Last Week Vocabulary

These are the words that we find as new vocabulary on the reading part of CDROM preparation test.

Seep
intr.v. seeped, seep·ing, seeps
1. To pass slowly through small openings or pores; ooze.
2. To enter, depart, or become diffused gradually.

Debris (də-brē', dā-, dā'brē')
1.
a. The scattered remains of something broken or destroyed; rubble or wreckage.
b. Carelessly discarded refuse; litter.
2. Geology An accumulation of relatively large rock fragments: glacial debris.
3. Biology The fragmented remains of dead or damaged cells or tissue.

Scroll
n.
a. A roll, as of parchment or papyrus, used especially for writing a document.
b. An ancient book or volume written on such a roll.
2. A list or schedule of names.
3. An ornament or ornamental design that resembles a partially rolled scroll of paper, as the volute in Ionic and Corinthian capitals.
4. Music The curved head on an instrument of the violin family.
5. Heraldry A ribbon inscribed with a motto.
//-->v. scrolled, scroll·ing, scrollsv. tr.
1. To inscribe on a scroll.
2. To roll up into a scroll.
3. To ornament with a scroll.
4. Computer Science To cause (displayed text or graphics) to move up, down, or across the screen so that a line of text or graphics appears at one edge of the screen for each line that moves off the opposite edge: scroll a document; scroll a page of text.
//-->v. intr. Computer Science
1. To cause displayed text or graphics to move up, down, or across the screen: scrolled down to the end of the document.
2. To appear onscreen and roll by: "The information scrolls so fast it's unreadable" (Creative Computing).
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Harsh (härsh)
1. Unpleasantly coarse and rough to the touch. See Synonyms at rough.
2. Disagreeable to the senses, especially to the sense of hearing.
3. Severe, cruel, or exacting: harsh punishment; a harsh overseer.
4. Unpleasant or uncomfortable: a harsh wilderness.
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Starve(stärv)
v. starved, starv·ing, starvesv. intr.
1. To suffer or die from extreme or prolonged lack of food.
2. Informal To be hungry.
3. To suffer from deprivation.
4. Archaic To suffer or die from cold.
//-->v. tr.
1. To cause to starve.
2. To force to a specified state by starving.

Plunge(plŭnj)
v. plunged, plung·ing, plung·esv. tr.
1. To thrust or throw forcefully into a substance or place: "Plunge the lobsters, head first, into a large pot of rapidly boiling salted water" (Craig Claiborne).
2. To cast suddenly, violently, or deeply into a given state or situation: "The street was plunged in cool shadow" (Richard Wright).
//-->v. intr.
1. To fall or throw oneself into a substance or place: We plunged into the icy mountain lake.
2. To throw oneself earnestly or wholeheartedly into an activity or situation: plunged into my studies.
3. To enter or move headlong through something: The hunting dogs plunged into the forest.
4. To descend steeply; fall precipitously: a cliff that plunges to the sea.
5. To move forward and downward violently: The rider plunged from the bucking horse.
6. To become suddenly lower; decrease dramatically: Stock prices plunged during the banking crisis.
7. To speculate or gamble extravagantly.
//-->n.
1. The act or an instance of plunging.
2.
a. A place or area, such as a swimming pool, for diving or plunging.
b. A swim; a dip.


Wobble(wŏb'əl)
v. wob·bled also wab·bled, wob·bling also wab·bling, wob·bles also wab·blesv. intr.
1. To move or rotate with an uneven or rocking motion or unsteadily from side to side.
2. To tremble or quaver: The child's voice wobbled with emotion.
3. To waver or vacillate in one's opinions or feelings.
//-->v. tr.To cause to wobble.//-->n.
1. The act or an instance of wobbling; unsteady motion.
2. A tremulous, uncertain tone or sound: a vocal wobble.

Tilt(tĭlt)
v. tilt·ed, tilt·ing, tiltsv. tr.
1. To cause to slope, as by raising one end; incline: tilt a soup bowl; tilt a chair backward.
2.
a. To aim or thrust (a lance) in a joust.
b. To charge (an opponent); attack.
3. To forge with a tilt hammer.
//-->v. intr.
1. To slope; incline. See Synonyms at slant.
2. To favor one side over another in a dispute; lean: "His views tilt unmistakably to the Arab position" (William Safire).
3.
a. To fight with lances; joust.
b. To engage in a combat or struggle; fight: tilting at injustices.
//-->n.
1. The act of tilting or the condition of being tilted.
2.
a. An inclination from the horizontal or vertical; a slant: adjusting the tilt of a writing table.
b. A sloping surface, as of the ground.
c. A tendency to favor one side in a dispute: the court's tilt toward conservative rulings.
d. An implicit preference; a bias: "pitilessly illuminates the inaccuracies and tilts of the press" (Nat Hentoff).
e. A medieval sport in which two mounted knights with lances charged together and attempted to unhorse one another.
f. A thrust or blow with a lance.
3.
a. A tendency to favor one side in a dispute: the court's tilt toward conservative rulings.
b. An implicit preference; a bias: "pitilessly illuminates the inaccuracies and tilts of the press" (Nat Hentoff).
c. A medieval sport in which two mounted knights with lances charged together and attempted to unhorse one another.
d. A thrust or blow with a lance.
4.
a. A medieval sport in which two mounted knights with lances charged together and attempted to unhorse one another.
b. A thrust or blow with a lance.
5. A combat, especially a verbal one; a debate.
6. A tilt hammer.
7. New England See seesaw. See Regional Note at teeter-totter.