Given a choice between a sirloin steak and a pile of grass, an herbivore will take the grass every time. If grass isn't on the menu, a salad will do. Herbivores eat plants.
Read moreOptometrist
An optometrist specializes in testing the eyes and helping correct vision with glasses or contact lenses. If you can’t read anything below the giant E on the doctor's wall chart, don’t worry: an optometrist can help improve how you see.
Read morePedal
Anything you push with your feet to control a machine, vehicle, or instrument is a pedal. When you use a sewing machine, you push the pedal with your foot to make the needle move up and down.
- Pronunciation: /ˈpedl/
- English Description: one of the two parts of a bicycle that you push round with your feet to make the bicycle go forward
- Chinese Translation: 踩踏板(Cai3 Ta4 Ban3)
- Spanish Translation: pedal
- STORY: When you see the letters ped, something related to the foot might just be afoot. Pedestrians walk around by foot, and a pedicure is when your tootsies get the spa treatment. Those letters don’t always relate to feet, but it does with pedal, the noun or verb. The controls on the floor of your car are pedals, and if you put the pedal to the metal, it means you press as hard as you can on the gas pedal. Woohoo!
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
- Guitar texture was paramount in Ride's work, and the group found those tones through use of myriad effects pedals and electronic units. Los Angeles Times Apr 1, 2015
- Andrew pedalled up the road towards the town centre.
P.S: New word description, story and part of "EXAMPLE SENTENCE" are cited in Vocabulary.com.
Embark
When you embark on something, you are starting it — and it's exciting. You mightembark on a new career or embark on a trip to the Galapagos Islands. You wouldn'tembark on a trip to the grocery store.
Read moreDramatize
To dramatize something is to put it in dramatic form (like a TV show or movie) or make it seem more dramatic, using exaggeration.
- Pronunciation: /ˈdræmətaɪz/
- English Description: to make a book or event into a play or film/to make a situation seem more exciting, terrible etc than it really is/to make something more noticeable
- Chinese Translation: 使戏剧化(Shi3 Xi4 Ju4 Hua4)
- Spanish Translation: Dramatizar
- STORY: Anytime you see a movie or TV show about real events, the actors are dramatizing what really happened. If you slipped on the sidewalk and hurt your knee a little but later made it sound like the most tragic event in the history of humanity, you're guilty of dramatizing what happened. To dramatize in that way is to exaggerate and embellish — it's something that we all do occasionally.
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
- Zimmerman's cast members take turns serving as narrators, fast-forwarding the dramatized story and calling attention to variants of the tale. Los Angeles Times Mar 29, 2015
- This incident dramatized the difficulties involved in the project.
P.S: New word description, story and part of "EXAMPLE SENTENCE" are cited in Vocabulary.com
Trample
To trample is to forcefully walk right over something or someone. If you fall down during a footrace, another runner might trample you.
Read moreConceive
To conceive is to become pregnant or to come up with an idea. Both imply planting a seed for something, either a baby or a thought. "When his wife became pregnant, he could imagine the blue nursery right away, but she would conceive of something different: a pink one."
Read moreSpectacular
Spectacular is both a noun and an adjective. The noun spectacular refers to a big, beautiful production, like a play or musical performance that has a huge cast and many dance numbers.
Read moreTremor
A tremor is a trembling or shaking in a person or the Earth. If you're scared about speaking in public you might have a tremor in your voice — or wish that an earthquake tremorwould open up the floor and swallow you first.
Read moreBlemish
A blemish is a small flaw. If you borrow your brother's brand new bicycle, you'd better be careful — what might seem like the tiniestblemish to you might be a horribly ruined paint job to him.
- Pronunciation: /ˈblemɪʃ /
- English Description: a small mark, especially a mark on someone's skin or on the surface of an object, that spoils its appearance
- Chinese Translation: 污点(Wu1 Dian3)
- Spanish Translation: Mancha
- STORY: The classic example of a blemish is a pimple or other mark on your skin, but you can call any small defect a blemish — like a worm hole in an apple or a scrape on the side of your car. A flaw or fault in your personality or morals can also be called a blemish. You might say that the one time your dog accidentally nipped you is the only blemish on his reputation as a sweet, gentle pet.
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
- Although Mr. Beaty obviously has immense respect for Robeson, the play does not present the artist as a man free of blemishes. New York Times Mar 24, 2015
- The ACC is 11-1 with Virginia’s loss to Michigan State the only blemish. Washington Times Mar 23, 2015
P.S: New word description, story and part of "EXAMPLE SENTENCE" are cited in Vocabular.com
Pendulum
A pendulum is something hanging and swinging freely from a fixed point. A grandfather clock might use for timekeeping apendulum that swings back and forth.
Read moreEquator
An equator is a circle that divides the surface of an object into two equal halves. If you're freezing up there in Iceland, get yourself on down closer to the earth's equator, where it's nice and warm.
Read moreCosmic
If it has to do with the universe, it's cosmic. The planets, for instance, are cosmic bodies.
Read moreWax
The verb wax is most often found in the company of its opposite, "wane." To wax is to grow larger or increase, whereas wane means to grow smaller or decrease.
Read moreStationery
If your grandmother gives you a set of stationery as a birthday present, it might be a subtle hint to write her a thank you note. Stationery is a set of writing paper that comes with envelopes.
Read moreSuperficial
Anything superficial has to do with the surface of something. If you're judging a book by its cover, you're being superficial. People who worry too much about their clothes and hair may also be considered superficial.
Read moreEntangle
To entangle is to snarl, intertwine with, or get caught in. Too often, dolphins entangle themselves in large fishing nets meant to catch tuna or swordfish.
Read moreConcur
To concur is to agree or approve of something. If someone says something you agree with, you can say "I concur!"
Read moreTranquility
Tranquility is a sense of peace and quiet. It is the feeling you have while sitting under a starry sky, listening to the crickets. ...
Read moreSwamp
A swamp is an area that floods every year because the land is low. Watch out for alligators if you visit Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana, the largest swamp in the United States.
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