[ as-er-teyn ]

to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine

[ krahy-teer-ee-uhn ]

a standard of judgment or criticism; a rule or principle for evaluating or testing something

[ flim-flam ]

a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim

[ noo-muh-nuhs ]

spiritual or supernatural

[ pahr-boil ]

to boil for a short amount of time; pre-cook

[ spon-dee ]

in poetry, a "foot" of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter

[ juht ]

something that juts out; a projecting or protruding point

[ dif-thawng ]

a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another (as in coin, loud, and side)

[ plee-uh-naz-uhm ]

the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy