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Broadcast: Monday, March 28, 2005

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H

  • hair - n. the fine material that grows from the skin, especially from the head
  • half - n. one of two equal parts of something
  • halt - v. to come or cause to come to a stop; to stop
  • hang - v. to place something so the highest part is supported and the lower part is not; to kill by hanging
  • happen - v. to become a fact or event; to take place
  • happy - ad. pleased; satisfied; feeling good; not sad
  • hard - ad. not easily cut or broken; solid; difficult to do or understand; needing much effort or force
  • harm - v. to injure; to damage; n. damage; hurt
  • harvest - v. to gather crops; n. the crop after it is gathered
  • hat - n. a head cover
  • hate - v. to have strong emotions against; to consider as an enemy; opposite love
  • have - v. to possess; to own; to hold
  • he - pro. the boy or man who is being spoken about
  • head - v. to lead; to command; n. leader; chief; the top part of something; the highest position
  • headquarter - n. the center from which orders are given; the main offices of a business or organization
  • heal - v. to return to good health; to cure; to become well
  • health - n. the general condition of the body and mind; the condition of being free from sickness or disease
  • hear - v. to receive sound through the ears; to receive news about
  • heat - v. to make hot or warm; n. great warmth; that which is produced by burning fuel; energy from the sun
  • heavy - ad. having much weight; not easy to lift; of great amount or force
  • helicopter - n. a machine without wings that can fly up or down or remain in one place above the ground
  • help - v. to give support; to assist; to make easier; n. support; aid
  • here - ad. in, to or at this place
  • hero - n. a person honored for being brave or wise
  • hide - v. to prevent from being seen or found; to make secret
  • high - ad. tall; far up; far above the ground; important; above others
  • hijack - v. to seize or take control of a vehicle by force
  • hill - n. a small mountain
  • history - n. the written record or description of past events; the study of the past
  • hit - v. to strike; to touch with force
  • hold - v. to carry or support, usually in the hands or arms; to keep in one position; to keep as a prisoner; to contain; to possess; to occupy; to organize and be involved in ("The two sides hold talks this week.")
  • hole - n. an opening; a torn or broken place in something
  • holiday - n. a day when one does not work; a day on which no work is done to honor or remember a person or event
  • holy - ad. greatly honored in religion
  • home - n. the building where a person lives, especially with family; the place where one was born or comes from; the area or country where one lives
  • honest - ad. truthful; able to be trusted
  • honor - v. to obey; to show strong, good feelings for ("to honor one's parents"); n. an award; an act of giving special recognition ("He received many honors for his efforts to help others.")
  • hope - v. to expect; to believe there is a good chance that something will happen as wanted; to want something to happen
  • horrible - ad. causing great fear; terrible
  • horse - n. a large animal often used for racing, riding or farm work
  • hospital - n. a place where sick or injured people are given medical care
  • hostage - n. a person captured and held as a guarantee that a demand or promise will be honored
  • hostile - ad. ready to fight; ready for war
  • hot - ad. having or feeling great heat or a high temperature
  • hotel - n. a building with rooms, and often food, for travellers
  • hour - n. a measure of time; sixty minutes
  • house - n. a building in which people live; a country's parliament or lawmaking group ("House of Representatives")
  • how - ad. in what way; to what amount
  • however - conj. yet; but
  • huge - ad. very big; of great size
  • human - ad. of or about people
  • humor - n. the ability to understand, enjoy or express what makes people laugh
  • hunger - n. the need for food
  • hunt - v. to search for animals to capture or kill them; to seek; to try to find
  • hurry - v. to do or go fast
  • hurt - v. to cause pain, injury or damage
  • husband - n. a man who is married

