Westworld S1 E1,2

chivalrous

(adj) marked by honor, courtesy, and courage; knightly Syn.: gallant, civil, valiant Ant.: crude, uncouth, churlish, loutish Just two weeks later, according to court filings, he tried to run his scam again and was confronted by another chivalrous boyfriend. Five decades later, the park at Stone Mountain markets itself as a family theme park rather than a shrine to the "Lost Cause" mythology that romanticizes the Confederacy as chivalrous defenders of states' rights. Also, that galloping robot is one of four horsemen of a mash-up apocalypse, whose chivalrous gear includes selfie sticks, tablet computers and Beats headphones. Long after his retirement, he was also considered a British national treasure — a dashing gentleman racer who was chivalrous and always sportsmanlike to his competitors despite the cut and thrust of motor racing.

garish

(adj.) glaring; tastelessly gaudy, showy, or overdecorated in a vulgar or offensive way Use the adjective ~ to describe something that is overly vivid, bright, showy, and in bad taste — like the DJ's ~ outfit that is a flashback to the disco era. ~ comes to English from the Old Norse word gaurr, meaning "rough fellow." It is often used to describe colors, clothing, decorations, and other things that can be elegant and tasteful. Because the word connotes bad taste, however, it is rarely used in a complimentary way. If you say to your friend, "I like your ~ hair and makeup," she is not likely to take it well, unless, of course, you are going to a 70s flashback party. The guests won't return for the obvious things we do, the garish things. They come back because of the subtleties, the details. And I think that it's over the top and garish,'" he recalled. Despite his garish penthouse and private jet, Trump is broke. Schafer said he was "pleased" with the library design concepts and expects the facility won't be "garish or standoutish" but is "going to be an attraction in a community of which there are many." Tiger Woods missed the cut with a garish 77 with double bogeys on Nos.

pensive

(adj.) thoughtful, melancholy, dreamy, reflective, contemplative, wistful See that person staring out the window who looks so sad and lost in thought? He is ~, the opposite of cheery and carefree. If you've studied Spanish, you know that the verb pensar means "to think." If you're ~, you might simply be thinking hard about something. Having no expression or maybe even frowning can be a result of being so engrossed in your thoughts — it might not reflect a melancholy attitude. Remember this the next time you're about to ask a ~ person, "What's wrong?" It could very well be nothing. You're certainly a man comfortable with long, pensive silence. While Kumar was known as the "tragedy king", often essaying sober and melancholic roles, Kapoor, nicknamed "the showman", was a performer - joyful, cheeky, charming, or pensive, whatever the role demanded. He grew into a pensive youth whose interest in linguistics earned him the unusual yearbook distinction of being named most likely to become a lexicographer. He was his trademark cocktail of pensive and cool. Adding to the pensive air was the frequent mention of Biden's late son, Beau, who died from brain cancer five years ago.

grotesque

(adj.) unnatural, distorted; bizarre syn: fantastic, outlandish, ugly, deformed, monstrous ant: appealing, attractive, comely Use ~ to describe things that are very strange and ugly in an unnatural way. If something "grosses you out," you can safely refer to it as ~. ~ also refers to a style of art that uses odd and fanciful combinations of natural, human, and animal forms. The original reference was to cave paintings found in ancient Roman ruins. Our English word is from French, from Italian grottesca pittura "a cave painting," from grotta "cave." Italian grotta is the source of our English word grotto. It was grotesque and overwhelming, and only served to unnerve viewers. In a dining room he called the Great Hall, grotesques protruded from oak beams near the ceiling — all of them carved by Mew himself. I will not soon forget some of her grotesque images. Swan faced a ferocious backlash in 2018, labelled a "bootlicker" and called "grotesque" for the way he handled the president's admission that he wanted to end automatic citizenship for immigrant children born in the US.

sierra

(especially in place names) a long range of steep mountains with sharp points, especially in Spain and America the Sierra Nevada They supposed to turn on each other, but only if a guest takes them on the high sierra storyline. Although it was just for a moment, the peak of Breath of the Wild's sierra reminded me of how I felt when I physically pulled myself up a Himalayan mountain. "Mexican Mormons, innocent women and children were ambushed in the Chihuahua sierra, shot and burned alive by the Cartels that rule in Mexico!" The story of Maoism's travels takes in the tea plantations of north India, the sierras of the Andes, Paris's 5th arrondissement, the fields of Tanzania, rice paddies in Cambodia and terraces in Brixton. "People in the sierra are tired of the narcos' tactics and organised crime."

breach

(n.) an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction; (v.) to create an opening, break through A ~ is a violation of a law, duty, or promise. If you'd contracted to mow your neighbor's lawn and don't do it, he can sue you for ~ of contract. Or he can mow the lawn himself. ~ traces back to the Old English verb: brecan, "to break," which is what ~ really means — "a breaking of something." ~ of contract is a legal way of saying you broke a promise. If your great aunt Edna is a stickler for propriety, she may be horrified when you eat your meat with the salad fork, considering it a ~ of good manners. breach / breech If you break a contract, it's a breach. If you're talking about pantaloons, guns, or feet-first babies, use breech with a double "e." If it breached, he needs to be put down. That's the policy. Would it not be best for us to discover why first? Cameron said Wednesday that the police officers knocked and announced themselves before breaching the door to Taylor's apartment. YouTube confirmed to The Verge that it terminated the livestream, and that it did so because it breached the platform's policies on criminal organizations. They also claim the conditions Assange would face in a U.S. prison would breach his human rights and that he is likely to attempt suicide if he is extradited. The tip-off did not harm any investigation, and no one was injured by the alleged breach, officials said. She added that "search policy was violated" and this "represents a breach in our protocol".

disarray

(n.) disorder, confusion; (v.) to throw into disorder a lack of order or organization in a situation "The peace talks broke up in disarray." "Our plans were thrown into disarray by her arrival." "We are decorating, so everything is in complete disarray at home." "Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I choose to see the beauty." Although disarray is not as widespread as it was this spring, hospitals said rolling shortages of supplies range from specialized beds to disposable isolation gowns to thermometers. The upheaval threw the government's plan to kick-start the Andean nation's ailing economy into disarray. The mood forecasts show their devolving states of disarray in pandemic-induced isolation.

apex

(n.) the highest point, tip SYN: peak, summit, acme ANT: nadir, lowest point When there's no mountain left to climb and nothing but blue sky above, you know you've reached the highest peak — the ~. ~ can mean the highest point in a literal sense, like climbing to the ~ of the Eiffel Tower for a fabulous view of Paris. It also can be used to mean the highest point in a figurative sense. An actor who wins an Oscar can say she's reached the ~ of her career. If you're describing more than one high point, you could add an -es to form the plural ~es, but apices would also be correct. And if you're a botanist, you'd probably use ~ to describe the tip of a flower or leaf. I don't want to appear immodest, but this is the apex of what the park could provide. Demands for change reached an apex this past summer after protests against police brutality across the nation sparked reckonings in entertainment about diversity and inclusion. That's because apex predators such as dingoes affect the whole of the food chain, from animals to plants: When they hunt kangaroos, for example, they keep populations from exploding and overgrazing the landscape. At the apex of the dome was the letter M. Beneath it were carved thirteen small circles, each with a smiling face upon it. China considers Taiwan a breakaway province that must be "reunified" with it to restore the territory controlled by the Chinese empire at its 19th-century apex.

peel

(n.) the rind of a fruit or vegetable (v.) To remove or strip off the skin or rind of some fruits and vegetables.

be sweet on sb

(old-fashioned, informal) to like someone very much in a romantic way; to be in love with (someone) I'm beginning to think you are getting sweet on me. He's been sweet on her since they were kids. She's still sweet on him after all this time!

muster

(v.) gather or bring together; to bring together for service or battle; to gather or summon; to amount to, comprise, include; (n.) a list of men for military service; a gathering, accumulation Originally meaning "to gather soldiers," ~ has been expanded to include gathering up just about anything — you can ~ up some dinner, some friends, or even some ketchup, pickles, and mustard. Remember that ~ used to involve getting reluctant soldiers out of bed and into the field of battle — so it involves overcoming a certain inertia. When you ~ up the courage to face something, it's clear that this is pretty scary for you. Is that the best thanks you could muster? You used to be a little more eloquent. Jokic, a supreme talent who established himself as the best center in basketball this summer, found himself in foul trouble again in Game 5 and couldn't muster effective counters. I am not a hunter, but I mustered enough facts to provide a counterpoint. The fundamentally destructive nature of the left's vision for America requires a certain amount of sleight-of-hand to pass muster. Of course, Mr. Biden is hoping the Republican Senate majority can't muster enough votes to confirm a nomination before the Nov. 3 election.

gawk

(v.) look with amazement; look stupidly; (n.) an awkward stupid person When you stare in amazement at something, you ~ at it. You might stand frozen in one position with your mouth and eyes wide open and ~ when you see a famous movie star on the street. The verb ~ was first recorded in American English in 1785. It may have evolved from the word gaw, which came from the Middle English word gowen, meaning "to stare." When you ~ at something, you get completely absorbed in what you're looking at. It's usually not considered polite behavior to ~ at another person, especially if it's someone you find attractive. After all, staring is rude. You pay for the drinks, not the right to gawk at me. A dense area of roughly eight city blocks, the neighborhood was largely closed to an outside world that viewed Chinese immigrants as exotic and strange, save for the occasional tourist who ventured in to gawk. He said passengers on board the Qantas flight will be increasing their annual emissions by 10% in just seven hours "as they gawk at the Barrier Reef they are helping to destroy". The second, a humpback already days dead, was washed into a tidal pool outside Sydney, where it was, by turns, gawked at and grieved by a crowd of the curious. She gawks when she sees Captain America's shield, and loses her mind when she meets the heroes in real-life.

