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| Explanation of passive (adjective) forms: passive; more passive; most passive; less passive; least passive not active; usually not aggressive Sample of passive He is more passive than his brother. Behavioural precursors of schizophrenia included a poor emotional rapport in the psychiatric interview, and parental observations that he or she had been a passive baby, with a short attention span in childhood, and often impolite behaviour, while school reports often noted that the child was isolated, uneasy about criticism, easily upset, and disturbed the class.
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| Explanation of aesthetic (adjective) forms: more aesthetic; most aesthetic; less aesthetic; least aesthetic having to do with beauty; pertaining to beautiful appearances Sample of aesthetic The school had an aesthetic appeal to it. If art is no longer to be considered as of a different order than life, then the idea of aesthetic avant-gardes is questioned.
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| Explanation of innocuous (adjective) forms: more innocuous; most innocuous; less innocuous; least innocuous safe; harmless Sample of innocuous Some snakes are innocuous while others are deadly.
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| Explanation of despise (verb) forms: despised; despising; despises to scorn; to hate Sample of despise "I despise you!" said the fed-up woman.
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| Explanation of detain (verb) forms: detained; detaining; detains to delay temporarily Sample of detain The police may detain a person before that person's trial.
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| Explanation of deter (verb) forms: deterred; deterring; deters to keep someone from doing something Sample of deter France tried to deter America from going to war with Iraq.
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| Explanation of detect (verb) forms: detected; detecting; detects to uncover something that is not obvious Sample of detect The police use dogs to detect drugs in vehicles.
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| Explanation of efface (verb) forms: effaced; effacing; effaces to blot out; to erase; to remove Sample of efface The official decided to efface the evidence.
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| Explanation of grotto (noun) form plural: grottoes or grottos a little cavern; small cave Sample of grotto The natural grotto was just what the kids wanted to find. In spite of the local Comune's siting of a modern aqueduct through the grounds of the former villa, (leaving the oddity of a twentieth-century industrial ruin within a sixteenth-century one) a grotto, three fountain niches with inscriptions, and a tabernacle formerly frescoed by Allori all survive.
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| Explanation of slovenly (adjective) forms: slovenly; more slovenly; most slovenly; less slovenly; least slovenly unkempt; not clean and untidy Sample of slovenly Bachelors have a stereotype for having slovenly dwellings. He was dull, untidy in his books, arrogant and morose, with slovenly characteristics that hardly endeared him to his perfectionist mother.
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