Vocabulary Words

noun

A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information. (+3 more)

noun

A bursting due to pressure. (+4 more)

adjective, noun

Any explosive substance. (+5 more)

adjective, noun, verb

: to send (data) from one program to another (+7 more)

verb

To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness. (+4 more)

adjective, noun, verb

(retail) Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type. (+24 more)

noun

A colloquialism or idiom. (+9 more)

adjective, noun

(more narrowly) A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone. (+2 more)

adjective, noun

Carefully adjusted (+17 more)

verb

Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class. (+14 more)

noun

(grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages. (+17 more)

adjective

Considerable in amount. (+6 more)

adverb

In an extensive manner, widely. (+1 more)

adjective, noun

A contiguous area of storage in a file system. (+5 more)

adjective, noun

(chiefly in the plural) The exterior (+13 more)

adjective, verb

(of a group of organisms, as a species) No longer in existence (+7 more)

noun

The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer. (+3 more)

adjective, adverb, noun

A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball. (+13 more)

noun, verb

A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue (+20 more)

adverb

In an extraordinary manner.

adjective, noun

Anything that goes beyond what is ordinary. (+5 more)

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