earth about every twenty-nine days | ||
month | ||
|---|---|---|
one of the twelve periods of time into which a year is divided | ||
money | ||
|---|---|---|
pieces of metal or paper used to pay for things | ||
model | ||
|---|---|---|
an example; something, usually small, made to show how something will look or work | ||
mob | ||
|---|---|---|
a large group of wild or angry people | ||
mistake | ||
|---|---|---|
a wrong action or decision; an action done without the knowledge that it was wrong | ||
missile | ||
|---|---|---|
any weapon that can be thrown or fired through the air and explodes when it reaches its target | ||
minute | ||
|---|---|---|
a measure of time; one of the sixty equal parts of an hour; sixty seconds | ||
minority | ||
|---|---|---|
the smaller number; opposite majority | ||
mineral | ||
|---|---|---|
a substance found in nature that is not an animal or a plant, such as coal or salt | ||
minister | ||
|---|---|---|
a member of a cabinet; a high government official ("prime minister,"foreign minister") | ||
mind | ||
|---|---|---|
the thinking, feeling part of a person | ||
milk | ||
|---|---|---|
the white liquid produced by female animals to feed their young | ||
military | ||
|---|---|---|
the armed forces of a nation or group; ad. of or about the armed forces | ||
militant | ||
|---|---|---|
someone active in trying to cause political change, often by the use of force or violence | ||
middle | ||
|---|---|---|
the center; a place or time of equal distance from both sides or ends; ad. in the center | ||
microscope | ||
|---|---|---|
a device used to make very small things look larger so they can be studied | ||
method | ||
|---|---|---|
the way something is done | ||
metal | ||
|---|---|---|
a hard substance such as iron, steel or gold | ||
message | ||
|---|---|---|
written or spoken news or information; a note from one person to another person or group | ||
mercy | ||
|---|---|---|
kindness toward those who should be punished; the power to be kind or to pardon | ||
memory | ||
|---|---|---|
a picture in the mind of past events; the ability to remember; a thing remembered | ||
memorial | ||
|---|---|---|
something done or made to honor the memory of a person or event | ||
member | ||
|---|---|---|
one of a group | ||
medicine | ||
|---|---|---|
a substance or drug used to treat disease or pain; the science or study of treating and curing disease or improving health | ||
media | ||
|---|---|---|
all public information organizations, including newspapers, television and radio | ||
meat | ||
|---|---|---|
the part of a dead animal used for food | ||
meal | ||
|---|---|---|
food eaten to satisfy hunger, such as dinner | ||
mayor | ||
|---|---|---|
the chief official of a city or town government | ||
matter | ||
|---|---|---|
anything that can be seen or felt; what things are made of | ||
mathematics | ||
|---|---|---|
the science dealing with amounts, sizes and shapes, as explained by numbers and signs | ||
material | ||
|---|---|---|
the substance, substances or matter of which something is made or from which something can be made, such as wood, cloth or stone; anything that can be made into something else | ||
mass | ||
|---|---|---|
an amount of matter having no special form and usually of a large size | ||
market | ||
|---|---|---|
a place or area where goods are sold, bought or traded; an economic system in which the prices of things are decided by how many there are and how much money people are willing to pay for them | ||
map | ||
|---|---|---|
a picture of the earth's surface or a part of it | ||
man | ||
|---|---|---|
an adult male human | ||
male | ||
|---|---|---|
a man or boy; the sex that is the father of children; ad. of or about men | ||
majority | ||
|---|---|---|
the greater number; more than half | ||
letters, papers and other things sent through an official system, such as a post office | ||
magazine | ||
|---|---|---|
a publication of news, stories, pictures or other information | ||
machine | ||
|---|---|---|
a device with moving parts used to do work | ||
luck | ||
|---|---|---|
something that happens by chance | ||
loan | ||
|---|---|---|
money borrowed that usually must be returned with interest payments; something borrowed | ||
literature | ||
|---|---|---|
all the poems, stories and writings of a period of time or of a country | ||
liquid | ||
|---|---|---|
a substance that is not a solid or gas, and can move freely, like water | ||
line | ||
|---|---|---|
a long, thin mark on a surface; a number of people or things organized; one after another; the edge of an area protected by military forces | ||
lightning | ||
|---|---|---|
light produced by electricity in the air, usually during a storm | ||
light | ||
|---|---|---|
a form of energy that affects the eyes so that one is able to see; anything that produces light; ad. bright; clear; not heavy | ||
life | ||
|---|---|---|
the time between being born and dying; opposite death; all living things | ||
level | ||
|---|---|---|
the amount or height that something reaches or rises to; the position of something or someone | ||
letter | ||
|---|---|---|
a message written on paper; a communication in writing sent to another person | ||
legislature | ||
|---|---|---|
a government lawmaking group | ||
law | ||
|---|---|---|
all or any rules made by a government | ||
language | ||
|---|---|---|
words and their use; what people speak in a country, nation or group | ||
lake | ||
|---|---|---|
a large area of fresh water surrounded by land | ||
laboratory | ||
|---|---|---|
a room or place where experiments in science are done | ||
labor | ||
|---|---|---|
work; workers as a group | ||
knowledge | ||
|---|---|---|
that which is known; learning or understanding | ||
knife | ||
|---|---|---|
a tool or weapon used to cut | ||
kind | ||
|---|---|---|
sort ("What kind of dog is that?"); ad. gentle; caring; helpful | ||
jury | ||
|---|---|---|
a group of people chosen to decide what is true in a trial | ||
joke | ||
|---|---|---|
something done or said to cause others to laugh | ||
job | ||
|---|---|---|
the work that one does to earn money | ||
jewel | ||
|---|---|---|
a valuable stone, such as a diamond or emerald | ||
jail | ||
|---|---|---|
a prison for those waiting to be tried for a crime or for those serving sentences for crimes that are not serious | ||
island | ||
|---|---|---|
a land area with water all around it | ||
issue | ||
|---|---|---|
an important problem or subject that people are discussing or arguing about | ||
iron | ||
|---|---|---|
a strong, hard metal used to make machines and tools | ||
interest | ||
|---|---|---|
what is important to someone ("He acted to protect his interests." "She had a great interest in painting."); a share in owning a business; money paid for the use of money borrowed | ||
instrument | ||
|---|---|---|
a tool or device designed to do something or to make something | ||
intelligence | ||
|---|---|---|
the ability to think or learn; information gathered by spying | ||
insect | ||
|---|---|---|
a very small creature, usually with many legs and sometimes with wings | ||
information | ||
|---|---|---|
knowledge; facts | ||
inflation | ||
|---|---|---|
a continuing rise in prices while the value of money goes down | ||
industry | ||
|---|---|---|
any business that produces goods or provides services; the work and related activity in factories and offices; all organizations involved in manufacturing | ||
incident | ||
|---|---|---|
an event or something that happens | ||
individual | ||
|---|---|---|
one person | ||
idea | ||
|---|---|---|
a thought or picture in the mind; a belief | ||
ice | ||
|---|---|---|
frozen water | ||
hunger | ||
|---|---|---|
the need for food | ||
husband | ||
|---|---|---|
a man who is married | ||
humor | ||
|---|---|---|
the ability to understand, enjoy or express what makes people laugh | ||
house | ||
|---|---|---|
a building in which people live; a country's parliament or lawmaking group ("House of Representatives") | ||
hour | ||
|---|---|---|
a measure of time; sixty minutes | ||
hotel | ||
|---|---|---|
a building with rooms, and often food, for travellers | ||
hostage | ||
|---|---|---|
a person captured and held as a guarantee that a demand or promise will be honored | ||
hospital | ||
|---|---|---|
a place where sick or injured people are given medical care | ||
horse | ||
|---|---|---|
a large animal often used for racing, riding or farm work | ||
home | ||
|---|---|---|
the building where a person lives, especially with family; the place where one was born or comes from; the area or country where one lives | ||
holiday | ||
|---|---|---|
a day when one does not work; a day on which no work is done to honor or remember a person or event | ||
hole | ||
|---|---|---|
an opening; a torn or broken place in something | ||
history | ||
|---|---|---|
the written record or description of past events; the study of the past | ||
hill | ||
|---|---|---|
a small mountain | ||
hero | ||
|---|---|---|
a person honored for being brave or wise | ||
helicopter | ||
|---|---|---|
a machine without wings that can fly up or down or remain in one place above the ground | ||
health | ||
|---|---|---|
the general condition of the body and mind; the condition of being free from sickness or disease | ||
headquarters | ||
|---|---|---|
the center from which orders are given; the main offices of a business or organization | ||
hat | ||
|---|---|---|
a head cover | ||
half | ||
|---|---|---|
one of two equal parts of something | ||
hair | ||
|---|---|---|
the fine material that grows from the skin, especially from the head | ||
gun | ||
|---|---|---|
a weapon that shoots bullets | ||
guerrilla | ||
|---|---|---|
a person who fights as part of an unofficial army, usually against an official army or police | ||
group | ||
|---|---|---|
a number of people or things together; a gathering of people working for a common purpose | ||
ground | ||
|---|---|---|
land; the earth's surface; soil | ||
grass | ||
|---|---|---|
a plant with long, narrow, green leaves | ||
grandfather | ||
|---|---|---|
the father of a person's father or mother | ||
grandmother | ||
|---|---|---|
the mother of a person's father or mother | ||
grandson | ||
|---|---|---|
the son of a person's daughter or son | ||
granddaughter | ||
|---|---|---|
the daughter of a person's daughter or son | ||
grain | ||
|---|---|---|
the seed of grass plants used for food, such as wheat, rice and corn; those plants that produce the seeds | ||
government | ||
|---|---|---|
a system of governing; the organization of people that rules a country, city or area | ||
goods | ||
|---|---|---|
things owned or made to be sold | ||
gold | ||
|---|---|---|
a highly valued yellow metal | ||
god | ||
|---|---|---|
the spirit that is honored as creator of all things ("They believe in God."); a spirit or being believed in many religions to have special powers | ||
goal | ||
|---|---|---|
that toward which an effort is directed; that which is aimed at; the end of a trip or race | ||
glass | ||
|---|---|---|
a hard, clear material that is easily broken, used most often for windows or for containers to hold liquids | ||
gift | ||
|---|---|---|
something given without cost | ||
girl | ||
|---|---|---|
a young female person | ||
general | ||
|---|---|---|
a high military leader; ad. without details; affecting or including all or almost all | ||
game | ||
|---|---|---|
an activity with rules in which people or teams play or compete, usually sports | ||
gas | ||
|---|---|---|
any substance that is not solid or liquid; any substance that burns to provide heat, light or power | ||
future | ||
|---|---|---|
time after now ("We can talk about it in the future."); ad. in the time to come ("All future meetings will be held in this room.") | ||
fun | ||
|---|---|---|
anything that is pleasing and causes happiness | ||
funeral | ||
|---|---|---|
a ceremony held in connection with the burial or burning of the dead | ||
fuel | ||
|---|---|---|
any substance burned to create heat or power | ||
fruit | ||
|---|---|---|
food from trees and plants | ||
friend | ||
|---|---|---|
a person one likes and trusts | ||
front | ||
|---|---|---|
