| any |
| 1. adv. To even the slightest extent, at all. | |
| I will not remain here any longer. | |
| If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways! | |
| 2. det. At least one; of at least one kind. One at all. | |
| do you have any biscuits?; do you have any food?; I haven't got any money; it won't do you any good | |
| 3. det. No matter what kind. | |
| choose any items you want; any person may apply | |
| 4. pron. Any thing(s) or person(s). | |
| Any may apply. | |
| extreme |
| 1. adj. Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost. | |
| At the extreme edges, the coating is very thin. | |
| 2. adj. In the greatest or highest degree; intense. | |
| He has an extreme aversion to needles, and avoids visiting the doctor. | |
| 3. adj. Excessive, or far beyond the norm. | |
| His extreme love of model trains showed in the rails that criscrossed his entire home. | |
| 4. adj. Drastic, or of great severity. | |
| I think the new laws are extreme, but many believe them necessary for national security. | |
| 5. adj. Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment. | |
| Television has begun to reflect the growing popularity of extreme sports such as bungee jumping and skateboarding. | |
| 6. adj. (archaic) Ultimate, final or last. | |
| the extreme hour of life | |
| 7. n. The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition. | |
| 8. n. Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale. | |
| extremes of temperature | |
| 9. n. A drastic expedient. | |
| 10. n. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6. | |
| 11. adv. (archaic) Extremely. | |
| pain |
| 1. n. An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt. | |
| The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain. | |
| I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet. | |
| 2. n. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress | |
| In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life. | |
| The pain of departure was difficult to bear. | |
| 3. n. (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing. | |
| Your mother is a right pain. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty. | |
| You may not leave this room on pain of death. | |
| 5. n. Labour; effort; pains. | |
| 6. v. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture. | |
| The wound pained him. | |
| 7. v. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve. | |
| It pains me to say that I must let you go. | |
| 8. v. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling. | |
| gammon pain; Spanish pain | |
| anguish |
| 1. n. Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To suffer pain. | |
| 3. v. To cause to suffer pain. | |
| 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. | |
| misery |
| 1. n. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. | |
| Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face. | |
| 2. n. (US, and UK dialects) A bodily ache or pain. | |
| 3. n. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. | |
| 4. n. (extreme, Extreme) poverty. | |
| 5. n. (archaic) greed, greed; avarice. | |
| either |
| 1. det. One of two. | |
| You can have it in either colour. | |
| 2. det. Each of two; both. | |
| There is a locomotive at either end of the train, one pulling and the other pushing. | |
| 3. pron. One or other of two people or things. | |
| He made me two offers, but I did not accept either. | |
| 4. pron. (obsolete) Both, each of two or more. | |
| 5. adv. (conjunctive, after a negative) As well. | |
| I don't like him, and I don't like her either. | |
| 6. conj. (Introduces the first of two (or occasionally more) options or possibilities, the second (or last) of which is introduced by "or"). | |
| Either you eat your dinner or you go to your room. | |
| You can have either potatoes or rice with that, but not both. | |
| You'll be either early, late, or on time. | |
| physical |
| 1. adj. Having to do with the body. | |
| Are you feeling any physical effects? | |
| 2. adj. Having to do with the material world. | |
| It's not so much a physical place as a state of mind. | |
| 3. adj. Involving bodily force. | |
| This team plays a very physical game, so watch out. | |
| 4. adj. Having to do with physics. | |
| The substance has a number of interesting physical properties. | |
| 5. adj. (computing) Not virtual; directly corresponding to hardware operation. | |
| 6. adj. (obsolete) Relating to physic, or medicine; medicinal; curative; also, cathartic; purgative. | |
| 7. n. Physical examination. | |
| How long has it been since your last physical? | |
| 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. | |
| mental |
| 1. adj. Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process. | |
| 2. adj. (colloquial, comparable) Insane, mad, crazy. | |
| He is the most mental freshman I've seen yet. | |
| He went mental on us. | |
| 3. adj. (colloquial, UK, comparable) Enjoyable or fun, especially in a frenetic way. | |
| That was a mental party last night. | |
| 4. adj. (anatomy) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial. | |
| the mental nerve; the mental region | |
| 5. adj. (biology) Of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure. | |
| 6. n. (zoology) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile. | |
