| excessive |
| 1. adj. Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate. | |
| Putting a wide vibrato on a single 16th triplet note at 160 beats per minute seems rather excessive. | |
| pride |
| 1. n. The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often co | |
| 2. n. (often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; | |
| He took pride in his work. | |
| He had pride of ownership in his department. | |
| 3. n. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris. | |
| 4. n. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-congratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character | |
| 5. n. Show; ostentation; glory. | |
| 6. n. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory | |
| 7. n. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness. | |
| 8. n. Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. | |
| 9. n. (zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines. | |
| A pride of lions often consists of a dominant male, his harem and their offspring, but young adult males 'leave home' to roam about as bachelors pride until able to seize/establish a family pri | |
| 10. n. (zoology) The small European lamprey species. | |
| 11. n. (altcaps, Pride, , festival for LGBT people). | |
| 12. v. (reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it. | |
| I pride myself on being a good judge of character. | |
| presumption |
| 1. n. the act of presuming, or something presumed | |
| 2. n. the belief of something based upon reasonable evidence, or upon something known to be true | |
| The presumption is that an event has taken place. | |
| 3. n. the condition upon which something is presumed | |
| 4. n. (dated) arrogant behaviour; the act of venturing beyond due bounds of reverence or respect | |
| 5. n. (legal) An inference that a trier of fact is either permitted or required to draw under certain factual circumstances (as prescribed by legislative or judicial law) unless the party against whom the i | |
| 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. | |
| arrogance |
| 1. n. The state of being arrogant; a type of extreme or foolish pride in which someone feels much superior to another | |
| originally |
| 1. adv. (not comparable) As it was in the beginning. | |
| Originally, this paper was white, but over the years it has yellowed with age. | |
| 2. adv. In an original manner. | |
| They had to think originally to come up with those creative ideas. | |
| toward |
| 1. prep. In the direction of. | |
| She moved toward the door. | |
| 2. prep. In relation to (someone or something). | |
| What are your feelings toward him? | |
| 3. prep. For the purpose of attaining (an aim). | |
| I'm saving money toward retirement. | |
| 4. prep. Located close to; near (a time or place). | |
| Our place is over toward the station. | |
| 5. adj. Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward. | |
| 6. adj. (obsolete) Future; to come. | |
| 7. adj. (dated) Approaching, coming near; impending; present, at hand. | |
| 8. adj. (obsolete, or archaic) Promising, likely. | |
| the |
| 1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
| I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
| The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
| The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
| 2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
| The street that runs through my hometown. | |
| 3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
| No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
| God save the Queen! | |
| 4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
| That was the best apple pie ever. | |
| 5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
| That apple pie was the best. | |
| 6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
| 7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
| Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
| 8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
| No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
| I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
| 9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
| A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
| 10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
| That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
| 11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
| The hotter the better. | |
| The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
| The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
| It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
| 12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
| It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
| It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
| I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
| gods |
| 1. n. plural of god | |
| 2. n. The highest platform, or upper circle, in an auditorium. | |
| 3. n. The occupants of the gallery of a theatre. | |
| 4. v. third-person singular present indicative of god | |
