Saturday, August 1, 2009

Select Meaning by Word

1. soldier

  • n. increase of amount, size, scope, or the like
  • n. a person engaged in military service
  • v. to rouse to activity or to quickened action
  • n. a settled course or manner of progress

2. commitment

  • adj. intermeddling with what is not one's concern
  • n. an unprincipled politician
  • v. to bring together or give fixed shape to
  • n. the act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping

3. volatile

  • v. to regain
  • adj. changeable
  • adj. toilsome
  • v. to blend

4. qualify

  • v. to endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions
  • n. a title of Jesus
  • n. a quack
  • n. passion for getting and keeping riches

5. transition

  • n. passage from one place, condition, or action to another
  • n. a person of rank or importance
  • v. to remove the inhabitants from
  • n. angry or violent difference of opinion

6. devilry

  • v. to deny oneself
  • n. malicious mischief
  • v. to make more sharp, severe, or virulent
  • n. the having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command

7. mileage

  • n. a distance in miles
  • adj. having six angles
  • v. to introduce, as a fluid, by injection
  • v. to surpass

    8. prowess
  • n. the whole range or sequence
  • adj. low-priced
  • n. strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle
  • adj. heedless

9. assassinate

  • v. to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person
  • v. to inoculate with vaccine virus or virus of cowpox
  • n. permanence
  • n. a spiritual advisor

10. generalize

  • n. a person to whom a donation is made
  • v. to draw general inference
  • n. ease
  • n. a meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits

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