| accept |
When you accept something from someone, it means that you take what they want to give you. [1/5 definitions] |
| account |
Sometimes when you want to do something on your computer on the internet, the website asks you to make an account. You do this by choosing a name for yourself and a password. The name you choose is called your "user name." When you make an account, the website remembers who you are every time you go to it and put in your user name and your password. [1/5 definitions] |
| ache |
to want very much. [1/3 definitions] |
| address |
When you address a letter, you write on it the place where you want the letter to be sent. [1/6 definitions] |
| admit |
When you admit something, you tell the truth about it even if you don't really want to. [1/2 definitions] |
| advance |
If someone advances you money, they give you money to support something that you want to do. They usually expect you to pay them back, or they expect to make some profit from what you are going to do. [1/5 definitions] |
| advertise |
When you advertise something, you show or tell people good things about it so that they will want to buy it. [2/3 definitions] |
| affordable |
When something is affordable, you can buy it if you want to because it doesn't cost too much money. |
| aggressive |
An aggressive country is not friendly and is ready to attack other countries. If a person acts in an aggressive way, they try to hurt other people, or they act as if they want to. [1/2 definitions] |
| agreement |
When there is agreement between people, or when people are in agreement with each other, they want or think the same thing. [1/4 definitions] |
| aim |
When you aim something, you point it carefully in the direction of the thing you want to hit. [3/5 definitions] |
| aisle |
An aisle is a long, open space where you can walk between many rows of seats. An aisle is also the area between long shelves in places like stores and libraries. You walk down the aisles and find the things you want to buy or look at. |
| album |
An album is something that looks like a book with empty pages. We use albums to keep pictures and other things we want to look at and keep safe. Most people use albums for photographs, but people who collect things such as stamps or coins use albums too. [1/2 definitions] |
| allowance |
An allowance is a little money that some parents give to their children usually once a week. The children can spend the money for something they want. |
| allure |
If something has allure, it has the power to attract people. It makes people want it or want to come to it. [1/2 definitions] |
| ally |
An ally is someone who will help you achieve some goal, usually because they agree with this goal and they want to help you reach it. They want the same thing as you do. They are on the same side as you. An ally is sometimes a friend, but an ally may just be someone who will cooperate with you in trying to do something. |
| amateur |
An amateur is someone who does something like a job or a sport just because they want to do it and not because they want to get paid. [1/2 definitions] |
| ambition |
When you have ambition, you have big goals for your life that you want to make come true. When you have a particular ambition, you have a certain goal that you want to reach. Probably you will try hard to have success in reaching it. |
| amount |
If the things you want to buy at the store amount to twelve, it means that when you add all of them up, the total of all the things is twelve. [1/3 definitions] |
| anchor |
An anchor is a heavy piece of iron or other metal that is attached to a boat or ship. When people want to keep a boat from moving, they drop the anchor into the water. [1/4 definitions] |
| announcement |
An announcement is something that lets people know about something new. If you want people to know about an event at your school, you might make an announcement on the radio. Usually, an announcement is made to many people at the same time. [1/2 definitions] |