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derogatory
1. adj. (usually with to) Tending to derogate, or lessen in value of someone; expressing derogation; detracting
2. adj. (legal, of a clause in a testament) Being or pertaining to a derogatory clause.
3. n. A trade-line on a credit report that includes negative credit history.
informal
1. adj. Not formal or ceremonious.
an informal get-together
2. adj. Not in accord with the usual regulations.
an informal agreement
3. adj. Suited for everyday use.
informal clothes
4. adj. (of language) Reflecting everyday, non-ceremonious usage.
5. adj. (gardening) Not organized; not structured or planned.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
woman
1. n. An adult female human.
2. n. (collective) All females collectively; womankind.
3. n. A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).
4. n. A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
5. n. A female attendant or servant.
6. v. To staff with female labor.
7. v. To make effeminate or womanish.
8. v. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
9. v. To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion.
considered
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of consider
consider
1. v. To think about seriously.
Consider that we’ve had three major events and the year has hardly begun.
2. v. To think of doing.
I’m considering going to the beach tomorrow.
3. v. (ditransitive) To assign some quality to.
Consider yourself lucky, but consider your opponent skillful.
I considered the pie undercooked.
4. v. To look at attentively.
She sat there for a moment, considering him.
5. v. To take up as an example.
Consider a triangle having three equal sides.
6. v. (transitive, parliamentary procedure) To debate or dispose of a motion.
This body will now consider the proposed amendments to Section 453 of the zoning code.
7. v. To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
unpleasant
1. adj. Not pleasant.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
some
1. pron. A certain number, at least one.
Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder.
2. pron. An indefinite quantity.
Can I have some of them?
3. pron. An indefinite amount, a part.
please give me some of the cake; everyone is wrong some of the time
4. det. A certain proportion of, at least one.
Some people like camping.
5. det. An unspecified quantity or number of.
Would you like some grapes?
6. det. An unspecified amount of (something un).
Would you like some water?
After some persuasion, he finally agreed.
7. det. A certain, an unspecified or unknown.
I've just met some guy who said he knew you.
The sequence S converges to zero for some initial value v.
8. det. A considerable quantity or number of; approximately.
He had edited the paper for some years.
9. det. (informal) A remarkable.
He is some acrobat!
10. adv. Of a measurement: approximately, roughly
I guess he must have weighed some 90 kilos.
Some 30,000 spectators witnessed the feat.
Some 4,000 acres of land were flooded.
way
1. n. To do with a place or places.:
2. n. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
Do you know the way to the airport? Come this way and I'll show you a shortcut. It's a long way from here.
3. n. A means to enter or leave a place.
We got into the cinema through the back way.
4. n. A roughly-defined geographical area.
If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.
5. n. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
You're going about it the wrong way. He's known for his quirky ways. I don't like the way she looks at me.
6. n. A state or condition
When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.
7. n. Personal interaction.:
8. n. Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
There's no way I'm going to clean up after you.
9. n. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
My little sister always whines until she gets her way.
10. n. (paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
11. n. (nautical) Speed, progress, momentum.
12. n. A degree, an amount, a sense.
In a large way, crocodiles and alligators are similar.
13. n. (US, As the head of an interjectory clause) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
Way to ruin the moment, guys.
14. n. (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
15. n. (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.
16. interj. (only in reply to no way) It is true.
17. v. (obsolete) To travel.
18. adv. (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
I'm way too tired to do that.
I'm a way better singer than Emma.
19. adv. (slang) Very.
I'm way tired
String theory is way cool, except for the math.
20. adv. (informal) Far.
I used to live way over there.
The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill.
21. n. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.
particularly
1. adv. (focus) Especially, extremely.
The apéritifs were particularly stimulating.
2. adv. (degree) To a great extent.
3. adv. Specifically, uniquely or individually.
4. adv. In detail; with regard to particulars.
5. adv. (dated) In a particular manner; fussily.
one
1. num. (cardinal) The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
In some religions, there is only one god.
In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth.
One person, one vote.
2. num. (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
3. num. (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
4. num. (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
5. pron. (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
The big one looks good. I want the green one. A good driver is one who drives carefully.
6. pron. (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
She offered him an apple and an orange; he took one and left the other.
7. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).
One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed. One shouldn’t be too quick to judge.
8. pron. (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing.
"driver", noun: one who drives.
9. n. The digit or figure 1.
10. n. (mathematics) The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
11. n. (US) A one-dollar bill.
12. n. (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
13. n. A joke or amusing anecdote.
14. n. (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
15. n. (Internet slang) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!
Someone help me; I'm always losing!
B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!
Why don't you just go away loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
16. adj. Of a period of time, being particular.
One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries.
17. adj. Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other.".
18. adj. Sole, only.
He is the one man who can help you.
19. adj. Whole, entire.
Body and soul are not separate; they are one.
20. adj. In agreement.
We are one on the importance of learning.
21. adj. The same.
The two types look very different, but are one species.
22. adj. Being a preeminent example.
He is one hell of a guy.
23. adj. Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".
The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”.
24. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.
considered
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of consider
consider
1. v. To think about seriously.
Consider that we’ve had three major events and the year has hardly begun.
2. v. To think of doing.
I’m considering going to the beach tomorrow.
3. v. (ditransitive) To assign some quality to.
Consider yourself lucky, but consider your opponent skillful.
I considered the pie undercooked.
4. v. To look at attentively.
She sat there for a moment, considering him.
5. v. To take up as an example.
Consider a triangle having three equal sides.
6. v. (transitive, parliamentary procedure) To debate or dispose of a motion.
This body will now consider the proposed amendments to Section 453 of the zoning code.
7. v. To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
nasty
1. adj. (now chiefly US) Dirty, filthy.
2. adj. Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).
3. adj. Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.
4. adj. Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd.
5. adj. Spiteful, unkind.
6. adj. (chiefly UK) Awkward, difficult to navigate; dangerous.
7. adj. (chiefly UK) Grave or dangerous (of an accident, illness etc.).
8. adj. (slang) Formidable, terrific; wicked.
9. n. (informal) Something nasty.
Processed foods are full of aspartame and other nasties.
This video game involves flying through a maze zapping various nasties.
10. n. (euphemistic, preceded by "the") Sexual intercourse.
stupid
1. adj. Lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
Because it's a big stupid jellyfish!
2. adj. To the point of stupor.
Neurobiology bores me stupid.
3. adj. (archaic) Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
4. adj. (archaic) Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
5. adj. dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid
6. adj. (slang) Amazing.
That dunk was stupid! His head was above the rim!
7. adj. (slang) damn, annoying, darn
I fell over the stupid wire.
8. adv. (slang) Extremely.
My gear is stupid fly.
9. n. A stupid person; a fool.
10. n. (colloquial) The state or condition of being stupid.
His stupid knows no bounds.
fat
1. adj. Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
The fat man had trouble getting through the door.
The fattest pig should yield the most meat.
2. adj. Thick.
The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.
3. adj. Bountiful.
4. adj. Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; said of food.
5. adj. (obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
6. adj. Fertile; productive.
a fat soil; a fat pasture
7. adj. Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job
8. adj. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
9. adj. (dated, printing) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
a fat take; a fat page
10. adj. alternative form of phat
11. n. A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy.
12. n. A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat.
13. n. That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
We need to trim the fat in this company
14. n. (slang) An erection.
I saw Daniel crack a fat.
15. n. (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
16. n. The best or richest productions; the best part.
to live on the fat of the land
17. n. (dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
18. n. a fat person
19. v. (transitive, archaic) To make fat; to fatten.
kill the fatted calf
20. v. (intransitive, archaic) To become fat; to fatten.
21. n. (obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
22. n. (obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.
lazy
1. adj. Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
Get out of bed, you lazy lout!
2. adj. Causing idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.
3. adj. Sluggish; slow-moving.
We strolled along beside a lazy stream.
4. adj. Lax:
5. adj. Droopy.
a lazy-eared rabbit
6. adj. (optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
7. adj. (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
8. adj. (comptheory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
a lazy algorithm
9. adj. (obsolete) Wicked; vicious.
10. v. (informal) To laze, act in a lazy manner.
11. n. A lazy person.
12. n. (obsolete) Sloth (animal).
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
difficult
1. adj. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.
2. adj. (often of a, person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you.
3. adj. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.
4. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

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