pillage

(v.) to rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder; (n.) the act of looting; booty; goods or money obtained illegally To ~ is a term of war that means to take everything of value from a place that you've conquered, but these days, ~ can be used to talk about anyone who takes what's not theirs. It wasn't enough just to win a battle. A conquering army had to ~ entire cities, taking everything of value that wasn't nailed down. Recently, several European families have won cases in international courts against museums displaying art that was looted by the Nazis during World War II. These families claim that the art was ~d during the war and that, rather than being displayed on museum walls, it should be returned to its rightful owners. On Aug. 10, 1680, the Pueblos launched their revolt, pillaging haciendas, torching churches and seizing horses and harquebuses. "It's the height of hypocrisy right now that they're letting these cities succumb to rioting and burning and pillaging, and yet they're targeting Christians." "That was the first time it dawned on me that Spotify is pillaging," he says. Nothing unites our country more than all of us fondly reminiscing about the US bombing, invading, terrorizing, & pillaging Iraq on the basis of lies this man told to the United Nations."

hoard

(v.) to store up, save; (n.) a hidden store or supply To ~ is to save something (or lots of things) for future use. Squirrels ~ nuts for the winter. Old ladies tend to ~ canned food and used plastic bags. People have been using the word ~ for both "to hide" and "treasure" for centuries; as both a verb and as a noun. Some ~ valuables, such as money, jewelry, and family antiques. Others build up a ~, or cache, of things that aren't worth money but are important to them — like comic books or match books. Tremendous inequality led the French to revolt against their 1% who hoarded wealth while the people lacked flour for bread. On Wednesday, India's federal government ordered its states not to hoard oxygen supplies and allow free movement to cope with the rising number of cases. If he's Jordan-level great, why couldn't his teams hoard titles and deny other superstars? For £2 coins, the hoard is 26 times over target.

mull

(v.) to think about, ponder; to grind or mix; to heat and flavor with spices The verb ~ means to think deeply about something, the way you might ~ over your choice of what college to attend. When you ~ something over, you ponder or seriously consider it. You could ~ over what aid organization to donate money to following a natural disaster, or ~ over what to study in college. People are most likely to ~ over important decisions, but you can use the word ~, almost always with over, any time you're giving serious consideration to something. A completely different meaning of ~ is "to heat, sweeten, and spice," as when you make ~ed cider. His reaction is immediate, every time. This guy makes it all the way back home. It's like he is mulling it over. For a week he and María Moreno, his wife, mulled it over. The president's frequent attacks on immigrants aren't in line with her faith, she said, even as she mulled whether to support him. She is by far the leading candidate, according to people familiar with the discussions who were not authorized to publicly comment on them, as Trump mulls his third pick for the Supreme Court. Bullington found herself mulling that question when she launched her first virtual race challenge this summer.

purge

(v.) to wash away impurities, clean up; (n.) the process of getting rid of something or someone decisively To purge is to get rid of something or someone, and often it's done suddenly. Purge rhymes with urge, and when you have a really strong urge to throw stuff away or clean something out, you have an urge to purge. From the Latin purgare, meaning "purify," purge is used as a verb for removing impure things, whether they're guilty feelings in a person or rotten vegetables in a refrigerator. As a noun, the act of tossing out the too-small clothes in your closet before getting new ones might be called a purge. It can be a very bad act, too, as when individuals have an unhealthy urge to purge or empty their stomachs after eating or when a military group decides to purge a certain ethnic group from a country. The memories are purged at the end of every narrative loop. Young acolytes in the White House personnel office are purging officials throughout the government who aren't sufficiently loyal. At base, many Republicans felt they were being purged from their own country — by the educated elite, by multiculturalism, by militant secularism. But we still face arbitrary poll closures, voter purges and unchecked restrictive laws. It further calls for Pritzker to be "placed in temporary custody within the Clay County Jail until he purges himself by rescinding" the executive orders.

ruffle

(v.) to wrinkle, make uneven; to annoy, upset; to flip through; (n.) material used for trimming edges; a ripple; a low drumbeat A ~ a pleated piece of decorative fabric often used as trim on clothes, like the ruffles on a pirate's shirt. To ~ is to make someone lose their composure. Argh. The word ~ is mysterious, but it might be from the Low German word ruffelen which means "to wrinkle." A ~ on the bottom of a dress is like a fancy wrinkle. To ~ someone is to upset them, and they'll need to get straightened out. Often, this word is used in the expression "~ their feathers." Hearing bad news will ~ most people's feathers. An un~d person and an un~d shirt will both be smoother. The board might ruffle some feathers. You promised them a new storyline. His brash style and partisan background ruffled feathers among some of those he worked within the roles. Sen. David Perdue, Georgia Republican, unwillingly put the chicken company sharing his surname on the defensive Saturday by ruffling feathers during a Trump rally the night before. Those principles — and promises he's made and kept to the district — sometimes ruffle feathers. She saw the look of achievement upon his face and ruffled his ears with her claws.

punt

1. A kick in which the ball is dropped and kicked before it reaches the ground. Used to give up the ball to the opposition after offensive downs have been used, as far down the field as possible. 2. a long shallow boat with a flat bottom and square ends which is moved by pushing the end of a long pole against the bottom of a river 3. ​(British English, informal) a bet - The investment is little more than a ~. A ~ is a certain kind of kick, like when a rugby player drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground. ~s are used in various sports, but you're most likely to see a ~ in a football or rugby game. The word ~ can be used as both a noun and a verb: "She could ~ that ball halfway across the field like it was nothing." The root of ~ is probably the word bunt, a dialectical variation from the Midlands in England that means "to butt or push with the head." If this doesn't work, we will punt her to behavior. Let them deal with it. Natson, who signed as a free agent in March, was handling kickoff and punt return duties and Stefanski used him on some running plays and as a decoy. The Broncos' second botched punt in two weeks led to the Bucs' first points. Three of the drives ended with three plays and a punt. In the second half, Pollard cost his team a timeout when he was the missing player on the punt team.

deadweight

1. a thing that is very heavy and difficult to lift or move - The sleeping child was a ~ in her arms. - With difficulty she managed to pull his ~ onto the bed. ​2. a person or thing that makes it difficult for something to succeed or change Seizemore is launching some huge new storylines and he wants us to clear all the deadweights. With traveling parties severely limited, there's no room for dead weight. In an ideal world, you're absolutely right, you would minimize that dead weight and do everything in an incredibly targeted fashion. It's hard to reconcile the Matt of the first half of the story with the quickly jettisoned dead weight of the second. A claim of chiropractic skill granted him regular audiences with the literally crooked Hearst, but with such a sprawling and flamboyant company already in place, Langrishe and his powdered troupe felt like Deadwood dead weight.

zest

1. outer skin of an orange used for giving a special taste to food; spice; interest; flavor; spirited enjoyment; Ex. add a certain zest to the affair; Ex. zest for life 2. great enthusiasm; great enjoyment of; excitement "He had a great zest for life." "She danced with the zest of a twenty-year-old." "The sight risk added zest to the experience." "The love affair added a little zest to her life."

punch up

1. to press keys on a computer in order to get something up on screen Ruby ~ed up the video and they all watched. ​2. (informal) to make something more interesting, more powerful or more fun They really need to ~ the action scenes. And I also punched up the speech he gives after robing the saloon. It's chilling, you'll see.

pluck

1. to pull off or out; to pick 2. courage To pluck is to pick or pull a single item out of many, like a flower or a hair. As a noun, pluck is energy or enthusiasm, even when things are looking grim. Don't pluck only the best cherries off the tree: that's cherry-picking! Before you cook a goose, you need to pluck its feathers. If it looks like your goose is cooked, however, then show some pluck, and figure out a way to save yourself. Some characters who are famous for showing pluck include the Artful Dodger, Little Orphan Annie, and Benji the dog. They all kept their chins up and kept on trying, even when things looked really dark. They gave you a little more pluck Dolores. 1. to pull out hairs with your fingers or with tweezers(موچین) "She plucked out a grey hair." "expertly plucked eyebrows, chicken, etc." 2. to pull the feathers off a dead bird, for example a chicken, in order to prepare it for cooking 3. to play a musical instrument, especially a guitar, by pulling the strings with your fingers "to pluck the strings of a violin" "He took the guitar and plucked at the strings." 4. to remove somebody from a place or situation, especially one that is unpleasant or dangerous "Police plucked a drowning girl from the river yesterday." Survivors of the wreck were plucked to safety by a helicopter." "She was plucked from obscurity to instant stardom." 5. to take hold of something and remove it by pulling it "He plucked the wallet from the man's grasp." 6. (old-fashioned or literary) to pick a fruit, flower, etc. from where it is growing "I plucked an orange from the tree."

stake out

1. to state your opinion, position, etc. on something very clearly, declare "the president staked out his position on the issue." 2. to watch (a place) secretly; to keep under surveillance "Detectives had been staking out at the house for several weeks." stakeout (n.): surveillance In each, he said a tip and stakeout indicated drug sales in a home. Rocky Smith, a resident of Bernal Heights, was on a stakeout at the rock early one morning when he caught a woman in the act of removing the artwork and confronted her. But there was never a boring stakeout when Rodgers worked the hall. His group instead does stakeouts: long days in bird hides, which they construct from bamboo, palm fronds, and banana leaves.

