In short; in summary: In a word, the situation is serious. in so many words 1. In precisely those words; exactly: hinted at impending indictments but did not say it in so many words. 2. Speaking candidly and straightforwardly: In so many words, the weather has been beastly. of few...
The wordracecaris apalindrome, as it’s spelled the same way backward as it is forward. 17. Paradox She was presented with quite aparadox–she knew she had to let her daughter fight her own battles, but she wanted to swoop in and take care of all of her problems for her. ...
"the dog barked all night" metal supports for logs in a fireplace;"the andirons were too hot to touch" a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked;often ...
afar(adv.) "from far, from a distance," a contraction of Middle Englishof feor(late 12c.),on ferr(c. 1300), from Old Englishfeor"far" (seefar); thea-(1) in compounds representing bothofandon(which in this use meant the same). Spelledaferin 14c. ...
The leader of the pack; the one everyone else follows. benighted Ignorant; not so much stupid, but backward. benthos The animals and plants, snails, anemones and such that live at the bottom of the sea. beset To set or stud with or as if with ornaments; example: a crown beset with ...
word-forming element meaning "back, back from, back to the original place;" also "again, anew, once more," also conveying the notion of "undoing" or "backward," etc. (see sense evolution below), c. 1200, from Old Frenchre-and directly from Latinre-an inseparable prefix meaning "again...
(or entropic)–our perceived state of the the physical world is that things move from order to chaos, so that as time moves forward, entropy increases. The third is cosmological–time moves in a direction we’d call “forward” as the universe expands and “backward” as the universe ...
Forward: Foreword is a noun that means the section at the beginning of a book that introduces the content: "I want to write a foreword to my memoir, but it can't be too revealing." Forward is a directional adverb that means coming up or up ahead (as opposed to backward): "Move ...
In English, words are spelled differently to indicate the past, present, and future. In basic sign language, you use your body to indicate tense. Signs for the present are signed in front of your body (TODAY and NOW), signs for past are signed moving backward (BEFORE and YESTERDAY), ...
This is the simplest game in the pack. Just print it and have your students take turns rolling a die, moving along the path, and reading the words .If they land on a number, they need to go forward or backward that number of spaces. ...