the forward part; the opposite of back; the beginning; the first part | ||
forest | ||
|---|---|---|
a place of many trees | ||
freedom | ||
|---|---|---|
the condition of being free | ||
foot | ||
|---|---|---|
the bottom part of the leg; the part of the body that touches the ground when a person or animal walks | ||
food | ||
|---|---|---|
that which is taken in by all living things for energy, strength and growth | ||
fog | ||
|---|---|---|
a mass of wet air that is difficult to see through; a cloud close to the ground | ||
fluid | ||
|---|---|---|
any substance that can flow, such as a liquid | ||
flower | ||
|---|---|---|
the colored part of plants that carry seeds | ||
floor | ||
|---|---|---|
the bottom part of a room for walking on ("The book fell to the floor."); the level of a building ("The fire was on the first floor.") | ||
fish | ||
|---|---|---|
a creature that lives and can breathe in water | ||
flag | ||
|---|---|---|
a piece of colored cloth used to represent a nation, government or organization | ||
fireworks | ||
|---|---|---|
rockets producing bright fire in the sky, used in holiday celebrations | ||
fine | ||
|---|---|---|
a payment ordered by a court to punish someone for a crime; ad. very good; very small or thin | ||
field | ||
|---|---|---|
an area of open land, usually used to grow crops or to raise animals | ||
fence | ||
|---|---|---|
something around an area of land to keep animals or people in or out | ||
female | ||
|---|---|---|
a woman or girl; the sex that gives birth; ad. of or about women | ||
father | ||
|---|---|---|
the male parent; a man who has a child or children | ||
fat | ||
|---|---|---|
tissue in the bodies of humans and animals used to store energy and to keep warm; ad. thick; heavy | ||
farm | ||
|---|---|---|
land used to grow crops and animals for food | ||
family | ||
|---|---|---|
the group that includes children and their parents | ||
factory | ||
|---|---|---|
a building or group of buildings where goods are made | ||
fact | ||
|---|---|---|
something known or proved to be true | ||
face | ||
|---|---|---|
the front of the head: eyes, nose, mouth; v. to look toward; to turn toward; to have before you, such as a problem or danger | ||
extremist | ||
|---|---|---|
a person with strong religious or political beliefs who acts in an extreme or violent way | ||
expert | ||
|---|---|---|
a person with special knowledge or training | ||
example | ||
|---|---|---|
a part that shows what the rest of a thing or group is like | ||
exercise | ||
|---|---|---|
an activity or effort for the purpose of improving the body or to stay in good health | ||
evidence | ||
|---|---|---|
material or facts that prove something; a reason for believing | ||
event | ||
|---|---|---|
that which happens, especially something of importance | ||
equipment | ||
|---|---|---|
things, tools or machines needed for a purpose or activity | ||
environment | ||
|---|---|---|
all surrounding things, conditions and influences that affect life; the natural world of land, sea, air, plants and animals | ||
engine | ||
|---|---|---|
a machine that uses energy to cause movement or to do work | ||
engineer | ||
|---|---|---|
a person who designs engines, machines, roads, bridges or railroads | ||
energy | ||
|---|---|---|
power used to do work, usually with machines; the ability and willingness to be active | ||
enemy | ||
|---|---|---|
a person opposing or hating another; a person or people of the other side in a war | ||
emotion | ||
|---|---|---|
a strong feeling such as love, hate, fear or sadness | ||
emergency | ||
|---|---|---|
an unexpected and dangerous situation demanding quick action | ||
embassy | ||
|---|---|---|
the offices of an ambassador and his or her assistants | ||
electricity | ||
|---|---|---|
a form of energy that flows through wires to provide heat and light, and power to machines | ||
effort | ||
|---|---|---|
an attempt; the work necessary to do something | ||
egg | ||
|---|---|---|
the rounded object containing unborn young produced by female birds, fish or reptiles; a single cell in a female person or animal that can develop into a baby | ||
effect | ||
|---|---|---|
the result or change caused by something ("The storm had a serious effect on the economy.") | ||
education | ||
|---|---|---|
the act of teaching | ||
economy | ||
|---|---|---|
the system by which money, industry and trade are organized | ||
edge | ||
|---|---|---|
the line where something ends or begins | ||
ecology | ||
|---|---|---|
the scientific study of the environment and links among living and material things | ||
earthquake | ||
|---|---|---|
a sudden, violent shaking of the earth's surface | ||
east | ||
|---|---|---|
the direction from which the sun rises | ||
earth | ||
|---|---|---|
the planet we all live on; the ground or soil | ||
duty | ||
|---|---|---|
one's job or responsibility; what one must do because it is right and just | ||
dust | ||
|---|---|---|
pieces of matter so small that they can float in the air | ||
drug | ||
|---|---|---|
anything used as a medicine or in making medicine; a chemical substance used to ease pain or to affect the mind | ||
door | ||
|---|---|---|
an opening for entering or leaving a building or room | ||
dollar | ||
|---|---|---|
United States money, one hundred cents | ||
dog | ||
|---|---|---|
a small animal that often lives with humans | ||
document | ||
|---|---|---|
an official piece of paper with facts written on it, used as proof or support of something | ||
doctor | ||
|---|---|---|
a person trained in medicine to treat sick people | ||
distance | ||
|---|---|---|
the amount of space between two places or objects ("The distance from my house to your house is two kilometers.") | ||
dissident | ||
|---|---|---|
a person who strongly disagrees with his or her government | ||
dirt | ||
|---|---|---|
earth or soil | ||
disease | ||
|---|---|---|
a sickness in living things, often caused by viruses, germs or bacteria | ||
direction | ||
|---|---|---|
the way (east, west, north, south); where someone or something came from or went to | ||
diplomat | ||
|---|---|---|
a person who represents his or her government in dealing with another government | ||
diet | ||
|---|---|---|
usual daily food and drink | ||
dinner | ||
|---|---|---|
the main amount of food eaten at a usual time ("The family had its dinner at noon."); a special event that includes food ("The official dinner took place at the White House.") | ||
dictator | ||
|---|---|---|
a ruler with complete power | ||
device | ||
|---|---|---|
a piece of equipment made for a special purpose | ||
detail | ||
|---|---|---|
a small part of something; a small piece of information | ||
desert | ||
|---|---|---|
a dry area of land | ||
depression | ||
|---|---|---|
severe unhappiness; a period of reduced business and economic activity during which many people lose their jobs | ||
democracy | ||
|---|---|---|
the system of government in which citizens vote to choose leaders or to make other important decisions | ||
delegate | ||
|---|---|---|
one sent to act for another; one who represents another | ||
degree | ||
|---|---|---|
a measure of temperature | ||
debt | ||
|---|---|---|
something that is owed; the condition of owing | ||
deficit | ||
|---|---|---|
a shortage that results when spending is greater than earnings, or imports are greater than exports | ||
day | ||
|---|---|---|
twenty-four hours; the hours of sunlight | ||
daughter | ||
|---|---|---|
a person's female child | ||
date | ||
|---|---|---|
an expression of time; a day, month and year | ||
danger | ||
|---|---|---|
a strong chance of suffering injury, damage or loss | ||
customs | ||
|---|---|---|
taxes on imports | ||
dam | ||
|---|---|---|
a wall built across a river to hold back flowing water | ||
custom | ||
|---|---|---|
a long-established belief or activity of a people | ||
current | ||
|---|---|---|
movement of air, water or electricity; ad. belonging to the present time ("She found the report in a current publication.") | ||
curfew | ||
|---|---|---|
an order to people to stay off the streets or to close their businesses | ||
culture | ||
|---|---|---|
all the beliefs, traditions and arts of a group or population | ||
crowd | ||
|---|---|---|
a large number of people gathered in one place | ||
crops | ||
|---|---|---|
plants that are grown and gathered for food, such as grains, fruits and vegetables | ||
criminal | ||
|---|---|---|
a person who is responsible for a crime | ||
crisis | ||
|---|---|---|
an extremely important time when something may become much better or worse; a dangerous situation | ||
crime | ||
|---|---|---|
an act that violates a law | ||
crew | ||
|---|---|---|
a group of people working together | ||
credit | ||
|---|---|---|
an agreement that payments will be made at a later time | ||
cow | ||
|---|---|---|
a farm animal used for its milk | ||
creature | ||
|---|---|---|
any living being; any animal or human | ||
court | ||
|---|---|---|
where trials take place; where judges make decisions about law | ||
country | ||
|---|---|---|
a nation; the territory of a nation; land away from cities | ||
cotton | ||
|---|---|---|
a material made from a plant of the same name | ||
corn | ||
|---|---|---|
a food grain | ||
cost | ||
|---|---|---|
the price or value of something ("The cost of the book is five dollars."); v. to be valued at ("The book costs five dollars.") | ||
convention | ||
|---|---|---|
a large meeting for a special purpose | ||
continent | ||
|---|---|---|
any of the seven great land areas of the world | ||
container | ||
|---|---|---|
a box, bottle or can used to hold something | ||
constitution | ||
|---|---|---|
the written general laws and ideas that form a nation's system of government | ||
conservative | ||
|---|---|---|
one who usually supports tradition and opposes great change | ||
Congress | ||
|---|---|---|
the organization of people elected to make the laws of the United States (the House of Representatives and the Senate); a similar organization in other countries | ||
conference | ||
|---|---|---|
a meeting | ||
conflict | ||
|---|---|---|
a fight; a battle, especially a long one | ||
condition | ||
|---|---|---|
something declared necessary to complete an agreement; a person's health | ||
concern | ||
|---|---|---|
interest, worry ("express concern about"); v. to fear ("to be concerned") | ||
computer | ||
|---|---|---|
an electronic machine for storing and organizing information, and for communicating with others | ||
compromise | ||
|---|---|---|
the settlement of an argument where each side agrees to accept less than first demanded | ||
company | ||
|---|---|---|
a business organized for trade, industrial or other purposes | ||
committee | ||
|---|---|---|
a group of people given special work | ||
community | ||
|---|---|---|
a group of people living together in one place or area | ||
color | ||
|---|---|---|
the different effects of light on the eye, making blue, red, brown, black, yellow and others | ||
college | ||
|---|---|---|
a small university | ||
colony | ||
|---|---|---|
land controlled by another country or government | ||
coffee | ||
|---|---|---|
a drink made from the plant of the same name | ||
coast | ||
|---|---|---|
land on the edge of the ocean | ||
coalition | ||
|---|---|---|
forces, groups or nations joined together | ||
coal | ||
|---|---|---|
a solid black substance used as fuel | ||
cloud | ||
|---|---|---|
a mass of fog high in the sky | ||
clothes | ||
|---|---|---|
what people wear | ||
cloth | ||
|---|---|---|
a material made from plants, chemicals, animal hair and other substances | ||
clock | ||
|---|---|---|
a device that measures and shows time | ||
climate | ||
|---|---|---|
the normal weather conditions of a place | ||
clergy | ||
|---|---|---|
a body of officials within a religious organization | ||
clash | ||
|---|---|---|
a battle; v. to fight or oppose | ||
civil rights | ||
|---|---|---|
the political, economic and social rights given equally to all people of a nation | ||
city | ||
|---|---|---|
any important large town | ||
citizen | ||
|---|---|---|
a person who is a member of a country by birth or by law | ||
circle | ||
|---|---|---|
