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actual When something is actual, it is real. If you got a toy helicopter for your birthday, nobody would be surprised, but if you got an actual helicopter, people would be very surprised! [1/2 definitions]
adequate If something is adequate, it is enough. If there is adequate food in the refrigerator, there is enough food. Nobody has to buy more food. If crops get adequate rain, they get enough rain. They don't need more rain than they get. [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]
childish If a person acts in a childish way, they act in some of the ways that little children act. They refuse to do things that make sense. They have difficulty being patient, and they can get very angry about things that are not really so important. They can be greedy. Sometimes they think only about their own feelings and nobody else's. Sometimes acting in a childish way, just means acting like a child and not like an adult acts.
coincidence A coincidence is a surprising event. In a coincidence, two similar things happen at the same time or in the same way completely by chance. It's like someone planned it, but nobody did. The fact that these similar things happen together is surprising and it's something that could not have been predicted.
concept A concept is a new and different idea that nobody has ever thought of before. [1/2 definitions]
effective When a rule becomes effective, it starts to have force. People start having to obey it. If a law is not effective yet, it means that the law has been decided on, but nobody has to obey it yet. [1/2 definitions]
exploration Exploration is the act of traveling through and finding out about places that you or other people know very little about. This can mean going to places where nobody has ever been before. Sometimes, during exploration, people discover other human beings living in the place they are traveling through and learning about. Sometimes, if the climate is too harsh, they do not find any people living there. [1/2 definitions]
fault A fault is something that is not good in a person. A fault makes a person do something or act in a way that other people don't like or that causes problems. Everybody has faults, though, because nobody is perfect. [1/3 definitions]
for When everyone in the family is for getting a dog, it means that everyone thinks getting a dog is a good idea. Nobody is against it. [1/10 definitions]
forbid If a person or thing forbids something, that thing is completely not allowed. If your grandparents forbid dogs in their house, no one is allowed to bring a dog in their house. If a school rule forbids wearing shorts in school, then nobody can wear shorts. [1/2 definitions]
fortunately When we say something like "Fortunately, nobody got hurt," we mean that it was a good and lucky thing that nobody got hurt. We use "fortunately" when we know that a bad thing could have happened but we are glad that it didn't.
freedom If you have or live in freedom, you are free. Nobody owns you or has total control over you. If someone does not have freedom, they are completely in the power of someone else, and they are forced to stay in one place and cannot leave. People who are in prison do not have freedom. People who are slaves do not have freedom. [1/3 definitions]
imaginative If a person is imaginative, they invent new things and ideas using their minds. They might invent strange animals for a children's book, for example, or a new machine that nobody ever thought of before. Imaginative people are often good at writing stories, or making works of art, or finding solutions to difficult problems. When we say that a thing is imaginative, we mean that someone used their imagination to create it.
insist If you insist on doing something, you have decided that you are going to do it and that nobody or nothing can stop you. [1/2 definitions]
itself We often wash our dogs, but we don't usually wash our cats. A cat usually washes itself with its tongue. This means the cat does its own washing and nobody else washes the cat. [1/2 definitions]
myself If you say, "I myself will choose the color for my room," you are saying that you will be the the one person who will choose the color and nobody else. Saying "myself" gives greater strength and importance to the word "I." In sentences like this, we often put the word "myself" at the end of the sentence ("I will choose the color myself"), but it has the same meaning. [1/2 definitions]
negative When you give a negative answer, you say or mean "no." If you make a negative statement, you use a word like "not" or "no" in it. Words like "nobody," "nothing," and "nowhere" express negative meanings. [2/7 definitions]
nobody "Nobody" means "no people at all." If nobody is in a room, then the room is empty. There are no people in it. [2 definitions]
no one no person; nobody.
notice When you notice something, you see it and you pay some attention to it. If you cleaned up your room and nobody noticed it, you might feel bad. [1/4 definitions]