catalogue

Zappos.com, the online seller of shoes and other merchandise that was recently acquired by Amazon,

is mailing 750,000 copies of a printed catalog to consumers.

denounce

They manifestly do not denounce the offensive comments that stirred up the trouble to begin with and

then tell Americans to grow up and deal with the fact ...

dictate

Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large “comfortable” classes who had retired

on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and

occasionally attending a shareholders’ meeting to dictate their orders to the management.

discourse

In spite of “endless talk of difference,” American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing

people. There is “the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of deference”

characteristic of popular culture.

eloquent

Like a one-woman P.R. firm, she wrote eloquent letters and notes to writers and editors who were

positioning Saarinen at the forefront of contemporary culture throughout the '50s…

legible

The manuscripts themselves are something else again, documents with the spine-tingling aura of holy

relics. Kafka's handwriting is spidery, intense and completely legible, with barely a line blotted,

at least on the folios I saw.

syndicate

Investigators believe 200 games have been manipulated…A betting syndicate is suspected of bribing

players, coaches, referees and other officials to fix games.

verbal

IQ tests ask you to complete verbal and visual analogies, to envision paper after it has been

folded and cut, and to deduce numerical sequences, among other similar tasks.

oversee

A: Standing on top of the Statue of Liberty will give you a clear view of the entire Manhattan area.

B: Wowww! That’s right!