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  • pacific plate — Geology. one of the major tectonic divisions of the earth's crust, comprising four sea-floor basins; separated from the Nazca, Cocos, and North and South American plates by the East Pacific Rise and San Andreas fault and bounded in the western Pacific Ocean by a series of major ocean deeps, including the Kuril, Japan, Mariana, Kermadec, and Tonga trenches.
  • penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • physical file — (file system)   A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
  • pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
  • pilot officer — A pilot officer is an officer of low rank in the British Royal Air Force.
  • plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
  • police office — a geographical administrative division within an area patrolled by a police force
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • public office — position in government
  • qualificative — That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.
  • raffle ticket — a ticket sold in a raffle, representing a chance to win a prize
  • reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
  • refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
  • reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
  • relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • retroflection — a bending backward.
  • ripple effect — a spreading effect or series of consequences caused by a single action or event.
  • role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
  • sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
  • self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
  • self-conflict — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
  • self-deceived — holding an erroneous opinion of oneself, one's own effort, or the like.
  • self-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
  • self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • self-medicate — to medicate oneself without consulting a physician
  • self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
  • self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
  • self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
  • semi-official — having some degree of official authority.
  • service rifle — a rifle that is issued as standard to soldiers of an army or armed force
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • slice of life — accurate depiction of reality
  • slice-of-life — of, relating to, or being a naturalistic, unembellished representation of real life: a play with slice-of-life dialogue.
  • special offer — bargain
  • special staff — all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
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