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very
1. adj. True, real, actual.
The fierce hatred of a very woman. The very blood and bone of our grammar. He tried his very best.
2. adj. The same; identical.
He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met. That's the very tool that I need.
3. adj. With limiting effect: mere.
4. adv. To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
You’re drinking very slowly.
That dress is very you.
5. adv. True, truly.
6. adv. (with superlatives) (ngd, Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.)
He was the very best runner there.
able
1. adj. (obsolete, passive) Easy to use.
2. adj. (obsolete, passive) Suitable; competent.
3. adj. (obsolete, dialectal, passive) Liable to.
4. adj. Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.
5. adj. Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.
I’ll see you as soon as I’m able.
With that obstacle removed, I am now able to proceed with my plan.
I’m only able to visit you when I have other work here.
That cliff is able to be climbed.
6. adj. (obsolete, dialectal) Having the physical strength; robust; healthy.
After the past week of forced marches, only half the men are fully able.
7. adj. (obsolete) Rich; well-to-do.
He was born to an able family.
8. adj. Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.
The chairman was also an able sailor.
9. adj. (law) Legally qualified or competent.
He is able to practice law in six states.
10. adj. (nautical) Capable of performing all the requisite duties; as an able seaman.
11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To make ready.
12. v. (transitive, obsolete) To make capable; to enable.
13. v. (transitive, obsolete) To dress.
14. v. (transitive, obsolete) To give power to; to reinforce; to confirm.
15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To vouch for; to guarantee.
16. n. (lbl, en, military) The letter "A" in Navy Phonetic Alphabet.
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
ingenious
1. adj. Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.
This fellow is ingenious; he fixed a problem I didn't even know I had.
2. adj. Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived.
That is an ingenious model of the atom.
3. adj. Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.
He sent me an ingenious reply for an email.
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.
business
1. n. A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
I was left my father's business.
2. n. A person's occupation, work, or trade.
He is in the motor and insurance businesses.
I'm going to Las Vegas on business.
3. n. Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!
We do business all over the world.
4. n. The volume or amount of commercial trade.
Business has been slow lately.
They did nearly a million dollars of business over the long weekend.
5. n. One's dealings; patronage.
I shall take my business elsewhere.
6. n. Private commercial interests taken collectively.
This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.
7. n. The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
I studied business at Harvard.
8. n. A particular situation or activity.
This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.
9. n. An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
Our principal business here is to get drunk.
Let's get down to business.
10. n. Something involving one personally.
That's none of your business.
11. n. (parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.
12. n. (travel) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
13. n. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
14. n. (rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
15. n. (slang) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
These new phones are the business!
16. n. (slang) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
Your ferret left his business all over the floor.
As the cart went by, its horse lifted its tail and did its business.
17. adj. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.
"Please do not use this phone for personal calls; it is a business phone.".
18. adj. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
19. adj. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
dealings
1. n. Relations with others.
I've had dealings with Jo in the past, and found her very stubborn.
2. n. Business transactions.

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