epilepsy

A disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions. If you have ~, you have a central nervous system disorder that may cause you to lose consciousness and have convulsions. The noun ~ comes from the Greek word epilēpsia, which itself means seizure. Not all seizures are caused by ~, but an epileptic seizure occurs when a strong electrical disturbance occurs in the brain. The severity and intensity of the seizures depend on many factors and are unique to each person. It may be possible to control seizures through medication, although not everyone with ~ will respond to medication. People with uncontrolled ~ should not drive.

glop

A thick wet substance that looks, tastes or feels unpleasant ~ is an unidentified blob of some damp, sticky, or slushy material. When you're walking down a city sidewalk, every once in a while you have to avoid stepping in some ~. If you don't like the looks of your oatmeal, you might describe it as ~, and your cat's stinky wet food is definitely ~ — there's a distinctly distasteful implication to the word. You can also use ~ to describe maudlin, overly sentimental poetry or movies: "I couldn't stand to watch that ~, so I turned off the TV." ~ came along in 1943, its sound imitating a ladleful of gummy gunk hitting a plate. I've seen you. You just glop that shit on and rinse. You understand, soap is mechanical. If you are not making little bobbles, you are not doing anything.

transgression

A violation of a law, command, or duty A ~ is something that is against a command or law. Whether you are cheating on a test, or cheating on a spouse, you are committing ~s that are not easily forgiven. A ~ can be a failure to do your duty. A sin is a ~ against God. The noun ~ is from Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin "act of crossing, passing over," from transgredi "to step or pass over." - I guess you could add lying to your list of sins. - The only thing wrong with the list of seven deadly sins is that there aren't more of them. And while we are on the subject, my transgressions wash off a little easier than yours. At least when my girls are done with a man, he is still left drawing breath. - In that case, here is to our indiscretions. It's quite another for a government to install cameras capable of constantly monitoring the activities of its citizens and the authority to punish transgressions of law both large and small. "These extremists seek to replace discussion of his vast contributions with talk of failings, his discoveries with atrocities, and his achievements with transgressions." The transgressions highlight the real-world consequences of failing to modernize outdated planning codes and leaving decision-making power over development projects in the hands of City Council members. In an interview with Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television aired on Monday, the prince labelled the Palestinian authorities' criticism a "transgression" and "reprehensible discourse".

court

A ~ is a room where justice is administered. Many popular television shows feature scenes in ~, although it's debatable whether these depictions are realistic. ~ can refer not just to the ~room but also to the judges who preside over it, as in the example of the U.S. Supreme ~. ~ can also refer to monarchs and their attendants, as in the phrase "royal ~." As a verb, ~ means "try to win the affections of someone," as, historically, people sought to win the favor of royalty. (But if you try ~ing anyone in a modern ~room, you'll probably be accused of bribery.)

lobotomy

A ~ is a surgical procedure that interrupts the nerves in the brain. Before the use of prescription drugs became wide-spread, a common treatment for severe mental illness was ~. The ~ was invented in 1935 and used fairly regularly for about twenty years to treat psychosis and other mental illnesses. It was always controversial, and once effective anti-psychosis medications were developed, it fell out of use. ~ results in a calmed, but also often mentally dull patient. The word itself comes from the word lobe, as in a part of brain, combined with tomy, a medical suffix that means "a cutting."

contagious

Able to be passed easily from one person to another; capable of being transmitted by infection You should probably postpone dinner if your date's cold is ~ — that means it's easily spread and likely to get you sick. ~ actually evolved from contagio, the Latin phrase for "contact." Those smart ancient Romans — they figured out that the sick and ~ can pass on their plague to those they touch or get close to. So the word ~ usually sends people running. But let's not forget that a smile or good deed can be just as infectious as a cough! If this is not a dissonant episode, then whatever Abernathy had could be contagious. He tested positive but medical officials allowed him to play because they determined that after 14 days an asymptomatic person was unlikely to continue to be contagious. "To think about this now, knowing how contagious and deadly this virus is and continues to be, is most disturbing, and the alleged details are even worse," Healey said. The disease it causes is contagious and deadly, and health experts discourage people from gathering in groups indoors.

heist

An act of stealing; robbery; theft When a man with a gun walks into a bank and says, "Give me all your money," that's a ~ or a robbery at gunpoint. ~, pronounced "hīst," is a slang word for an armed robbery. It's also a slang word used to describe the act of stealing or breaking into someone's house to steal their stuff. In other words, it's a burglary. ~ can also act as a verb: "If you've ~ed a diamond ring, you've stolen it." I have told our overstimulated friend to advance the saloon heist a week and make it twice as bloody. Should give us cover to recall the remaining hosts. The theft Wednesday was similar to the previous ones, and didn't seem to be an elaborate heist, said Arthur Brand, a Dutch private art-crimes detective. The painting was previously the subject of heists in 1988 and 2011, when it was recovered after three years and six months respectively. Police believed the suspects waited until museum staff left at 5:30 p.m. before conducting the heist. The new movie "Cut Throat City," directed by RZA, whose artistic renown began with the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, opens as heist pictures sometimes do — with some friends talking things over.

elation

Excited feelings of pride, triumph, or happiness If you experience sudden very high spirits, possibly even a feeling of lightness, you are feeling great ~. ~ is more than mere happiness — it is extreme, exhilarating joy. It has a sense of rising or expanding, even to the point of light-headedness. To help remember it, think of the (unrelated) word inflation, which has a similar sound. When you inflate a tire, you pump it up. When you are filled with ~, you are also, in a sense, "pumped up." It's not about giving the guests what you think they want. No, that's simple. The titillation, horror, elation, they are parlor tricks. The guests won't return for the obvious things we do, the garish things. They come back because of the subtleties, the details. But completion elation was followed by a setback! "The most elation I've ever felt in my life," Hawk said. As Perry raised his arms in celebration again, the Stars celebrated with both relief and elation as the goal horn blared at last. There was the communal elation of the moon landing, the thousands lined up to watch Challenger.

intact

In place, unharmed, whole, untouched or uninjured, kept or left whole If something is ~ it's still in one piece. If you'd like your sand castle to remain ~, I suggest you build it away from the water. The Latin word intactus means "untouched," but today something is ~ if it's whole, if it hasn't fallen apart. After a long day at work, you might feel lucky to be ~. Your letter to the post office states that you would prefer your packages to arrive ~ from now on. Commenting on possible successors: "The broad picture remains intact. In terms of economic and fiscal policy, the focus remains very much on reflation." Then she saw her home, wedged between two trailers that seemed impossibly intact. My mom's memory is still intact, and maybe even better than my own. Strengths: Defense that led league in sacks and turnovers while almost singlehandedly keeping Steelers in playoff hunt into late December returns largely intact.

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husk

The dry outer covering of some nuts, fruits, or seeds; the outer, inedible part of a grain; worthless outside part of anything A ~ is the fibrous covering of a seed or a fruit that's usually removed before you eat it. To make white rice, the ~ is removed from the plant, leaving behind a smooth grain. When you hear the word ~, you may think of the thick leaves that cover an ear of corn. Any vegetable, legume, seed, or fruit with a protective covering has a ~, which is also called a hull or chaff. You can use this word as a verb, too: "Are you going to ~ all that corn by yourself? It's almost time for dinner!" Some etymologists trace this word back to the Dutch huuskyn, "little house." Brown rice has not had the husks removed. (figurative) There was only the husk left of his former self. Travel magazine wrote, "The Osage Indian is today the prince of spendthrifts. Judged by his improvidence, the Prodigal Son was simply a frugal person with an inherent fondness for husks." There, near the skeletal husk of Warehouse 21, clumps of impossibly twisted metal and mangled concrete show how the force of the blast seemed to warp even the laws of physics. And Cap Corse is made with things like walnut husks, cocoa nibs and citrus, because it's from Corsica. At the grocery store, opt for cobs still in the husks.

skin

The outer layer of some fruits and vegetables

Occam's Razor

The philosophy that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one a scientific and philosophical rule that entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily which is interpreted as requiring that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex or that explanations of unknown phenomena be sought first in terms of known quantities ~ or law of parsimony is the problem-solving principle that "entities should not be multiplied without necessity." - The photograph alone couldn't have caused that level of damage to him, not without some other outside interference. - You think it is sabotage? You imagine someone has been diddling with our creations? - It's the simplest solution. - Mr. Occam's razor! The problem is that what you and I do is so complicated. We practice witchcraft, we speak the right words. Then we create the life itself, out of chaos. William of Occom was a thirteenth-century monk. He can't help us now. He would have us burned at the stake.

titilate

To excite; to tickle A juicy steak may ~ your taste buds, or sexy images in a foreign film may ~ your desire. ~ means to excite someone's imagination, especially in a sexual way. ~ comes from a Latin verb that means "tickle," and that's what something that ~s does to the imagination. Today's media bombard you with images made to ~, from video game heroines with extreme physiques to casual nudity on prime-time TV. But it doesn't have to be sex to ~. A display of fabulous pastries in a bakery window can ~ your senses, or whispered rumors about your high school principal's past life as a rodeo queen may ~ your curiosity. This is the apex of what the park could provide, horror, romance, titillation,... Meanwhile, the N.R.A. titillated its membership with images of urban criminals. "It's very titillated by the adventure," she said, "It's into it." The titillated guests want to hear the latest about his agent Cesare, "who strangled enemies of the Reich at will and then returned to his coffin."