I

  • I - pro. the person speaking
  • ice - n. frozen water
  • idea - n. a thought or picture in the mind; a belief
  • identify - v. to recognize someone or something and to say who or what they are
  • if - conj. on condition; provided that ("I will go if you go.")
  • illegal - ad. not legal; in violation of a law
  • imagine - v. to make a picture in the mind; to form an idea
  • immediate - ad. without delay; very near in time or place
  • import - v. to bring from another country; n. something brought from another country, usually for sale
  • important - ad. having great meaning, value or power
  • improve - v. to make better; to become better
  • in - prep. inside; held by; contained by; surrounded by; during
  • incident - n. an event or something that happens
  • incite - v. to urge or cause an action or emotion, usually something bad or violent
  • include - v. to have; to make a part of
  • increase - v. to make more in size or amount
  • independent - ad. not influenced by or controlled by another or others; free; separate
  • individual - n. one person
  • industry - n. any business that produces goods or provides services; the work and related activity in factories and offices; all organizations involved in manufacturing
  • infect - v. to make sick with something that causes disease
  • inflation - n. a continuing rise in prices while the value of money goes down
  • influence - v. to have an effect on someone or something; to cause change
  • inform - v. to tell; to give knowledge to
  • information - n. knowledge; facts
  • inject - v. to force a fluid into, such as putting medicine or drugs into the body through the skin
  • injure - v. to cause harm or damage to a person or animal
  • innocent - ad. not guilty of a crime; not responsible for a bad action
  • insane - ad. mentally sick
  • insect - n. a very small creature, usually with many legs and sometimes with wings
  • inspect - v. to look at something carefully; to examine, especially by an expert
  • instead - ad. in the place of; taking the place of
  • instrument - n. a tool or device designed to do something or to make something
  • insult - v. to say something or to do something that makes another person angry or dishonored
  • intelligence - n. the ability to think or learn; information gathered by spying
  • intelligent - ad. quick to understand or learn
  • intense - ad. very strong; extremely serious
  • interest - n. what is important to someone ("He acted to protect his interests." "She had a great interest in painting."); a share in owning a business; money paid for the use of money borrowed
  • interfere - v. to get in the way of; to work against; to take part in the activities of others, especially when not asked to do so
  • international - ad. of or about more than one nation or many nations; of the whole world
  • intervene - v. to come between; to come between in order to settle or solve
  • invade - v. to enter an area or country by force with an army
  • invent - v. to plan and make something never made before; to create a new thing or way of doing something
  • invest - v. to give money to a business or organization with the hope of making more money
  • investigate - v. to study or examine all information about an event, situation or charge; to search for the truth
  • invite - v. to ask someone to take part in or join an event, organization or gathering
  • involve - v. to take part in; to become a part of; to include
  • iron - n. a strong, hard metal used to make machines and tools
  • island - n. a land area with water all around it
  • issue - n. an important problem or subject that people are discussing or arguing about
  • it - pro. a thing, place, event or idea that is being spoken about ("The sky is blue, but it also has a few white clouds.")

J

  • jail - n. a prison for those waiting to be tried for a crime or for those serving sentences for crimes that are not serious
  • jewel - n. a valuable stone, such as a diamond or emerald
  • job - n. the work that one does to earn money
  • join - v. to put together or come together; to become part of or a member of
  • joint - ad. shared by two or more
  • joke - n. something done or said to cause others to laugh
  • judge - v. to form an opinion about; to decide a question, especially a legal one; n. a public official who decides problems of law in a court
  • jump - v. to push down on the feet and move up quickly into the air
  • jury - n. a group of people chosen to decide what is true in a trial
  • just - ad. only ("Help me for just a minute."); very shortly before or after the present ("He just left."); at the same time ("He left just as I came in."); what is right or fair ("The law is just, in my opinion.")

K

  • keep - v. to possess; to have for oneself
  • kick - v. to hit with the foot
  • kidnap - v. to seize and take away by force
  • kill - v. to make dead; to cause to die
  • kind - n. sort ("What kind of dog is that?"); ad. gentle; caring; helpful
  • kiss - v. to touch with the mouth to show love or honor
  • knife - n. a tool or weapon used to cut
  • know - v. to understand something as correct; to have the facts about; to recognize someone because you have met and talked together before
  • knowledge - n. that which is known; learning or understanding

