Thursday Thirteen #135

Thirteen words to learn by Aaron Crocco

1. Reverberate. –verb (used without object) A. to reecho or resound: Her singing reverberated through the house. B. Physics. to be reflected many times, as sound waves from the walls of a confined space.

2. Syncopation. –noun A. Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats. B. Something, as a rhythm or a passage of music, that is syncopated.

3. Elude. -verb A. To avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade: to elude capture. B. to escape the understanding, perception, or appreciation of

4. Alleviate. –verb (used with object), -at·ed, -at·ing. to make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate: to alleviate sorrow; to alleviate pain.

5. Reminisce. –verb (used without object), -nisced, -nisc·ing. to recall past experiences, events

6. Exude. –verb (used without object) A. to come out gradually in drops, as sweat, through pores or small openings; ooze out. –verb (used with object) B. to send out, as sweat; emit through pores or small openings. C. to project or display conspicuously or abundantly; radiate: to exude cheerfulness.

7. Devastation. –noun A. the act of devastating; destruction. B. devastated state; desolation.

8. Synchronize. –verb (used with object) 1. to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches. B. to cause to go on, move, operate, work, etc., at the same rate and exactly together: They synchronized their steps and walked on together.

9. Correlate. adjective, noun –verb (used with object) A. to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income. –verb (used without object) B. to have a mutual or reciprocal relation; stand in correlation: The results of the two tests correlate to a high degree. –adjective C. mutually or reciprocally related. –noun D. either of two related things, esp. when one implies the other.

10. Condition. –noun A. a particular mode of being of a person or thing; existing state; situation with respect to circumstances. B. state of health: He was reported to be in critical condition. C. fit or requisite state: to be out of condition; to be in no condition to run. D. social position: in a lowly condition. E. a restricting, limiting, or modifying circumstance: It can happen only under certain conditions. F.a circumstance indispensable to some result; prerequisite; that on which something else is contingent: conditions of acceptance.

11. Causality. –noun, plural -ties. The relation of cause and effect: The result is the same, however differently the causality is interpreted.

12. Timeline. –noun A linear representation of important events in the order in which they occurred.

13. Interconnected. To connect reciprocally

-All definitions from dictionary.com