grand reserve

To indicate a traditional reserve wine, Kendall-Jackson uses the term "~". Like the term "old vines", "reserve" traditionally indicates a wine that is special, or at least different in flavor or aging potential. ... Typically these are reserve wines in the traditional meaning of the word. - Hell, it took you long enough. - I was getting the grand reserve, only for our distinguished guests.

heuristic

a commonsense rule to help solve some problem ابتکاری، اکتشافی A ~ is a rule or method that helps you solve problems faster than you would if you did all the computing. It sounds fancy, but you might know a ~ as a "rule of thumb." Derived from a Greek word that means "to discover," ~ describes a rule or a method that comes from experience and helps you think through things, like the process of elimination, or the process of trial and error. You can think of a ~ as a shortcut. Besides finding it in philosophy books, if you are interested in computing, you'll find references to ~ programming. You can use it as a noun or as an adjective. heuristics: a heuristic process or method. Has anyone altered or updated your core heuristics in that time? A blanket repeal of qualified immunity need not be a heuristic for meaningful reform. All of which led the watching public deep into what might, in this context, be better described as the Highlights Fallacy, rather than the availability heuristic. There's a lot of research showing that humans try to form judgments and use heuristics to simplify complex decisions. Daniel Kahneman — one of the fathers of the field of Behavioral Economics and a Nobel Laureate — and his colleagues called these "heuristics."

affection

a feeling of love or liking; tender feeling 1. [uncountable, singular] the feeling of liking or loving somebody/something very much and caring about them "Children need lots of love and affection." "He didn't show his wife any affection." "She was held in deep affection by all her students." "Mr Darcy's affection for his sister" "I have a great affection for New York." 2. ​affections [plural] (formal or literary) a person's feelings of love "Anne had two men trying to win her affections." "The object of her affections was a young man named Paul." Palmer remembers how Taylor would sometimes roll her eyes at her, a mix of irritation and affection. He clearly shares his grandfather's affection for Fela, who is an influence not just musically but also for his philosophy. But Caesar doesn't turn from affection or back away from chaos. "I also would like to thank all my colleagues for the teamwork, affection and solidarity and Telemundo52, for the opportunity and for believing in me."

horde

a large group or crowd, especially one on the move; a vast number (as of people); a throng Use the word ~ to describe a large crowd: "A ~ of people followed the pop star as he left the airport in Helsinki." The noun ~ is not for the sedate — the word typically is used to describe a group that is in motion, maybe even a little unruly, such as a ~ of fans pursuing a film star or a ~ of ants invading a picnic. If you are describing a calm, orderly gathering, the word group or crowd may be a better choice. You can save ~ for the next time you need to describe, for example, your experience at a pre-Christmas sale ("A ~ of holiday shoppers rushed toward the last discounted television set"). hoard / horde To hoard is to squirrel stuff away, like gold bricks or candy wrappers. A horde is a crowd of people, usually, but it can also be a gang of mosquitoes, robots, or rabid zombie kittens. It's not exactly a savage horde with twenty savages, is it? But this once pristine place is discovering that the perils of becoming a can't-miss destination extend beyond hordes of weekend warriors sapping its unspoiled charm. Five years later, a horde of white supremacists rampaged through a college town, their effort to "unite the right" leaving a young woman dead on the asphalt. While we famously complain about the hordes of Californians who move here every year, we send plenty folks their way too. Gone this fashion week were the hordes of celebrities and influencers usually seated on front rows.

indiscretion

a minor misdeed; action lacking in judgment, breaking the rules as a result of lack of judgment If you commit an ~ you are doing something wrong that shows a lack of judgment. Perhaps stealing candy was your first ~. Likely it will not be your last. You'll often hear the word ~ used when referring to politicians or public figures caught in a scandal. Used this way, the word implies poor judgment for both the wrong and the fact that the politician got caught. If you are going to commit an ~, it's best to be a bit discreet, or subtle, about it. - I guess you could add lying to your list of sins. - The only thing wrong with the list of seven deadly sins is that there aren't more of them. And while we are on the subject, my transgressions wash off a little easier than yours. At least when my girls are done with a man, he is still left drawing breath. - In that case, here is to our indiscretions. For many early-20th-century modernists, a passion for Wagner was "a kind of larval stage," a necessary but slightly embarrassing youthful indiscretion to be outgrown. Past indiscretions and very private jokes between old friends, in their rarified snobby world, are told as if the original acts and then the telling of them are both entirely normal and to be expected. To offset these "occasional indiscretions," people tend to draw on what Dr. Jones calls a "fuzzy bank of goodness," a kind of loose accounting of carbon impacts. He said he was hyper-focused on Liberty University after taking over as president in 2007 and that it likely led to his wife's indiscretion.

cannibal

a person who eats human flesh A ~ is someone who eats human flesh. It's a good idea not to get too friendly with one, especially if you're covered in delicious-smelling spices. The word ~ comes from the Spanish word caníbalis, which was Christopher Columbus's version of the word Caribs, the name people from the Caribbean called themselves. They meant Carib as in "brave ones" so something got lost in translation! Most ~s are fictional — like Queequeg from Moby Dick or Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs. This word can apply to animals that eat their own kind: for example, the ~ shrimp eats other shrimp. Ew. He was the leader of a group of cultists out in the desert who turned cannibal. He liked to quote famous writers. I admit the last one is a bit of an anachronism. Pitching him as a Communist might be easy after "cannibal" is already accepted. It was on Christmas Island that Australian officials began to taunt the asylum seekers with lurid tales of cannibals and malaria-tainted mosquitoes. Apparently he was driven by a passion of hatred against them which made him willing to sacrifice his son in order to bring upon them the horror of being cannibals. Siriraj Hospital reviewed the matter last year, removed the sign on his display case calling him a "cannibal" last June and then withdrew his body from public view last August.

reprobate

a person without moral scruples There's no way around it, a ~ is a bad egg. The black sheep of the family, missing a moral compass — a ~'s been called everything from a deviant to an evildoer to a scoundrel. Selfish, depraved, disreputable, a ~ is not known for his inner goodness. In fact, ~s were once considered "rejected by God," the meaning of the noun in the 1500s. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, a ~ was a popular literary character, sometimes amusing, as noted in Henry James' Daisy Miller, "What a clever little ~ she was, and how smartly she played an injured innocence!" All the banks and trains around here, and you reprobates choose to rub us? Why not? You are all here indulging your particular vices and so I have come to indulge mine. He's a reprobate with no confidence in grace, reduced to keeping his spirit afloat with a mixture of self-deprecating irony and the affectations of civility. He did so for a university that presumably believes there's somebody looking down upon us, expecting us to tell the truth and stuff like that, and monitoring our ventures into the reprobate side of life. This unfailingly polite young lady — "Yes, please," "No, please" — jabs the old reprobate in the eye and runs off. Throughout the interview he describes himself, variously, as the "serial pest nuisance of Melbourne" and "an old reprobate, easily forgiven".

knacker's yard

a place where old or injured animals are taken to be slaughtered. a state or condition of being discarded or rejected as no longer useful or required. If corporate does want us to cut costs, our fearless leader's old hosts aren't the only things ready for the knacker's yard. "in 1989, the firm was ready for the knacker's yard"

configuration

a shape or outline; a method of arrangement When you position items into any spatial arrangement, you are creating a ~, or specific shape. For example, scientists refer to the specific, bonded arrangement of atoms to make a molecule as a ~. The root of ~ presents pretty much the current meaning, with the Latin configūrāre meaning "to mold or shape." You can see the word figure in the middle, which presents the idea of a physical form that's being shaped. As an example: the specific ~, or arrangement, of the genes in your DNA is what makes you the unique individual that you are. Do you have access to your previous configuration? In very rare cases, the glitch might be caused by a configuration mismatch on the user's side. Knowing that takeoff configuration couldn't be the cause, they assumed that the problem was the horn itself and switched it off, only realizing their mistake when the oxygen masks dropped in the cabin. In 2019, the jet stream held in more of a summer configuration throughout the month and even into early October, remaining well north of Washington. "It was a great band, and it was just about to break up, so this is one of the last recordings of this particular configuration," Mr. Kelley said in a Zoom interview.

errand

a short trip to do something; daily chores; An ~ is a short trip to fulfill some small business. When you're running ~s, you're making a bunch of these all at once. The noun ~ can refer to the mission of the trip itself. If the lines are always long at the bank, then banking may be your least favorite ~. If you are off on a wild goose chase, you may be out on a fool's ~. If you are taking food or clothing to someone in need, then you are on an ~ of mercy. Ask a friend to share errands or shopping. Readers will also recall that she referred to Sondland's work to advance the investigation of the Bidens as a "domestic political errand." To try to guess how this will end is a fool's errand. Likewise, while Soros was, as a student, sent to run errands at the Judenrat, a council of Jews whom the Nazis forced to do their bidding, he did not round up Jewish people.

reverie

a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream If you're relaxing on the beach, dreaming of how you will never have to get up and go back to work, you're engaged in a reverie, or pleasant daydream. There's nothing wrong with reverie, but if you follow its path into English, you'll see how closely it is connected to madness. The noun is from French rêverie, from a Middle French word meaning "wild speech, delirium," from rever "to roam, speak wildly." Middle French rever is also the source of English rave, as in raving mad. Its mood of poetic reverie is greatly enhanced by the setting. Her face was bathed in swirling, jewel-toned light, and she sometimes grinned and closed her eyes, as if momentarily lost in a dance-floor reverie. It's a gorgeous, lofty waltz, with synthesizers billowing around acoustic guitars and vocal harmonies, as Wasner sings an enigmatic reverie about "losing the old for the new, like so much desire." Trump goes off in "a reverie" about the "beautiful sight" of the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier.

posse

a temporary police force A ~ is group of people who help the police force when necessary. In a classic Western movie, when the sheriff gathers together a ~, its members usually work to find and arrest the bad guys. The classic image of a ~ is from the Old West, of a group of armed cowboys on horses, in pursuit of an outlaw. Originally the term was ~ comitatus, Latin meaning the force of the country. Today, the word ~ is used most often to refer to a group of friends or people with some common interest, in a somewhat joking way, like your ~ that gets together to hit all the garage sales together. This guest already took out an entire posse. Do you want me to slow him down? Beware the white mobs, militias, and posses that are desperate to establish their own brand of justice. Another group grumbled about the time a posse of college kids appeared with beer-filled coolers. Groups are called posses, everything keeping in the Western theme.

rind

a thick and firm outer coat or covering, as of certain fruits, cheeses, and meats

probation

a trial period during which one's abilities are tested A ~ is a period of time when a criminal needs to be on their best behavior: they're not in jail (yet or anymore) but they have to do certain things demanded by the court. Being put on criminal ~ is like getting a second chance before more serious penalties apply: you might have to pay a fine, do community service, or be monitored to make sure you don't get into any more trouble. Some criminals are released from jail early and put on ~. People also talk about ~ for non-criminal issues: there could be a ~ period for joining a club, when they check you out before deciding to let you in. Madam is listed as probationary but her performance has continued to decline even further. He was sentenced to spend 45 days in prison, along with three years' probation, but allowed to serve only on weekends. For that, he was sentenced to 45 days in prison, a $20,000 fine, and three years of probation. Nebraska allows felons to vote after a two-year waiting period that begins once they've finished their sentence as well as any parole or probation. The gun charge would add five years of probation to his sentence after any release.

cornhusker

a worker who husks corn On account of you being a cornhusker, tell me which half is which, I'll search that half. They may not like Chambers' attitude in the super-conservative cornhusker state, but they are certainly listening to him now. When he was the musical director on the comedian Steve Allen's television show in the 1960s, Mr. Allen told him that he looked more like "a Nebraska cornhusker." Hence the "cornhusker kickback" Sen. Ben Nelson was able to extract for Nebraska and the "Louisiana purchase" Sen. Mary Landrieu got for her state. Maud explained that, except "out-of-towners," the married men were the chief support of their profession—"and most of the cornhuskers are married men, too."

sentient

able to see or feel things through the senses; conscious Someone ~ is able to feel things, or sense them. ~ usually occurs in phrases like "~ beings" and "~ creatures," making it clear that things that don't have life don't have feelings. Explain that to a pet rock. ~ comes from the Latin ~-, "feeling," and it describes things that are alive, able to feel and perceive, and show awareness or responsiveness. Having senses makes something ~, or able to smell, communicate, touch, see, or hear. Whether or not plants and living things other than animals and people are ~ depends on whom you ask. Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool, the mistake. There's setting the bar low, and then there's alleging your opponent isn't sentient. The music video, which Timothy created with the artist Max Valizadeh, takes that idea a step further - depicting an audio file that becomes sentient, before managers and labels capture and multiply it. Everything is goofy: the most difficult bosses are sentient office supplies, and there are multiple surprise musical numbers and performances, including a multipart stage play that ends in a Shy Guy ballet. Three eyes — of a baby squid, a human and a hurricane — indicate sentient life.

aberrant

abnormal or deviant; deviating from the norm Use the adjective ~ to describe unusual conduct. Sitting in a bathtub and singing show tunes all day long might be considered ~ behavior. For conduct that departs from the norm, ~ is at hand to describe it if you want to set a formal, or even scientific tone to the discussion. You can put the accent on either the first syllable (AB-er-ent) or the second (uh-BER-ent); both pronunciations are acceptable. The Latin root aberrare means "to go astray," from the prefix ab- "off, away" plus errare "to wander." Other descendants of errare in English, like error and errant, have that double -r- and also refer to something that's either not wanted or not expected. abhorrent / aberrant Abhorrent describes something truly horrible like finding a dead rat in your soup, but something aberrant is just abnormal, like a cat in a pink fedora. Is contamination with a living virus — which presupposes the messy materiality of actual bodies — the same as a "virtual infection" with a piece of aberrant malware, or a catchy idea propagated via social media? But there's so much aberrant about America right now that nothing, presented in the right voice by the right messenger, seems especially outlandish. Lockdown was such a singular, aberrant scenario, a strange and emotionally exhausting rollercoaster. Perhaps, however, as observed in more severe cases of coronavirus, the virus may trigger an aberrant immune response, resulting in ongoing inflammation throughout the body, which may last far beyond clearance of the virus.

slack

adj. loose, negligent, lazy, weak; v. neglect to so one's duties; loosen up, relax; n. period of little work If you slow down at the end of a race, you ~ off. When you use ~ this way, it means to reduce your speed, to be sluggish, or to be negligent. If something is loose, it's also said to be ~. A clothesline, for example, is ~ if it is just hanging loosely between two trees. If you pull the clothesline tight, you reduce the ~. The root word of slack is the Old English word slæc, which means "loose or careless." When you scold your friend for being careless about his responsibilities, you can say, "Pick up the ~!" "He will now face justice for his acts," the police said on Twitter, posting a photo of Guevara in black slacks and a cream-colored polo shirt standing in front of a van marked "Interpol." Around 2:30 p.m., hours before Voth was rocked, Martinez looked like this on a Zoom call with reporters: hat covering his face, shoulders slack against his chair. "It's the ways I've been raised by my parents. I'm never going to slack in the classroom and try to do my best on and off the field." During one board meeting, a district official tried to argue that teachers would slack off if they stayed home.

booze

alcohol Here, drugs and booze are banned except for this one 12-hour period a year. Humour abounds, along with copious amounts of booze and cake. This goes down easy, but that booze will hit you later. The Democrats' biggest donors are used to being feted at the party's national convention, breezing through a maze of tiered luxury suites and V.I.P. rooms with free-flowing appetizers, access and booze.

bandit

an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band A ~ is a robber, thief, or outlaw. If you cover your face with a bandanna, jump on your horse, and rob the passengers on a train, you're a ~. A ~ typically belongs to a gang of ~s who commit crimes in remote, lawless, or out-of-the-way places. A bus traveling through an isolated location that's not policed might be at risk for being attacked by ~s. The word ~ comes from the Italian bandito, "outlaw," from the Vulgar Latin bannire, "to proclaim or proscribe," by way of a Germanic root that's shared by ban. Defence Minister Jaime Neto said recently that the only help Mozambique requests of its neighboring countries "is vigilance at the borders to prevent bandits from entering our territory." Seven of the most dangerous convicts—including two Al Spencer Gang members and a bandit who was nicknamed Boxcar, because of his giant size—were attempting to escape. The journey was long and very hazardous because of the bandits that beset the road. Mr. Saxon, who died July 25 at age 83, went on to appear in nearly 200 television and film roles over the next six decades, often playing brooding lawmen or gunslinging bandits.

buckaroo

another name for cowboy or cowhand local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `~' is used especially in California) Let's go get our feet wet, buckaroo! As any moviegoer knows, at the end of the cattle drive, the buckaroos celebrate at the saloons, gambling, drinking and being entertained with barrelhouse piano and dancing girls. "I was a hurtin' buckaroo," he told the publication Canadian Christianity. In an effort to attract a more diverse fan base, the new Dallas Cowboys logo features a buckaroo in chaps toting two feather boas. Sundays are all-ages, so if you've got a little buckaroo looking to hear some twang, it's the ideal place to push the limits of their bedtime.•

uptight

anxious or angry in a tense and overly controlled way; Tense and nervous; rigid To be ~ is to be tense. When you're ~, you're stressed out and anxious. If your friends are always telling you to relax, you may be a little ~. People who are ~ tend to be stressed out. Your worried grandmother might be considered ~, and so might your sister's angry teacher who is always yelling at the class. The adjective ~ was first used as popular slang in the 1930's to mean "tense." In the 1960's, the connotation changed to "straight-laced" or "conservative." For a brief time, ~ appeared in jazz slang meaning "excellent." The oldest, Maryanne, was the uptight good girl; Freddy was the laid-back rebel; Elizabeth was the unassuming middle child; Rob was the baby, quiet and eager to please. Several times she beseeched the crowd to quieten down, gently at first, imploringly: "It really puts me uptight and I forget the words and I get nervous," she told them three songs in. If only the uptight U.S. citizens would get over themselves about this. American movies were too uptight to get into that kind of alternative reality.