a closed shape that has all its points equally distant from the center, like an "O" | ||
children | ||
|---|---|---|
more than one child | ||
child | ||
|---|---|---|
a baby; a boy or girl | ||
chief | ||
|---|---|---|
the head or leader of a group; ad. leading; most important | ||
chemistry | ||
|---|---|---|
the scientific study of substances, what they are made of, how they act under different conditions, and how they form other substances | ||
chemicals | ||
|---|---|---|
elements found in nature or made by people; substances used in the science of chemistry | ||
chance | ||
|---|---|---|
a possibility of winning or losing or that something will happen | ||
champion | ||
|---|---|---|
the best; the winner | ||
chairman | ||
|---|---|---|
a person leading a meeting or an organized group | ||
ceremony | ||
|---|---|---|
an act or series of acts done in a special way established by tradition | ||
century | ||
|---|---|---|
one hundred years | ||
center | ||
|---|---|---|
the middle of something; the place in the middle; a place that is the main point of an activity | ||
ceasefire | ||
|---|---|---|
a halt in fighting, usually by agreement | ||
cat | ||
|---|---|---|
a small animal that often lives with humans | ||
case (medical) | ||
|---|---|---|
an incident of disease ("There was only one case of chicken pox at the school.") | ||
case (court) | ||
|---|---|---|
a legal action | ||
car | ||
|---|---|---|
a vehicle with wheels used to carry people; an automobile; a part of a train | ||
capitalism | ||
|---|---|---|
an economic system in which the production of most goods and services is owned and operated for profit by private citizens or companies | ||
capital | ||
|---|---|---|
the official center of a government; the city where a country's government is | ||
candidate | ||
|---|---|---|
a person who seeks or is nominated for an office or an honor | ||
cancer | ||
|---|---|---|
a disease in which dangerous cells grow quickly and destroy parts of the body | ||
campaign | ||
|---|---|---|
a competition by opposing political candidates seeking support from voters; a connected series of military actions during a war | ||
camp | ||
|---|---|---|
a place with temporary housing | ||
camera | ||
|---|---|---|
a device for taking pictures | ||
cabinet | ||
|---|---|---|
a group of ministers that helps lead a government | ||
business | ||
|---|---|---|
one's work; buying and selling to earn money; trade | ||
bus | ||
|---|---|---|
a public vehicle to carry people | ||
bullet | ||
|---|---|---|
a small piece of metal shot from a gun | ||
building | ||
|---|---|---|
anything built for use as a house, factory, office, school, store or place of entertainment | ||
budget | ||
|---|---|---|
a spending plan | ||
brother | ||
|---|---|---|
a male with the same father or mother as another person | ||
bridge | ||
|---|---|---|
a structure built over a waterway, valley or road so people and vehicles can cross from one side to the other | ||
bread | ||
|---|---|---|
a food made from grain | ||
brain | ||
|---|---|---|
the control center of thought, emotions and body activity of all creatures | ||
boy | ||
|---|---|---|
a young male person | ||
box | ||
|---|---|---|
something to put things into; a container, usually made of paper or wood | ||
bottle | ||
|---|---|---|
a container, usually made of glass, to hold liquid | ||
border | ||
|---|---|---|
a dividing line between nations | ||
bone | ||
|---|---|---|
the hard material in the body | ||
book | ||
|---|---|---|
a long written work for reading | ||
bomb | ||
|---|---|---|
a device that explodes with great force; v. to attack or destroy with bombs | ||
body | ||
|---|---|---|
all of a person or animal; the remains of a person or animal | ||
boat | ||
|---|---|---|
something built to travel on water that carries people or goods | ||
blood | ||
|---|---|---|
red fluid in the body | ||
bird | ||
|---|---|---|
a creature that flies | ||
blanket | ||
|---|---|---|
a cloth cover used to keep warm | ||
biology | ||
|---|---|---|
the scientific study of life or living things in all their forms | ||
bill | ||
|---|---|---|
a legislative proposal | ||
bell | ||
|---|---|---|
an instrument that makes a musical sound ("a church bell") | ||
bed | ||
|---|---|---|
a sleeping place | ||
battle | ||
|---|---|---|
a fight between opposing armed forces | ||
base | ||
|---|---|---|
a military center; v. to establish as a fact ("Her research was based on experiments.") | ||
barrier | ||
|---|---|---|
anything that blocks or makes an action difficult | ||
bank | ||
|---|---|---|
an organization that keeps and lends money | ||
ballot | ||
|---|---|---|
a piece of paper used for voting | ||
ball | ||
|---|---|---|
something round | ||
balloon | ||
|---|---|---|
a device of strong, light material that rises when filled with gas lighter than air | ||
back | ||
|---|---|---|
the part behind the front; ad. the other way from forward | ||
baby | ||
|---|---|---|
a newly born creature | ||
award | ||
|---|---|---|
an honor or prize for an act or service | ||
average | ||
|---|---|---|
something (a number) representing the middle; ad. common; normal | ||
autumn | ||
|---|---|---|
the time of the year between summer and winter | ||
automobile | ||
|---|---|---|
a vehicle with wheels used to carry people; a car | ||
attack | ||
|---|---|---|
a violent attempt to damage, injure or kill; v. to start a fight | ||
atmosphere | ||
|---|---|---|
the gases surrounding any star or planet | ||
asylum | ||
|---|---|---|
political protection given by a government to a person from another country | ||
astronaut | ||
|---|---|---|
a person who travels in space | ||
astronomy | ||
|---|---|---|
the scientific study of stars and the universe | ||
ash | ||
|---|---|---|
the part left after something burns | ||
artillery | ||
|---|---|---|
big guns | ||
art | ||
|---|---|---|
expressions or creations by humans, such as paintings, music, writing or statues | ||
army | ||
|---|---|---|
military ground forces | ||
arms | ||
|---|---|---|
military equipment; weapons | ||
area | ||
|---|---|---|
any place or part of it | ||
archeology | ||
|---|---|---|
the scientific study of past human life and activities | ||
answer | ||
|---|---|---|
a statement produced by a question; v. to make a statement after being asked a question | ||
anniversary | ||
|---|---|---|
a yearly celebration or observance of an event that happened in the past | ||
animal | ||
|---|---|---|
a living creature that moves, such as a dog or cat | ||
anger | ||
|---|---|---|
a strong emotion against someone or something | ||
ancestor | ||
|---|---|---|
a family member from the past | ||
anarchy | ||
|---|---|---|
a lack of order; lawlessness | ||
amount | ||
|---|---|---|
the number, size or weight of anything | ||
ammunition | ||
|---|---|---|
the bullets or shells fired from guns | ||
ambassador | ||
|---|---|---|
a nation's highest diplomatic representative (to another government) | ||
ally | ||
|---|---|---|
a nation or person joined with another for a special purpose | ||
alcohol | ||
|---|---|---|
a strong, colorless liquid, usually made from grain, used as a drug or in industrial products | ||
album | ||
|---|---|---|
a collection of recorded music | ||
airplane | ||
|---|---|---|
a vehicle with wings that flies | ||
airport | ||
|---|---|---|
a place where airplanes take off and land | ||
air force | ||
|---|---|---|
a military organization using airplanes | ||
air | ||
|---|---|---|
the mixture of gases around the earth, mostly nitrogen and oxygen, that we breathe | ||
agriculture | ||
|---|---|---|
farming | ||
aggression | ||
|---|---|---|
an attack against a person or country; the violation of a country's borders | ||
agency | ||
|---|---|---|
an organization that is part of a larger group ("an agency of the United Nations") | ||
adult | ||
|---|---|---|
a grown person | ||
age | ||
|---|---|---|
how old a person or thing is | ||
administration | ||
|---|---|---|
the executive part of a government, usually headed by a president or prime minister | ||
actor | ||
|---|---|---|
someone acting in a play or show | ||
activist | ||
|---|---|---|
one who seeks change through action | ||
accident | ||
|---|---|---|
something that happens by chance or mistake; an unplanned event | ||
young | ||
|---|---|---|
in the early years of life; not old | ||
yet | ||
|---|---|---|
at some time before now ("Have they arrived yet?"); now; at this time ("I cannot tell you about it yet."); conj. however ("The sun was shining, yet it was cold.") | ||
yellow | ||
|---|---|---|
having the color like that of gold or the sun | ||
yes | ||
|---|---|---|
used to express agreement or to permit | ||
wrong | ||
|---|---|---|
not correct; bad; not legal; opposite right | ||
worse | ||
|---|---|---|
more bad than | ||
wonderful | ||
|---|---|---|
causing wonder; especially good | ||
wise | ||
|---|---|---|
having much knowledge and understanding; able to use knowledge and understanding to make good or correct decisions | ||
willing | ||
|---|---|---|
being ready or having a desire to ("They are willing to talk about the problem.") | ||
wild | ||
|---|---|---|
living and growing in natural conditions and not organized or supervised by humans; angry; uncontrolled | ||
wide | ||
|---|---|---|
having a great distance from one side to the other; not limited | ||
why | ||
|---|---|---|
for what cause or reason ("Why did she do it?"); conj. the reason for which ("I do not know why she did it.") | ||
whole | ||
|---|---|---|
the complete amount; all together; not divided; not cut into pieces | ||
white | ||
|---|---|---|
having the color like that of milk or snow | ||
wet | ||
|---|---|---|
covered with water or other liquid; not dry | ||
when | ||
|---|---|---|
at what time; at any time ("When will she come home?"); conj. during or at the time ("I studied hard when I was in school.") | ||
well | ||
|---|---|---|
in a way that is good or pleasing; in good health; n. a hole in the ground where water, gas or oil can be found | ||
warm | ||
|---|---|---|
almost hot; having or feeling some heat | ||
weak | ||
|---|---|---|
having little power; easily broken, damaged or destroyed; opposite strong | ||
vicious | ||
|---|---|---|
bad; dangerous; showing harm or hate | ||
very | ||
|---|---|---|
extremely ("He was very late.") | ||
usual | ||
|---|---|---|
as is normal or common; as is most often done, seen or heard | ||
up | ||
|---|---|---|
to, in or at a higher position or value | ||
urgent | ||
|---|---|---|
needing an immediate decision or action | ||
true | ||
|---|---|---|
correct; not false | ||
tragic | ||
|---|---|---|
extremely sad; terrible | ||
too | ||
|---|---|---|
also; as well as; more than is necessary | ||
together | ||
|---|---|---|
in one group; at the same time or place; in cooperation | ||
tired | ||
|---|---|---|
having less strength because of work or exercise; needing sleep or rest | ||
third | ||
|---|---|---|
coming after two others | ||
thin | ||
|---|---|---|
having a small distance between two opposite surfaces; not fat; not wide; opposite thick | ||
thick | ||
|---|---|---|
having a large distance between two opposite surfaces ("The wall is two meters thick."); having many parts close together ("The forest is very thick."); almost solid, such as a liquid that does not flow easily; opposite thin | ||
there | ||
|---|---|---|
in that place or position; to or toward that place | ||
then | ||
|---|---|---|
at that time; existing; and so | ||
that | ||
|---|---|---|
showing the person, place or thing being spoken about ("That man is a soldier."); pro. the person, place or thing being spoken about ("The building that I saw was very large.") | ||
terrible | ||
|---|---|---|
very bad; causing terror or fear | ||
tense | ||
|---|---|---|
having fear or concern; dangerous; opposite calm | ||
temporary | ||
|---|---|---|
lasting only a short time | ||
technical | ||
|---|---|---|
involving machines, processes and materials in industry, transportation and communications; of or about a very special kind of subject or thing ("You need technical knowledge to understand how this system works.") | ||
tall | ||
|---|---|---|
higher than others; opposite short | ||
