Events ("What?")
- bank withdrawal
- the withdrawal of money from your account at a bank
- sizzle
- a sizzling noise
- ablactation
- the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal
- decentralisation
- the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments
- myringectomy
- surgical removal of the eardrum
- recirculation
- circulation again
- sampling
- measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)
- extenuation
- to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
- barbarization
- an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized
- decampment
- the act of running away secretly (as to avoid arrest)
- elementary education
- education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school
- hasty defense
- a defense organized while in contact with the enemy or when time is limited
- gumming
- ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth)
- spring break
- a week or more of recess during the spring term at school
- purchase
- the acquisition of something for payment
- skating
- the sport of gliding on skates
- strikeout
- an out resulting from the batter getting three strikes
- Santiago de Cuba
- a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the United States fleet bottled up the Spanish ships in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba and destroyed them when they tried to escape
- constructive eviction
- action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved
- arterial blood gases
- measurement of the pH level and the oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in arterial blood; important in diagnosis of many respiratory diseases
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