5 1 noun n verb
• take (someone) as a wife
Example sentence • The wives of the two partners met for lunch.
5 1 noun n noun
• a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls
Example sentence • Let's play a game of fives .
6 2 noun n noun
• small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil
adjective satellite
• of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive
Example sentence • She loves to eat black olives straight from the jar.
7 2 noun, adjective n, adj adjective
• tending to become more severe or wider in scope
noun
• chemical agent capable of activity
adjective satellite
• engaged in or ready for military or naval operations
Example sentence • The actives in the skincare product help to reduce wrinkles.
14 5 noun n
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Example sentence • Many postmodern writers challenge traditional storytelling by using antinarratives .
11 4 noun n adjective satellite
• clearly defined or formulated
Example sentence • The textbook provides definitives on the subject of mathematics.
13 5 noun n
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Example sentence • Many denominatives in English are formed by adding a suffix to a noun or adjective.
11 4 noun, adjective n, adj noun
• the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx
adjective satellite
• resulting from or employing derivation
Example sentence • He has a large portfolio of financial derivatives .
9 3 noun n noun
• someone who flees from an uncongenial situation
adjective satellite
• lasting for a markedly brief time
Example sentence • The police are searching for two fugitives who escaped from prison.
10 3 adverb, noun, adjective adv, n, adj noun
• (in Latin grammar) a verbal adjective that describes obligation or necessity, equivalent in form to the future passive participle.
Example sentence • In Latin, gerundives are often used to indicate purpose.
12 4 noun n
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Example sentence • The school creates a special program for hyperactives to help them focus and learn.
12 4 noun n adjective
• having abnormally low blood pressure
noun
• a person who has abnormally low blood pressure
Example sentence • The doctor prescribed hypotensives to control my hypertension.
11 3 noun n noun
• aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb
Example sentence • Linguists study the formation and use of inchoatives in different languages.
9 3 noun, adjective n, adj noun
• the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb
Example sentence • The locatives 'on', 'in', and 'at' are commonly used in English.
11 4 noun n adjective
• serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb
noun
• the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb
adjective satellite
• named; bearing the name of a specific person
Example sentence • The nominatives in this sentence are the subject and the direct object.
12 4 noun n
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Example sentence • I don't have any nonrelatives attending the family reunion.
10 3 noun n
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Example sentence • The store carries a wide variety of nutritives .
13 4 noun n noun
• a chemical compound that is added to protect against decay or decomposition
adjective satellite
• tending or having the power to preserve
Example sentence • Many processed foods contain preservatives to extend their shelf life.
10 3 noun n noun
• a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
Example sentence • Doctors often prescribe purgatives to patients suffering from constipation.
14 4 noun n adjective
• concerned with or related to the past
noun
• an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
Example sentence • During retrospectives , team members reflect on their past performance and identify areas for improvement.
7 2 verb v verb
• reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
Example sentence • He arrives at the airport tomorrow morning.
8 2 noun n noun
• a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
Example sentence • The captives were treated harshly by their kidnappers.
8 2 verb, noun v, n
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Example sentence • She codrives with her husband on long road trips.
8 2 verb v verb
• encourage or assent to illegally or criminally
Example sentence • He connives with his colleagues to overthrow the boss.
9 2 verb v verb
• make or work out a plan for; devise
Example sentence • She contrives elaborate schemes to get what she wants.
9 2 noun n adjective
• having the ability or power to create
adjective satellite
• promoting construction or creation
Example sentence • The agency hired a team of creatives to work on their new advertising campaign.
8 2 verb v noun
• rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper
adjective satellite
• having successive letters joined together
Example sentence • She cursives her name in fancy lettering on all of her school notebooks.
7 2 noun n noun
• the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb
Example sentence • In Latin, datives are often used to indicate the indirect object of a verb.
8 2 verb v verb
• take away possessions from someone
Example sentence • He deprives himself of sleep by staying up all night.
7 2 noun n noun
• widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched
Example sentence • I bought some fresh endives from the farmers market.
9 2 noun n
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8 2 verb v verb
• stop blaming or grant forgiveness
Example sentence • She forgives him for his mistakes.
5 1 verb v noun
• the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
verb
• cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
Example sentence • He gives money to charity every month.
9 2 noun n
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Example sentence • The halflives of radioactive elements can vary widely.
10 2 verb, noun v, n noun
• A compact folding knife.
Example sentence • He demonstrated his impressive diving skills with a series of jackknives .
5 1 verb v noun
• a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
verb
• dance to jive music; dance the jive
Example sentence • The band played a funky tune that really jives with the crowd.
8 2 noun n
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Example sentence • The jussives in Arabic are formed by dropping the -a in the imperfective verb form.
8 2 noun n
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Example sentence • The detective dedicated his career to catching lowlives .
8 2 noun n noun
• a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies
Example sentence • Many women choose to use midwives as their healthcare provider during pregnancy.
9 2 verb, noun v, n
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Example sentence • She misdrives to work every day and always ends up in the wrong neighborhood.
8 2 verb v Example sentence • His constant fidgeting misgives me about his ability to focus on the task.
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8 2 noun n noun
• a written message addressed to a person or organization
Example sentence • The general received several missives from the front lines.
7 2 noun n noun
• the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior
adjective satellite
• causing or able to cause motion
Example sentence • She questioned his motives for helping her.
7 2 noun n adjective
• characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin
noun
• an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
adjective satellite
• as found in nature in the elemental form
Example sentence • The natives of the island welcomed the tourists with open arms.
10 2 noun
• the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion
6 2 noun n noun
• front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere
Example sentence • Architects often incorporate ogives into the design of Gothic arches.
9 2 verb, noun v, n verb
• To drive a vehicle, etc. farther or better than.
Example sentence • His outdrives were always straight and powerful.
8 2 verb v
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Example sentence • She outgives everyone in the office when it comes to helping others.
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