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| abrupt |
When something is abrupt, it happens without anybody expecting it, and it often happens very quickly. [1/2 definitions] |
| accident |
"Accident" is chance or luck. When something happens by accident, it happens without any particular reason or anybody hoping or expecting it to happen. [1/2 definitions] |
| anonymous |
If a gift is anonymous, then nobody knows who is giving it. If you receive an anonymous valentine, you don't know who sent it to you. The person who the valentine is from didn't put their name on it and isn't telling anybody. [1/2 definitions] |
| anybody |
If there isn't anybody in the house, it means that there isn't any person in the house. |
| anyone |
any person; anybody. |
| by accident |
If you do something by accident, you do it without any plan or intention to do it. It just happens. Bad things often happen by accident without anybody wanting or planning for them to happen. Good things sometimes happen by accident too. |
| driver |
A driver is someone who drives. It can be anybody who drives, or a person who drives for their job, like a bus driver or a truck driver. |
| especially |
If something is especially for you, it is only for you, or it is more for you than anybody else. If you buy a big pillow especially for your dog to sleep on, then giving your dog a nice place to sleep was the main reason or only reason you bought the pillow. [1/3 definitions] |
| free |
When you are free, you are not under the control of anybody else. When a country is free, it is independent from other countries. It has its own government. [3/14 definitions] |
| gloom |
Gloom is a mood of sadness or a state of feeling very low. If someone is filled with gloom, they are unhappy and may not want to talk to anybody or do anything. [1/2 definitions] |
| help |
When you help yourself to something, it means that you take it for yourself without anybody else serving or handing it to you. [1/7 definitions] |
| majority |
If a majority of people in a country live in cities, then most of them live in cities. If you win the majority of votes, you win more than half of all the votes, or you win more votes than anybody else. The majority of something is more than half of it, or the largest amount of that thing compared with other amounts of it. [1/2 definitions] |
| most |
If you have the most books in your family, then you have more books than anybody else. If you have four pets and your other friends have only one or two, then you have the most pets of all your friends. [1/4 definitions] |
| nobody |
no one; no person; not anybody. [1/2 definitions] |
| own |
When you have your own thing, it means that you have a thing that is yours and not anybody else's. [1/4 definitions] |
| personally |
If a famous actress answers her fan letters personally, it means that she answers her letters herself and doesn't have anybody else do it for her. If you deliver some flowers to your sick friend personally, you bring them to your friend's house yourself. You don't ask a delivery service or someone else to bring them. [1/3 definitions] |
| plain |
If someone says that something is plain wrong, they mean it is completely wrong and that anybody can see it. [1/8 definitions] |
| tough |
When someone is tough, they sometimes scare other people, and sometimes they do mean things to try to show they are stronger or better than others. Tough people act as if nothing can hurt them and they can't be controlled by anybody else. [1/6 definitions] |
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