Vocabulary Words
bearded
C1adjective, noun, verb
(in combination) Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type. (+11 more)
noun
The status, methods, character or standards expected of a professional or of a professional organization, such as reliability, discretion, evenhandedness, and fair play. (+1 more)
noun
an act of popularizing or the state of being popularized (+1 more)
pendulum
C1noun
A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks. (+2 more)
predecessor
C1noun
A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model. (+4 more)
lapse
C1noun, verb
A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective. (+14 more)
climax
C1noun, verb
(now commonly) A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly: (+6 more)
adjective
Lacking climax, disappointing or ironically insignificant following of impressive foreshadowing.
genome
C1noun
The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism.
faction
C1noun
A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction (+4 more)