Vocabulary Words

noun

A crime usually punishable upon conviction by a small fine or by a short term of imprisonment. In the USA, misdemeanants usually are incarcerated in county jail for less than one year, but felons usually are incarcerated in state or federal prison for more than one year. Crimes which are punishable by large fines or by longer imprisonment are sometimes called felonies.

noun

Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill. (+1 more)

adjective

Coming or characterized by torrents (+1 more)

verb

(heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning. (+1 more)

noun

The act of banishing. (+1 more)

noun, verb

A petty contrivance (+8 more)

noun

The condition of bearing fruit. (+2 more)

verb

To bait (someone) by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied (+1 more)

adverb

in a tantalizing manner

noun

A large and violent whirlpool. (+1 more)

noun

A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet (+5 more)

adjective, noun

A person suffering from depression. (+6 more)

adjective, noun, verb

(collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together. (+10 more)

noun, verb

(hydraulics) A spiral waterway placed round a turbine to regulate the flow. (+13 more)

verb

To come into conflict, or be incompatible. (+1 more)

noun

A model of the shape of an object for purposes of collision detection. (+1 more)

noun

A building (+4 more)

noun

A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract. (+3 more)

noun, verb

Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods. (+8 more)

adjective, noun, verb

Any organism or substance added to a food product (such as dough or batter) that makes it rise when cooked. (+9 more)

noun

(aesthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense (+3 more)

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