English Vocabulary with Meanings — climate … coveted
Every English word from the Akshara word game with its everyday meaning — the same reviewed definitions players see at the end of each level. Part 7 of 36 · 8,882 words in total.
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- climate
- the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
- climax
- the most exciting or important point of something
- climb
- the act of climbing something
- cling
- fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit
- clinic
- a healthcare facility for outpatient care
- clinton
- a town in east central Iowa
- clip
- a sharp slanting blow
- clipped
- (of speech) having quick short sounds
- clipper
- scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the plural)
- clique
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- clive
- British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774)
- cloak
- a loose outer garment
- clock
- a timepiece that shows the time of day
- clogged
- loaded with something that hinders motion
- clone
- an unauthorized copy or imitation
- cloning
- a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell)
- close
- the concluding part of any performance
- closed
- not open
- closely
- in a close relation or position in time or space
- closer
- (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game
- closest
- (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance
- closet
- a small private room for study or prayer
- closing
- a concluding action
- closure
- termination of operations
- clot
- a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid
- cloth
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- clothed
- wearing or provided with clothing
- clothes
- clothing in general
- cloud
- a group of many things in the air or on the ground
- clouded
- unclear in form or expression
- cloudy
- (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
- clout
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
- clover
- a plant of the genus Trifolium
- clown
- a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior
- club
- a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
- clue
- evidence that helps to solve a problem
- clumsy
- not elegant or graceful in expression
- cluster
- a grouping of a number of similar things
- clutch
- the act of grasping
- cns
- the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord
- coach
- a vehicle carrying many passengers
- coal
- a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
- coarse
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- coast
- the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
- coastal
- located on or near or bordering on a coast
- coaster
- a covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle)
- coat
- growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal
- coated
- having or dressed in a coat
- coating
- the work of applying something
- cob
- adult male swan
- cobalt
- a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element
- cobra
- venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood
- coca
- dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine)
- cochran
- United States aviator who held several speed records and headed the women's Air Force pilots in World War II (1910-1980)
- cockpit
- compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft
- cocky
- overly self-confident or self-assertive
- coco
- tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits
- cocoa
- powder of ground roasted cacao beans with most of the fat removed
- cod
- major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters
- code
- a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
- coding
- act of writing in code or cipher
- cody
- United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917)
- coexist
- exist together
- coffee
- a medium brown to dark-brown color
- coffin
- box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
- cog
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
- cohn
- German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants
- coil
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- coin
- a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
- coinage
- the act of inventing a word or phrase
- coke
- street names for cocaine
- col
- a pass between mountain peaks
- cola
- carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States)
- cold
- the absence of heat
- cole
- coarse curly-leafed cabbage
- collar
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- collect
- a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
- colleen
- an Irish girl
- college
- a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed
- collide
- crash together with violent impact
- collins
- tall iced drink of liquor (usually gin) with fruit juice
- cologne
- a perfumed liquid made of essential oils and alcohol
- colon
- the punctuation mark (:) used before a list or explanation
- colonel
- a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
- colony
- a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
- color
- the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- colored
- having color; not plain or white
- colors
- a flag that shows its nationality
- colour
- the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- colours
- a flag that shows its nationality
- colt
- a young male horse under the age of four
- column
- (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
- coma
- a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness
- comb
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- combat
- an engagement fought between two military forces
- combine
- harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field
- combing
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- come
- to move toward or arrive at a place
- comedy
- a comic incident or series of incidents
- comet
- (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
- comfort
- assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal
- comfy
- providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal)
- comic
- a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts
- comical
- arousing or provoking laughter
- coming
- arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
- comma
- anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
- commend
- express approval of
- comment
- a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material
- commit
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- common
- a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
- commons
- the common people
- commune
- a body of people or families living together and sharing everything
- comp
- an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge
- compact
- a small cosmetics case with a mirror
- company
- an institution created to conduct business
- compare
- qualities that are comparable
- compass
- navigational instrument for finding directions
- compel
- force somebody to do something
- compete
- compete for something
- compile
- put together out of existing material
