Anger

The king’s indulgence towards his sons angered the business community.

She listened in a mixture of shock and anger before slamming the phone down.

  She ceased to think, as anger transmuted into passion.

Acclimatization

Acclimatization to higher altitudes may take several weeks.

It took her a while to get acclimatized to her new surroundings.

Austere

He was a man of austere habits, in marked contrast to his more flamboyant wife.

The growth in demand is certain to drive up the price.

Adjudge

     After a due interval the wines began to come in; and the examiners assembled to adjudge the prize. The first vessel was unsealed. Its odor was such that the judges, without tasting it, pronounced unanimous condemnation. The next was opened: it had a villainous taste of clay. The third was sour and vapid. They proceeded from one cask of execrable liquor to another, till at length, in absolute nausea, they gave up the investigation.

    The next morning they all assembled at the gate of the king, with pale faces and aching heads. They owned that they could not recommend any competitor as worthy of the rewards. They swore that the wine was little better than poison, and entreated permission to resign the office of deciding between such detestable potions.

Against

Over 50% of divorced men regretted their divorce, as against 25% of women.

Aver

He was also made to aver, on the word of a dying man, that he knew nothing of the papers which had been found upon him. Unfortunately his declaration, when inspected, proved to be in the same handwriting with one of the most important of those papers. He died with manly fortitude.

Attendance

   During my attendance at high school I often studied aloud at home, along with several other temporary or permanent members of the family. I remember becoming exasperated at times by one of my girl companions. She not only read her history aloud, but as she read she stopped to repeat each sentence five times with great vigor. Although the din interfered with my own work, I could not help but admire her endurance; for the physical labor of mastering a lesson was certainly equal to that of a good farm hand, for the same period of time.

A shot in the arm

   French purchases would provide  a shot in the arm for the aircraft industry, and the Treasury was involved because it wished to promote American exports.

Attain

   No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.

Attainments

     Neither does it make any difference if General MacArthur is a man of astounding personality, tremendous achievement, graduated first in his class in the great College of the Army and has had a distinguished career and has proven a wonderful administrator. For someone of Truman’s modest attainments, a man of his stature, to have fired MacArthur seemed to many Americans an act smacking of insolence and vindictiveness, not to say dreadful judgment.

Abide

   Aristotle defines friendship as one soul abiding in two bodies. Friends are born, not made. Some friendships grow, and ripen slowly and steadily with the years. We cannot tell where they began or how.

Allude

She also alluded to her rival’s past marital troubles.

The president was ruthless in dealing with any hint of internal political dissent.

Ambuscade

There is a patience of the wild—dogged, tireless, persistence as life itself—that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food; and it belonged to Buck as he clung to the flank of the herd, retarding its march, irritating the young bulls, worrying the cows with their half grown calves, and driving the wounded bull mad with helpless rage.

Appendage

    A good character is in all cases the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents, it is not created by external advantages, it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one’s own endeavors.

Antidote

     There has been only one religion in the world which has not been polluted by fanaticism and that is the religion of the learned in China. The different sects of ancient philosophers were not merely exempt from this pest of human society, but they were antidotes to it: for the effect of philosophy is to render the soul tranquil, and fanaticism and tranquility are totally incompatible.

Anticipate

      He must anticipate the maneuvers of the other lawyers and beat them at their own game.

      The horse is on tremendous form and I expect him to win.

      Officials anticipate that rivalry between leaders of various drug factions could erupt into a full scale war.

Appropriate

   Coyotes are capable of digging their own burrows, though they often appropriate the burrows of woodchucks or American badgers.  The resulting hybrids called coydogs maintain the coyote’s  predatory nature, along with the dog’s lack of timidity toward humans, making them a usually more serious threat to livestock than pure blooded animals.

Asset

   Studies came easily to him and he made good to excellent grades without extending himself. His chief asset was his will to win. He loved the challenge of the games themselves, enjoyed the competition with older and bigger boys, bubbled over with pleasure at hitting a single to drive in the winning run.

