| accountant |
a person who checks and takes care of business records or accounts. |
| amendment |
an official change made to a bill, law, or other document. |
| animation |
the act or result of causing something to become lively or active. |
| assumption |
something that is supposed or believed without questioning. For example, if you ask someone whether she is allowed to watch TV during dinner, you have made an assumption that there is a TV in her house. Assumptions are ideas people have that are not based on proven facts. An assumption can be correct or incorrect. |
| climax |
the most exciting or interesting point in a series of events. |
| correspondent |
a person who reports news or contributes articles regularly to a newspaper, magazine, TV network, or the like, from a distant area. |
| doctrine |
a belief or set of beliefs held by a religion, government, or other group. |
| dynamics |
(used with a plural verb) the driving forces at work in any given system or situation. |
| excavate |
to make a hole or hollow place in by digging. |
| firsthand |
from the source; directly. |
| intern |
a doctor who recently graduated from medical school and is working with more experienced doctors to finish training. |
| martyr |
a person who suffers or is killed for defending some belief or cause. |
| mobility |
the quality of moving or being moved easily from place to place, or of having ease and flexibility of motion. |
| mutilate |
to destroy by cutting or tearing off a necessary part. |
| propose |
to present or suggest as an idea to be considered. |