Pair of Words: Meaning and Sentence from Queue to Species, Specie

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List of Pair of Words: Q to S

Queue

Meaning: a line of people, usually standing or in cars, waiting for something Sentence: There was a long queue of traffic stretching down the road.

Quarts

Meaning: a unit of liquid measure of capacity.

Sentence: You spilled a quart of water on my table.

Quartz

Meaning: a hard mineral consisting of silica, found widely in igneous and metamorphic rocks.

Sentence: The rocks i have used contain some quartz, which may help to create the effect we want.

Raze

Meaning: to completely destroy a city, building, etc.

Sentence: The town was razed to the ground in the bombing raid - not a building was left standing.

Raise

Meaning: to lift something to a higher position

Sentence: Would all those in favor please raise their hands?

Revenge

Meaning: harm done to someone as a punishment for harm that they have done to someone else

Sentence: He is believed to have been shot by a rival gang in revenge for the shootings last week.

Revel

Meaning: to separate the parts, esp. threads

Sentence: The road raveled rapidly and became merely a pile of loose stones.

Reveal

Meaning: to make known or show something that is surprising or that was previously secret

Sentence: He was jailed for revealing secrets to the Russians.

Respectfully

Meaning: in a way that shows you want to be polite or honor someone

Sentence: As the body was carried through the crowd, people drew back respectfully.

Respectively

Meaning: relating or belonging to each of the separate people or things you have just mentioned

Sentence: In the 200 meters, Lizzy and Sarah came first and third, respectively.

Retch

Meaning: to react in a way as if you are vomiting

Sentence: The sight of blood makes him retch.

Simulation

Meaning: a model of a set of problems or events that can be used to teach someone how to do something

Sentence: The manager prepared a computer simulation of likely sales performance for the rest of the year.

Salutary

Meaning: causing improvement of behavior or character

Sentence: It is however salutary to remember the genuine need for originality in the creation of a copyright protectable database.

Salubrious

Meaning: describes a place that is pleasant, clean, and healthy to live in

Sentence: He doesn՚t live in a very salubrious part of town.

Species

Meaning: a set of animals or plants in which the members have similar characteristics to each other

Sentence: Over a hundred species of insect are found in this area.

Specie

Meaning: Coined money

Sentence: The next insinuation is that the Bank has refused specie payments.