Athwart

    The subtle delicacy of the grass-blade, the crystals of the snowflake, the icicle, the marvel of the weird lines traced by the flocks of wild geese athwart the heavens as they migrated, these he watched and recorded with loving accuracy and sensitive poetic feeling as no one in our land before had done.

Accrue

     Prior to the 20th century, pupils were often handpicked at a young age by a teacher and trained for seven years on contract from the child’s parents. Since the teacher fully provided for the pupil during this period, the student accrued a debt to his master that was later repaid through performance earnings.

Accrue

The CIA considered offering bribes to Cambodian officials to halt the flow of arms through its country to Vietnam, but concluded that it could not match the profits accruing to the officials from the arms traffic. Nor would these officials be willing to take the political risk involved in working with the United States.

Alien

Aliens are we in our native land. The fundamental principles of the republic, to which the humblest white man, whether born here or elsewhere, may appeal with confidence, in the hope of awakening a favorable response, are held to be inapplicable to us.

Averse

    I have always been a recluse, a dreamer, a kind of isolated philosopher, going, content with but little, harboring ill-feeling against no man, and without even a grudge against heaven. I have constantly lived alone; consequently, a kind of torture takes hold of me when I find myself in the presence of others. How is this to be explained? I do not know. I am not averse to going out into the world , to conversation, to dining with friends, but when they are near me for any length of time, even the most intimate of them, they bore me, fatigue me, enervate me, and I experience an overwhelming, torturing desire to see them get up and go, and to leave me by myself.

Averse

Flexner went on to ask Elsa to dissuade her husband from being featured at a schedule musical recital in Manhattan, which he had already accepted, that was to raise money for Jewish refugees. But like her husband, Elsa was not totally averse to publicity, nor to helping Jewish causes, and she resented Flexner’s attempts at control.

Access

Once again Walter Issacson has produced a most valuable biography of a great man about whom much has already been written. It helps that he has had access to important new material. He met the challenge of dealing with his subject as a human being and describing profound ideas in physics.

Accentuate

    The depth of his obliviousness is accentuated by the urgent activity going on all around him. Nurses and technicians move in and out of the room preparing the instrument of surgery. At his head, two doctors are discussing the approach they will use in the operation. As they talk they trace possible incisions across his scalp with their fingers.

Advent

     It was a demonstration to Kissinger that individuals could rise above historical circumstances to shape their own destinies: that the advent of a viciously anti-Semitic regime in Germany would not permanently divorce him from his homeland or consign him to obscurity in a foreign country.

Apprehension

     Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him; he looked anxiously in the same direction, and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks,  and bending under the weight of something he carried on his back. He was surprised to see any human being in this lonely and unfrequented place, but supposing it to be some one of the neighborhood in need of his assistance, he hastened down to yield it.

Accustom

    He was stripped, weighed, measured, examined for hernia, gonorrhea, piles, fallen arches, and defects of vision. Reveille was at 5:45, breakfast at 6:30A.M. Drill began at 7:30. He tried to accustom himself to thinking and figuring in the metric system.

Anguish

    His letters, however, carried none of the anguish over what he might make of himself in life. There was no more self-doubt, or self-pity over his supposedly bad Truman luck.

Apportion

    He had the most say in apportioning the budget, and keeping the books was ultimately his responsibility.

Bristle at

    Given his brash attitude, Einstein didn’t hide his feelings. And given his dignified sense of himself, Weber bristled at Einstein’s ill concealed disdain. His conviction that the universe loves simplification and beauty, and his willingness to be guided by this conviction, even if it meant destroying the foundations of Newtonian physics, led him, with a clarity of thought that others could not match, to his new description of space and time.

Barb

There was no evading his impudence. Either she would have to put up with it or ask him to leave. And now she did not want him to leave. His words were barbed but they were the barbs of truth. He knew what she had done and why she had done it and he did not seem to think the less of her for it. And though his questions were unpleasantly blunt, they seemed actuated by a friendly interest.

