[ suh-kuhs ]
medicine/medical; to shake (a patient) in order to determine if a fluid is present in the thorax or elsewhere
[ val-er-uhs ]
showing great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle
[ uh-loof ]
reserved or reticent; indifferent; disinterested
[ mod-i-kuhm ]
a moderate or small amount
[ suh-lil-uh-kwee ]
an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present
[ luh-jer-i-tee ]
physical or mental quickness
[ hang-gree ]
feeling irritable or irrationally angry as a result of being hungry
[ ahy-det-ik ]
of, relating to, or constituting visual imagery vividly experienced and readily reproducible with great accuracy and in great detail
[ sem-uh-fawr ]
an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed
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