regiment

army unit smaller than a division, which is consisted of several battalions Use the word ~ to describe a military unit that is smaller than a division: "Geoff's new ~ consisted of three battalions that had been based in Alabama." Most often used as a noun to describe a military unit made up of several battalions, the word ~ can also be used as a verb. If you ever need to assign troops to a ~, you might say something like, "Next week I will ~ the ground forces arriving from North Dakota." The verb form can also be used in a more general sense to describe any action that is characterized by strict order or control: "Her diet is strictly ~ed to include only Sugar Babies." This regiment is headed for the seat of war to define the future of this great nation. We fight for a free land where no man has to bow. He halted the entire regiment outside the barn and turned to Log-a-Log. "At this point in the disease, the issue is more about inflammation and clotting, which is likely why these four drug regiments showed little value." In December 2017, Sweden decided to establish the nation's first new military regiment since World War II - a unit of 350 soldiers based on the strategically important Baltic Sea island of Gotland.

entity

being; anything having existence, either physical or mystical موجود، موجودیت If your little sister turns her lemonade stand into a lemonade empire, she might incorporate it as a company. Under the law, it would be considered an ~, or a separate being for purposes of government control. The word ~ originally meant "being, existence," and was borrowed from Medieval Latin entitas, from Latin ens, irregular form of esse "to be, exist." The suffix -ity means "quality or state." Medieval Christian philosophers, influenced by the Church Fathers and Aristotle, discussed the concept of ens "abstract being" versus esse "actual being." Treasury Department's Specially Designated Nationals list, the assets of the entities and individuals falling under U.S. jurisdiction are frozen and U.S. persons are generally barred from dealing with them. He said he did not immediately hear back from them and that a lawsuit against any entity involved in allowing Dolloff to work without a license was a possibility in order to "open a conversation." Similar to Penumbra, which used a name from Inuit mythology for a basically unrelated entity, Rebirth nods very lightly to Arabic folklore by way of H.P. The U.S. last year imposed sanctions on 14 people and 17 entities connected to the research agency.

breech

buttocks; the end of the barrel attached to the firing mechanism of a firearm where the cartridge is loaded and unloaded A ~ is an opening in a gun where bullets are loaded. If you're battling armed zombies, remember that the ~ is in the rear. Speaking of rears, in a ~ birth, a baby comes out feet, or rear, first. Guns or rifles can either be loaded from the back part — called the ~ — or from the front — called the muzzle. Most modern guns are loaded from the ~ end. And if you're single-handedly fighting a zombie army, you'd better hope your weapon is ~-loading; it's much safer and faster to load a gun from the ~. First, we should note that for high risk women, this is not likely to be an option—this includes women whose babies are breech, or those with other pregnancy complications. "It also uses a redesigned cab, new breech design and new 'muzzle brake,'" a senior Army weapons developer told Warrior in a previous interview earlier in the program's development.

resurrect

cause to become alive again To ~ is to bring someone back from the dead. You can also ~ things that are inactive or out of use. If you've ever seen someone bring a dead person back to life in a science fiction or fantasy movie, you saw them ~ someone. Turning someone into a zombie or vampire is a type of ~ing, and in the Bible Jesus ~s Lazurus. Also, this word can apply to any kind of revival. A song can ~ faded memories. A forgotten project can be ~ed if you start it up again. ~ing always involves bringing something back to life. We've managed to slip evolution's leash now, haven't we? We can cure any disease, keep even the weakest of us alive, and in one fine day perhaps we shall even resurrect the dead, call forth Lazarus from his cave. Ten years later, popular demand obliged Conan Doyle to resurrect the great detective, whereupon Watson moved right back into the Baker Street flat. "The president is not trying to resurrect a categorical-immunity claim," the lawyers wrote. She was happy to resurrect outdoor dining recently by placing a single table on the front patio, where takeout orders are retrieved. But it's resurrected with punch in "What Are You Going Through."

generic

characteristic of an entire class or species; of a genus Generic refers to the members of a whole class of things — like "tissue," a generic word for any soft, thin piece of paper that's good for wiping runny noses. A generic product, whether it's a tire or donuts or drug, is typical of all other products like it. There's nothing distinctive or unique about it. A generic fan looks and acts just like dozens of other fans — it doesn't spin backwards or send out sparks. Generic aspirin doesn't have a trademark, like Bayer or St. Joseph: it's just plain aspirin. 1. shared by, including or typical of a whole group of things; not specific "'Vine fruit' is the generic term for currants and raisins." ​2. (of a product, especially a drug) not using the name of the company that made it "The doctor offered me a choice of a branded or a generic drug." ​3. (disapproving) (of a film, song, story, etc.) lacking imagination and so not original "The movie was pretty boring, with a generic storyline and emotionless characters." An agreement between the US government and Kodak to develop generic drug ingredients appears to be on hold, after the US International Development Finance Corporation tweeted that "recent allegations of wrongdoing raise serious concerns." Listen to the generic "disco" playing in the background. Not that this generic gangland banger, written and directed by David Ayer, remotely deserves the comparison. Ninety percent of U.S. prescriptions are filled with generic medicines, and the majority of generic ingredients are sourced overseas, especially China and India.

hygiene

cleanliness; measures contributing to cleanliness and good health ~ is any practice or activity that you do to keep things healthy and clean. Washing hands, coughing into your elbow, and regular house cleaning are all part of good ~. Hygieia was the Greek goddess of health, cleanliness and sanitation, so it's not hard to see where the word ~ comes from. Good oral ~ includes brushing and flossing your teeth, and working in a clean kitchen helps promote food ~. You have a better chance of staying healthy during flu season -and any other time- if you practice good personal ~, such as washing your hands frequently. My prescription would be for all of us as Americans to expand our definition of civic obligation: not just to vote, but to practice and proselytize proper media hygiene during an election. "We consistently stress to all employees the critical importance of personal responsibility, good hygiene practices, and adherence to all recommended covid prevention protocols," Vernarelli said. "It is clear that the extreme overcrowding, poor hygiene, and lack of access to adequate health care in the Egyptian prison system endanger the health and lives of all detainees," the lawmakers say. For proper optical hygiene, for example, I suggested vigorously scouring your eyeballs with a toothbrush.

relentless

continuous, unstoppable; unyielding, harsh, without pity ~ is a good word for describing something that's harsh, unforgiving, and persistent, like the hot sun in the desert, or a cold that keeps you in bed for days with a nose like a strawberry. When you're ~ about something, you mean business. You're not stopping until you get what you want, and you're not taking "no" for an answer. People might try to steer you from your goal, but you have eyes only for the prize and they're just going to have to get out of your way. If you're a ~ student, for instance, you might stay up all night studying your vocabulary, just in case there might be a quiz in the morning. But it was darkly fascinating to watch her relentless femininity — her excuse me's and pardon me's and God bless you's — and how she skillfully wielded it on behalf of a mostly male administration. For students, they bring relentless family expectations and often debilitating stress. Now China is using its global footprint in a relentless effort to win the race to develop and deploy an effective vaccine. Faith Rivera, a community activist in Kansas City, Kansas, called Coleman "a relentless kid" and "horrible."

aquiline

curved; hooked; of or like an eagle; eaglelike ~ means like an eagle, so if someone tells you you have an ~ nose, it means your nose looks like an eagle's beak. Believe it or not, this is a compliment. ~ comes from the Latin word aquila, for eagle. The ancient Greeks and Romans were crazy about eagles, and thought that if you saw an eagle flying on a significant day, like a battle, it was a sign that you were going to win. So it was a big compliment to say someone's features were ~. It almost always refers to a long, curving nose. We also call it a "Roman nose." Some locals thought that Comstock, with his aquiline nose and tan complexion, might be part American Indian—an impression that he did little to discourage as he built up his legal practice. We shall meet the same large dark eyes under curved brows, the same small mouths and long, narrow, slightly aquiline noses countless times from now on in Byzantine art. One of the arms was missing as well as Berengaria's aquiline nose. The hadiths talk of a Mahdi with a first name and father's name similar to the prophet's, and features outlined by a large forehead and a pronounced thin, aquiline nose.

bespoke

custom-made; made to order The man in the ~ suit is likely to be either the best-dressed or the most overdressed person at your backyard barbecue, depending on how you look at it. ~ means custom-made. Clothing that's made to order, tailored especially for you, is called ~. It's an adjective that is more common in Britain than in the United States. ~ can also describe non-clothing items that are made-to-order, as well as the person who makes such things: a ~ jeweler. The term was originally bespoken, meaning "spoken of or arranged beforehand." Obviously, if you wanted a custom-made suit, you had to make arrangements before buying it. Everything is bespoke and exactly your size. Sure, the Drew Martin virtual salon, with its low-dose joints, bespoke cocktails and floral-themed desserts, gets some of the credit for the metamorphosis. The dramatized segments include a fictional trio of sociopaths working inside an unnamed social network to design bespoke push notifications to distract their users. Large drug companies tend to opt for bespoke software with actual medical devices for traditional trials, industry experts say, rather than rely on ResearchKit. "This bespoke acoustic system delivers high-fidelity stereo sound with deep bass, natural mids, and clear, detailed treble," Sennheiser said in its press release.

eloquent

expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively When you're ~, you have a way with words. An ~ speaker expresses herself clearly and powerfully. Even though ~ usually describes oral speech, it can also be used to describe powerful writing. Being ~ is about using words well. All the great writers from English class — such as Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, and Virginia Woolf — were ~. A great orator or speaker like Martin Luther King was ~. When something is beautifully, gorgeously, perfectly said (or written), it's ~. Being ~ requires your words to be smooth, clear, powerful, and interesting. To write or speak in an ~ way takes a lot of work. Is that the best thanks you could muster? You used to be a little more eloquent. He is best-known for his eloquent essays calling for democracy, but he argued that humor is also essential in undermining authoritarian rulers. If a university does not produce the occasional eloquent skiver or unquenchably verbal time-waster, it is not fulfilling its true end. "I am very surprised to hear what is a very eloquent statement and I agree with it," said Ocen. Indeed, given everything we're going through, I would expect at least a few eloquent indictments of the way we're living now.

