CozyEnglish http://www.cozyenglish.com Learn SAT GRE TOEFL Words Wed, 14 May 2008 00:14:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en travail http://www.cozyenglish.com/1119 http://www.cozyenglish.com/1119#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 00:14:56 +0000 admin http://www.cozyenglish.com/1119 Nouns
1. (n.) childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail;
  - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child;
  - “she was in labor for six hours”;

2. (n.) effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail;
  - use of physical or mental energy; hard work;
  - “he got an A for effort”; “they managed only with great exertion”;

Verbs
1. (verb) dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail;
  - work hard;
  - “She was digging away at her math homework”; “Lexicographers drudge all day long”;

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1. (n.) dynamic, moral force;
  - an efficient incentive;
  - “they hoped it would act as a spiritual dynamic on all churches”;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) dynamic, dynamical;
  - characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality;
  - “a dynamic market”; “a dynamic speaker”; “the dynamic president of the firm”;

2. (adj.) dynamic;
  - of or relating to dynamics;

3. (adj.) active, dynamic;
  - (used of verbs (e.g. `to run’) and participial adjectives (e.g. `running’ in `running water’)) expressing action rather than a state of being;

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1. (n.) capillary, capillary tube, capillary tubing;
  - a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action;

2. (n.) capillary, capillary vessel;
  - any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) capillary;
  - of or relating to hair;

2. (adj.) capillary, hairlike;
  - long and slender with a very small internal diameter;
  - “a capillary tube”;

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1. (adj.) self-generated, spontaneous;
  - happening or arising without apparent external cause;
  - “spontaneous laughter”; “spontaneous combustion”; “a spontaneous abortion”;

2. (adj.) ad-lib, spontaneous, unwritten;
  - said or done without having been planned or written in advance;
  - “he made a few ad-lib remarks”;

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1. (verb) arbitrate, intercede, intermediate, liaise, mediate;
  - act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;
  - “He interceded in the family dispute”; “He mediated a settlement”;

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1. (verb) discountenance;
  - look with disfavor on;
  - “The republic soon discountenanced its few friends”;

2. (verb) discountenance;
  - show disapproval by discouraging;
  - “any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced”;

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1. (verb) concede, confess, profess;
  - admit (to a wrongdoing);
  - “She confessed that she had taken the money”;

2. (verb) concede, grant, yield;
  - be willing to concede;
  - “I grant you this much”;

3. (verb) cede, concede, grant, yield;
  - give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another;

4. (verb) concede;
  - acknowledge defeat;
  - “The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose”;

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1. (n.) bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall;
  - an embarrassing mistake;

Verbs
1. (verb) ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil;
  - make a mess of, destroy or ruin;
  - “I botched the dinner and we had to eat out”; “the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement”;

2. (verb) bungle;
  - spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly;
  - “I bungled it!”;

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1. (n.) prescript, rule;
  - prescribed guide for conduct or action;

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1. (verb) accommodate, fit, suit;
  - be agreeable or acceptable to;
  - “This suits my needs”;

2. (verb) accommodate, adapt;
  - make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose;
  - “Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country”;

3. (verb) accommodate;
  - provide with something desired or needed;
  - “Can you accommodate me with a rental car?”;

4. (verb) accommodate, admit, hold;
  - have room for; hold without crowding;
  - “This hotel can accommodate 250 guests”; “The theater admits 300 people”; “The auditorium can’t hold more than 500 people”;

5. (verb) accommodate, lodge;
  - provide housing for;
  - “We are lodging three foreign students this semester”;

6. (verb) accommodate, oblige;
  - provide a service or favor for someone;
  - “We had to oblige him”;

7. (verb) accommodate, conciliate, reconcile;
  - make (one thing) compatible with (another);
  - “The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories”;

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