11/25

conceal (verb)

    To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
        e.g.: He tried to conceal the truth about his health.

confide (verb)

    To trust, have faith (in).
    To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.
        e.g.: I confide this mission to you alone.
    To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with. ( + in)
        e.g.: I could no longer keep this secret alone; I decided to confide in my brother.
    To say (something) in confidence.
        e.g.: After several drinks, I confided my problems to the barman.

consign (verb)

    To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
    To entrust to the care of another.
    To send to a final destination.
        e.g.: to consign the body to the grave

convey (verb)

    To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.
        e.g.: Air conveys sound; words convey ideas.
    To communicate; to make known; to portray.
        e.g.: to convey an impression; to convey information

cruise (noun)

    A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.

11/26

bulk (noun)

    Size, mass or volume.
    The major part of something.
    The result of water retained by fibre.

breadth (noun)

    The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is.
    A piece of fabric of standard width.
    Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.

broil (verb)

    To cook by direct, radiant heat.
    To expose to great heat.
    To be exposed to great heat.

radiant (adjective)

    Radiating light and/or heat.
        e.g.: the radiant sun
    Emitted as radiation.
    Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
        e.g.: a radiant face

bearing (adjective)

    Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
        e.g.: That's a bearing wall.

11/27

vicegerent (noun)

    The official administrative deputy of a ruler or head of state; viceregent.

credibility (noun)

    Reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.
        e.g.: After weeks of blowing smoke, her credibility with me was next to nil.

testimony (noun)

    Statements made by a witness in court.
    An account of first-hand experience.
    In a church service, a personal account, such as of one's conversion.
    Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.

accretion (noun)

    The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
    The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.
        e.g.: A mineral ... augments not by growth, but by accretion.
    Something added externally to promote growth the external growth of an item.
    concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.

coherence (noun)

    Quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency.
    a logical arrangement of parts
        e.g.: His arguments lacked coherence.

11/28

adjacent (adjective)

    Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
        e.g.: Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.
    Just before, after, or facing.
        e.g.: The picture is on the adjacent page.

antenna (noun)

    A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
    An apparatus to receive or transmit radio waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
    The faculty of intuitive astuteness.

intuitive (adjective)

    Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
        e.g.: The intuitive response turned out to be correct.
    Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
        e.g.: Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.
    Having a marked degree of intuition.

spontaneous (adjective)

    Self generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
        e.g.: He made a spontaneous offer of help.
    Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
    proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint
    arising from a momentary impulse

constrain (verb)

    to force physically, by strong persuasion or pressurizing; to compel; to oblige
    to keep within close bounds; to confine
    to reduce a result in response to limited resources

11/29

ignominy (noun)

    Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.

sandbox (noun)

    A children's play area consisting of a box filled with sand.
    A box filled with sand that is shaped to form a mould for metal casting.
    A container for sand or pounce, used historically before blotting paper.
    An isolated area where a program can be executed with a restricted portion of the resources available.
        e.g.: Running a program in a sandbox can prevent it from doing any damage to the system.

pounce (verb)

    To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder.
        e.g.: to pounce paper, or a pattern

perforate (verb)

    to pierce; to penetrate
    to make a line of holes in a thin material to allow separation at the line

meticulous (adjective)

    Timid, fearful, overly cautious.
    Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.