Wandering aimlessly, without direction
Loose from mooring and out of control
Lonely
Floating without control
What is adrift
100
A person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells
Strike, assault, assail
V. To assail with any missile or with abusive speech
Strike
What is bombard
100
Peculiar, off, deviating from the norm esp. in a whimsical way
Unconventional or strange
Odd
not conventional; a little kooky.
unusual; quirky; odd
Strange
Irregular
What is eccentric
100
to write down quickly
A very small amount
Miguel is taking notes of the mayor's speech. As he is taking notes, Miguel should
particle, white, iota
_______ was the only one of Abimelech's siblings to escape?
What is jot
200
Fall suddenly and steeply
To plunge or drop straight down
To fall straight down
What is plummet
200
Laugh quietly
Laugh inwardly
When you chuckle you laugh quietly
What is chuckle
200
Stale, moldy
A stale smell or outdated
Stale, moldy; out of date
Stale; spoiled by age
What is musty
200
(v.) to make or force one's way by pushing or elbowing; to bump, shove, brush against; to compete for
To push or shove
to make or force one's way by pushing or elbowing
v. to shove or push rudely; to come into close contact with; to collide
to shove hard
shove; bump (Eg: In the subway he was jostled by the crowds. )
What is jostle
200
compelling immediate action; pressing; persistent; importunate; Ex. urgent in his demands
calling for immediate action; pressing
Surgical pathology requiring treatment within a relatively short period of time is known as?
needing quick action or attention
What is urgent
300
Capricious;changeable
Unpredictable
Characterized by whim
Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable
What is whim
300
To spend foolishly, waste
To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
Spend
Throw away
To spend carelessly, waste, fritter, away, consume, exhaust
What is squander
300
pivotal
extremely important
(adj.) of supreme importance, decisive, critical
extremely necessary; essential
imperative
(adj.) of supreme importance, decisive, critica
What is crucial
300
Detached or separated, alone
set apart from other people or things
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
alone
remote and separate physically or socially
What is isolated
300
(n.) a peculiar way of acting; a sudden twist or turn
oddity
a peculiar behavior
n. a rapid twist and turn; an indivisual mannerism
startling twist; caprice
What is quirk
400
False
Fake
(adj.) not genuine, not true, not valid
(adj.) false but designed to seem plausible (Using a spurious argument, John convinced the others that he had won the board game on a technicality.)
(adj.) false but designed to seem plausible
What is spur
400
to handle very economically or stingily; to supply in a way that is small, short, or scanty
(v) to handle very economically
to handle stingily
(v.) To handle very economically or slightly; to supply in a way that is small, short, or scanty
What is scrimp
400
Discouraged, dejected, downcast
Sad and disappointed
Discouraged, downcast
despondent, disconsolate
What is crestfallen
400
A technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of the group.
A study, generally in the form of an interview or questionnaire, that provides researchers with information about how people think and act.
To measure
An investigation of one or more characteristics of a population
What is survey
400
dive
plummet
immerse
jump or dive quickly and energetically
to go down suddenly; to decrease by a great amount in a short time
to throw oneself into
What is plunge
500
alone
Alone, single, one
tending to spend a lot of time alone
(adj.) living or being alone; being the only one
done alone
happening or done alone
What is solitary
500
waste (time or money on unimportant things)
to spend or waste a little at a time
(v.) to squander away; (v.) to tear, break or cut into shreds
to reduce or squander little by little; to break, tear or cut into bits; shred
a person who spends their energy on something wasteful
What is fritter
500
bite or chew on with the teeth
bite at or nibble something persistently
to continue biting something for a long time / 갉아먹다, 갉아서 구멍을 내다
Bite steadily and persistently
persistently worrying or distressing
What is gnaw
500
about to fall apart or fall down
(adj.) appearing ready to collapse, loose and shaky
Ready to collapse
about to fall apart
What is ramshackle
500
Skins from fur-bearing animals.
to throw a stream of things
to throw stream of things, to strike successively, to hurry, (v.) to throw a stream of things; to strike successively; to hurry