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01/07/2015

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Term

Sirocco

 


Definition

1.) Hot, steady, intense wind.

Everybody in the room was sweating because of the big sirocco.

       Synonyms:    Antonyms:

     Dust Devil     Zephyr

Sandstorm     Gale



Term

Highhanded

(adj.)

highhandedly, highhandedness

 

 


Definition

1.) Overbearing

She was a highhanded sibling.

2.) Based on whim or impulse.

"She made an overbearing desicion."

Synonyms:     Antonyms:

Arbitrary         Well - informed

Overbearing    Light




Term

Recur

(noun,verb,adj.)

recurrence, recurrent

Definition

1.) To happen, to return, or to appear again

"There was a reccuring power-outage.

Term

Larder

(noun)


Definition

1.) A room or cupboard where articles of food are stored.

2.) The provisions of a household.

Synonyms:    Antonyms:


Term
Fervent
Definition

1.) Having/showing great warmth or intensity of spirit or feeling.

2.)Hot; burning


 

Term

Elicit

(verb)


Definition

1.)To bring out or evoke


Term

Aureole

(noun)

Definition

1.) Radience surronding a figure as a representative of sacred personage

2.) Halo

3.)A zone of altered country rock around an igneous 

intrusion.

Term

Steadfast

(adj.)

Definition

1.) Fixed in direction

2.) Firm in faith or purpose as a person

3.) Unwavering in faith, resolution, adherence, etc.



Term

Authorize

(verb)

authorized, authorizing

Definition

1.) To give authority or official power to; empower

2.) To formally sanction

 

Term

Abyss

(noun)

Definition

1.) A  deep fissure in the earth; bottomless gulf; chasm

2.)Anything to deep for measurment

3.) The ocean depths


Term

Profound

 

Definition
1.) Very deep or low
Term
Siphon
Definition

n. a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in 

drawing aliquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing theshorter leg into the container above and the 

longer 

leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer oneby the pressure of the atmosphere

v. to convey, draw, or pass through as if through a siphon

To siphon water; siphon off profits into a secret bank account

 



Term
Torchbearer
Definition

1. A person who carries a torch.

2. A leader in a movement, campaign, etc.

Term
Impassioned
Definition

1. Filled with an intese feeling; filled with passion; passionate; ardent


Term

Forment

check!

Definition
Term
Beeline
Definition

1. A direct route traveled quickly

She made a beeline for the brownies

Term
Pensive
Definition

1. Dreamily or wistfully thoughtfull

2. expressing or revealing thoughtfullness, usually with some sadness

A pensive mood

Term
Exult
Definition

1. To show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; be highly elated or jubliant

2.  To leap especially for joy


Term
Cavil
Definition

1. To raise irritating or annoying objections; to find fault with unessary things

2. To oppose with sham objections

3. -n-  a trivial or annoying question

Term
Uproarious
Definition

1. characterized by or in a state of uproartumultuous.

2. making an uproarconfused and noisy, as an assembly, person, etc.

3. very funny, as a person or situation

4. very loud, as sounds or utterances;very loud, as sounds or 

utterances

5. expressed by or producing uproar

Term
Brood
Definition

1. a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family ofoffspring or young

2. a breed, species, group, or kind

3. -v- to sit upon to hatch, as a bird; incubate.

4.-v- to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder:

5.-adj- kept for breeding


Term
Hinterland
Definition

1.an inland area supplying goods, especially trade goods, to a 

port

2. the remote or less developed parts of a country;back country

3. the land lying behind a coastal region


Term

Prim

 

Definition

1.) -adj- Stiffly formal and respectable; showing or feeling dissaproval for anythig regarded improper

2.) -n- Purse mouth and/or lips into a prim expression

Term

Trample

 

Definition

1.) -v- Tread on or crush

2.) -n- The act or sound of trampling


Term

Sluice

 


Definition

1.) An artificial for conducting water, often fitted with a gate at the upper end for regulating flow

2.) Act of rinsing or showering with water

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