My English Words List - Jun - 2023

pediatrician

pediatrician

noun

A pediatrician examines a neonate.

Pediatrics

pedestrian

pedestrian

noun

Pedestrian signal in Santa Ana, California.

The car slid off the road and almost hit a group of pedestrians.

Pedestrian

adjective

pedestrian traffic

gondola

gondola

noun

  • an enclosed car suspended from a cable and used for transporting passengers
    especially : one used as a ski lift

paradigm

paradigm

noun

the Freudian paradigm of psychoanalysis

lucid

lucid

adjective

lucid writing

concordance

concordance

noun

a concordance of Shakespeare’s plays

funnel

funnel

noun

the funnel cloud of a tornado

rinse

rinse

verb

He washed the dishes and then rinsed them thoroughly.

I rinsed my face in the sink.

soapsuds

soapsuds

plural noun

Repeat this step as necessary until all the soap suds are gone.

ignition

ignition

noun

There’s a problem with the car’s ignition.

clothespin

clothespin

noun

Plastic clothespins on a clothesline

Clothespin

flask

flask

noun

Vacuum flask

marsh

marsh

noun

Marshlands are often noted within wetlands, as seen here in the New Jersey Meadowlands at Lyndhurst, New Jersey, U.S.

Marsh

swamp

swamp

noun

A black alder swamp in Germany

Swamp

precipitation

precipitation

noun

A thunderstorm with heavy precipitation

The weather forecast calls for some sort of frozen precipitation tomorrow—either snow or sleet.

a 50 percent chance of precipitation

Precipitation

drizzle

drizzle

noun

Drizzle in Norfolk, England.

Yes, it’s raining, but it’s only a drizzle.

Drizzle

verb

It was beginning to drizzle, so she pulled on her hood.

sleet

sleet

noun

An accumulation of ice pellets

The snow turned to sleet and made driving very dangerous.

Ice pellets

Ice pellets (Commonwealth English) or sleet (American English) is a form of precipitation consisting of small, hard, translucent balls of ice.

draft

draft

noun

  • a current of air in a closed-in space

felt a draft

gale

gale

noun

After a Gale – Wreckers by James Hamilton

  • a strong current of air

The boat was damaged in a strong gale.

Gale

blast

blast

noun

  • a violent gust of wind

She opened the door and felt a cold blast.

a cold blast of air

drought

drought

noun

Droughts cause a range of impacts and are often worsened due to climate change. Clockwise from top left: a dry lakebed in California, which is in 2022 experiencing its most serious megadrought in 1,200 years; Sandstorm in Somaliland due to drought; drought and high temperatures worsened the 2020 bushfires in Australia.; Droughts negatively impact agriculture in Texas.

The drought caused serious damage to crops.

Drought

breezy

breezy

adjective

breezy beaches

a breezy day

gluten

gluten

noun

Examples of sources of gluten (clockwise from top): wheat as flour, spelt, barley, and rye as rolled flakes

Gluten

Gluten-free diet

dimple

dimple

noun

the dimples on a golf ball

She noticed his dimples when he smiled.

how a massive object, such as the sun, causes a local dimple-like curvature of spacetime. – Relativity, a very short introduction, by Russell Stannard

verb

a baby’s dimpled hands

archery

archery

noun

Archery at the Summer Olympics

Archery

Archery at the Summer Olympics

track-and-field

track-and-field

adjective

Part of a track and field stadium

  • of, relating to, or being any of various competitive athletic events (such as running, jumping, and weight throwing) performed on a running track and on the adjacent field

Track and field

shot put

shot put

noun

Shot put area

  • a field event in which a shot is heaved for distance

Shot put

prerequisite

prerequisite

noun

the course is a prerequisite for advanced study

blogosphere

blogosphere

noun

The blogosphere as a network of interconnections

Blogosphere

augment

augment

verb

She took a second job to augment her income.

The money augmented his fortune.

Heavy rains augmented the water supply.

compost

compost

verb

We compost leaves in our backyard.

noun

While mulches and compost are slow-release fertilizers, liquid feeds release nutrients for a much quicker uptake to give plants a boost.

determinate

determinate

adjective

determinate tomato plants

a determinate period of time

a determinate answer

nanny

nanny

noun

A child and her nanny

  • a child’s nurse or caregiver

When I was growing up, I had a nanny.

During this time, Mi Li says a confinement nanny, called a yuesao, comes to live with the family.

Nanny

reaffirm

reaffirm

verb

a story that reaffirmed her belief in the goodness of humanity

reaffirmed her debt in order to keep her car

reaffirming the defendant’s innocence

hackathon

hackathon

noun

Engineers can build their network and get inspired during dedicated meetups, hackathons, sessions and lightning talks.

Hackathon

stab

stab

noun

the injection left a small stab on her upper arm

verb

He stabbed her with a dagger.

Stabbings at University of Waterloo send 3 to hospital, 1 person in custody