- complex
- a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
- comply
- act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes
- compose
- make up plans or basic details for
- compute
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- comrade
- used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement
- con
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- concave
- curving inward
- conceal
- prevent from being seen or discovered
- concede
- be willing to concede
- concept
- an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
- concern
- something that interests you because it is important or affects you
- concert
- a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging
- concise
- expressing much in few words
- concord
- the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775)
- concur
- happen simultaneously
- condemn
- declare or judge unfit for use or habitation
- condo
- one of the dwelling units in a condominium
- conduct
- manner of acting or controlling yourself
- conduit
- a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass
- cone
- any cone-shaped artifact
- coney
- any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails
- confer
- have a conference in order to talk something over
- confess
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- confirm
- make more firm
- confuse
- mistake one thing for another
- congo
- black tea grown in China
- conical
- relating to or resembling a cone
- conjure
- engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together
- conn
- conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane
- conquer
- to put down by force or authority
- conrad
- English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924)
- consent
- permission to do something
- consist
- be composed of
- console
- housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
- consul
- a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country
- consult
- advise professionally
- contact
- close interaction
- contain
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy
- contend
- maintain or assert
- content
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- contest
- a struggle between rivals
- context
- discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation
- contour
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- contra
- a member of the guerrilla force that opposed a left-wing government in Nicaragua
- control
- the activity of managing or exerting control over something
- convent
- a religious residence especially for nuns
- convert
- a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief
- convex
- curving or bulging outward
- convey
- make known
- convict
- a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
- convoy
- the act of escorting while in transit
- coo
- the sound made by a pigeon
- cook
- someone who cooks food
- cooke
- United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War
- cooked
- having been prepared for eating by the application of heat
- cooker
- a utensil for cooking
- cookery
- the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
- cooking
- the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
- cool
- great coolness and composure under strain
- coolant
- a fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling
- cooler
- a refrigerator for cooling liquids
- cooling
- a mechanism for keeping something cool
- coon
- North American raccoon
- coop
- an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
- cooper
- a craftsman who makes or repairs wooden barrels or tubs
- cop
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- cope
- a long cloak
- coping
- brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
- copious
- affording an abundant supply
- copper
- any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings
- copy
- a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing
- copying
- an act of copying
- cora
- (Greek mythology) daughter of Zeus and Demeter
- coral
- marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton
- cord
- a line made of twisted fibers or threads
- cordial
- strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal
- cordon
- adornment consisting of an ornamental ribbon or cord
- cords
- cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth
- core
- a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
- cork
- a small float usually made of cork
- corn
- something sentimental or trite
- cornell
- United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874)
- corner
- the intersection of two streets
- cornish
- English breed of compact domestic fowl
- corny
- dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
- corona
- a long cigar with blunt ends
- corp
- a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state
- corps
- an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support
- corpse
- the dead body of a human being
- corpus
- the main part of an organ or other bodily structure
- corral
- a pen for cattle
- correct
- treat a defect
- corrupt
- alter from the original
- corset
- a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
- cos
- lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head
- cosmic
- inconceivably extended in space or time
- cost
- the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
- costa
- any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)
- costing
- cost accounting
- costly
- having a high price
- costs
- pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation
- costume
- the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball
- cosy
- a padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm
- cot
- a small bed that folds up for storage or transport
- cottage
- a small house with a single story
- cotton
- fabric woven from cotton fibers
- couch
- a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment
- cougar
- large American feline resembling a lion
- cough
- a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages
- council
- a meeting of people for consultation
- counsel
- something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action
- count
- the act of counting
- counter
- a return punch (especially by a boxer)
- country
- the people who live in a nation or country
- county
- (United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government
- coup
- a brilliant and notable success
- coupe
- a car with two doors and front seats and a luggage compartment
- couple
- a pair who associate with one another
- coupled
- connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks
- coupon
- a test sample of some substance
- courage
- a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear
- course
- a mode of action
- court
- respectful deference
- cousin
- the child of your aunt or uncle
- cove
- a small inlet
- coven
- an assembly of witches
- cover
- fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations
- covered
- overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something
- covert
- a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- coveted
- greatly desired