sweet | ||
|---|---|---|
tasting pleasant, like sugar | ||
sure | ||
|---|---|---|
very probable; with good reason to believe; true without question | ||
sudden | ||
|---|---|---|
not expected; without warning; done or carried out quickly or without preparation | ||
stupid | ||
|---|---|---|
not able to learn much; not intelligent | ||
such | ||
|---|---|---|
of this or that kind; of the same kind as; similar to | ||
strange | ||
|---|---|---|
unusual; not normal; not known | ||
strong | ||
|---|---|---|
having much power; not easily broken, damaged or destroyed | ||
straight | ||
|---|---|---|
continuing in one direction without turns | ||
still | ||
|---|---|---|
not moving ("The man was standing still."); until the present or a stated time ("Was he still there?"); even so; although ("The job was difficult, but she still wanted to do it.") | ||
special | ||
|---|---|---|
of a different or unusual kind; not for general use; better or more important than others of the same kind | ||
soon | ||
|---|---|---|
not long after the present time; quickly | ||
some | ||
|---|---|---|
of an amount or number or part not stated; not all | ||
solid | ||
|---|---|---|
having a hard shape with no empty spaces inside; strong; not in the form of a liquid or gas | ||
soft | ||
|---|---|---|
not hard; easily shaped; pleasing to touch; not loud | ||
social | ||
|---|---|---|
of or about people or a group | ||
so | ||
|---|---|---|
in such a way that ("He held the flag so all could see it."); also; too ("She left early, and so did we."); very ("I am so sick."); as a result ("They were sick, so they could not come."); conj. in order that; for the purpose of ("Come early so we can discuss the plans.") | ||
smooth | ||
|---|---|---|
having a level surface; opposite rough | ||
single | ||
|---|---|---|
one only | ||
small | ||
|---|---|---|
little in size or amount; few in number; not important; opposite large | ||
simple | ||
|---|---|---|
easy to understand or do; not difficult or complex | ||
similar | ||
|---|---|---|
like something else but not exactly the same | ||
sick | ||
|---|---|---|
suffering physically or mentally with a disease or other problem; not in good health | ||
short | ||
|---|---|---|
lasting only for a small period of time; not long; opposite tall | ||
severe | ||
|---|---|---|
not gentle; causing much pain, sadness or damage | ||
sharp | ||
|---|---|---|
having a thin edge or small point that can cut or hurt; causing hurt or pain | ||
several | ||
|---|---|---|
three or more, but not many | ||
serious | ||
|---|---|---|
important; needing careful consideration; dangerous | ||
second | ||
|---|---|---|
the one that comes after the first | ||
safe | ||
|---|---|---|
away from harm or danger | ||
same | ||
|---|---|---|
not different; not changed; like another or others | ||
sad | ||
|---|---|---|
not happy | ||
round | ||
|---|---|---|
having the shape of a ball or circle | ||
rough | ||
|---|---|---|
not flat or smooth; having an uneven surface; violent; not made well | ||
rich | ||
|---|---|---|
having much money or goods; having plenty of something | ||
responsible | ||
|---|---|---|
having a duty or job to do ("He is responsible for preparing the report."); being the cause of ("They were responsible for the accident.") | ||
red | ||
|---|---|---|
having the color like that of blood | ||
recent | ||
|---|---|---|
a short time ago | ||
realistic | ||
|---|---|---|
in agreement with the way things are | ||
reasonable | ||
|---|---|---|
ready to listen to reasons or ideas; not extreme; ready or willing to compromise | ||
real | ||
|---|---|---|
true; truly existing; not false | ||
ready | ||
|---|---|---|
prepared; completed; organized; willing | ||
rare | ||
|---|---|---|
not common; not usual; not often | ||
quiet | ||
|---|---|---|
with little or no noise; having little or no movement; calm | ||
quick | ||
|---|---|---|
fast | ||
pure | ||
|---|---|---|
free from anything that is different or that reduces value; clean | ||
public | ||
|---|---|---|
of or about all the people in a community or country; opposite private | ||
probably | ||
|---|---|---|
a good chance of taking place; a little more than possible | ||
private | ||
|---|---|---|
of or about a person or group that is secret; opposite public | ||
pregnant | ||
|---|---|---|
carrying a child within the body before it is born; expecting to give birth to a baby | ||
popular | ||
|---|---|---|
liked by many people; generally approved by the public | ||
possible | ||
|---|---|---|
able to be done; can happen or is expected to happen | ||
physical | ||
|---|---|---|
of the body | ||
permanent | ||
|---|---|---|
never changing; lasting for a very long time or for all time | ||
perfect | ||
|---|---|---|
complete or correct in every way; completely right or good; without mistakes | ||
out | ||
|---|---|---|
away from the inside; opposite of in | ||
our | ||
|---|---|---|
of or belonging to us | ||
other | ||
|---|---|---|
different; of another kind; the remaining one or ones of two or more ("That man is short; the other is tall.") | ||
opposite | ||
|---|---|---|
different as possible; completely different from; exactly the other way ("North is the opposite direction from south.") | ||
only | ||
|---|---|---|
being the single one or ones; no more than ("We have only two dollars.") | ||
once | ||
|---|---|---|
one time only | ||
often | ||
|---|---|---|
many times | ||
old | ||
|---|---|---|
not young or new; having lived or existed for many years | ||
off | ||
|---|---|---|
away; at a distance; condition when something is no longer operating or continuing; not on; not connected | ||
nuclear | ||
|---|---|---|
of or about the energy produced by splitting atoms or bringing them together; of or about weapons that explode by using energy from atoms | ||
now | ||
|---|---|---|
at this time; immediately | ||
nowhere | ||
|---|---|---|
not in, to or at any place | ||
nice | ||
|---|---|---|
pleasing; good; kind | ||
no | ||
|---|---|---|
used to reject or to refuse; not any; not at all | ||
not | ||
|---|---|---|
a word showing that something is denied or untrue ("She is not going.") | ||
next | ||
|---|---|---|
coming immediately after; nearest | ||
new | ||
|---|---|---|
not existing before; not known before; recently made, built, bought or grown; another; different | ||
never | ||
|---|---|---|
at no time; not ever | ||
neutral | ||
|---|---|---|
not supporting one side or the other in a dispute | ||
necessary | ||
|---|---|---|
needed to get a result or effect; required | ||
neither | ||
|---|---|---|
not one or the other of two | ||
near | ||
|---|---|---|
not far; close to | ||
natural | ||
|---|---|---|
of or about nature; normal; common to its kind | ||
narrow | ||
|---|---|---|
limited in size or amount; not wide; having a short distance from one side to the other | ||
most | ||
|---|---|---|
greatest in size or amount | ||
much | ||
|---|---|---|
great in amount | ||
moral | ||
|---|---|---|
concerning what is right or wrong in someone's actions | ||
more | ||
|---|---|---|
greater in size or amount | ||
modern | ||
|---|---|---|
of the present or very recent time; the most improved | ||
moderate | ||
|---|---|---|
not extreme | ||
minor | ||
|---|---|---|
small in size; of little importance | ||
missing | ||
|---|---|---|
lost; not found | ||
mental | ||
|---|---|---|
about or having to do with the mind | ||
many | ||
|---|---|---|
a large number or amount of | ||
major | ||
|---|---|---|
great in size, importance or amount | ||
main | ||
|---|---|---|
the most important or largest | ||
loyal | ||
|---|---|---|
showing strong friendship and support for someone or something | ||
loud | ||
|---|---|---|
having a strong sound; full of sound or noise | ||
low | ||
|---|---|---|
not high or tall; below the normal height; close to the ground | ||
long | ||
|---|---|---|
not short; measuring from beginning to end; measuring much; for much time | ||
lonely | ||
|---|---|---|
feeling alone and wanting friends; visited by few or no people ("a lonely man") | ||
local | ||
|---|---|---|
about or having to do with one place | ||
liberal | ||
|---|---|---|
one who usually supports social progress or change | ||
little | ||
|---|---|---|
not tall or big; a small amount | ||
less | ||
|---|---|---|
smaller in amount; not as much | ||
legal | ||
|---|---|---|
of or in agreement with the law | ||
left | ||
|---|---|---|
on the side that is toward the west when one is facing north; opposite right | ||
late | ||
|---|---|---|
after the correct time; near the end; opposite early | ||
large | ||
|---|---|---|
big; being of more than usual size, amount or number; opposite small | ||
just | ||
|---|---|---|
only ("Help me for just a minute."); very shortly before or after the present ("He just left."); at the same time ("He left just as I came in."); what is right or fair ("The law is just, in my opinion.") | ||
joint | ||
|---|---|---|
shared by two or more | ||
intense | ||
|---|---|---|
very strong; extremely serious | ||
international | ||
|---|---|---|
of or about more than one nation or many nations; of the whole world | ||
intelligent | ||
|---|---|---|
quick to understand or learn | ||
insane | ||
|---|---|---|
mentally sick | ||
instead | ||
|---|---|---|
in the place of; taking the place of | ||
innocent | ||
|---|---|---|
not guilty of a crime; not responsible for a bad action | ||
independent | ||
|---|---|---|
not influenced by or controlled by another or others; free; separate | ||
important | ||
|---|---|---|
having great meaning, value or power | ||
immediate | ||
|---|---|---|
without delay; very near in time or place | ||
how | ||
|---|---|---|
in what way; to what amount | ||
huge | ||
|---|---|---|
very big; of great size | ||
human | ||
|---|---|---|
of or about people | ||
illegal | ||
|---|---|---|
not legal; in violation of a law | ||
hot | ||
|---|---|---|
having or feeling great heat or a high temperature | ||
hostile | ||
|---|---|---|
ready to fight; ready for war | ||
horrible | ||
|---|---|---|
causing great fear; terrible | ||
honest | ||
|---|---|---|
truthful; able to be trusted | ||
holy | ||
|---|---|---|
greatly honored in religion | ||
high | ||
|---|---|---|
tall; far up; far above the ground; important; above others | ||
here | ||
|---|---|---|
in, to or at this place | ||
heavy | ||
|---|---|---|
having much weight; not easy to lift; of great amount or force | ||
hard | ||
|---|---|---|
not easily cut or broken; solid; difficult to do or understand; needing much effort or force | ||
happy | ||
|---|---|---|
pleased; satisfied; feeling good; not sad | ||
guilty | ||
|---|---|---|
having done something wrong or in violation of a law; responsible for a bad action | ||
green | ||
|---|---|---|
having the color like that made by mixing yellow and blue; having the color like that of growing leaves and grass | ||
gray | ||
|---|---|---|
having the color like that made by mixing black and white | ||
great | ||
|---|---|---|
very large or more than usual in size or number; very good; important | ||
gentle | ||
|---|---|---|
soft; kind; not rough or violent | ||
good | ||
|---|---|---|
pleasing; helpful; kind; correct; not bad | ||
fresh | ||
|---|---|---|
newly made or gathered; recent | ||
full | ||
|---|---|---|
containing as much as a person or thing can hold; complete | ||
forward | ||
|---|---|---|
the direction in front of; toward the front | ||
former | ||
|---|---|---|
earlier in time; not now | ||
foreign | ||
|---|---|---|
of, about or from another nation; not from one's own place or country | ||
first | ||
|---|---|---|
coming before all others | ||
flat | ||
|---|---|---|
smooth; having no high places | ||
firm | ||
|---|---|---|
not easily moved or changed ("She is firm in her opinion.") | ||
final | ||
|---|---|---|
at the end; last | ||
financial | ||
|---|---|---|
of or about the system that includes the use of money, credit, investments and banks | ||
few | ||
|---|---|---|
not many; a small number of | ||
fierce | ||
|---|---|---|
extremely strong; violent; angry | ||
fast | ||
|---|---|---|
moving or working at great speed; quick | ||
federal | ||
|---|---|---|
of or having to do with a national or central government | ||
