One night a father sent his kid to bed. Five minutes later the boy screamed, “Dad! Can you get me a glass of water!?!”
“No. You had your chance.”
A minute later the boy screamed, “Dad!! Can you get me a glass of water?”
“No. You had your chance. Next time you ask I’ll come up there and spank you.”
“Dad! When you come up to spank me can you bring me a glass of water?”
n. Inflammable hydrocarbon distilled from coal etc. [latin from greek]
NARRATE
v. (-ting) 1 give a continuous story or account of.
- provide a spoken accompaniment for (a film etc.). narration n. Narrator n. [latin narro]
NARWHAL
n. Arctic white whale, the male of which has a long tusk. [dutch from danish]
NASCENT
adj. - in the act of being born.
- just beginning to be; not yet mature. nascency n. [latin: related to *natal]
NATURAL
gas n. Gas found in the earth's crust, not manufactured.
- history n. The study of animals or plants.
- law n. - unchanging moral principles common to all human beings.
- correct statement of an invariable sequence between specified conditions and a specified phenomenon.
- number n. Whole number greater than 0.
- resources n.pl. Materials or conditions occurring in nature and capable of economic exploitation.
- science n. - the study of the natural or physical world.
- (in pl.) Sciences used for this.
- selection n. Darwinian theory of the survival and propagation of organisms best adapted to their environment.
- —adj. - a existing in or caused by nature (natural landscape). B uncultivated (in its natural state).
- in the course of nature (died of natural causes).
- not surprising; to be expected (natural for her to be upset).
- unaffected, spontaneous.
- innate (natural talent for music).
- not disguised or altered (as by make-up etc.).
- likely or suited by its or their nature to be such (natural enemies; natural leader).
- physically existing (the natural world).
- illegitimate. 10 mus. (of a note) not sharpened or flattened (b natural). —n. - colloq. (usu. Foll. By for) person or thing naturally suitable, adept, etc.
- mus. A sign denoting a return to natural pitch. B natural note. naturalness n. [latin: related to *nature]
NATURED
adj. (in comb.) Having a specified disposition (good-natured).
NAUGHTY
adj. (-ier, -iest) 1 (esp. Of children) disobedient; badly behaved.
- colloq. Joc. Indecent. naughtily adv. Naughtiness n. [from *naught]
NECKTIE
n. Esp. Us = *tie n. 2.
NEEDFUL
adj. Requisite. needfully adv.
NEGLECT
—v. - fail to care for or to do; be remiss about.
- (foll. By to + infin.) Fail; overlook the need to.
- not pay attention to; disregard. —n. - negligence.
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