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Vocabulary
grenade
noun
A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched from a grenade launcher.
A pomegranate.
A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top.
An unattractive girl.
bunker
noun
A hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
A large container or bin for storing coal, often built outside in the yard of a house. Now rare, as different types of fuels and energy sources are being used.
A container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine. [Also, by extension] the quantity of fuel needed to replenish that container.
The coal compartment on a tank engine.
A sand-filled hollow on a golf course.
An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.
A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.
A kitchen worktop.
One who bunks off; a truant from school.
Certain fish, menhaden.
hotshot
noun
Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field.
A type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in and manhandled about.
A fast freight train.
A dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.
ass
noun
Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden.
A stupid person.
goodbye
noun
An utterance of goodbye, the wishing of farewell to someone.
verb
To say goodbye; to wish somebody farewell on parting.
interjection
Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.
midair
noun
A collision between two or more aerospace vehicles in flight.
explodes
verb
To destroy with an explosion.
To destroy violently or abruptly.
To create an exploded view of.
To disprove or debunk.
To blast, to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
To make a violent or emotional outburst.
To increase suddenly.
(PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
inert
adjective
Unable to move or act; inanimate.
In chemistry, not readily reacting with other elements or compounds.
Having no therapeutic action.
send back
phrasal verb
to return something that is not satisfactory
whence
adverb
From where; from which place or source.
conjunction
Used for introducing the result of a fact that has just been stated.
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