Acetaminophen: - a drug used to reduce pain, Acetone: - a strong-smelling, clear liquid that is used in the production of various chemicals and is sometimes added to paint to make it more liquid, Acidophilus: - a type of bacterium used to make yogurt or as a medicine to help people digest food if they have a stomach illness, Bauxite: - a type of rock from which aluminium is obtained, Philistine: - a person who refuses to see the beauty or the value of art or culture, Phloem: - the type of plant tissue that transports food from the leaves to the other parts of the plant, Phlox: - a North American plant with brightly coloured flowers, Rouille: - a thick sauce from France made with very small pieces of bread, olive oil (= oil made from a small, bitter, green or black fruit), garlic, and spicy peppers, Rubato: - allowing the performer to change speeds rather than keeping to a fixed rhythm: used in written music to show how a piece, or part of a piece, Tonsilitis: - a painful infection of the tonsils, Toque: - a tall white hat with folds in the top part, worn by chefs, Gaillardia: - a garden plant grown for its large attractive yellow, pinkish-red, or two-coloured flowers, Gambol: - o run and jump in a happy way, Ecchymosis: - he movement of blood from broken blood vessels into body tissue, causing it to become darker, usually purple or black in colour, or an area of dark tissue or skin, Echelon: - a particular level or group of people within an organization such as an army or company, Echinoderm: - a type of sea creature with raised areas or sharp points on its skin and a body made of five equal parts arranged around the centre, Espalier: - a tree, usually a fruit tree, that has been made to grow in a flat shape against something such as a wall or fence, Esplanade: - a wide level path, especially one by the sea, Epistemology: - the part of philosophy that is about the study of how we know things, Diastole: - the period of time when the heart is filling with blood after contraction, Erythroblast: - a cell in bone marrow (= soft tissue in the centre of a bone) that becomes a red blood cell (= a cell that carries oxygen around the body), Ethylene: - a gas with a slightly sweet smell that burns easily, used in industry and to make fruit ripe, Étouffée: - a spicy stew (= a dish of meat or fish and vegetables cooked slowly in a little liquid), usually eaten with rice, from Louisiana in the southern US, Demurrage: - money that must be paid when a chartered (= rented) ship is used for longer than agreed, or when goods are collected later than the agreed time after being taken off a chartered ship, Dengue: - a serious tropical disease that is caused by a virus carried by mosquitoes. It causes a high fever and severe pain in the joints of the body, Exchequer: - the government department that receives and gives out public money, in the UK and some other countries, Hellebore: - any plant of the Hellebore genus (= group of related plants), with large attractive flowers, Hemorrhage: - a large flow of blood from a damaged blood vessel (= tube that carries blood around the body), Homoscedasticity: - in statistics (= the science of using information discovered from studying numbers), a situation in which all the variables (= things that can change) in a sequence (= a series of related things), Hepatectomy: - he situation where changes in one part of the economy take time to have an effect, Kaleidoscope: - a toy in the shape of a tube, that you look through to see different patterns of light made by pieces of coloured glass and mirrors,

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