parsimony

extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources; frugality; stinginess; penny-pinching; thrift; miserlyness ~ is a noun to use when you are watching your money very carefully. So you're not just saving your pennies for a rainy day — you're clipping coupons, re-using dryer sheets, and refusing to pay full price for anything. It's not a bad thing to engage in a little ~. Related to an ancient Latin word meaning "to spare," ~ keeps your checking account in the black and your retirement plan well funded. But get a little too parsimonious and you might start to look like Uncle Scrooge — an old miser who learned the hard way that practicing extreme ~ doesn't win you love and admiration. The case for staying small need not be some scolding ode to parsimony. This is anathema to legislators who actually persuade their constituents that austerity, indiscriminate parsimony, is the highest good, whatever the consequences for public health or economic development. That same principle of parsimony provides much easier ways to understand what motivated Rosenstein. His precision was complemented by parsimony, proven by an economy rate of conceding an average of only 2.10 runs per over which is among the best in the game.

play coy

fake shyness; to avoid giving a direct or complete answer Let's pump her aggression. She is a hooker, no point in playing coy. When asked about his next book, he played coy.

arroyo

gully; narrow channel formed by rainwater Ever see a dried-out stream or brook that sometimes, after a good rain, is racing with water? That's an ~, or a creek that dries out and fills with water depending on the time of year and weather. The Arroyo Seco in Southern California is an example of a well-known ~. Its name, which translates from Spanish to mean "dry stream" is an apt way to describe what an ~ is — dry at times, and flowing at others. An ~ can be natural or man-made. The Los Angeles River, for example, is an ~ that runs along a concrete channel and helps distribute fresh water to the city. Follow the blood arroyo to the place where the snake lays its eggs. Appearing with farmers and walking alongside an arroyo, Torres Small said it was time to hold the federal government and banks accountable for mismanaging relief dollars. The agency builds the snowman with tumbleweeds collected from arroyos in the metro area and with recycled material. Delgado insisted the investigation was thorough: "There was no arroyo left unturned," he said, "and no trace of him found." The heavy steel wheels roll along a dizzying pattern of concrete railroad ties that snake through sandstone formations, boulder-laden arroyos, and grasslands.

repressed

held back; restrained; inhibited; oppressed If something is ~, it's restrained or held in. You may be full of ~ anger toward your brother over that terrifying incident from 4 years ago involving the frog and your hooded sweatshirt. The adjective ~ often describes emotions or desires, especially those that could be considered shameful or distressing. When an emotion is ~, you hold it inside so you don't have to show how you feel. Sometimes you aren't consciously aware that you're doing it. You might not even realize that you have a ~ longing for that cute guy in math class. A person who has many of these pent-up feeling is said to be ~. You don't need to be agro, do you? Just a quicker study of those repressed f**s walking through the door. In September, CBP said it planned a so-called withhold release order, or WRO, covering all cotton, textile, and tomato products from the country's northwestern Xinjiang region, where predominantly Muslim minority groups are allegedly being repressed. He first began to seriously consider exploring the war era while working on "Retribution," a 2006 horror film examining how the spirit of repressed tragedy animates modern violence. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights says more than 300 people died after the government violently repressed those demonstrations. Yet the fatherly persona also brings with it an eccentric and an authoritarian approach to leadership, experts contend, in which opposition parties are routinely repressed, imprisoned, and sometimes "disappeared" without a trace.

virile

masculine; manly You'll often hear the word ~ referring to a manly, powerful man, because the word means having physical strength and other typical masculine qualities. When you think of a ~ man, you imagine a tough, strong guy who's full of energy, vigor, and sexual potency. He's definitely not a wimp. Men admire him and women want to be with him. Superman is one guy who could easily be described as ~. The Man of Steel, with his muscles rippling under the "S" emblazoned on his costume, has superhuman strength and charm. That's why Lois Lane can't keep her eyes — and hands — off him. He's very virile - I'm sure he wouldn't mind me saying that! A virile Roosevelt is on horseback, proudly and freely flanked by an equally muscular Native American and a robust black man. Instead, he argued, the troops should be listening to "something more virile". Douglas, one of the most famous American leading men of the mid-20th century, was remembered for his dimpled chin, chiseled features, and virile Hollywood roles.

demented

mentally ill; insane syn: deranged; insane ant: sane ~ is an adjective describing behavior that is crazy, unhinged, or insane. Someone is ~ when they have gone off the deep end. ~ literally means "suffering from dementia," although in current culture it is used quite often to tease a sibling or good friend: "My brother thinks I am ~ because I like to eat peanut butter and salami sandwiches." Deeming himself formerly Trump's "demented follower," "fixer and designated thug," Cohen's foreword begins en route to Trump's impeachment trial, where the lawyer testified earlier this year. It reads like watching the slow passing of a long and demented cortege. This may be the best anthropological explanation for the demented and relentless "hunting" of Clinton and her husband. The first days were unspeakable, with an accent that vacillated between demented Valley Girl and Southern Belle with cognitive difficulties.

righteous

morally right or justifiable Do you consider yourself a moral person, who tries to do good and be good? If the answer is yes, you are ~ — in the right. Being ~ literally means to be right, especially in a moral way. Religious people often talk about being ~. In their view, the ~ person not only does the right thing for other people but also follows the laws of their religion. Heroes like Martin Luther King are often called ~. On the other hand, this word can be a little negative. If you call someone self-~, it means they're a little too sure they're right and better than other people. The problem with the righteous is that they can't shoot. While the album explores an underlying current of righteous anger and hopelessness, there are times these feelings are transformed into personal agency. Nonetheless, Cameron showered his colleagues with public praise — not for going above and beyond like Hollywood's versions of righteous prosecutors, but for essentially doing their jobs. Lewis said he was arrested some 45 times, all for getting into what he called "good trouble," raising a ruckus for a righteous cause. One of the themes of the holiday suggests that very righteous people would die at the end of the year because they were needed until the very end.

gourd

n. A melon, pumpkin, squash, or some similar fruit having a hard rind. A ~ is a squash-like plant with a hard, colorful skin. You'll often find gourds decorating the table at Thanksgiving. You can think of ~ as decorative fruit — like a squash, a ~'s not a vegetable, strictly speaking, but unlike squash, most ~s aren't much good for eating. In fact, the word is often used for the dried, hollowed skin of a ~, which has been used for centuries as a container, musical instrument, scoop, or drinking vessel. If someone says, "You're out of your ~!" they mean you've lost your senses. North America's first gardeners were those who got tired of combing the undergrowth for edible gourds and decided to cultivate pumpkins. Wah said she is excited for the Thai pumpkin and bitter gourd to produce. If he's like "Ah, yes, the devil's playing cards," then don't waste your money on something he's obviously going to lose his gourd about. Red, with them gourd shapes spread across it in black.

varnish

n. paint used to coat a surface with a glossy film; glossy coating produced by using this substance; Ex. nail ~ v. cover with ~ ~ is a shiny coating that's painted on a floor or piece of furniture and then dries clear and luminous. After refinishing an old oak chair, you might apply a coat of ~. (Just don't sit on it until it's dry.) ~ gives artwork, furniture, and other objects a finished, glossy look, and it also protects the surface. Most ~ is made from oil, solvent, and resin. You can also use the word as a verb, meaning "to coat with ~." Many people decide to ~ their wood floors or their wooden kitchen counters. The Medieval Latin root word is vernix, "odorous or fragrant resin." Sometimes called wood alcohol, methanol is widely used in antifreeze, varnishes, cologne, copying machine fluids, paint and fuel. Written in red varnish on the victim's fingernails are the words "Two Faced." This is the part of history that too often gets a good coat of varnish: Comfort doesn't bring change; only good trouble does. They ranged from ordinary no-name trains to famed luxury "varnish" such as the Santa Fe's Super Chief, frequented by movie stars, and the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited.

dissonant

not in harmony; disagreeing, at odds; inharmonious; harmonically unresolved If things don't go together well, you can call them ~. ~ voices are saying different things. ~ clothing choices clash. ~ chords lack harmony. The word ~ comes from the Old French dis- meaning "apart" and sonare meaning "to sound." When a noise is ~, it sounds like it's broken apart, or not meshing together well. ~ doesn't have to describe just music or sounds. It can also refer to something that clashes or doesn't fit well together. When two people's versions of a story are ~, that means they don't match. Either one of them is lying or they just don't see eye-to-eye. I reviewed every dissonant episode I could find. If this is not a dissonant episode, then whatever Abernathy had could be contagious. One of his liveliest, "Two Women at a Window," at the National Gallery of Art, confronts the viewer with similarly dissonant gazes. With two pianos and no accompaniment, Blake and Carlberg explore a wide variety of compositions, from Ellington-Strayhorn standards to obscure Hollywood film fare and dissonant music from Greece and Catalonia. So the critical questions are: "What disturbs us? What is dissonant? What seems anomalous? What is contrary to expectation?" There was a loud dissonant jumble, like a music lesson before the teacher arrives.

