Word library

Following the exact, most basic meaning of a word or phrase, without exaggeration or metaphor.

Written works, especially those valued for their artistic or intellectual quality, such as novels, poems, and plays.

Moving in a graceful, flexible way; slender and supple.

The geological process by which loose sediment is compressed and cemented into solid rock.

The solid outer layer of the earth, made up of the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle.

A person involved in a lawsuit.

A dye used to test whether a substance is acidic or basic, most often referenced through the phrase "litmus test."

A figure of speech in which something is expressed by denying its opposite, often for understatement.

A metric unit used to measure the volume of a liquid.

Small in size or amount.

Suitable or good enough to live in or with, providing an acceptable standard of comfort.

To have your home in a particular place, or to be alive.

The way a person earns the money needed to live, especially through work.

Full of energy, movement, and enthusiasm.

A large organ in the body that filters the blood, produces bile and stores energy, among many other functions.

The money or resources needed to support yourself, or the manner in which you live.

The room in a house where people relax, sit together, and often watch television.

A small reptile with four legs, a long tail, and dry, scaly skin.

A large woolly animal from South America with a long neck, often used to carry loads.

An amount of something being carried, or a burden of work or responsibility.

A rich, fertile soil made of a balanced mixture of sand, silt, and clay.

A sum of money that is borrowed and usually paid back with interest.

A sea creature with a hard shell, long antennae, and large front claws.

Belonging to or existing in a particular, nearby area.

The system by which decisions are made and services are managed at a city, town, or regional level, rather than nationally.

To find the exact position of something, or to place something in a particular spot.

Situated in a particular place.

The particular place where something is or happens.

A device that fastens a door, gate, or container shut until it is opened with a key or code.

A small, lockable storage compartment, often found in schools or gyms.

A particular position or place where something happens or is centered, or, in genetics, the specific location of a gene on a chromosome.

A thick piece of a tree trunk or branch, usually cut for burning or building.

The power to which a fixed number must be raised to produce a given number.

A scale of measurement in which each step represents a value multiplied by a fixed amount rather than added, useful for showing a huge range of values.

The activity of cutting down trees for timber.

A basic electronic building block that takes one or more input signals and produces an output based on a simple logical rule, such as AND or OR.

Following clear, sensible reasoning, in a way that makes sense given the facts.

An appeal to logic and reasoning used to persuade an audience through facts, statistics, or clear argument.

A hard candy on a stick that you suck or lick.

Feeling sad because you are alone or have no company.

Measuring a great distance from one end to the other, or lasting a great amount of time.

Happening or continuing over a long period of time.

Having the greatest length of all, in a group of three or more things.

The distance of a place east or west of an imaginary line running through Greenwich, England, measured in degrees.

One of the imaginary lines running from the North Pole to the South Pole, used to measure position east or west.

A wave in which the particles move back and forth in the same direction the wave is traveling.

To turn your eyes toward something in order to see it.

A shape made when something curves around and crosses itself, or a repeated cycle of something.