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Apogee or Perigee
The point in its orbit when a planet or satellite (usually the moon) is farthest from the earth.
Apogee
Before relocating to the city, his grandparents led a ____ lifestyle in the countryside.
Rustic
Terrestrial
1. Pertaining to the earth and its inhabitants; referring to land as distinct from water or air.
2. Referring to land as distinct from water or air.
To dig out of the ground or from a grave; to disinter.
Exhume
Repast or Rusticate
A meal; food served at a meal.
Repast
The balloons string escaped from the small boys hand and disappeared into the ____, never to be seen again.
Ether
Exhume
1. To dig out of the ground or from a grave; to disinter or to bring to life to uncover.
2. To bring to light; to uncover.
To bury; to place in a grave.
Inter
RUS, RURIS
Open land, country
Pastoral or Promontory
A high ridge of land jutting into a body of water; a headland
pastoral
Promontory
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse," she exaggerated. She would never, ever actually eat a horse; it was all ________.
Hyperbole
Mountebank
A swindler; a charlatan; a trickster.
Referring to the center of the earth in measurement or observation; considering the earth as the center of a planetary system.
Geocentric
PASTOR
Shepherd
Hyperborean or Hyperventilation
The condition of taking abnormally fast, deep breaths
Hyperventilation
Then it hit her. “Eureka!” The scientist cried, extending her gloved, pointed finger in the air as she had an ______.
Epiphany
Sycophant
A flatterer seeking favors or gain; a servile self-seeker.
The point in orbit in which a satellite or planet is nearest to the earth.
Perigee
AETHR, AITHER
Upper air, air
Sycophant or Pusillanimous
A flatterer seeking favors or gain; a servile self-seeker
Sycophant
Previous tests that the student failed ________ him from putting much effort into future ones.
Dispirited
1. Far north; Arctic.
2. Very cold; frigid.
Strong desire for achievement; ambition toward a long-range goal.
Aspiration
PHAINEIN
To show, to appear