My English Words List - March - 2025

foodie

foodie

noun

The restaurant is very popular among foodies.

morphine

morphine

noun

Two capsules (5 mg & 10 mg) of morphine sulfate extended-release

Opioids such as heroin, morphine and methadone were the most common drugs connected to fatalities, being implicated in 937 deaths. — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025

Morphine

morphology

morphology

noun

a: a study and description of word formation (such as inflection, derivation, and compounding) in language

b: the system of word-forming elements and processes in a language

Morphology (linguistics)

In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language.

flout

flout

verb

In 1971, John Wheeler pointed out to his graduate student Jacob Bekenstein that black holes seem to flout the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

linchpin

linchpin

noun

Because bees are a linchpin to the industry that feeds us. — National Geographic, 30 July 2019

excise

excise

noun

an excise imposed on a number of goods

Excise taxes are taxes imposed by both the federal and provincial governments on alcohol,
tobacco, gasoline and vehicle air conditioning. Canada has some of the highest rates of taxes on
cigarettes and alcohol in the world. - CANADA’S TAXATION SYSTEM

equinox

equinox

noun

March equinox

The spring equinox arrives on March 20, and you’ll be immediately bitten by the adventure bug. — Nina Kahn, StyleCaster, 24 Feb. 2025

harmonize

harmonize

verb

A group of singers were harmonizing on the street corner.

HST is Harmonized Sales Tax

levy

levy

verb

levy a tax

They levied a tax on imports.

loophole

loophole

noun

Kurt Gödel never defined the constitutional loophole he’d found.

She took advantage of a loophole in the tax law.

shamrock

shamrock

noun

A shamrock

a plant of folk legend with leaves composed of three leaflets that is associated with St. Patrick and Ireland

clover

clover

noun

Four-leaf white clover

Clover

fiscal

fiscal

noun

Sales were up in the last fiscal year.

jot

jot

verb

jot this down

He paused to jot a few notes on a slip of paper.

carryover

carryover

noun

superstitions that are carryovers from ancient times

This is a friendly reminder that this week’s pizza order is a carry-over from the snow day we had on February 13th!

carrousel

carrousel

noun

a large machine at a fair that turnsround and has wooden or plastic animals or vehicles on which children ride

a continuous moving strip on which passengers' bags are put for collection in an airport

backcountry

backcountry

noun

he took a month’s supplies and headed out to the backcountry

push-pull

push-pull

adjective

a push-pull circuit

refuel

refuel

verb

The airplane landed to refuel.

reconciliation

reconciliation

noun

Signing the trade agreement was praised as an act of reconciliation between the two countries.

hackle

hackle

noun

The ways young children play can also raise animals’ hackles. — Alla Katsnelson, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020

songbird

songbird

noun

By the end of June, many songbirds have stopped singing, making the birds much harder to spot. — Loren Holmes, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2018

skyrocket

skyrocket

verb

prices are skyrocketing

the crisis has caused oil prices to skyrocket

grin

grin

verb

grinning from ear to ear

She continued to tease her brother, grinning wickedly.

grinned at the kids’ fooling around in the pool

noun

a happy grin

I wanted to wipe the grin off his face.

frown

frown

verb

frowned in anger

critics frown on the idea

noun

a frowny face

gerund

gerund

noun

In the sentence “Learning can be fun,” “learning” is a gerund.

psychedelic

psychedelic

adjective

Ibogaine is a psychedelic drug from the bark of the iboga tree, a shrub native to Central Africa that is used in traditional healing ceremonies and initiation rituals. - Ibogaine: The last trip?, CBC News

mitigate

mitigate

verb

mitigate a patient’s suffering

Myanmar

Myanmar

geographical name

Myanmar, one of Asia’s poorest nations, has largely been shut off from the world by its military government during four years of civil war. - CNN 10, March 31, 2025

rubble

rubble

noun

one of many devastating scenes across the crippled city of Mandalay damage stretches across entire neighborhoods homes and historic buildings reduced to rubble. Buddhist monasteries places of peace and reflection now piles of debris. - CNN 10, March 31, 2025

bodybuilding

bodybuilding

noun

She’s been doing competitive bodybuilding for a few years now.