veggie
noun
- vegetable
In addition to vitamin A, the veggie also provides lutein and zeaxanthin, two nutrients that are critical for eye health. — Emily Laurence, Good Housekeeping, 28 July 2022
carton
noun
- a box or container usually made of cardboard and often of corrugated cardboard
several cartons of books
a carton of orange juice
double
adjective
an egg with a double yolk
triple
adjective
- being three times as great or as many
quadruple
adjective
- being four times as great or as many
quintuple
adjective
- being five times as great or as many
sextuple
adjective
- being six times as great or as many
septuple
adjective
- being seven times as great or as many
octuple
adjective
- being eight times as great or as many
tug-of-war
noun
- a contest in which two teams pull against each other at opposite ends of a rope with the object of pulling the middle of the rope over a mark on the ground
tambourine
noun
- a shallow drum with one head and loose metal disks at the sides that is played by shaking or striking with the hand
syringe
noun
sledgehammer
noun
sit-up
noun
sequoia
noun
Redwoods are a type of sequoia.
sedan
noun
- a 2- or 4-door automobile seating four or more persons and usually having a permanent top
scorpion
noun
scooter
noun
receptionist
noun
pout
verb
- to show displeasure by thrusting out the lips or wearing a sullen expression
- to show displeasure by pushing out the lips
She pouted her lips and stared at him angrily.
The boy didn’t want to leave—he stomped his feet and pouted.
oak
noun
-
The table is solid oak.
noose
noun
nightingale
noun
hydrant
noun
grill
noun
She put the hamburgers on the grill.
gear
noun
dribble
verb
dribble a basketball
dribble a puck
He skillfully dribbled the soccer ball towards the goal.
detergent
noun
We have tried different laundry detergents.
We have tried different laundry detergents.
boomerang
noun
selfie
noun
- n image of oneself taken by oneself using a digital camera especially for posting on social networks
limerick
noun
- a light or humorous verse form of five chiefly anapestic verses of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of three feet and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet with a rhyme scheme of aabba
Lines 1, 2 and 5 of a limerick rhyme with one another, as do Lines 3 and 4. — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
stanza
noun
- a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme
The stanza in poetry is analogous with the paragraph in prose
prophesize
verb
Others say he could prophesize the future
dike
noun
- a bank of earth constructed to control water
kith
noun
- familiar friends, neighbors, or relatives
kith and kin
kin
noun
- one’s relatives : kindred
our neighbors and their kin
close kin
They are her distant kin.
invited all of his kith and kin to his graduation party