Glossary

**Definition of **** ARITHMETIC ﻿ **
 * Arithmetic **

**1 ** **a ** **:** a branch of mathematics that deals usually with the nonnegative real numbers including sometimes the transfinite cardinals and with the application of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to them**b** **:** a treatise on arithmetic **2 ** **: ** [|computation], [|calculation] — **ar·ith·met·ic** or **ar·ith·met·i·cal** //adjective// — **ar·ith·met·i·cal·ly** //adverb// — **arith·me·ti·cian** //noun//

**Examples of **** AR ﻿ ITHMETIC **

1. a software program that will do the //arithmetic// for you 2. <I haven't actually done the //arithmetic// yet, but I suspect we're losing money on the deal.>

SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary []


 * Cartoon **

<span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Definition of <span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> CARTOON

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> a preparatory design, drawing, or painting (as for a fresco) **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** a drawing intended as satire, caricature, or humor <a political //cartoon//>**b** **:** <span style="color: #2965c7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant: small-caps;">[|comic strip] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: ** <span style="color: #2965c7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant: small-caps;">[|animated cartoon] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> a ludicrously simplistic, unrealistic, or one-dimensional portrayal or version <the film's villain is an entertaining//cartoon//> <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">— **cartoon** //verb// <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">— **car·toon·ing** //noun// <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">— **car·toon·ish** //adjective// <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">— **car·toon·ish·ly** //adverb// <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">— **car·toon·ist** //noun// <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">— **car·toon·like** //adjective// <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">— **car·toony** //adjective//

**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Examples of ****<span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> CARTOON ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; padding: 0px; text-indent: -18pt;">1. She enjoys reading the //cartoons// in the Sunday paper. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; padding: 0px; text-indent: -18pt;">2. The kids are watching //cartoons//.

SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #914c9e; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[]

<span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">**Definition of //CHAIN//**
 * Chain **

** 1 ** //**<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">a **// **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a series of usually metal links or rings connected to or fitted into one another and used for various purposes (as support, restraint, transmission of mechanical power, or measurement)  //**<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">b **// **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a series of links used or worn as an ornament or insignia  //**<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">c **// //<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">(1) // **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a measuring instrument of 100 links used in surveying  //<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">(2) // **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a unit of length equal to 66 feet (about 20 meters) **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">something that confines, restrains, or secures **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3 ** //**<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">a **// **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a series of things linked, connected, or associated together <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a  //<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">chain // <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">of events> <a mountain  //<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">chain // <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">>  //**<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">b **// **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a group of enterprises or institutions of the same kind or function usually under a single ownership, management, or control  <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><fast-food  //<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">chains // <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">>  //**<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">c **// **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a number of atoms or chemical groups united like links in a chain

<span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15pt;">**Examples of //CHAIN//** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. We'll need 25 feet of //<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">chain // for the pulley. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. The new book chronicles **//<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">the chain of events //** leading up to the crime. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">3. They own a //<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">chain // of organic grocery stores. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">4. The hotel //<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">chain // recently opened a new hotel in Hong Kong.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary []

**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Definition of CHARCOAL **
 * Charcoal **

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> a dark or black porous carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances (as from wood by [|charring] in a kiln from which air is excluded) **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** a piece or pencil of fine charcoal used in drawing**b** **:** a charcoal drawing **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> a dark gray

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary []

**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Definition of ****<span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> COMFORTABLE **
 * Comfortable **

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** affording or enjoying contentment and security <a//comfortable// income>**b** **:** affording or enjoying physical <span style="color: #2965c7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|comfort] <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <a //comfortable//chair> <was too //comfortable// to move> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** free from vexation or doubt <//comfortable// assumptions>**b** **:** free from stress or tension <a //comfortable// routine> <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">— **com·fort·able·ness** //noun// <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">— **com·fort·ably** //adverb//

<span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Examples of ****<span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> COMFORTABLE ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. These shoes aren't very //comfortable// for walking. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. I can't seem to find a //comfortable// position in this chair. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">3. Are you //comfortable// enough in that chair? <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">4. The nurse turned the patient on his side and asked him if he was //comfortable//. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">5. I was just getting //comfortable// when the phone rang. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">6. They stayed at a //comfortable// distance from the crowd. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">7. He has a //comfortable// job. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">8. She makes a //comfortable// living as a journalist. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">9. They enjoy a //comfortable// lifestyle.

SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[]

** Definition ** <span style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">** ﻿ **

<span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Definition of DEFINITION ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> an act of [|determining] ; //specifically// **:** the formal proclamation of a Roman Catholic [|dogma] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** a statement expressing the essential nature of something**b** **:** a statement of the meaning of a word or word group or a sign or symbol <dictionary //definitions//>**c** **:** a product of [|defining] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> the action or process of stating the meaning of a word or word group **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** the action or the power of describing, explaining, or making [|definite] and clear <the //definition// of a telescope><her comic genius is beyond //definition//>**b** (1) **:** clarity of visual presentation **:** [|distinctness] of outline or detail <improve the //definition// of an image> (2) **:** clarity especially of musical sound in reproduction**c** **:** sharp [|demarcation] of outlines or limits <a jacket with distinct waist //definition//> <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">— **def·i·ni·tion·al** //adjective//

**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Examples of DEFINITION ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. What is the legal //definition// of a corporation? <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. A week of fishing is my //definition// of a vacation. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">3. a monitor with good //definition// and vibrant colors <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">4. For the last eight years or so, I've been watching the evolution of bikes made for women. At the beginning of that time, there were a small number of women's bikes available, most offered with low-end, sometimes no-name, spec, as if by //definition// all women riders were beginners. —Christine Bucher, //Bicycling//, March 2008

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary []

** Geometry ** **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Definition of GEOMETRY ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** a branch of mathematics that deals with the measurement, properties, and relationships of points, lines, angles, surfaces, and solids; //broadly// **:** the study of properties of given elements that remain invariant under specified transformations**b** **:** a particular type or system of geometry **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** [|configuration] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">b **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** surface shape **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> an arrangement of objects or parts that suggests [|geometric] figures

<span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Examples of GEOMETRY ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. <the //geometry// of Sydney's famed opera house is suggestive of some modernistic sailing ship>

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary []

** Greece ** ==<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; color: #7b7b7b; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">Definition of // GREECE // == country S Europe at S end of Balkan Peninsula; a republic  ? Athens // area //  50,944  // square miles //  (131,945  // square kilometers //  ),  // pop //  10,964,020

SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary []

** Intelligent ** <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; color: #7b7b7b; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">

<span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 18px;">Definition of INTELLIGENT

1 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">a : having or indicating a high or satisfactory degree of [|intelligence] and mental capacityb : revealing or reflecting good judgment or sound thought : [|skillful] 2 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">a : possessing [|intelligence] b : guided or directed by [|intellect] : [|rational] 3 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">a : guided or controlled by a computer; //especially// : using a built-in microprocessor for automatic operation, for processing of data, or for achieving greater versatility — compare [|dumb] 7b : able to produce printed material from digital signals <an//intelligent// copier> <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">— in·tel·li·gen·tial //adjective// <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">— in·tel·li·gent·ly //adverb//

** Examples of INTELLIGENT ** <span style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. She asked some // intelligent // questions. <span style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. He's a hard worker but he's not very // intelligent //.

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<span style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">** Labyrinth ** <span style="color: #914c9e; font-size: 26px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">

<span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Definition of LABYRINTH ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys**b** **:** a maze (as in a garden) formed by paths separated by high hedges **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> something extremely complex or tortuous in structure, arrangement, or character **:** [|intricacy], [|perplexity] <a//labyrinth// of swamps and channels> <guided them through the //labyrinths// of city life — Paul Blanshard> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> a tortuous anatomical structure; //especially// **:** the internal ear or its bony or membranous part

**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Examples of LABYRINTH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. a complex //labyrinth// of tunnels and chambers <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. The cockpit was a //labyrinth// of instruments and controls. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">3. a //labyrinth// of social customs and rules

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary []

** Natural **

<span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Definition of NATURAL ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> based on an inherent sense of right and wrong <//natural//justice> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** being in accordance with or determined by [|nature] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">b **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** having or constituting a classification based on features existing in [|nature] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(1) **:** begotten as distinguished from adopted; //also// **:** [|legitimate] (2) **:** being a relation by actual consanguinity as distinguished from adoption <//natural// parents>**b** **:** [|illegitimate] <a //natural// child> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> having an essential relation with someone or something **:**following from the [|nature] of the one in question <his guilt is a //natural// deduction from the evidence> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">5 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> implanted or being as if implanted by [|nature] **:** seemingly inborn <a //natural// talent for art> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">6 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> of or relating to [|nature] as an object of study and research **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">7 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> having a specified character by [|nature] <a //natural// athlete> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">8 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** occurring in conformity with the ordinary course of [|nature] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> not marvelous or supernatural <//natural// causes>**b** **:** formulated by human reason alone rather than revelation<//natural// religion> <//natural// rights>**c** **:** having a normal or usual character <events followed their//natural// course> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">9 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> possessing or exhibiting the higher qualities (as kindliness and affection) of human [|nature] <a noble … brother … ever most kind and //natural// — Shakespeare> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** growing without human care; //also// **:** not cultivated<//natural// prairie unbroken by the plow>**b** **:** existing in or produced by [|nature] **:** not artificial <//natural//turf> <//natural// curiosities>**c** **:** relating to or being natural food **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">11 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** being in a state of [|nature] without spiritual enlightenment**:** [|unregenerate] <//natural// man>**b** **:** living in or as if in a state of [|nature] untouched by the influences of civilization and society **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">12 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** having a physical or real existence as contrasted with one that is spiritual, intellectual, or fictitious <a corporation is a legal but not a //natural// person>**b** **:** of, relating to, or operating in the physical as opposed to the spiritual world <//natural// laws describe phenomena of the physical universe> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">13 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** closely resembling an original **:** true to [|nature] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">b **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** marked by easy simplicity and freedom from artificiality, affectation, or constraint**c** **:** having a form or appearance found in [|nature] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">14 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** having neither flats nor sharps <the //natural// scale of C major>**b** **:** being neither sharp nor flat**c** **:** having the pitch modified by the natural sign **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">15 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> of an off-white or beige color <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">— **nat·u·ral·ness** //noun//

