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\YAH-hoo\

noun
: a boorish, crass, or stupid person

EXAMPLE:
Henrietta had a few choice words for the yahoo who blocked her driveway with his pickup truck.
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alow • \uh-LOH\ • adverb : below Example Sentence:
"Then, with all her sails, light and heavy, and studding sails on each side, alow and aloft, she is the most glorious moving object in the world." (Noel Perrin, The New York Times, May 30, 1982)У моряка слово "alow" обозначает "ближе к палубе или внизу". ( Read more... )

comptroller • \kun-TROH-ler\ • noun 1 : a royal-household official who examines and supervises expenditures 2 : a public official who audits government accounts and sometimes supervises expenditures *3 : the chief accounting officer of a business enterprise or an institution ( Read more... )

jingoism • \JING-goh-is-uhm\ • noun : extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy Example Sentence:
Albert Einstein was a pacifist who found German jingoism, with its ultra-nationalistic ideology and militaristic policy, so objectionable that he left his homeland in 1933, ( Read more... )

abject • \AB-jekt\ • adjective 1 : sunk to or existing in a low state or condition *2 : very low in spirit or hope : wretched 3 : expressing or offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit Example Sentence:
Morris was in an abject and lonely state after ( Read more... )

founder • \FOUN-der\ • verb 1 : to make or become disabled or lame 2 : to give way : collapse *3 : to become submerged : sink 4 : to come to grief : fail Example Sentence:
As the vessel began to founder, the captain ordered everyone on ( Read more... )

implacable • \im-PLAK-uh-bul\ • adjective : not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated Example Sentence:
The convict made his plea for an early release to the implacable members of the parole board, who remained skeptical that he felt remorse for his crimes."Implacable" ( ( Read more... )

audacious • \aw-DAY-shus\ adjective 1 : daring, bold 2 : insolent *3 : marked by originality and verve Example Sentence:
The band has been making original and creative music for well over ten years, but their latest album is by far their most audacious to date.Как ( Read more... )

reconcile • \REK-un-syle\• verb 1 a : to restore to friendship or harmony b : settle, resolve *2 : to cause to submit to or accept something unpleasant 3 a : to check (a financial account) against another for accuracy b : to account for Example Sentence:
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quantal • \KWAHN-tul\• adjective *1 : of, relating to, or having only two experimental alternatives (as dead or alive, all or none) 2 : of or relating to a quantum Example Sentence:
The experiment with the herbicide will generate a quantal response -- either the plant to which it is ( Read more... )