Budding

  As for Hurstwood, he was alive with thoughts and feelings concerning Carrie. He had no definite plans regarding her, but he was determined to make her confess an affection for him. He thought he saw in her drooping eyes, her unstable glance, her wavering manner, the symptoms of a budding passion.

Buoy up

     No rewards of money only can induce a man to steadfastly conduct affairs of great moment and enterprise; he is buoyed up by a great hope; often the very greatness of the task and the sense of serving great ends carry him on; always he sees the worth in the ideal rather than the wage.

Business understanding

   Friendship is to be valued for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it. When two people appreciate each other because each has found the other convenient to have around, they are not friends, they are simply acquaintances with a business understanding. To seek friendship for its utility is as futile as to seek the end of a rainbow for its bag of gold.

Bed

Bricks should not be merely laid, but each should be placed frog upwards, and rubbed and pressed firmly down in such a manner as to secure absolute adhesion, and force the mortar into joints. Every brick should be well wetted before it is laid, especially in hot dry weather, in order to wash off the dust from its surface, and to obtain more complete adhesion, and prevent it from absorbing water from the mortar in which it is bedded.

Bathe

   She bathed thoroughly to get rid of the last traces of makeup.

Book

    They took him to the station and booked him for assault with a deadly weapon.

    Economics is a closed book to me.

Break rank

     In it he argued that unrestrained capitalism produced great disparities of wealth, cycles of boom and depression, and festering levels of unemployment. The system encouraged selfishness instead of cooperation, and acquiring wealth rather than serving others. Rabbi Wise was flabbergasted that Einstein would break ranks with true Zionists at such a public hearing.

Broad

   The qualities of goodness in a man, I believe, include a broad sympathy for the human condition, that is, an awareness of human weaknesses and shortcomings and a willingness to be forgiving of them, a sense of responsibility toward others, a genuine modesty combined with a justified self-confidence, a sense of humor, and most of all a love of life and of people.

Bone

   Some of them made no bones about their political views.

   Profit margins have been slashed to the bone in an attempt to keep turnover moving.

   The press conference simply provided more fodder for  another attack on his character.

   Her grief  was still raw and he did not know how to help her.

   His audience had listened like children, spellbound by his words.

Bully

     Scarlett reigned supreme at Tara now and, like others suddenly elevated to authority, all the bullying instincts in her nature rose to the surface. It was not that she was basically unkind. It was because she was so frightened and unsure of herself she was harsh lest others learn her inadequacies and refuse her authority.

Bear out

     The doctrine that the parent state has supreme power over the colonies is not only borne out by authority and by precedent, but will appear, when examined, to be in entire accordance with justice and with policy. During the feeble infancy of colonies independence would be pernicious, or rather fatal, to them. Undoubtedly, as they grow stronger and stronger, it will be wise in the home government to be more and more indulgent. No sensible parent deals with a son of twenty in the same way as with a son of ten.

Brunt

    Of course it was chiefly subordinates who bore the brunt of Kissinger ‘s unpleasantness, and many of them took their leave after being exposed to Henry’s dark side. He was never as abrasive with those who sat in judgment on him.

Buzz

    Her children were the number two priority in her life next to her career.

  Many more questions were buzzing around in my head.

  A buzz of excitement filled the courtroom as the defendant was led in.

Bluff

   In each case the hijackers bluffed the crew using fake grenades.

Brood

He had indeed, as little to complain of as any man whom a revolution has ever hurled down from an exalted station. He had at Fressingfield, in Suffolk, a patrimonial estate, which, together with what he had save during a primacy of twelve years, enabled him to live, not indeed as he had lived when he was the first peer of Parliament, but in the style of an opulent country gentleman. He retired to his hereditary abode; and there he passed the rest of his life in brooding over his wrongs.

Badger

    She badgered her doctor time and again, pleading with him to do something.

Benefactor

    Finding, however, that the clouds of adversity were gathering round his patron, he abandoned his service and went over to the whites, and in order to gain their favor charged his former benefactor with plotting against their safety.