fertile | ||
|---|---|---|
rich in production of plants or animals; producing much | ||
far | ||
|---|---|---|
at, to or from a great distance | ||
famous | ||
|---|---|---|
known very well to many people | ||
false | ||
|---|---|---|
not true; not correct | ||
fair | ||
|---|---|---|
just; honest; what is right | ||
extreme | ||
|---|---|---|
more than the usual or accepted | ||
extra | ||
|---|---|---|
more than normal, expected or necessary | ||
excellent | ||
|---|---|---|
extremely good | ||
exact | ||
|---|---|---|
having no mistakes; correct in every detail | ||
evil | ||
|---|---|---|
not good; extremely bad | ||
ever | ||
|---|---|---|
at any time | ||
every | ||
|---|---|---|
each one; all | ||
even | ||
|---|---|---|
in a way not thought possible ("They survived, even though the building was destroyed.") | ||
ethnic | ||
|---|---|---|
of or concerning people belonging to a large group because of their race, religion, language, tribe or where their ancestors lived | ||
especially | ||
|---|---|---|
more than others ("We liked the food, especially the fish.") | ||
equal | ||
|---|---|---|
the same in amount, size, weight or value; having the same rights | ||
enough | ||
|---|---|---|
as much as necessary; pro. the amount needed | ||
empty | ||
|---|---|---|
having nothing inside; v. to remove everything | ||
easy | ||
|---|---|---|
not difficult; not hard to do | ||
either | ||
|---|---|---|
one of two, but not the other | ||
early | ||
|---|---|---|
at or near the beginning, especially the beginning of the day; opposite late | ||
each | ||
|---|---|---|
every one by itself | ||
dry | ||
|---|---|---|
not wet; without rain | ||
during | ||
|---|---|---|
through the whole time; while (something is happening) | ||
down | ||
|---|---|---|
from higher to lower; in a low place | ||
different | ||
|---|---|---|
not the same | ||
difficult | ||
|---|---|---|
not easy; hard to do, make or carry out | ||
deep | ||
|---|---|---|
going far down; a long way from top to bottom | ||
deaf | ||
|---|---|---|
not able to hear | ||
dead | ||
|---|---|---|
not living | ||
dark | ||
|---|---|---|
having little or no light ("The room was dark.") | ||
cool | ||
|---|---|---|
almost cold | ||
correct | ||
|---|---|---|
true; free from mistakes; v. to change to what is right | ||
complex | ||
|---|---|---|
of or having many parts that are difficult to understand; not simple | ||
complete | ||
|---|---|---|
having all parts; ended or finished | ||
common | ||
|---|---|---|
usual; same for all ("a common purpose") | ||
cold | ||
|---|---|---|
not warm; having or feeling great coolness or a low temperature | ||
clear | ||
|---|---|---|
easy to see or see through; easily understood | ||
civilian | ||
|---|---|---|
not military | ||
careful | ||
|---|---|---|
acting safely; with much thought | ||
brown | ||
|---|---|---|
having the color like that of coffee | ||
busy | ||
|---|---|---|
doing something; very active | ||
calm | ||
|---|---|---|
quiet; peaceful; opposite tense | ||
brief | ||
|---|---|---|
short; not long | ||
bright | ||
|---|---|---|
giving much light; strong and clear in color | ||
brave | ||
|---|---|---|
having no fear | ||
bottom | ||
|---|---|---|
the lowest part of something | ||
blue | ||
|---|---|---|
having the color like that of a clear sky | ||
both | ||
|---|---|---|
not just one of two, but the two together | ||
blind | ||
|---|---|---|
not able to see | ||
big | ||
|---|---|---|
of great size; not small | ||
black | ||
|---|---|---|
dark; having the color like that of the night sky | ||
better | ||
|---|---|---|
more good than | ||
between | ||
|---|---|---|
in the space or time that separates; from one to the other ("talks between two nations") | ||
below | ||
|---|---|---|
lower than | ||
best | ||
|---|---|---|
the most good | ||
behind | ||
|---|---|---|
at the back of; in back of | ||
beauty | ||
|---|---|---|
that which pleases the eye, ear or spirit | ||
awake | ||
|---|---|---|
not sleeping | ||
away | ||
|---|---|---|
not near | ||
bad | ||
|---|---|---|
wrong; acting against the law; not good | ||
any | ||
|---|---|---|
one or more of no special kind | ||
around | ||
|---|---|---|
on every side (of) | ||
another | ||
|---|---|---|
one more; a different one | ||
among | ||
|---|---|---|
in or part of (a group) | ||
ancient | ||
|---|---|---|
very old; long ago | ||
always | ||
|---|---|---|
at all times; every time | ||
already | ||
|---|---|---|
before now; even now | ||
also | ||
|---|---|---|
added to; too | ||
alone | ||
|---|---|---|
separated from others | ||
along | ||
|---|---|---|
near or on ("along the road") | ||
alive | ||
|---|---|---|
having life; not dead | ||
all | ||
|---|---|---|
everything; everyone; the complete amount | ||
almost | ||
|---|---|---|
a little less than completely | ||
ago | ||
|---|---|---|
of time past; before now | ||
after | ||
|---|---|---|
later; behind | ||
again | ||
|---|---|---|
another time; as before | ||
against | ||
|---|---|---|
opposed to; not agreeing with something | ||
afraid | ||
|---|---|---|
feeling fear | ||
above | ||
|---|---|---|
at a higher place | ||
across | ||
|---|---|---|
from side to side; to the other side | ||
about | ||
|---|---|---|
almost ("about half"); of or having a relation to ("We talk about the weather.") | ||
a (an) | ||
|---|---|---|
one; any; each | ||
uterus | ||
|---|---|---|
a part of the female reproductive system where a fetus develops | ||
prostate | ||
|---|---|---|
a part of the male reproductive system | ||
stomach | ||
|---|---|---|
breaks down food for the body to use | ||
lung | ||
|---|---|---|
takes in and expels air from the body | ||
liver | ||
|---|---|---|
makes some proteins and enzymes; removes poisons from the blood | ||
kidney | ||
|---|---|---|
cleans liquid wastes from the body | ||
intestines | ||
|---|---|---|
tubes through which food passes after it is broken down in the stomach; part of the intestines also remove solid wastes from the body | ||
x-rays | ||
|---|---|---|
a kind of radiation that can pass through most solid materials, often used in medicine | ||
heart | ||
|---|---|---|
pumps blood through the body | ||
virus | ||
|---|---|---|
a kind of organism that causes disease | ||
robot | ||
|---|---|---|
a machine that moves and performs tasks | ||
tissue | ||
|---|---|---|
living material; a group of cells that are similar in appearance and do the same thing | ||
proteins | ||
|---|---|---|
substances responsible for the growth of tissue and for fixing damaged tissue | ||
particle | ||
|---|---|---|
a very small piece of matter | ||
organism | ||
|---|---|---|
a living thing, often so small it can be seen only through a microscope | ||
nutrient | ||
|---|---|---|
a food or substance that makes plants, humans or animals grow | ||
organ | ||
|---|---|---|
a part of the body that has a special purpose, such as the heart or brain | ||
nucleic acid | ||
|---|---|---|
a molecule that holds the genetic information necessary for life; there are two kinds of nucleic acid: DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid) | ||
nucleus | ||
|---|---|---|
the center part of an atom or cell | ||
molecule | ||
|---|---|---|
the smallest amount of a chemical substance that can exist | ||
nerve | ||
|---|---|---|
a thin piece of tissue that sends information through the body to and from the brain | ||
magnet | ||
|---|---|---|
a piece of iron or other material that has a pulling force; this pulling force is called magnetism | ||
gravity | ||
|---|---|---|
the force that pulls things toward the center of the earth | ||
image | ||
|---|---|---|
a reproduction of the appearance of a person or thing | ||
laser | ||
|---|---|---|
an instrument that makes a thin, powerful light | ||
genetic engineering | ||
|---|---|---|
the science of changing the genes of a living organism | ||
genes | ||
|---|---|---|
parts of cells that control the growth and development of living things; genes from the mother and father are passed to the child; genes contain nucleic acid | ||
fusion | ||
|---|---|---|
a joining together; in atomic fusion, atomic particles are joined together to produce nuclear energy | ||
fetus | ||
|---|---|---|
unborn young | ||
fission | ||
|---|---|---|
a splitting; in atomic fission, the nucleus of an atom is split to produce nuclear energy | ||
enzyme | ||
|---|---|---|
a special kind of protein; it produces changes in other substances without being changed itself | ||
element | ||
|---|---|---|
one of more than 100 substances known to science that cannot be separated into other substances | ||
dense | ||
|---|---|---|
close together; thick | ||
electron | ||
|---|---|---|
a small part of an atom that has an electrical force | ||
compound | ||
|---|---|---|
a substance containing two or more elements | ||
chromosome | ||
|---|---|---|
a line of genes; most human cells contain 46 chromosomes | ||
cell | ||
|---|---|---|
a small mass of living material that is part of all plants and animals | ||
bacteria | ||
|---|---|---|
living things that are one cell and can be seen only through a microscope; some cause disease | ||
atom | ||
|---|---|---|
a very small part of all things; the smallest part of an element that can join with parts of other elements | ||
take steps | ||
|---|---|---|
to start to do something ("The government will take steps to halt inflation.") | ||
carry out | ||
|---|---|---|
to do; to put into effect ("Please carry out the plan.") | ||
pass a bill | ||
|---|---|---|
approve ("Congress is expected to pass a bill to cut taxes.") | ||
un | ||
|---|---|---|
not (unusual, unhappy) | ||
re | ||
|---|---|---|
to do again (reorganize, reunite) | ||
dis | ||
|---|---|---|
not (dishonest, disobey) | ||
pro | ||
|---|---|---|
for, supporting (pro-labor, pro-government) | ||
where | ||
|---|---|---|
ad., conj. at, to or in what place ("Where is his house?" "The house where he lives is in the old part of the city.") | ||
until | ||
|---|---|---|
up to a time; before | ||
unless | ||
|---|---|---|
except if it happens; on condition that ("I will not go, unless the rain stops.") | ||
if | ||
|---|---|---|
on condition; provided that ("I will go if you go.") | ||
or | ||
|---|---|---|
giving another of two choices; giving the last of several choices | ||
over | ||
|---|---|---|
above; covering; across, in or on every part of ("all over the world") | ||
than | ||
|---|---|---|
connecting word used to link things that may be similar, but are not equal ("My sister is taller than I am.") | ||
however | ||
|---|---|---|
yet; but | ||
but | ||
|---|---|---|
however; other than; yet | ||
by | ||
|---|---|---|
near; at; next to ("by the road"); from ("a play by William Shakespeare"); not later than ("by midnight") | ||
as | ||
|---|---|---|
equally ("as fast as"); when; while | ||
and | ||
|---|---|---|
also; in addition to; with | ||
without | ||
|---|---|---|
with no; not having or using; free from; not doing | ||
although | ||
|---|---|---|
even if it is true that | ||
with | ||
|---|---|---|
along or by the side of; together; using ("He fixed it with a tool."); having ("the house with the red door") | ||
under | ||
|---|---|---|
below; below the surface of; less than; as called for by a law, agreement or system ("The river flows under the bridge." "Such action is not permitted under the law.") | ||
toward | ||
|---|---|---|
in the direction of; leading to | ||
to | ||
|---|---|---|
showing the direction of an action; showing the person or place toward which an action is directed; showing a goal or purpose | ||
through | ||
|---|---|---|
in at one end and out at the other; from front to back; from top to bottom; with the help of; by | ||
since | ||
|---|---|---|
from a time in the past until now ("I have known her since we went to school together.") | ||
on | ||
|---|---|---|
above and held up by; touching the upper surface of ("The book is on the table."); supported by ("He is on his feet."); about ("The report on the meeting is ready."); at the time of ("He left on Wednesday.") | ||
of | ||
|---|---|---|
made from; belonging to; about; connected to; included among | ||
in | ||
|---|---|---|
inside; held by; contained by; surrounded by; during | ||