<span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Examples of NATURAL ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. furniture made of //natural// materials <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. The river forms a //natural// boundary between the two countries. <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3. //<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">natural foods //<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> like whole grain bread and fresh vegetables <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">4. Gray hair is one of the //natural// consequences of getting older. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">5. a //natural// increase in the population <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">6. the //natural// course of the disease <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">7. It's perfectly //natural// to feel nervous before a test.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary []

Paint **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Definition of PAINT **

//<span style="color: #7a7a7a; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">transitive verb // **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(1) **:** to apply color, pigment, or paint to (2) **:** to color with a cosmetic**b** (1) **:** to apply with a movement resembling that used in [|painting] (2) **:** to treat with a liquid by brushing or swabbing<//paint// the wound with iodine> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(1) **:** to produce in lines and colors on a surface by applying pigments (2) **:** to depict by such lines and colors**b** **:** to decorate, adorn, or variegate by applying lines and colors**c** **:** to produce or evoke as if by [|painting] <//paints// glowing pictures of the farm> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> to touch up or cover over by or as if by [|painting] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> to depict as having specified or implied characteristics<//paints// them whiter than the evidence justifies — Oliver La Farge> //<span style="color: #7a7a7a; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">intransitive verb // **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> to practice the art of [|painting] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> to use cosmetics

**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Examples of PAINT ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. I need to //paint// the bookcase. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. We're going to //paint// the room yellow. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">3. The classroom wall was //painted// with clouds and rainbows. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">4. He //painted// that portrait of his wife. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">5. She //painted// the landscape on a square canvas. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">6. I like to draw and my sister likes to //paint//. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">7. The beauty of the world inspires me to //paint//. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">8. He //paints// mostly in oils. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">9. The study //paints// a bleak picture of the effects of pollution on animal life.

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<span style="line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15.0pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"> Perfection <span style="line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15.0pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"> <span style="line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15.0pt; mso-outline-level: 2;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Definition of PERFECTION ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> the quality or state of being [|perfect] : as**a** **:** freedom from fault or defect **:** [|flawlessness] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">b **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** [|maturity]  **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">c **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** the quality or state of being saintly **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** an exemplification of supreme excellence**b** **:** an unsurpassable degree of accuracy or excellence **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> the act or process of [|perfecting] <span style="line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15.0pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15.0pt; mso-outline-level: 2;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Examples of PERFECTION **<span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">She has achieved a rare //perfection// in her playing. <span style="line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">His poetry is pure //perfection//. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary [] <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">

Practice <span style="color: #555555; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;"> ** Definition of PRACTICE ** // transitive verb // ** 1 **** a ** **:** [|carry out], [|apply] <// practice // what you preach>**b** **:** to do or perform often, customarily, or habitually<// practice // politeness>**c** **:** to be professionally engaged in <// practice // medicine> ** 2 **** a ** **:** to perform or work at repeatedly so as to become proficient <// practice // the act>**b** **:** to train by repeated exercises <// practice // pupils in penmanship>

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3 ** //<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">obsolete //<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** [|plot]

** Examples of PRACTICE ** <span style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. To be a good musician, you have to // practice // a lot. <span style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. Have you been //practicing// your lines for the play? <span style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">3. She had to // practice // flying in various weather conditions before she could get her pilot's license. <span style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">4. Grandmother taught us to // practice // good manners. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">5. // Practice what you preach // —don't smoke if you tell your children not to smoke.

