faek to təm noun one employed to do a wide variety of tasks. The three years of his college life, if they had not made him a Newton, or a Bacon, had…
coruscate
kaw rə skeIt intransitive verb to give off flashes of light; sparkle; glitter. I ran an appraising eye over the staff bike shed and glimpsed a Ridgefinder Gold Bowl Special, coruscating like…
flout
flaUt to show scorn or contempt for, esp. by openly or deliberately disobeying. He flouted authority while at school and no one was surprised when he was expelled. The poet flouted the…
burgeon
buhr jihn intransitive verb 1: to start to grow; send forth shoots, leaves, buds, or the like (often fol. by out or forth). She was pleased to see that her new plants…
dissipate
dI sə peIt transitive verb 1: to cause to disappear by, or as though by, dispersing or dissolving. The sun dissipated the fog. 2: to waste by, or as though by, scattering…