from | ||
|---|---|---|
having a person, place or thing as a beginning or cause ("It is a message from the president."); at a place distant, not near ("The school is five kilometers from my home."); because of ("He is suffering from cancer.") | ||
except | ||
|---|---|---|
but for | ||
for | ||
|---|---|---|
because of ("He is famous for his work."); in exchange ("Give me one dollar for the book."); through space or time ("They travelled for one hour."); representative of ("I speak for all people."); to be employed by ("She works for a computer company.") | ||
before | ||
|---|---|---|
earlier | ||
because | ||
|---|---|---|
for the reason that ("He left because he was sick.") | ||
at | ||
|---|---|---|
in or near ("at the edge"); where ("look at"); when ("at noon") | ||
who | ||
|---|---|---|
what or which person or persons that ("Who wants to go?"); the person or persons ("They are the ones who want to go.") | ||
you | ||
|---|---|---|
the person or persons being spoken to | ||
which | ||
|---|---|---|
used to ask about what one or what ones of a group of things or people ("Which program do you like best?" "Which students will take the test?") | ||
what | ||
|---|---|---|
used to ask about something or to ask for information about something ("What is this?"); ad. which or which kind ("He wants to know what you would like to drink.") | ||
we | ||
|---|---|---|
two or more people, including the speaker or writer ("He and I will go together, and we will return together.") | ||
us | ||
|---|---|---|
the form of the word "we" used after a preposition ("He said he would write to us.") or used as an object of a verb ("They saw us yesterday.") | ||
this | ||
|---|---|---|
of or about the person, place or thing nearby that has been spoken about already | ||
they | ||
|---|---|---|
those ones being spoken about | ||
these | ||
|---|---|---|
of or about the people, places or things nearby that have been spoken about already | ||
them | ||
|---|---|---|
other people being spoken about | ||
the | ||
|---|---|---|
used in front of a name word to show that it is a person or thing that is known about or is being spoken about | ||
she | ||
|---|---|---|
the girl or woman who is being spoken about | ||
I | ||
|---|---|---|
the person speaking | ||
it | ||
|---|---|---|
a thing, place, event or idea that is being spoken about ("The sky is blue, but it also has a few white clouds.") | ||
he | ||
|---|---|---|
the boy or man who is being spoken about | ||
land | ||
|---|---|---|
to come to the earth from the air ("Airplanes land at airports."); n. the part of the earth not covered by water; the ground | ||
last | ||
|---|---|---|
to continue ("The talks will last three days."); ad. after all others; the only one remaining ("She is the last person in line.") | ||
laugh | ||
|---|---|---|
to make sounds to express pleasure or happy feelings | ||
launch | ||
|---|---|---|
to put into operation; to begin; to send into the air or space | ||
lead | ||
|---|---|---|
to show the way; to command; to control; to go first | ||
leak | ||
|---|---|---|
to come out of or to escape through a small opening or hole (usually a gas or liquid) | ||
learn | ||
|---|---|---|
to get knowledge about; to come to know a fact or facts | ||
leave | ||
|---|---|---|
to go away from; to let something stay where it is | ||
lend | ||
|---|---|---|
to permit someone to use a thing temporarily; to make a loan of money | ||
let | ||
|---|---|---|
to permit to do or to be; to make possible | ||
lie | ||
|---|---|---|
to have one's body on the ground or other surface; to say something that one knows is not true | ||
lift | ||
|---|---|---|
to take or bring up to a higher place or level | ||
like | ||
|---|---|---|
to be pleased with; to have good feelings for someone or something; ad. in the same way as; similar to | ||
limit | ||
|---|---|---|
to restrict to a number or amount; n. the greatest amount or number permitted | ||
link | ||
|---|---|---|
to connect; to unite one thing or event with another; n. a relation between two or more things, situations or events | ||
list | ||
|---|---|---|
to put in writing a number of names of people or things; n. a written series of names or things | ||
listen | ||
|---|---|---|
to try to hear | ||
live | ||
|---|---|---|
to have life; to exist; ad. having life; alive | ||
load | ||
|---|---|---|
to put objects on or into a vehicle or container; n. that which is carried | ||
look | ||
|---|---|---|
to turn the eyes toward so as to see; to search or hunt for; to seem to be | ||
lose | ||
|---|---|---|
to have no longer; to not find; to fail to keep; to be defeated | ||
love | ||
|---|---|---|
to like very much; to feel a strong, kind emotion (sometimes involving sex); n. a strong, kind emotion for someone or something; opposite hate | ||
make | ||
|---|---|---|
to produce; to create; to build; to do something or to carry out an action; to cause to be or to become | ||
manufacture | ||
|---|---|---|
to make goods in large amounts | ||
march | ||
|---|---|---|
to walk in a group like soldiers; to walk together in a large group to protest about something | ||
mark | ||
|---|---|---|
to make a sign or cut on something | ||
marry | ||
|---|---|---|
to join a man and woman together as husband and wife; to become husband and wife (usually in a religious or civil ceremony) | ||
mate | ||
|---|---|---|
to bring together a male and a female to create another creature | ||
may | ||
|---|---|---|
a word used with an action word to mean permit or possible ("May I go?" "They may leave tomorrow.") | ||
mean | ||
|---|---|---|
to want to; to give the idea of; to have the idea of | ||
measure | ||
|---|---|---|
to learn the amount, size or distance of something; n. an action taken; a legislative proposal | ||
meet | ||
|---|---|---|
to come together with someone or something at the same time and place | ||
melt | ||
|---|---|---|
to make a solid into a liquid by heating it | ||
mine | ||
|---|---|---|
to dig useful or valuable substances out of the earth; n. a place in the earth where such substances are found; a bomb placed under the ground or under water so it cannot be seen | ||
miss | ||
|---|---|---|
to fail to hit, see, reach or meet | ||
mix | ||
|---|---|---|
to put different things together to make one thing | ||
mourn | ||
|---|---|---|
to express or feel sadness | ||
move | ||
|---|---|---|
to change position; to put or keep in motion; to go | ||
murder | ||
|---|---|---|
to kill another person illegally; n. the crime of killing another person | ||
must | ||
|---|---|---|
a word used with an action word to mean necessary ("You must go to school.") | ||
name | ||
|---|---|---|
to appoint; to nominate; to give a name to; n. a word by which a person, animal or thing is known or called | ||
need | ||
|---|---|---|
to require; to want; to be necessary to have or to do | ||
negotiate | ||
|---|---|---|
to talk about a problem or situation to find a common solution | ||
nominate | ||
|---|---|---|
to name someone as a candidate for an election; to propose a person for an office or position | ||
note | ||
|---|---|---|
to talk about something already known; n. a word or words written to help a person remember; a short letter | ||
obey | ||
|---|---|---|
to act as one is ordered to act | ||
object | ||
|---|---|---|
to show that one does not like or approve; to protest; n. something not alive that can be seen or touched | ||
observe | ||
|---|---|---|
to watch; to look at carefully; to celebrate or honor something ("They will observe the anniversary of the day she was born.") | ||
occupy | ||
|---|---|---|
to take and hold or to control by force | ||
offer | ||
|---|---|---|
to present or propose; n. the act of presenting or proposing; that which is presented or proposed | ||
open | ||
|---|---|---|
to start ("They opened talks."); ad. not closed; not secret | ||
operate | ||
|---|---|---|
to do work or a job; to cut into the body for medical reasons | ||
oppose | ||
|---|---|---|
to be against; to fight against | ||
oppress | ||
|---|---|---|
to make others suffer; to control by the use of unjust and cruel force or power | ||
orbit | ||
|---|---|---|
to travel in space around a planet or other object; n. the path or way an object travels in space around another object or planet | ||
order | ||
|---|---|---|
to give a command; to tell someone what to do; n. a command; the correct or normal way things are organized; a peaceful situation in which people obey laws | ||
organize | ||
|---|---|---|
to put in order; to put together into a system | ||
oust | ||
|---|---|---|
to force to leave; to remove by force | ||
overthrow | ||
|---|---|---|
to remove from power; to defeat or end by force | ||
owe | ||
|---|---|---|
to pay or have to repay (usually money) in return for something received | ||
own | ||
|---|---|---|
to have or possess for oneself | ||
paint | ||
|---|---|---|
to cover with a liquid color; to make a picture with liquid colors; n. a colored liquid used to cover or protect a surface | ||
pardon | ||
|---|---|---|
to forgive for a crime and release from punishment | ||
pass | ||
|---|---|---|
to go by or move around something; to move along; to cause or permit to go | ||
pay | ||
|---|---|---|
to give money for work done or for something bought | ||
perform | ||
|---|---|---|
to speak, dance or sing in front of others | ||
permit | ||
|---|---|---|
to let; to make possible | ||
place | ||
|---|---|---|
to put something somewhere; n. an area or a part of an area; space where a person or thing is; any room, building, town or country | ||
plan | ||
|---|---|---|
to organize or develop an idea or method of acting or doing something ">("They plan to have a party."); n. an organized or developed idea or method ("The plan will not work.") | ||
plant | ||
|---|---|---|
to put into the ground to grow; n. a living growth from the ground which gets its food from air, water and earth | ||
play | ||
|---|---|---|
to have fun; to not work; to take part in a sport; to make music on an instrument; n. a story acted in a theater | ||
please | ||
|---|---|---|
to make one happy; to give enjoyment | ||
plot | ||
|---|---|---|
to make secret plans; n. a secret plan to do something wrong or illegal | ||
point | ||
|---|---|---|
to aim one's finger toward; to aim; n. the sharp end of something | ||
pollute | ||
|---|---|---|
to release dangerous or unpleasant substances into the air, soil or water | ||
possess | ||
|---|---|---|
to have; to own; to control or be controlled by | ||
postpone | ||
|---|---|---|
to delay action until a later time | ||
pour | ||
|---|---|---|
to flow; to cause to flow | ||
praise | ||
|---|---|---|
to say good things about; to approve | ||
pray | ||
|---|---|---|
to make a request to a god or spirit; to praise a god or spirit | ||
present | ||
|---|---|---|
to offer for consideration ("We will present our idea to the committee."); n. a gift ("I gave them a present for their anniversary."); now ("The present time is a good time."); ad. to be at a place ("I was present at school yesterday.") | ||
press | ||
|---|---|---|
to urge strongly; n. newspapers, magazines and other publications | ||
prevent | ||
|---|---|---|
to keep or stop from going or happening | ||
produce | ||
|---|---|---|
to make; to create; to cause something to be; to manufacture | ||
propose | ||
|---|---|---|
to present or offer for consideration | ||
protect | ||
|---|---|---|
to guard; to defend; to prevent from being harmed or damaged | ||
protest | ||
|---|---|---|
to speak against; to object | ||
prove | ||
|---|---|---|
to show to be true | ||
provide | ||
|---|---|---|
to give something needed or wanted | ||
publish | ||
|---|---|---|
to make public something that is written; to include something in a book, newspaper or magazine | ||
pull | ||
|---|---|---|
to use force to move something toward the person or thing using the force; opposite push | ||
pump | ||
|---|---|---|
to force a gas or liquid up, into or through | ||
punish | ||
|---|---|---|
to cause pain, suffering or loss for doing something bad or illegal | ||
purchase | ||
|---|---|---|
to buy with money or with something of equal value; n. that which is bought | ||
