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Vocabulary
alright
adjective
Good; in acceptable, if not excellent condition.
In good health, unharmed.
interjection
Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance; OK.
A generic greeting; hello; how are you.
ballistic
adjective
Or relating to ballistics.
Or relating to projectiles moving under their own momentum, air drag, gravity and sometimes rocket power
Very angry.
instantaneous
adjective
Occurring, arising, or functioning without any delay; happening within an imperceptibly brief period of time.
damning
verb
To condemn to hell.
To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
To curse; put a curse upon.
To invoke damnation; to curse.
noun
A condemnation.
An act of swearing with the word "damn".
adjective
Condemning.
mythical
adjective
Existing in myth.
(by extension) Not real; false or fabricated.
rig
noun
The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
A large truck such as a semi-tractor.
The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
A costume or an outfit.
A computer case, often modified for looks.
An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.
crushes
verb
To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity of it, or to force together into a mass.
To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding
To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
To oppress or grievously burden.
To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force
To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
grapples
verb
To seize something and hold it firmly.
To wrestle or tussle.
(with with) To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem.
splitter
noun
A person or a thing that splits.
A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.
A split-finger fastball.
A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot.
One who splits hairs in argument, etc.
A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
withstand
verb
To resist or endure (something) successfully.
To oppose (something) forcefully.
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