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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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butterfly | n: a diurnal insect typically has a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad, colorful wings | |
flutter | v: to wave or flap quickly and lightly; (noun) the act of moving back and forth | |
pursue | v: to do something or attempt to attain something over time; to follow or seek someone or something, especially in trying to catch them | |
whim | n: a sudden idea or desire, especially one that cannot be reasonably explained | |
obvious | adj: easy to see, discover or understand | |
definitive | adj: serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation; final and not able to be changed | |
puzzled | adj: confused or uncertain because you do not understand something | |
philosophy | n: the study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind | |
ancient | adj: relating to the long ago, particularly the historical period preceding the fall of the Western Roman Empire; very old | |
scenario | n: a description of possible actions or events in the future; a written outline of a play, film, or literary work | |
mystification | n: the act or process of making something difficult to understand or explain, often to deceive or manipulate | |
possibility | n: a chance that something may happen or be true | |
entirely | adv: completely | |
creature | n: a living being, especially an animal | |
bizarre | adj: very strange or unusual | |
conjure | v: to call forth by magic; to create or bring about through the imagination | |
dessert | n: a sweet food served as the last course of a meal | |
buffet | n: a meal where guests serve themselves from a counter or sideboard | |
chase | v: to pursue something or someone to catch or capture them; to go after something vigorously or with determination; (noun) a pursuit or a hunt; a narrow groove or channel cut into a surface, often used for decorative purposes | |
witch | n: a person, typically a woman, who is believed to have magic powers and practices witchcraft | |
suddenly | adv: quickly and unexpectedly | |
lucid | adj: expressed or presented clearly; easy to understand; rational and sane; shining or bright | |
definition | n: a concise explanation of the meaning of a word, phrase, or symbol | |
surefire | adj: certain or guaranteed to be successful, reliable, or effective | |
pinch | v: to grip something such as someone’s skin and press it tightly between the finger and thumb; (noun) a painful or straitened circumstance | |
doe | n: a mature female of mammals of which the male is called a buck, such as a deer or a rabbit | |
pace | n: the speed at which someone or something moves, or the rate at which something happens or changes | |
norm | n: something that is regarded as usual, typical, or standard | |
suspicious | adj: making you feel that someone has done something wrong, illegal, or dishonest without any evidence | |
disconnect | v: to unfasten or disjoin something, especially to break the connection between a supply of gas, water, or electricity and a piece of equipment | |
chain | n: a series of connected links or objects; a system or group of interconnected elements; a restraint or shackle | |
solid | adj: hard or firm; characterized by good substantial quality | |
dolphin | n: a marine mammal that typically has a beaklike snout, a streamlined body, and flippers and that feeds on fish and squid | |
nameless | adj: without a name or unknown; not named or identified | |
receipt | n: a written or printed statement acknowledging that something has been paid for or received; the act of receiving something | |
contemporary | adj: belonging to the same or present time | |
neuroscience | n: the scientific study of the function, structure, and disorder of the brain and the nervous system | |
brain | n: the organ inside the head that is responsible for one’s movement, thought, memory, and feeling | |
convincing | adj: able to make someone believe that something is true | |
countless | adj: too numerous to be counted or very many | |
capture | v: to catch a person or an animal and confine them in an area which they cannot escape | |
fraction | n: a small part or item forming a piece of a whole; the quotient of two rational numbers | |
incomprehensible | adj: impossible to understand or explain; not able to be grasped or comprehended | |
vast | adj: enormous in size, number, amount, or quantity | |
recall | v: to remember something | |
musty | adj: having a stale, damp, or moldy smell or odor; out-of-date or old-fashioned | |
ridiculous | adj: very silly or unreasonable and deserving to be laughed at | |
simulate | v: to make a pretense of someone’s behavior or looks; to reproduce something that exists in real life using computers, models, etc., usually for study or training purposes |