push | ||
|---|---|---|
to use force to move something away from the person or thing using the force; opposite pull | ||
put | ||
|---|---|---|
to place; to set in position | ||
question | ||
|---|---|---|
to ask; to express wonder or disbelief; n. a sentence or word used in asking for information; a problem; an issue to be discussed | ||
race | ||
|---|---|---|
to run; to take part in a competition to decide who or what can move fastest; to take part in a campaign for political office; n. one of the major groups that humans can be divided into because of a common physical similarity, such as skin color | ||
raid | ||
|---|---|---|
to make a sudden attack; n. a sudden attack carried out as an act of war, or for the purpose of seizing or stealing something | ||
raise | ||
|---|---|---|
to lift up; to move to a higher position; to cause to grow; to increase | ||
reach | ||
|---|---|---|
to put a hand toward; to arrive at; to come to | ||
react | ||
|---|---|---|
to act as a result of or in answer to | ||
read | ||
|---|---|---|
to look at and understand the meaning of written words or numbers | ||
rebel | ||
|---|---|---|
to act against a government or power, often with force; to refuse to obey; n. one who opposes or fights against the government of his or her country | ||
receive | ||
|---|---|---|
to get or accept something given, offered or sent | ||
recognize | ||
|---|---|---|
to know or remember something or someone that was known, known about or seen before; to accept another nation as independent and establish diplomatic ties with its government | ||
record | ||
|---|---|---|
to write something in order to have it for future use; to put sound or pictures in a form that can be kept and heard or seen again; n. a writing that shows proof or facts about something | ||
recover | ||
|---|---|---|
to get again something that was lost, stolen or taken away ("The police recovered the stolen money."); to return to normal health or normal conditions She is expected to recover from the operation.") | ||
reduce | ||
|---|---|---|
to make less or smaller in number, size or amount; to cut | ||
reform | ||
|---|---|---|
to make better by changing; to improve; n. a change to a better condition | ||
refuse | ||
|---|---|---|
to reject; to not accept, give or do something | ||
reject | ||
|---|---|---|
to refuse to accept, use or believe | ||
release | ||
|---|---|---|
to free; to permit to go; to permit to be known or made public | ||
remain | ||
|---|---|---|
to stay in a place after others leave; to stay the same | ||
remember | ||
|---|---|---|
to think about the past; opposite forget | ||
remove | ||
|---|---|---|
to take away or take off; to put an end to; to take out of a position or office | ||
repeat | ||
|---|---|---|
to say or do again | ||
report | ||
|---|---|---|
to tell about; to give the results of a study or investigation; n. the story about an event; the results of a study or investigation; a statement in which the facts may not be confirmed | ||
represent | ||
|---|---|---|
to act in the place of someone else; to substitute for; to serve as an example | ||
repress | ||
|---|---|---|
to control or to restrict freedoms by force | ||
request | ||
|---|---|---|
to ask for; n. the act of asking for | ||
require | ||
|---|---|---|
to need or demand as necessary | ||
rescue | ||
|---|---|---|
to free from danger or evil | ||
resign | ||
|---|---|---|
to leave a position, job or office | ||
resist | ||
|---|---|---|
to oppose; to fight to prevent | ||
rest | ||
|---|---|---|
to sit, lie down or sleep to regain strength; n. that which remains; the others | ||
restrain | ||
|---|---|---|
to keep controlled; to limit action by a person or group | ||
restrict | ||
|---|---|---|
to limit; to prevent from increasing or becoming larger | ||
result | ||
|---|---|---|
to happen from a cause; n. that which follows or is produced by a cause; effect | ||
retire | ||
|---|---|---|
to leave a job or position because one is old or in poor health | ||
return | ||
|---|---|---|
to go or come back; to bring, give, take or send back | ||
revolt | ||
|---|---|---|
to protest violently; to fight for a change, especially of government | ||
ride | ||
|---|---|---|
to sit on or in and be carried along; to travel by animal, wheeled vehicle, airplane or boat | ||
riot | ||
|---|---|---|
to act with many others in a violent way in a public place; n. a violent action by a large group of people | ||
rise | ||
|---|---|---|
to go up; to go higher; to increase; to go from a position of sitting or lying to a position of standing | ||
rob | ||
|---|---|---|
to take money or property secretly or by force; to steal | ||
roll | ||
|---|---|---|
to turn over and over; to move like a ball | ||
rub | ||
|---|---|---|
to move something over the surface of another thing | ||
ruin | ||
|---|---|---|
to damage severely; to destroy | ||
rule | ||
|---|---|---|
to govern or control; to decide; n. a statement or an order that says how something must be done | ||
run | ||
|---|---|---|
to move quickly by steps faster than those used for walking | ||
sabotage | ||
|---|---|---|
to damage or destroy as an act against an organization or nation ("The rebels sabotaged the railroad.") | ||
sacrifice | ||
|---|---|---|
to do without something or to suffer a loss for a belief, idea, goal or another person | ||
sail | ||
|---|---|---|
to travel by boat or ship | ||
satisfy | ||
|---|---|---|
to give or provide what is desired, needed or demanded | ||
save | ||
|---|---|---|
to make safe; to remove from harm; to keep for future use | ||
say | ||
|---|---|---|
to speak; to express in words | ||
search | ||
|---|---|---|
to look for carefully | ||
see | ||
|---|---|---|
to know or sense through the eyes; to understand or know | ||
seek(ing) | ||
|---|---|---|
to search for ("They are seeking a cure for cancer."); to try to get ("She is seeking election to public office."); to plan to do ("Electric power companies are seeking to reduce their use of coal.") | ||
seem | ||
|---|---|---|
to appear to be ("She seems to be in good health.") | ||
seize | ||
|---|---|---|
to take quickly by force; to take control of quickly; to arrest | ||
sell | ||
|---|---|---|
to give something in exchange for money | ||
send | ||
|---|---|---|
to cause to go; to permit to go; to cause to be carried, taken or directed to or away from a place | ||
sense | ||
|---|---|---|
to come to know about by feeling, believing or understanding; n. any of the abilities to see, hear, taste, smell or feel | ||
sentence | ||
|---|---|---|
to declare the punishment for a crime; n. the punishment for a crime | ||
separate | ||
|---|---|---|
to set or keep people, things or ideas away from or independent from others; ad. not together or connected; different | ||
serve | ||
|---|---|---|
to work as an official; to be employed by the government; to assist or help | ||
set | ||
|---|---|---|
to put in place or position; to establish a time, price or limit | ||
settle | ||
|---|---|---|
to end (a dispute); to agree about (a problem); to make a home in a new place | ||
shake | ||
|---|---|---|
to move or cause to move in short, quick movements | ||
shape | ||
|---|---|---|
to give form to; n. the form of something, especially how it looks | ||
share | ||
|---|---|---|
to give part of something to another or others; n. a part belonging to, given to or owned by a single person or a group; any one of the equal parts of ownership of a business or company | ||
shell | ||
|---|---|---|
to fire artillery; n. a metal container that is fired from a large gun and explodes when it reaches its target; a hard outside cover | ||
shelter | ||
|---|---|---|
to protect or give protection to; n. something that gives protection; a place of safety | ||
shine | ||
|---|---|---|
to aim a light; to give bright light; to be bright; to clean to make bright | ||
ship | ||
|---|---|---|
to transport; n. a large boat | ||
shock | ||
|---|---|---|
to cause to feel sudden surprise or fear; n. something that greatly affects the mind or emotions; a powerful shake, as from an earthquake | ||
shoot | ||
|---|---|---|
to cause a gun or other weapon to send out an object designed to kill; to use a gun | ||
should | ||
|---|---|---|
used with another verb (action word) to show responsibility ("We should study."), probability ("The talks should begin soon."), or that something is believed to be a good idea ("Criminals should be punished.") | ||
shout | ||
|---|---|---|
to speak very loudly | ||
show | ||
|---|---|---|
to make something be seen; to make known; n. a play or story presented in a theater, or broadcast on radio or television, for enjoyment or education; something organized to be seen by the public | ||
shrink | ||
|---|---|---|
to make or become less in size, weight or value | ||
sign | ||
|---|---|---|
to write one's name; n. a mark or shape used to mean something; evidence that something exists or will happen; a flat piece of material with writing that gives information | ||
signal | ||
|---|---|---|
to send a message by signs; n. an action or movement that sends a message | ||
silence | ||
|---|---|---|
to make quiet; to stop from speaking or making noise; n. a lack of noise or sound | ||
sing | ||
|---|---|---|
to make music sounds with the voice | ||
sink | ||
|---|---|---|
to go down into water or other liquid | ||
sit | ||
|---|---|---|
to rest on the lower part of the body without the support of the legs; to become seated | ||
sleep | ||
|---|---|---|
to rest the body and mind with the eyes closed | ||
slide | ||
|---|---|---|
to move smoothly over a surface | ||
slow | ||
|---|---|---|
to reduce the speed of; ad. not fast in moving, talking or other activities | ||
smash | ||
|---|---|---|
to break or be broken into small pieces by force; to hit or move with >force | ||
smell | ||
|---|---|---|
to sense through the nose; n. something sensed by the nose ("the smell of food cooking") | ||
smoke | ||
|---|---|---|
to use cigarettes or other tobacco products by burning them and breathing in the smoke; n. that which can be seen rising into the air like a cloud from something burning | ||
solve | ||
|---|---|---|
to find an answer; to settle | ||
speak | ||
|---|---|---|
to talk; to say words with the mouth; to express one's thoughts to others and exchange ideas; to give a speech to a group | ||
speed | ||
|---|---|---|
to make something go or move faster; n. the rate at which something moves or travels; the rate at which something happens or is done | ||
spend | ||
|---|---|---|
to give as payment; to use ("He spends much time studying.") | ||
spill | ||
|---|---|---|
to cause or permit liquid to flow out, usually by accident | ||
split | ||
|---|---|---|
to separate into two or more parts; to divide or break into parts | ||
spread | ||
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to become longer or wider; to make or become widely known | ||
spy | ||
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to steal or get information secretly; n. one who watches others secretly; a person employed by a government to get secret information about another country | ||
stab | ||
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to cut or push into or through with a pointed weapon | ||
stand | ||
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to move into or be in a position in which only the feet are on a surface; to be in one position or place | ||
start | ||
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to begin; to make something begin | ||
starve | ||
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to suffer or die from a lack of food | ||
state | ||
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to say; to declare; n. a political part of a nation | ||
stay | ||
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to continue to be where one is; to remain; to not leave; to live for a time ("They stayed in New York for two years.") | ||
steal | ||
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to take without permission or paying | ||
step | ||
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to move by lifting one foot and placing it in a new position; n. the act of stepping; one of a series of actions designed to reach a goal | ||
