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- Adjudicator
- A person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes
- Adulteration
- The act of adulterating; Making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials
- Affiliated
- To be in close connection
- Aisle
- Passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores
- Alamo
- The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico
- Amenities
- Things that make you comfortable and at ease
- Amidst
- In the middle of
- Amnesty
- A pardon given to a large group of individual
- Anarchic
- Without law or control
- Anchor
- A central cohesive source of support and stability
- Anthropology
- The social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings
- Arm's length
- A distance sufficient to exclude intimacy
- Arrogant
- Having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride
- Awkward
- Causing inconvenience
- Bait
- Something used to lure victims into danger
- Bait and switch
- A deceptive way of selling that involves advertising a product at a very low price in order to attract customers who are then persuaded to switch to a more expensive product
- Ballpark
- Near to the scope or range of something
- Bash
- To hit hard
- Beckons
- Signal with the hands or nod
- Beef up
- strenthen
- Bellybutton
- Scar where the umbilical cord was attached
- Biddy
- Chick
- Bimbo
- A young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men
- Bisque
- A thick cream soup made from shellfish
- Blood-curdling
- Extremely alarming
- Bolster
- Support and strengthen
- Bourse
- An exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers
- Brag
- To exhibit self-importance
- Brat
- A very troublesome child
- Break
- Someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts
- Bump into
- Collide violently with an obstacle
- Canvas
- Heavy closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
- Casket
- Box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
- Chum
- pal/sidekick
- Cited
- To be summoned to appear in court
- Clemency
- A lesser panalty than the court originally segested
- Collateral damage
- inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations
- Conscience
- scruples
- Conscious
- aware
- Convention
- A large formal assembly
- Convention Center
- A convention center, in American English, is an exhibition hall, or conference center, that holds conventions. A large, cavernous public building with enough open space to host public and private business and social events for the surrounding municipal and metropolitan areas.
- Cuisine
- The practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared
- Cynic
- Someone who is critical of the motives of others
- Cynicism
- The feeling that things will turn out badly
- Dandy
- A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- Dazzling
- Amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning;
- Debate
- Debate is defined as the process of arguing about claims in situations where the outcome must be decided by an adjudicator. The focus of this introduction is on those elements of argumentation that are most often used in debate.
- Delinquent
- Past due; not paid at the scheduled time
- Demographer
- A scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics
- Dermatologist
- A doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin
- Dichotomy
- a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
- Diligence
- Conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation
- Dissemination
- The act of dispersing or diffusing something
- Drool
- Saliva spilling from the mouth
- Dwelling
- Housing that someone is living in
- Economy of scale
- The saving in cost of production that is due to mass production
- Ecosystem
- A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
- Embargo
- A government order imposing a trade barrier
- Empathy
- Understanding and entering into another's feelings
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Enthusiam for business (esp new idias)
- Ethic
- The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; A system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct
- Eulogy
- Formal expression of praise
- Feeble
- Lacking strength
- Fiasco
- A sudden and violent collapse??
- Fluke
- Foreclosure
- The legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default
- Giddyup
- Instruction to a horse to go faster
- Gonorrhea
- A common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra
- Grassroot
- Of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental politico-economic group; The common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)
- Grotto
- A small cave (usually with attractive features)
- Hang-up
- An unforeseen obstacle
- Harbor
- A sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo
- Hefty
- Large in amount or extent or degree
- Hoochie mamma
- Used to describe very large African American women who wear clothes that are far too small for them
- Hookup
- Connect or link
- Impede
- Be a hindrance or obstacle to
- Impunity
- Exemption from punishment or loss
- Incite
- To move to action
- Indian Giver
- One who ask you to return the present he has given you
- Indict
- To be charged with a crime/Accuse formally of a crime
- Indigenous
- Originating where it is found
- Induce
- To influence someone to do sth
- Indulgence
- A disposition to yield to the wishes of someone
- insanity
- psychopathy
- Liaison
- A channel for communication between groups
- Lobster
- Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
- Lucrative
- Producing a good profit
- Maneuver
- Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- Metronome
- Clicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of music
- Midget
- dwarf
- Mohel
- The Mohel is a person of the Jewish faith who is ordained to do circumcision under the guidelines
- Morale
- A state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose; The spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed
- Morals
- Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- Mortgage
- A conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan
- Mull
- Reflect deeply on a subject
- Mum
- Failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to
- Oh, Moses, smell the roses
- For God's sake, get a clue
- Oxymorons
- Conjoining contradictory terms
- Pamper
- Treat with excessive indulgence
- Panoramic
- A view that can be seen from all sides
- Patch
- A piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole
- Persecute
- To cause someone to suffer because of a belief
- Persuade
- Win approval or support for; Cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm
- Philanthropist
- Someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being
- Phobia
- An anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations
- Pillion
- A seat behind the rider of a horse or motorbike etc.
- Pimp
- Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
- Platter
- A large shallow dish used for serving food
- Plucky
- Showing courage
- Pop
- Come Out
- Poultry
- Flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food
- Proctologist
- A doctor specializing in diseases of the rectum and anus
- Protégé
- A person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protégé's career
- Retrench
- Tighten one's belt; use resources carefully; Make a reduction, as in one's workforce
- Rhetoric
- Using language effectively to please or persuade
- Rip off
- Deprive somebody of something by deceit
- Rooster
- adult male chicken
- Sabotage
- To destroy
- Sane
- Mentally healthy; free from mental disorder
- Savor
- Taste appreciatively
- Scant
- Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- Seizure
- A sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease
- Serenity
- The absence of mental stress or anxiety
- Severe
- Intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
- Sigmund Freud
- Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939)
- Snub
- ignore
- Soiree
- A party of people assembled in the evening (usually at a private house)
- Solicit
- To ask for sth of value
- Spacious
- (of buildings and rooms) having ample space; Very large and open
- Springboard
- A beginning from which an enterprise is launched
- Stocky
- Heavy and compact in form or stature
- Stone's throw
- A short distance
- Strive
- Work toward a goal with great effort.
