衝動買い

impulse buying
impulsive buyingとネーティブ氏が言っていたのような気がしたので、"impulse buying"と"impulsive buying"のGoogle力を測ってみたら、272k対22kで、impulse buyingが圧倒的に多かった。

whiz-bang

noun
One that is conspicuously effective, successful, or skillful: a whiz-bang of a speech.

villain

1.A wicked or evil person; a scoundrel.
2.A dramatic or fictional character who is typically at odds with the hero.
3.Variant of villein.
4.Something said to be the cause of particular trouble or an evil: poverty, the villain in the increase of crime.
5.Obsolete. A peasant regarded as vile and brutish.

at odds:
In disagreement; in conflict: "The artist and the self-critic . . . are, with a few felicitous exceptions, forever at odds" (Joyce Carol Oates).

accentuate

1.To stress or emphasize; intensify: "enacted sweeping land-reform plans that accentuated the already chaotic pattern of landholding" (James Fallows).
2.To pronounce with a stress or an accent.
3.To mark with an accent.

Harry Houdini

少なくとも北米では超が付くほど有名なマジシャン。

胎児関連

羊膜： amnion
羊水： amniotic fluid
羊水穿刺： amniocentesis
臍帯： umbilical cord
胎盤： placenta

favicon

発音を調べてみたら・・・2通りの発音が見つかった。
fah vIh kahn (About: Web Design / HTML)
fav - eye - con (About: Web Logs)
About.com上に別々の発音が載っているというのは少し興味深い。

歯関連の単語

エナメル質： tooth enamel
象牙質： dentin(e)
歯根： the root of a tooth
歯槽膿漏： pyorrhea
歯槽骨： alveolar bone
歯茎： the gums

weewee

《話》《幼児語》名詞非可算《またa ～》おしっこ(peepee).
"Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest

culminate

verb, intransitive
1.a. To reach the highest point or degree; climax: habitual antagonism that culminated in open hostility. b. To come to completion; end: Years of waiting culminated in a tearful reunion.
2.Astronomy. To reach the highest point above an observer's horizon. Used of stars and other celestial bodies.

verb, transitive
To bring to the point of greatest intensity or to completion; climax: The ceremony culminated a long week of preparation.

illustrious

1. Well known and very distinguished; eminent. See synonyms at noted.
2. Obsolete. Shining brightly.

spite

1. Malicious ill will prompting an urge to hurt or humiliate.
2. An instance of malicious feeling.

perpendicular

adjective
1. Mathematics. Intersecting at or forming right angles.
2. Being at right angles to the horizontal; vertical. See synonyms at vertical.
3. Often Perpendicular . Of or relating to a style of English Gothic architecture of the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by emphasis of the vertical element.

noun
1. Mathematics. A line or plane perpendicular to a given line or plane.
2. A perpendicular position.
3. A device, such as a plumb line, used in marking the vertical from a given point.
4. A vertical or nearly vertical line or plane.

膿

pus
A generally viscous, yellowish-white fluid formed in infected tissue, consisting of white blood cells, cellular debris, and necrotic tissue.

necrosis
Death of cells or tissues through injury or disease, especially in a localized area of the body.
adj. necrotic

耳関連の英単語

耳たぶ： an earlobe
外耳： the external ear
外耳道： ear canal, auditory canal
外耳炎： swimmer's ear, otitis externa
鼓膜： eardrum, tympanic membrane
中耳： the middle ear, the tympanum
中耳炎： inflamation of the middle ear, tympanitis, otis media
内耳： the inner ear
内耳炎： inflamation of the inner ear, otitis interna
耳管： auditory tube, the eustachian tube （EustachianとEを大文字にすることもあるが、それほど多くない）
耳小骨： the ear bones, the auditory ossicles
つち骨・きぬた骨・あぶみ骨： hammer, anvil, stirrupというのが普通の言い方で、それらをラテン語にしてmalleus, incus, stapesが正式な医学用語
三半規管： the semicircular canals
蝸牛殻： cochlea

adorn

1. To lend beauty to; decorate: "The pale mimosas that adorned the favorite promenade" (Ronald Firbank).
2. To fit out with or as if with ornaments: "The sugar plantations were adorned with windmills" (Alec Waugh).
3. To enhance the distinction, beauty, splendor, or glory of; add luster to: "Virtue adorned his mind" (John Ford).

slay

1. To kill violently.
2. Slang. To overwhelm, as with laughter or love: Those old jokes still slay me.
e.g. "The great tragedy of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." Thomas Huxley

martyr

1. One who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles.
2. One who makes great sacrifices or suffers much in order to further a belief, cause, or principle.
3. a. One who endures great suffering: a martyr to arthritis. b. One who makes a great show of suffering in order to arouse sympathy.

renounce
1. To give up (a title, for example), especially by formal announcement. See synonyms at relinquish.
2. To reject; disown.

No taxation without representation

was a catchphrase in the period 1763-1775 that summarized a primary grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen colonies.
-- from Wikipedia

juggernaut

1. Something, such as a belief or an institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed.
2. An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path: "It doesn't assume that people need necessarily remain passive when confronted by what appears to be the juggernaut of history"(Christopher Lehmann-Haupt).

revere

To regard with awe, deference, and devotion.

deference
1. Submission or courteous yielding to the opinion, wishes, or judgment of another.
2. Courteous respect. See synonyms at honor.

revile

To assail with abusive language; vituperate. See synonyms at scold.

assail
1.To attack with or as if with violent blows; assault.
2.To attack verbally, as with ridicule or censure. See synonyms at attack.
3.To trouble; beset: was assailed by doubts.

brisket

1. The chest of an animal.
2. The ribs and meat taken from the chest of an animal.

the Acts

《単数扱い》〔聖〕使徒行伝(the Acts of the Apostles).