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The post 30 Fancy Words That Will Make You Sound Smarter appeared first on Reader's Digest. With these fancy words, you can take your vocabulary to a whole new level and impress everyone.
A form of electric current in which the movement of electric charge periodically reverses direction. Contrast direct current. ammeter An instrument that is used to measure electric current. amorphous solid A type of solid which does not have a definite geometric shape. ampere (A) Often abbreviated as amp.
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to hit a line drive (a hard straight shot) in baseball liquor: the broth resulting from the prolonged cooking of meat or vegetables. Green liquor is traditionally served with pie and mash in the East End of London a distilled beverage * (hard liquor) strongly alcoholic beverage; spirits
By NADIA SIKANDER The fashion industry is chock full of designers with difficult names to pronounce and even more mysterious patterns and fabrics for the average shopper. With Mercedez-Benz's ...
Do you think you have a good vocabulary? We can guarantee you've probably never heard these funny words before. The post 100 Funny Words You Probably Don’t Know appeared first on Reader's Digest.
Words with specific British English meanings that have different meanings in American and/or additional meanings common to both languages (e.g. pants, cot) are to be found at List of words having different meanings in American and British English. When such words are herein used or referenced, they are marked with the flag [DM] (different meaning).
Chemical nomenclature, replete as it is with compounds with very complex names, is a repository for some names that may be considered unusual. A browse through the Physical Constants of Organic Compounds in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (a fundamental resource) will reveal not just the whimsical work of chemists, but the sometimes peculiar compound names that occur as the ...