Friday, August 21, 2009

Select Meaning by Word - II


11. prurient
  • n. Sudden invasion.
  • adj. Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires.
  • n. The sharp striking of one body against another.
  • v. To draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively.


12. illuminate

  • v. To supply with light.
  • adj. Different.
  • v. To keep oneself back (from doing or using something)
  • v. To last longer than.

13. awry

  • ad. Out of the proper form, direction, or position.
  • n. A labyrinth.
  • adj. Impartial.
  • n. Rational self-esteem.

14. counter-claim

  • n. A cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff.
  • n. That which nourishes.
  • v. To study plant-life.
  • v.To reveal in trust or confidence.

15. peter

  • v. To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value.
  • adj. Ingenuous.
  • adj. That may be allowed.
  • adv. Without intention.

16. ambulance

  • n. A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.
  • v. To abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned.
  • n. Any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning, or anything based on such reasoning.
  • v. To make stale or trite by repetition.

17. inundation

  • adj. Characterized by intelligence.
  • n. A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe.
  • n. Inadequacy.
  • n. Flood.

18. imminence

  • adj. Unreasonable.
  • n. Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment.
  • v. To behave ill.
  • n. Impending evil or danger.

19. lough

  • n. The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation.
  • n. A lake or loch.
  • n. The formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority.
  • adj. Yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one's care.

20. discolor

  • v. To give a wrong impression.
  • v. To stain.
  • adj. Formed after one's father's name.
  • n. A representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another.

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