regal

of or like a king or queen; royal Even though he was homeless, Dan had a ~ bearing. ~ is an adjective that describes things that appear to be royal. There are several synonyms for ~, but they all have slightly different meanings. Reserve ~ for those instances when the person or thing truly seems like it wants to be the queen, actually is the queen, or looks like it might belong to the queen. My French teacher has a truly ~ bearing: she stands stick-straight, with her chin in the air, and acts as though she's the queen and we're her court. A ~ attitude from a trembling Chihuahua is the height of irony: that little bugger couldn't rule a cat-box, let alone a whole country. regal, strong, virile, aquiline. That's what I asked for. By reducing the size of the city's flock, Lakeland officials said they hope to see fewer of the regal birds annually struck and killed by motorists. The directors admitted they were "very scared" to spend time with Ginsburg, mostly because there's "something very regal about her." On the court, she became an iconic figure to a new wave of young feminists, and her regal image as the "Notorious RBG" graced T-shirts and coffee mugs. A barrel-chested, regal man, the 63-year-old was left so weak that a task as simple as sipping soup with a plastic spoon leaves him exhausted.

leverage

something which gives help or advantage If you have ~, you hold the advantage in a situation or the stronger position in a contest, physical or otherwise. The lever is a tool for getting more work done with less physical force. With the right ~, you might be able to lift a heavy box. This refers to non-physical situations too: the power to move or influence others is also ~. Since your boss has the power to fire you, that's a lot of ~ to get you to do what he wants. If your friend owes you a favor, you have ~ to get a favor of your own.

judas steer

steer that is trained to lead the other steers into the slaughterhouse

befriend

to become friends with There are many ways to make someone your friend. You can offer assistance with a project, or provide comfort at a time of loss. Perhaps the easiest way to ~ someone, however, is just to smile and say "hi." The prefix "be-" is from Old English, and has several meanings. In ~, the meaning is "cause to be," so to ~ someone is to cause him or her to be your friend. Mahatma Gandhi once said, "It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to ~ the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business." Our most skilled guests will fight their ways to the outer limits of the park, besting fearsome braves, seducing nubile maidens, befriending tragically ill-fated sidekicks, and of course, like all our best narratives over the years, our guests will have the privilege of getting to know the character they are most interested in: themselves. (best: defeat) Gentry befriended Blur's Graham Coxon and secured Pulp support slots and a Levi's modeling contract. He is also befriending Chinese students in Italy. The group of bodybuilders he befriends there all play characters - they invent personas, change their names to things like "Mousy" and "Portuguese Rambo". White befriended one of the group's members at the Berkeley rally.

tilt

to cause to lean, incline, slope, or slant شیب تمایل داشتن، گرایش داشتن، کج شدن ~ is both a noun and a verb. It has many shades of meaning, but most involve a slope or slant. When you're dizzy from eating too much, you might ~ when you walk away from the table. The verb ~ can also indicate a slight preference for one thing over another. When Mavis and Marvin argue, you tend to ~ toward Marvin's point of view, meaning you think he's probably right — you lean in that direction. As a noun ~ can mean a steep slant. When you climb Everest, you'll find that the face of the mountain is at a dangerous ~ — it's very steep. tilt your head back please, Peter. There was a significant gender gap in the 2016 election, too, but at that time it tilted toward Mr. Trump because men supported him so heavily, according to exit polls. As more of American suburbia reportedly tilts toward Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden ahead of the November election, the suburbs on the outskirts of Milwaukee remain a bulwark of support for President Trump. "What I'm going to be watching is how do those urban suburbs behave and do they tilt more Democratic than what we normally expect," Bitzer highlighted. The good news is that as the Northern Hemisphere tilts farther from the sun, the sun's rays are less direct, and cooler daytime temperatures result, along with cooler nights.

wriggle

to move by twisting like a worm; to squirm To ~ is to squirm and twist quickly. Think of how hard it is to hold a rambunctious puppy as it ~s in your arms. ~ sounds a lot like wiggle, and the two words very nearly mean the same thing. There is a subtle difference, though: when you ~, you twist, turn, or bend as you move. When you wiggle, you make more of a back-and-forth motion. In fact, these two near-homonyms have completely different etymological sources. While wiggle stems from a Germanic root meaning "cradle," ~'s root means "to turn or bend." Look at that, I just shot him through the neck! And his pal here too! Look at her wriggle! Raheem Sterling wriggled through on goal inside two minutes but took a heavy touch. During these plays, kids wriggle, they giggle, they chat and stamp and sing along. It became too sad to wriggle into the Spider-Man suit after that. Johnston wriggles and squirms until her bonds are strategically released.

flatter

to praise inordinately especially when inspired by self-interest; to praise excessively or dishonestly When you ~ someone, you praise and compliment him or her — but you aren't totally sincere. You ~ your friend by telling her she's the best driver in the world. Because you want her to offer you a ride. The Old French flater originally meant "to stroke or caress," which is what you do to people's egos when you ~ them. When you ~, you probably want something — it could be as simple as wanting someone to like you. That's why people who meet celebrities tell them they're the greatest. More positively, if your hairstyle ~s your face, it emphasizes your best features. I flattered myself we were taking a more disciplined approach here. I suppose self-delusion is a gift of natural selection as well. Each filament contains multiple sensors, theoretically allowing the capture of more data than flatter arrays that sit at the brain's surface. The flattering camera angles, cosmetic lighting and, above all, the careful editing are absent. Ms. Harris said Mr. Trump was too busy fixating on the stock market and flattering Chinese President Xi Jinping despite his tough talk to get a handle on the COVID-19 crisis. Epps and Prince-Bythewood both confirmed at the time that the poster was a flattering fake; there were no sequel plans, and never would be.

overstimulated

too excited, to the point you can't even concentrate; overexcited; stimulate physiologically or mentally to an excessive degree; excessively stimulated The brain, responding to higher than normal dopamine levels, gets overstimulated. Sleep time is quite a problem for overstimulated children and their parents. A recent Brown University study of 494 elementary-school children found that 375 of them had trouble associated with sleep.

immersion

~ is the act of dipping something in a substance, completely covering it. It might be something physical, such as plunging your body into water, or metaphorical, such as becoming totally immersed in a project. The Latin background of ~ includes the root mergere, "to plunge." The idea of ~ as a physical submergence came first and the idea of something being absorbed in a situation came about later. The idea behind ~ is that of complete coverage, whether that be by water, as in Baptism, or by attention, as in "~ learning," an idea for learning a language trademarked in 1965 by the Berlitz company. 1. n. the act of wetting something by submerging it 2. n. (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse 1. n. the act of wetting something by submerging it Synonyms: dousing, ducking, submersion n. sinking until covered completely with water Synonyms: submergence, submerging, submersion n. a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged n. complete attention; intense mental effort Synonyms: absorption, concentration, engrossment 2. n. (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse Synonyms: ingress Antonyms: egress, emersion ((astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse) What is lost lies between the lines: details in plot, the beauty of an author's language, immersion into others' perspectives. But there is another option for finding that full immersion into the magic of the theater, and that's through podcasts. "The Cooper bill contained diatoms from summer bloom species suggesting that the money was not directly buried dry and the immersion happened months after the late November hijacking," the study's abstract states. If there was one moment that captured Barr's total immersion in Trump's ocean of self-deception and lies, it was that series of inane talking points.

critical

انتقادی، بحرانی، وخیم، قطعی The adjective ~ has several meanings, among them, "vital," "verging on emergency," "tending to point out errors," and "careful." If you're an emergency-room doctor with a patient in ~ condition (on the highest alert), it's absolutely ~l (vital or essential) that you be ~ (careful and judicious) in your approach to their care, so that at the ~ (decisive) moment, you can save their life. You must also be ~ (that is, you must point out all the errors and flaws) of the jobs your colleagues are doing. 1 adj. of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism "critical acclaim" adj .characterized by careful evaluation and judgment "a critical reading" "a critical dissertation" "a critical analysis of Melville's writings" Synonyms: appraising, evaluative (exercising or involving careful evaluations) discriminative, judicial (expressing careful judgment|) discerning (having or revealing keen insight and good judgment) scholarly (characteristic of scholars or scholarship) Antonyms: noncritical, uncritical (marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures) adj. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws "a critical attitude" Synonyms: captious, faultfinding (tending to find and call attention to faults) censorious (harshly critical or expressing censure) deprecative (given to expressing disapproval) hypercritical, overcritical (inclined to judge too severely) searing (severely critical) scathing, vituperative (marked by harshly abusive criticism) unfavorable, unfavourable (not encouraging or approving or pleasing) sarcastic (expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds) Antonyms: uncritical (not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors) 2 adj. urgently needed; absolutely necessary "a critical element of the plan" "critical medical supplies" Synonyms: vital indispensable (not to be dispensed with; essential) adj. forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis "a critical point in the campaign" "the critical test" Synonyms: decisive crucial, important (of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis) adj. being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency "a critical shortage of food" "a critical illness" "an illness at the critical stage" Synonyms: acute (of critical importance and consequence) dangerous, grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe (causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm) desperate, dire (fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless) crucial, important (of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis) Antonyms: noncritical, noncrucial (not in a state of crisis or emergency) 3 adj. at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction "a critical temperature of water is 100 degrees C--its boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure" "critical mass" "go critical" Synonyms: supercritical ((especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases) Antonyms: noncritical (not critical; not at a point of abrupt change)