L

  • labor - n. work; workers as a group
  • laboratory - n. a room or place where experiments in science are done
  • lack - v. to be without; n. the condition of needing, wanting or not having
  • lake - n. a large area of fresh water surrounded by land
  • land - v. to come to the earth from the air ("Airplanes land at airports."); n. the part of the earth not covered by water; the ground
  • language - n. words and their use; what people speak in a country, nation or group
  • large - ad. big; being of more than usual size, amount or number; opposite small
  • last - v. to continue ("The talks will last three days."); ad. after all others; the only one remaining ("She is the last person in line.")
  • late - ad. after the correct time; near the end; opposite early
  • laugh - v. to make sounds to express pleasure or happy feelings
  • launch - v. to put into operation; to begin; to send into the air or space
  • law - n. all or any rules made by a government
  • lead - v. to show the way; to command; to control; to go first
  • leak - v. to come out of or to escape through a small opening or hole (usually a gas or liquid)
  • learn - v. to get knowledge about; to come to know a fact or facts
  • leave - v. to go away from; to let something stay where it is
  • left - ad. on the side that is toward the west when one is facing north; opposite right
  • legal - ad. of or in agreement with the law
  • legislature - n. a government lawmaking group
  • lend - v. to permit someone to use a thing temporarily; to make a loan of money
  • less - ad. smaller in amount; not as much
  • let - v. to permit to do or to be; to make possible
  • letter - n. a message written on paper; a communication in writing sent to another person
  • level - n. the amount or height that something reaches or rises to; the position of something or someone
  • liberal - ad. one who usually supports social progress or change
  • lie - v. to have one's body on the ground or other surface; to say something that one knows is not true
  • life - n. the time between being born and dying; opposite death; all living things
  • lift - v. to take or bring up to a higher place or level
  • light - n. a form of energy that affects the eyes so that one is able to see; anything that produces light; ad. bright; clear; not heavy
  • lightning - n. light produced by electricity in the air, usually during a storm
  • like - v. to be pleased with; to have good feelings for someone or something; ad. in the same way as; similar to
  • limit - v. to restrict to a number or amount; n. the greatest amount or number permitted
  • line - n. a long, thin mark on a surface; a number of people or things organized; one after another; the edge of an area protected by military forces
  • link - v. to connect; to unite one thing or event with another; n. a relation between two or more things, situations or events
  • liquid - n. a substance that is not a solid or gas, and can move freely, like water
  • list - v. to put in writing a number of names of people or things; n. a written series of names or things
  • listen - v. to try to hear
  • literature - n. all the poems, stories and writings of a period of time or of a country
  • little - ad. not tall or big; a small amount
  • live - v. to have life; to exist; ad. having life; alive
  • load - v. to put objects on or into a vehicle or container; n. that which is carried
  • loan - n. money borrowed that usually must be returned with interest payments; something borrowed
  • local - ad. about or having to do with one place
  • lonely - ad. feeling alone and wanting friends; visited by few or no people ("a lonely man")
  • long - ad. not short; measuring from beginning to end; measuring much; for much time
  • look - v. to turn the eyes toward so as to see; to search or hunt for; to seem to be
  • lose - v. to have no longer; to not find; to fail to keep; to be defeated
  • loud - ad. having a strong sound; full of sound or noise
  • love - v. to like very much; to feel a strong, kind emotion (sometimes involving sex); n. a strong, kind emotion for someone or something; opposite hate
  • low - ad. not high or tall; below the normal height; close to the ground
  • loyal - ad. showing strong friendship and support for someone or something
  • luck - n. something that happens by chance

