Friday

1.loft KK[lɔft] DJ[lɔ:ft]

From:Beyond the main room is a bathroom with a shower; upstairs is a tiny loft with a bed and storage for clothing.

n.

-a room or space directly under the roof of a house or other building, used for accommodation or storage

-a gallery in a church or hall

-a large, open area in a warehouse, factory, or other large building that has been converted into living space

-a pigeon house

2.dust KK[dʌst] DJ[dʌst]

From:The reason I've is mostly because I don't like vacuuming, and dusting.

n.

-fine, dry powder consisting of tiny particles of earth or waste matter lying on the ground or on surfaces or carried in the air

-any material in the form of tiny particles

-a fine powder

-a cloud ofdust

-a dead person's remains

3.hinge KK[hɪndʒ]  DJ[hindʒ]

From:Opposite the countertop, on the back of the now-displaced wall, he lowered a hinged worktop.

n.

-a movable joint or mechanism on which a door, gate, or lid swings as it opens and closes or which connects linked objects

-a natural joint which performs a function similar to that of a man-madehinge, for example that of a bivalve shell

-a central or pivotal point or principle on which everything depends

v.

-attach or join with or as if with a hinge

-(of a door or part of a structure) hang and turn on a hinge

-depend entirely on

4.briefcase KK[ˋbrif͵kes]  DJ[ˋbri:fkeis]

From:In Mr. Chang's solution, a kind of human-size briefcase, everything can be folded away so that the space feels expansive.

n.

-a leather or plastic rectangular container with a handle for carrying books and documents

5.extinction KK [ɪkˋstɪŋkʃən]DJ[iksˋtiŋkʃən]

From:Once hunted to the point of extinction, mountain lion populations are on the rise.

n.

-the state or process of a species, family, or larger group being or becoming extinct

-the wiping out of a debt

-reduction in the intensity of light or other radiation as it passes through a medium or object, due to absorption, reflection, and scattering