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Defenition: A noun that refers to something long like an essay.
Sentence: I asked isbell a simple question about his son, but he game me a ten minute treatise on base ball |
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Def- The action of admitting someone into a secret.
Sent - the initiation of criminal proceedings. |
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Def - The state or quality of being divine
Sent- Christs divinity is major across the USA. |
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Def - suggest or hint something (most of the time bad) in an indirect way.
Sent - He was insinuating that i had no self control |
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Def - destroy utterly, obliterate
Sent - A simple bomb could annihilate all of them.
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Def - A hereditary name that is passed down from generations in your family.
Sent - She changed his surname once he got married. |
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Def - Strict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
Sent - She was encumbered by her skirt every time she walked. |
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Def - Too small or unimportant to be worth consideration
Sent - The amount was significant meaning that the card was declined. |
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Def - To a profound extent; extremely
Sent - to profoundly disturbing experience
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Def - a person who is expelled from a country
Sent - immigrants are considered deportees. |
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Def - The act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving about
Sent - Mass emigration from Ireland to the us |
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Def - A written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject
Sent - a comprehensive treatise on electricity and magnetism |
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Def - A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
Sent - Told anecdotes about his job |
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Def - A feeling of pensive sadness , typically with no obvious cause.
Sent - An air of melancholy surrounded him |
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Def - Kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.
Sent - They carried on a surreptitious |
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