| bypass |
a road that is built to go around a busy area or to avoid something in the way. |
| dainty |
small, pretty, and delicate. |
| deprecate |
to disparage or treat as having small value; depreciate. |
| ebb |
the flowing of the tide away from the land to the sea. |
| involvement |
the state of having a role in or interest in. |
| lapse |
a slight failure to meet some accepted standard. |
| ongoing |
continuing from sometime in the past into the present. |
| perishable |
likely to spoil or rot in a short time. |
| portray |
to make a picture of in images or words. |
| prompt |
to cause to act. |
| quantify |
to find or express the number or amount of. |
| ransack |
to search through thoroughly, especially for items to steal; plunder. |
| reminisce |
to recall past experiences, often with fondness or pleasure. |
| scholarly |
of or appropriate to a student or a learned person. |
| selective |
very careful in choosing. |