chattel Lee: I don't want to go into polemics, but any society in which two innocent Japanese students in Los Angeles can be shot dead because someone wanted...
piddling In the vast arena of international commerce, the action will seem piddling, perhaps involving no more than $25 million in trade. But environmentalists...
voluble There the voluble mouth and bright penetrating eye are ever directed toward the Master of the household Flatland by Edwin A Abbott. voluble = Moving...
founder how their first marriages had foundered in seas of conjugal miscommunication. founder = To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship. ☄ founder...
cartel This interdependence [of Oligopoly economic model] among firms leads to actions not found in the other market structures, such as advertising campaigns...
roil The new chip itself has provoked bitter conflict within IBM. Among other things, IBM hoped the PowerPC would break the stranglehold that Intel has on the...
Wolfgang arrived at Paris at the breaking out of the revolution. The popular delirium at first caught his enthusiastic mind, and he was captivated by the...
argot It was with the onset of the English Restoration in 1660, when public literacy began to flower, that notions about the language started to change. The...
aegis By the mid 1980s, Leary had begun to incorporate computers, the Internet, and virtual reality into his aegis of thought. Leary established one of the...
simulacrum Despite these arguments, cynics, pundits and alternative-music ideologues were predicting Woodstock '94 would be a corporatized simulacrum of the...
ditty Here's a little ditty that you really ought to know: horses sweat and men perspire, but ladies only glow. ☄ ditty Here's a little ditty that you really...
miasma One suspects that in Benny's case, patient and doctors failed to understand one another's priorities. Perhaps the boy felt his pain was not being taken...
travelogue At heart, though, Aladdin and its kin were the merest, dearest emotional travelogues. They alighted on a dream here, a resentment there; they poked...
oleaginous The hero is Simba (voiced as a child by Home Improvement's Jonathan Taylor Thomas and as an adult by Matthew Broderick). This cub is the headstrong...
gaff Companies have also apologized for recent gaffes that Marge Schott↗ might have appreciated, such as Radio Shack↗'s putting out a video game with a...
alchemize In The Mask↗ he plays Stanley Ipkiss, who puts an ancient mask on his face and is transformed from bank-clerk dweeb to zoot-suited superdude,...
dross with so many ... on the market, how do you separate the gold from the dross. dross = The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals...
sham For the past few weeks gossipists have been gumming that the seemingly cheery union between Richard Gere↗ and Cindy Crawford↗ is a sham. gum = To...
lilt And when you gaze upon a Monet↗ or call to mind a lilting line of verse, they bring you warmth. lilt = having a light rhythmical cadence; a lilting...
necropolis The Terracotta Army is a form of funerary art buried with the Emperor of Qin (Qin Shi Huang) in 209-210 BC (his reign over Qin was from 247 BC to...
prone A human being traveling on a bicycle at low to medium speeds of around 15-25 km/h, using only the energy required to walk, is the most energy-efficient...
stigmatize The Chicago scientists admit to another possible defect: “There is no way to get around the fact some people might conceal information,” says...
mecca Armed with a software product that combined search-and-retrieval with automatic hypertext linking, subject-grouping and automatic abstracting (the Excite...
screed “Look,” I said, sensing her lack of interest. “Why don't you get more involved in this. You could be selling, too. You aren't working. You don't...
vitriolic Surely a person who pours forth vitriolic contempt as you do can stand to be teased lightly? friend Robby Villegas vitriolic = Biting, bitter or...
caste There is nothing accidental about this difference between a church and its founder. As soon as absolute truth is supposed to be contained in the sayings...
riffraff I'm from Jersey and currently studying in Manchester (final year) - hate hate hate computer science (and liars). I'd like to think of myself as a...
perdition Before the rise of Christianity this persecuting attitude was unknown to the ancient world except among the Jews. If you read, for example, ...
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