stick | ||
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to attach something to another thing using a substance that will hold them together; to become fixed in one position so that movement is difficult ("Something is making the door stick."); n. a thin piece of wood | ||
stop | ||
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to prevent any more movement or action; to come or bring to an end | ||
store | ||
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to keep or put away for future use; n. a place where people buy things | ||
stretch | ||
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to extend for a distance; to pull on to make longer or wider | ||
strike | ||
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to hit with force; to stop work as a way to seek better conditions, more pay or to make other demands | ||
struggle | ||
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to try with much effort; to fight with; n. a great effort; a fight | ||
study | ||
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to make an effort to gain knowledge by using the mind; to examine carefully | ||
substitute | ||
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to put or use in place of another; n. a person or thing put or used in place of another | ||
succeed | ||
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to reach a goal or thing desired; to produce a planned result | ||
suffer | ||
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to feel pain in the body or mind; to receive or experience hurt or sadness | ||
suggest | ||
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to offer or propose something to think about or consider | ||
supervise | ||
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to direct and observe the work of others | ||
supply | ||
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to give; to provide; n. the amount of something that can be given or sold to others | ||
support | ||
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to carry the weight of; to hold up or in position; to agree with others and help them reach a goal; to approve | ||
suppose | ||
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to believe, think or imagine ("I suppose you are right."); to expect ("It is supposed to rain tonight.") | ||
suppress | ||
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to put down or to keep down by force; to prevent information from being known publicly | ||
surprise | ||
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to cause a feeling of wonder because something is not expected; n. something not expected; the feeling caused by something not expected | ||
surrender | ||
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to give control of oneself or one's property to another or others; to stop fighting and admit defeat | ||
surround | ||
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to form a circle around; to be in positions all around someone or something | ||
survive | ||
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to remain alive during or after a dangerous situation | ||
suspect | ||
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to imagine or believe that a person is guilty of something bad or illegal; n. a person believed to be guilty | ||
suspend | ||
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to cause to stop for a period of time | ||
swallow | ||
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to take into the stomach through the mouth | ||
swear in | ||
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to put an official into office by having him or her promise to carry out the duties of that office ("The chief justice will swear in the president.") | ||
swim | ||
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to move through water by making motions with the arms and legs | ||
take | ||
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to put a hand or hands around something and hold it, often to move it to another place; to carry something ; to seize; to capture; to begin to be in control ("The president takes office tomorrow.") | ||
talk | ||
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to express thoughts in spoken words; n. a meeting for discussion | ||
taste | ||
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to sense through the mouth ("The fruit tastes sweet.") | ||
teach | ||
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to show how to do something; to provide knowledge; to cause to understand | ||
tear | ||
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to pull apart, often by force | ||
tell | ||
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to give information; to make known by speaking; to order; to command | ||
test | ||
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to attempt to learn or prove what something is like or how it will act by studying or doing ("The scientists will test the new engine soon."); n. an attempt to learn or prove what something is like or how it will act by studying or doing ("The test of the new engine takes place today."); a group of questions or problems used to find out a person's knowledge ("The students did well on the language test.") | ||
thank | ||
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to say that one has a good feeling toward another because that person did something kind ("I want to thank you for helping me.") | ||
think | ||
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to produce thoughts; to form ideas in the mind; to consider; to believe | ||
threaten | ||
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to warn that one will do harm or cause damage | ||
throw | ||
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to cause to go through the air by a movement of the arm | ||
tie | ||
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to join or hold together with some material; n. anything that joins or unites; links or connections ("The two nations have strong trade ties.") | ||
torture | ||
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to cause severe pain; n. the act of causing severe pain in order to harm, to punish or to get information from | ||
touch | ||
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to put the hand or fingers on | ||
trade | ||
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to buy and sell or exchange products or services; n. the activity of buying, selling or exchanging products or services | ||
train | ||
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to teach or learn how to do something; to prepare for an activity; n. an engine and the cars connected to it that move along a railroad | ||
transport | ||
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to move goods or people from one place to another | ||
trap | ||
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to catch or be caught by being tricked; to be unable to move or escape; n. a device used to catch animals | ||
travel | ||
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to go from one place to another, usually for a long distance | ||
treat | ||
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to deal with; to act toward in a special way; to try to cure | ||
trick | ||
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to cheat; to fool a person so as to get something or make him or her do something | ||
trust | ||
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to believe that someone is honest and will not cause harm | ||
try | ||
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to make an effort; to take court action against a person to decide if he or she is guilty or innocent of a crime | ||
turn | ||
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to change direction; to move into a different position; to change color, form or shape | ||
understand | ||
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to know what is meant; to have knowledge of | ||
unite | ||
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to join together | ||
urge | ||
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to advise strongly; to make a great effort to get someone to do something | ||
use | ||
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to employ for a purpose; to put into action | ||
veto | ||
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to reject or refuse to approve | ||
violate | ||
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to fail to obey or honor; to break (an agreement) | ||
visit | ||
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to go to or come to a place for a short time for friendly or business reasons | ||
vote | ||
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to choose a candidate in an election; n. a choice or decision expressed by the voice, by hand or by writing | ||
wait | ||
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to delay acting; to postpone | ||
walk | ||
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to move by putting one foot in front of the other | ||
want | ||
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to desire; to wish for; to need | ||
warn | ||
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to tell of possible danger; to advise or inform about something bad that may happen | ||
wash | ||
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to make clean, usually with water | ||
waste | ||
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to spend or use without need or care; to make bad use of; n. a spending of money, time or effort with no value gained or returned; something thrown away as having no value; the liquid and solid substances that result from body processes and are passed out of the body | ||
watch | ||
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to look at; to observe closely; to look and wait for | ||
wave | ||
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to move or cause to move one way and the other, as a flag in the wind; to signal by moving the hand one way and the other; n. a large mass of water that forms and moves on the surface of a lake or ocean | ||
wear | ||
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to have on the body, as clothes | ||
weigh | ||
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to measure how heavy someone or something is | ||
welcome | ||
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to express happiness or pleasure when someone arrives or something develops | ||
will | ||
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a word used with action words to show future action ("They will hold talks tomorrow.") | ||
win | ||
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to gain a victory; to defeat another or others in a competition, election or battle | ||
wish | ||
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to want; to express a desire for | ||
withdraw | ||
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to take or move out, away or back; to remove | ||
wonder | ||
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to ask oneself; to question ("She wonders if it is true."); n. a feeling of surprise | ||
work | ||
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to use physical or mental effort to make or do something; n. the effort used to make or to do something; that which needs effort; the job one does to earn money | ||
worry | ||
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to be concerned; to continue thinking that something, possibly bad, can happen | ||
wound | ||
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to injure; to hurt; to cause physical damage to a person or animal; n. an injury to the body of a human or animal in which the skin is usually cut or broken | ||
wreck | ||
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to damage greatly; to destroy; n. anything that has been badly damaged or broken | ||
write | ||
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to use an instrument to make words appear on a surface, such as paper | ||