Word library

Used before a singular noun when you mean one example of something rather than a specific one.

A frame with sliding beads used for counting and simple arithmetic.

To leave a person, place, or thing permanently, especially when you have a duty to stay.

To lower someone's dignity or status, often by their own action.

To become less strong or severe.

The monk who serves as the head of a monastery.

A shortened form of a word or phrase.

To formally give up a position of power or responsibility, especially the throne.

To take someone away illegally and by force, usually to hold them against their will.

Different from what is normal or expected, usually in a troubling way.

Something that differs from what is normal or expected, often only for a short time.

To help or encourage someone to do something wrong, especially a crime.

A state of temporary suspension, with the expectation that something will start again later.

To feel intense hatred or disgust toward something, usually on moral grounds.

To accept and follow a rule or decision, or to tolerate something.

The skill or power needed to do something.

The idea that life originally arose from non-living matter through natural processes, rather than from a pre-existing living organism.

Describes the non-living parts of an environment, such as sunlight, water, and temperature.

A non-living part of an ecosystem, such as temperature, light or soil type, that affects the organisms living there.

So severe or extreme that it leaves no dignity or hope, often used to describe poverty, failure, or misery.

To formally and publicly reject a belief, claim, or way of behaving that you once held.

Having the skill, strength, or opportunity to do something.

The act of denying yourself something you want, usually for a moral or higher purpose.

Different from what is usual or expected, often in a way that suggests a problem.

On or into a ship, plane, train, or bus.

To officially end a law, system, or practice, usually one considered unfair or outdated.

The official ending of a law, system, or practice, especially one considered unjust.

A person who actively campaigns to end a practice, especially slavery.

To stop an action or process before it's finished, usually because of a problem.

On the subject of, or approximately.

In a higher position than something else.

To shorten a piece of writing while keeping its main content and meaning.

Made shorter than the original, especially by removing some content from a book or piece of writing.

In or to a foreign country.

To officially end a law, agreement, or right, often unilaterally.

Sudden and unexpected, or, when describing manner, unpleasantly brief and blunt.

In coordinate geometry, the horizontal, or x, distance of a point from the vertical axis.

To leave quickly and secretly, usually to avoid getting caught or to escape a duty.

The state of being away from a place, or the fact that something is missing.

Not present in a place where someone is expected to be, such as school or work.

Complete and total, without any limit or exception.

A system of government in which a king or queen holds complete and unrestricted political power.

The distance a number is from zero on a number line, always expressed as a positive value or zero.

The theoretical lowest possible temperature, at which particles have minimal thermal motion, equal to zero kelvin.

Completely and without any doubt.

Formal forgiveness for wrongdoing, especially in a religious sense.

To take in a liquid, gas, or piece of information gradually and hold onto it.

So interesting that it holds your full attention.