M

  • machine - n. a device with moving parts used to do work
  • magazine - n. a publication of news, stories, pictures or other information
  • mail - n. letters, papers and other things sent through an official system, such as a post office
  • main - ad. the most important or largest
  • major - ad. great in size, importance or amount
  • majority - n. the greater number; more than half
  • make - v. to produce; to create; to build; to do something or to carry out an action; to cause to be or to become
  • male - n. a man or boy; the sex that is the father of children; ad. of or about men
  • man - n. an adult male human
  • manufacture - v. to make goods in large amounts
  • many - ad. a large number or amount of
  • map - n. a picture of the earth's surface or a part of it
  • march - v. to walk in a group like soldiers; to walk together in a large group to protest about something
  • mark - v. to make a sign or cut on something
  • market - n. a place or area where goods are sold, bought or traded; an economic system in which the prices of things are decided by how many there are and how much money people are willing to pay for them
  • marry - v. to join a man and woman together as husband and wife; to become husband and wife (usually in a religious or civil ceremony)
  • mass - n. an amount of matter having no special form and usually of a large size
  • mate - v. to bring together a male and a female to create another creature
  • material - n. the substance, substances or matter of which something is made or from which something can be made, such as wood, cloth or stone; anything that can be made into something else
  • mathematics - n. the science dealing with amounts, sizes and shapes, as explained by numbers and signs
  • matter - n. anything that can be seen or felt; what things are made of
  • may - v. a word used with an action word to mean permit or possible ("May I go?" "They may leave tomorrow.")
  • mayor - n. the chief official of a city or town government
  • meal - n. food eaten to satisfy hunger, such as dinner
  • mean - v. to want to; to give the idea of; to have the idea of
  • measure - v. to learn the amount, size or distance of something; n. an action taken; a legislative proposal
  • meat - n. the part of a dead animal used for food
  • media - n. all public information organizations, including newspapers, television and radio
  • medicine - n. a substance or drug used to treat disease or pain; the science or study of treating and curing disease or improving health
  • meet - v. to come together with someone or something at the same time and place
  • melt - v. to make a solid into a liquid by heating it
  • member - n. one of a group
  • memorial - n. something done or made to honor the memory of a person or event
  • memory - n. a picture in the mind of past events; the ability to remember; a thing remembered
  • mental - ad. about or having to do with the mind
  • mercy - n. kindness toward those who should be punished; the power to be kind or to pardon
  • message - n. written or spoken news or information; a note from one person to another person or group
  • metal - n. a hard substance such as iron, steel or gold
  • method - n. the way something is done
  • microscope - n. a device used to make very small things look larger so they can be studied
  • middle - n. the center; a place or time of equal distance from both sides or ends; ad. in the center
  • militant - n. someone active in trying to cause political change, often by the use of force or violence
  • military - n. the armed forces of a nation or group; ad. of or about the armed forces
  • milk - n. the white liquid produced by female animals to feed their young
  • mind - n. the thinking, feeling part of a person
  • mine - v. to dig useful or valuable substances out of the earth; n. a place in the earth where such substances are found; a bomb placed under the ground or under water so it cannot be seen
  • mineral - n. a substance found in nature that is not an animal or a plant, such as coal or salt
  • minister - n. a member of a cabinet; a high government official ("prime minister,"foreign minister")
  • minor - ad. small in size; of little importance
  • minority - n. the smaller number; opposite majority
  • minute - n. a measure of time; one of the sixty equal parts of an hour; sixty seconds
  • miss - v. to fail to hit, see, reach or meet
  • missile - n. any weapon that can be thrown or fired through the air and explodes when it reaches its target
  • missing - ad. lost; not found
  • mistake - n. a wrong action or decision; an action done without the knowledge that it was wrong
  • mix - v. to put different things together to make one thing
  • mob - n. a large group of wild or angry people
  • model - n. an example; something, usually small, made to show how something will look or work
  • moderate - ad. not extreme
  • modern - ad. of the present or very recent time; the most improved
  • money - n. pieces of metal or paper used to pay for things
  • month - n. one of the twelve periods of time into which a year is divided
  • moon - n. the bright object often seen in the night sky that orbits the earth about every twenty-nine days
  • moral - ad. concerning what is right or wrong in someone's actions
  • more - ad. greater in size or amount
  • morning - n. the early part of the day, from sunrise until noon
  • most - ad. greatest in size or amount
  • mother - n. the female parent; a woman who has a child or children
  • motion - n. a movement; a continuing change of position or place
  • mountain - n. a part of the earth's surface that rises high above the area around it
  • mourn - v. to express or feel sadness
  • move - v. to change position; to put or keep in motion; to go
  • movement - n. the act of moving or a way of moving; a series of acts or efforts to reach a goal
  • movie - n. a motion picture; a film
  • much - ad. great in amount
  • murder - v. to kill another person illegally; n. the crime of killing another person
  • music - n. the making of sounds by singing or using a musical instrument
  • must - v. a word used with an action word to mean necessary ("You must go to school.")
  • mystery - n. something that is not or cannot be explained or understood; a secret

N

  • name - v. to appoint; to nominate; to give a name to; n. a word by which a person, animal or thing is known or called
  • narrow - ad. limited in size or amount; not wide; having a short distance from one side to the other
  • nation - n. a country, together with its social and political systems
  • native - n. someone who was born in a place, not one who moved there
  • natural - ad. of or about nature; normal; common to its kind
  • nature - n. all the plants, animals and other things on earth not created by humans; events or processes not caused by humans
  • navy - n. the part of a country's military force trained to fight at sea
  • near - ad. not far; close to
  • necessary - ad. needed to get a result or effect; required
  • need - v. to require; to want; to be necessary to have or to do
  • negotiate - v. to talk about a problem or situation to find a common solution
  • neither - ad. not one or the other of two
  • neutral - ad. not supporting one side or the other in a dispute
  • never - ad. at no time; not ever
  • new - ad. not existing before; not known before; recently made, built, bought or grown; another; different
  • news - n. information about any recent events, especially as reported by the media
  • next - ad. coming immediately after; nearest
  • nice - ad. pleasing; good; kind
  • night - n. the time between when the sun goes down and when it rises, when there is little or no light
  • no - ad. used to reject or to refuse; not any; not at all
  • noise - n. sound, especially when loud
  • nominate - v. to name someone as a candidate for an election; to propose a person for an office or position
  • noon - n. the middle of the day; twelve o'clock in the daytime
  • normal - n. the usual condition, amount or form; ad. usual; what is expected
  • north - n. the direction to the left of a person facing the rising sun
  • not - ad. a word showing that something is denied or untrue ("She is not going.")
  • note - v. to talk about something already known; n. a word or words written to help a person remember; a short letter
  • nothing - n. not anything; no thing
  • now - ad. at this time; immediately
  • nowhere - ad. not in, to or at any place
  • nuclear - ad. of or about the energy produced by splitting atoms or bringing them together; of or about weapons that explode by using energy from atoms
  • number - n. a word or sign used to show the order or amount of things

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