[ 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