equator
Mr. Nielson-Gammon said the drought owed much to the two winters
in which surface water temperatures along the equator
in the Pacific Ocean were below normal,a phenomenon known as La Nina.
fatigue
The virus produces fever, swollen glands,
loss of appetite and fatigue. "It makes you very tired,
because your immune system is really in overdrive responding to it,"
flap
The flap over rap is not making life any easier for him.
Levin has consistently defended the company's rap music
on the grounds of expression.
fossil
Warnings from the scientific community are becoming louder,
as an increasing body of science points to rising dangers
from the ongoing buildup of human-related greenhouse gases -
produced mainly by the burning of fossil fuels and forests.
fume
Just as on smoking, voices now come from many quarters insisting
that the science about global warming is incomplete,
that it's OK to keep pouring fumes into the air until we know for sure.
furnish
They buried him in a New York coat and a Boston pair of shoes
and a pair of breeches from Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati.
The South didn 't furnish a thing on earth for that funeral
but the corpse and the hole in the ground.
habitat
In the winter many farmers flood the rice fields
so that the migrating birds have habitat for their winter stay.
horsepower
Would you buy a 136-horsepower Mercedes-Benz?
What if it were powered by hydrogen fuel cells? Are you
so committed to green-car technology that, besides the
six-figure price tag, you would put up with … (zero-to-60
times of more than 11 seconds)?