Question | Answer |
release from bondage; free; liberate | emancipate |
handcuff | manacle |
1) authorization to act; 2) command; order; injunction | mandate |
1) operate with hands; handle or manage skillfully; maneuver 2) manage unethically to serve a fradulent purpose; falsify; rig | manipulate |
small, helpful book capable of being carried in the hand; handbook | manual (n) |
relating to, or done with, the hands | manual (adj) |
document written by hand, or typewritten | manuscript |
attach; adda as a supplement | append |
matter added to the end of a book or document | appendix |
threatening to occur soon; imminent | impending |
hanging ornament | pendant |
waiting to be settled; not yet decided | pending (adj) |
until | pending (prep) |
1) hang by attaching to something; 2) stop temporarily; hold up; make inoperative for a while | suspend |
condition of being left 'hanging' or in doubt; mental uncertainty; anxiety; apprehension | suspense |
put out of office; dethrone | depose |
put on as a burden; duty, tax, etc,; inflict | impose |
put off; defer; delay | postpone |
put on top of or over; attach as an addition | superimpose |
change the relative order of; interchange | transpose |
enroll into military service by compulsion; draft | conscript |
something inscribed (written) on a monument, coin, etc. | inscription |
1) Order; dictate; direct; 2) order as remedy | prescribe |
condemn as harmful or illegal; prohibit; forbid | proscribe |
person who writes; author; journalist | scribe |
1) written text of a play, speech, etc. 2)handwriting, pensmanship | script |
one who writes his or her name at the end of a document, thereby indcating approval; one who regularly receives a magazine, newspaper, etc. | subscriber |
1) make similar or like; 2) take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb | assimilate (v) |
opposite of similar, unlike, different | dissimilar |
likeness; resemblance | similarity |
comparison of two different things introduced by like or as | simile |
give the appearance of; feign; imitate | simulate |
existing or happening at the same time; contemporary; concurrent | simultaneous |
lay waste; ravage; devastate | desolate (v) |
left alone; deserted; forlorn; abandoned; forsaken | desolate (adj) |
one and only; single; lone | sole |
speech made to oneself when alone | soliloquy |
opposite of accompanied; being or living alone; without companions | solitary |
condition of being alone; loneliness; seclusion | solitude |
musical composition (or anything) performed by a single person | solo |