Events ("What?")
- collage film
- a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footage
- coup de main
- an attack without warning
- furnishing
- the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc.
- glycogenesis
- the conversion of glucose to glycogen when the glucose in the blood exceeds the demand
- reveille
- a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise
- market gardening
- the growing of vegetables or flowers for market
- hiring freeze
- a freeze on hiring
- planting
- the act of fixing firmly in place
- objection
- (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality
- metrification
- writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition)
- decrepitation
- the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated
- grassfire
- an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area
- hijinks
- noisy and mischievous merrymaking
- mudslide
- a landslide of mud
- no
- a negative
- Secretary of State
- the position of the head of the State Department
- trip
- a light or nimble tread
- tracheotomy
- a surgical operation that creates an opening into the trachea with a tube inserted to provide a passage for air; performed when the pharynx is obstructed by edema or cancer or other causes
- stare
- a fixed look with eyes open wide
- therapeutic abortion
- a legally induced abortion for medical reasons (as when the mother's life is threatened)
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