- Stroll
- A leisurely(slowly & in a relaxed way) walk (usually in some public place)
- Subservient
- Compliant and obedient to authority
- Tantamount
- Being essentially equal to something
- Tantrum
- A display of bad temper
- Telemarketer
- Person who use the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales
- Terrace
- Usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
- TGIF
- Toast
- salute
- Tweak
- Adjust finely
- Umpteenth
- Last in an indefinitely numerous series
- Vengeance
- retribution
- Vent
- Give expression or utterance to
- Voucher programs
- allow parents to put tax dollars toward a private education - for example - in the form of a subsidy to the chosen school. The dollar value of a voucher is usually equal to, but may be less than, the state average per pupil expenditure, and may cover the partial or full cost of a private school tuition.
- Whammy
- A serious or devastating setback
- Pedophile
- An adult who is sexually attracted to children
- Drub
- Beat thoroughly in a competition or fight
- Begrudge
- Feel bitter or indignant about
- Tab
- bill in the restaurant
- Culpable
- Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
- Incumbent
- The official who holds an office
- Hispanic
- An American whose first language is Spanish; Related to or derived from the people or culture of Spain
- Peg
- Stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
- Benedict Arnold
- United States general and traitor in the American Revolution; in 1780 his plan to surrender West Point to the British was foiled (1741-1801)
- Till
- Work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
- Harrow
- Draw a harrow over (land)
- Sluggish
- Very Slow
- Hysteria
- State of violent mental agitation
- Inescapable
- Impossible to avoid or evade
- Frenetic
- Excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent emotion
- Pyrrhic
- Of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans)
- Adorn
- Be beautiful to look at
- Ordain
- Order by virtue of superior authority;
- Disguised
- Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading
- Allude
- Make a more or less disguised reference to
- Prominent
- Vanguard
- Any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- Veil
- A garment that covers the head and face;
- Paramount
- Having superior power and influence
- Unbecoming
- Considered inappropriate for or unattractive on a particular person
- Cohabit
- Room or live together; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple
- Inhabit
- Be present in; be inside of
- Flyspeck (v)
- To examine closely or in minute detail; scrutinize
- Flyspeck (n)
- a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly
- Excrement
- Waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
- Scorn
- Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
- Punitive
- Inflicting punishment
- Nuances
- A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
- Prudent
- Careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment
- Rejuvenation
- The act of restoring to a more youthful condition/freshness
- Amid
- In the middle of; amidst
- Flurry
- A rapid bustling commotion
- White-collar
- Of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers
- Blue-collar
- Of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers
- Pink-collar
- Of or relating to a class of jobs once traditionally filled by women
- Buyout
- Take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
- Marsh
- Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
- River Basin
- The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries
- Replenish
- Fill something that had previously been emptied
- Ebb
- The outward flow of the tide
- Wrangling
- An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
- Stubmle
- Miss a step and fall or nearly fall; An unsteady uneven gait
- Sloppy
- Marked by great carelessness
- Embryo
- An animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
- Contraception
- Birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery
- Lesions
- Any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision
- Menstruation
- The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
- Yore
- The time that has elapsed
- Impediments
- Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- Adolescent
- A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
- Jeopardy
- A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- Leech
- Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end; A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
- Slam
- Strike violently; Close violently; critisize severely
- Fade
- Gradually ceasing to be visible; A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer(SLICE)
- Abomination
- A person who is loathsome or disgusting; An action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence
- Loathe
- Find repugnant; To feel great hatred and disgust for
- Vile
- Thoroughly unpleasant
- Abhor
- Find repugnant
- Repugnant
- Offensive to the mind; repulsive; obscene
- Execrate
- Find repugnant; Curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
- Anathema
- A formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
- Ecclesiastical
- Of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church)
- Insubordinate
- Not submissive to authority; Disobedient
- Exultant
- Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
- Rejoice
- Feel happiness or joy
- Mushroom
- Grow and spread fast
- Insolent
- Marked by casual disrespect; Unrestrained by convention or propriety
- Impudent
- Marked by casual disrespect; Improperly forward or bold
- Reluctant
- Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom
- Acquiescence
- Acceptance without protest; Agreement with a statement or proposal to do something
- Loth
- Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; (usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed
- Stringent
- Demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; rigrous; tight
- Agonized
- Expressing pain or agony
- Agony
- Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; suffering
- Excruciation
- A state of acute pain
- Crucifixon
- The act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross
- Semantic
- Of or relating to the study of meaning and changes of meaning
- Conspicuous
- Obvious to the eye or mind; Without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
- Strident
- Conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; Unpleasantly loud and harsh
- Raucous
- Unpleasantly loud and harsh
- Complacency
- The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself;self-satisfaction
- Poignant
- Arousing affect; Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
- Predicament
- A situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
- Wacky
- Informal or slang term for mentally irregular
- Askew
- Turned or twisted toward one side; wonky; awry; lopsided; cockeyed
- Spank
- A slap with the flat of the hand