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Print **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Definition of PRINT **

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** a mark made by pressure **:** [|impression] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">b **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** something impressed with a print or formed in a mold**c** **:** [|fingerprint] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** [|printed] state or form**b** **:** the [|printing] industry **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** [|printed matter] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">b **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> //plural// **:** [|printed] publications **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> [|printed] letters **:** [|type] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">5 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(1) **:** a copy made by [|printing] (2) **:** a reproduction of an original work of art (as a painting) made by a photomechanical process (3) **:** an original work of art (as a woodcut, etching, or lithograph) intended for graphic reproduction and produced by or under the supervision of the artist who designed it**b** **:** cloth with a pattern or figured design applied by [|printing] ;//also// **:** an article of such cloth**c** **:** a photographic or motion-picture copy; //especially// **:** one made from a negative <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">— **in print** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> procurable from the publisher <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">— **out of print** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> not procurable from the publisher

** Examples of PRINT ** <span style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. What is the // print // size of your book? <span style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. an exhibit of 16th-century German // print s//

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<span style="color: #914c9e; font-size: 25px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">Reasoning <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">

<span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Definition of REASONING ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> the use of [|reason] ; //especially// **:** the drawing of inferences or conclusions through the use of [|reason] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> an instance of the use of [|reason] **:** [|argument]

<span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Examples of REASONING ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. Could you explain your //reasoning//? <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. They told everyone the //reasoning// behind the decision. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">3. a conclusion based on fallacious //reasoning// <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">4. Humans possess the power of //reasoning//.

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<span style="color: #914c9e; font-size: 25px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">Subtlety <span style="color: #914c9e; font-size: 25px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">

<span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Definition of SUBTLETY ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> the quality or state of being [|subtle] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> something [|subtle]

<span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Examples of SUBTLETY ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. The pianist performed with //subtlety// and passion. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. <we appreciated the //subtlety// with which our host indicated that it was time to leave: he volunteered to pack us a little lunch for the road>

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 * Theory **

<span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Definition of ****<span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> THEORY ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> the analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> abstract thought **:** <span style="color: #2965c7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant: small-caps;">[|speculation] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> the general or abstract <span style="color: #2965c7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|principles] <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> of a body of fact, a science, or an art <music //theory//> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action <her method is based on the //theory// that all children want to learn>**b** **:** an ideal or hypothetical set of facts, principles, or circumstances —often used in the phrase //in theory// <in//theory//, we have always advocated freedom for all> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">5 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> a <span style="color: #2965c7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|plausible] <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomena <the wave//theory// of light> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">6 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** a hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or investigation**b** **:** an unproved assumption **:** [|conjecture] **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">c **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** a body of <span style="color: #2965c7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|theorems] <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> presenting a concise systematic view of a subject <//theory// of equations>

**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Examples of ****<span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> THEORY ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. a widely accepted scientific //theory// <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. Her method is based on the //theory// that all children want to learn. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">3. There are a number of different //theories// about the cause of the disease. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">4. She proposed a //theory// of her own. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">5. Investigators rejected the //theory// that the death was accidental. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">6. There is no evidence to support such a //theory//. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">7. He is a specialist in film //theory// and criticism. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">8. The immune surveillance //theory// of cancer holds that in a way we all do have cancer, that a healthy immune system fights off rogue cells as they appear. —Sallie Tisdale,//Harper's//, June 2007

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 * Universe **

<span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Definition of UNIVERSE ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> the whole body of things and phenomena observed or postulated **:** [|cosmos] : as**a** **:** a systematic whole held to arise by and persist through the direct intervention of divine power**b** **:** the world of human experience**c** (1) **:** the entire celestial cosmos (2) **:** [|milky way galaxy] (3)**:** an aggregate of stars comparable to the Milky Way galaxy **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> a distinct field or province of thought or reality that forms a closed system or self-inclusive and independent organization **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> [|population] 4 **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> a set that contains all elements relevant to a particular discussion or problem **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">5 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> a great number or quantity <a large enough //universe// of stocks … to choose from — G. B. Clairmont>

<span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Examples of UNIVERSE ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. How many stars are there in //the universe//? <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. It means more to me than anything else in //the// entire//universe//. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">3. She is convinced that parallel //universes// exist. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">4. He creates his own //universe// in his novels. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">5. New York City is the //center of the// publishing //universe//.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary []

Villa

<span style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15pt;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Definition of ****<span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> VILLA ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> a country estate **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> the rural or suburban residence of a wealthy person **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3 ** //<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">British //<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **:** a detached or semidetached urban residence with yard and garden space

**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Examples of ****<span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> VILLA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. They rented a seaside //villa// for two weeks. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. <a millionaire with a luxurious //villa// in Mexico>

SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary []