Ashna chand

5/19/08

Period 5

Mrs. Crates

general

• Careful limitation

• Being careful in limitation

several

• More than two but fewer than many

• It should be three or more

Interest

• A quality in a thing arousing interest

• The girl takes interest in studies.

probably

• Without much doubt

• My teacher was doubt at boys when they threw stinky balls in the class.

Decimal

• Based on number ten.

• We have ten fingers.

Privilege

• a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor .

• The thieve took advantage when he broke in a old ladies home.

Chocolate

• a beverage made by mixing chocolate with water or milk

• Kids love to eat chocolate.

sophomore

• a student in the second year at college .

• My brother is in college for two years.

Favorite

• a person who is specially loved, trusted, or provided with favors by someone of high rank or authority .

Teachers always favor the kids.

postpone

• to place later in order of precedence, preference, or importance

• teachers keep the children's name in order.

Quantity

• a considerable amount or number often used in plural

•  the aspect in which a thing is measurable in terms of greater, less, or equal or of increasing or decreasing magnitude

Et cetera

• a number of unspecified additional persons or things

• The old woman said an 90 years old.

environment

• the complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors (as climate, soil, and living things) that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival

Government

• the organization, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises authority and performs functions and which is usually classified according to the distribution of power within it  the complex of political institutions, laws, and customs through which the function of governing is carried out

Recognize

• to acknowledge formally: as  to admit as being lord or sovereign  to admit as being of a particular status  to admit as being one entitled to be heard give the floor to  to acknowledge the de facto existence or the independence of.

Handsome

• having a pleasing and usually impressive or dignified appearance

budget

• the amount of money that is available for, required for, or assigned to a particular purpose .

Kitchen

• the personnel that prepares, cooks, and serves food .

• My mum prepared food for dinner.

whistle

• a shrill clear sound produced by forcing breath out or air in through the puckered lips the sound produced by a whistle  a signal given by or as if by whistling a sound that resembles a whistle; especially  a shrill clear note of or as if of a bird.