She gives me this look of disdain ever since I cut her favorite doll's hair.

Due to her busy schedule she forgot to have any meals. By supper time, she's feeling famished and ready to gobble down her food.

What is famished?

The newlyweds agreed to be very frugal in their shopping because they wanted to save enough money to buy a house.

My brother said, “I just freed myself from a very loquacious history professor. All he seemed to want was an audience.”

It is difficult to imagine a surfeit of talent in one individual, yet Leonard Bernstein simply does not have the time to make complete use of his talent as conductor, performer, writer, and lecturer.

There is a large demand all over the United States for plants indigenous to the desert. Many people in Arizona have made a good business of growing and selling cacti and other local plants.

The VIGILANT guards stayed up all night to make sure no one came near the castle.

My mom seems to have the uncanny ability to know exactly what I'm thinking before I even say a word.

There is no doubt that the idea of living in such a benign climate was appealing. The islanders seemed to keep their vitality and live longer than Europeans.

Our baseball team's pitcher has a few eccentric habits, such as throwing exactly thirteen warm-up pitches and never wearing socks

Fortunately, the dizzy spell was transient. He was able to continue playing within seconds and had no trouble winning the match. When you describe an event as “transient”, you are saying that __________.

Exorbitant cars like Masserati, Ferrari, Lamborghini and even Bugatti can only be purchased by special orders.

What is the meaning of exorbitant?

The purpose of the psychiatrist is to mitigate the suffering of the patient.

We knew he couldn’t hold out much longer, because he had been doomed from the beginning. One night he met his ineluctable fate.

Many years before, Caesar’s men had tried and failed to invade Britain. No doubt this contributed to the xenophobia of the Romans. They were cautious about strangers who entered their country.