1. Indicate: Be a signal for or a symptom of.
Ø Get ready for its quirks and foibles to dominate the airwaves
Tuesday if the election stays as close as the polls indicate.
2. Conjugate: Inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect,
etc.
Ø Joined together especially in a pair or pairs.
3. Notice: An
announcement containing information about an event.
Ø Most accident insurance policies contain a provision
requiring that notice of the injury be given to the company within
a certain time generally 30 days after the accident.
4. Habit: An
automatic pattern of behaviour in reaction to a specific situation; may be
inherited or acquired through frequent repetition.
Ø Sleep is just a bad habit.
5. Stammer: A
speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain
sounds.
Ø Sometimes, when crossed in an argument, he will seem to
fumble for words, with a disarming, apologetic smile, a brown-eyed stare, and
an Oh-gosh stammer.
6. Verb: A
content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence
Ø Verbs in English come in two flavours.
7. Statement: A
message that is stated or declared, a communication (oral or written) setting
forth particulars or facts etc.
Ø The girl makes a statement about herself.
8. Regular:
A regular patron.
Ø We are inaugurating a regular history section, which will put
today's news in the context of relevant historical events.
9. Strange:
Being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected, slightly odd or even a bit
weird.
Ø The strange smell, like dead things, in his house.
10. Spelling: Forming words with letters
according to the principles underlying accepted usage.
Ø The
Cat Stevens incident has its origins in a spelling mistake.
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