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Vocabulary
beloved
adjective
Much loved, dearly loved.
humble
noun
(Baltimore) An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.
verb
To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of
To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.
adjective
Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
Near the ground.
brag
noun
A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
The thing which is boasted of.
(by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
stairs
noun
A single step in a staircase.
A series of steps; a staircase.
sled
noun
A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.)
A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is larger)
A snowmobile.
set up
phrasal verb
to arrange a situation so that someone is blamed for doing something, especially something illegal
to arrange for two people who you know to go out together because you think they might like each other
to begin living in a particular place or with a particular person
to build a structure, or to put it in a particular place
to claim to be something that you are not
to make a piece of equipment ready for use
to make it possible for someone to start a business, organization, or institution
to make something start to happen
to organize or plan something such as an event or system
to prepare someone for something
to provide someone with enough money so that they do not have to work for the rest of their life
to put a tent in an upright position, or to build a shelter somewhere
to put someone in a position of power
to put your possessions or equipment in a particular place so that you can live, work, or spend a lot of time there
to start something such as a business, organization, or institution
liar
noun
One who tells lies.
A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week.
siblings
noun
A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.
A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
The most closely related species, or one of several most closely species when none can be determined to be more closely related.
aunt
noun
The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
The female cousin of one’s parent.
A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
Any elderly woman.
A procuress or bawd.
cousin
noun
The child of a person's uncle or aunt; a first cousin.
Any relation who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of one's extended family; one more distantly related than an uncle, aunt, granduncle, grandaunt, nephew, niece, grandnephew, grandniece, etc.
A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl.
Something kindred or related to something else.
(chiefly in the plural) A member of the British intelligence services (from an American perspective) or of the American intelligence services (from a British perspective).
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