A college student was delivering pizza to a regular customer"s house in New York.
The guy who answered the door asked him, "What is the usual tip?"
"Well," replied the youth,"this is my first trip here, but the other guys say if I get a quarter out of you, I"ll be doing great."
"Is that so?" snorted the man. "Well, just to show them how wrong they are, here"s five dollars."
"Thanks!" replied the youth, "I"ll put this in my school fund."
"What are you studying?" asked the man.
The lad smiled and said: "Applied psychology."
- —v. - make or become better by the removal of faults and errors.
- abolish or cure (an abuse or malpractice). —n. - removal of faults or abuses, esp. Moral, political, or social.
- improvement made or suggested. reformative adj.
REFUEL
v. (-ll-; us -l-) replenish a fuel supply; supply with more fuel.
REFUGE
n. - shelter from pursuit, danger, or trouble.
- person or place etc. Offering this. [latin refugium from fugio flee]
REFUND
—v. (also absol.) 1 pay back (money or expenses).
- reimburse (a person). —n. - act of refunding.
- sum refunded. refundable adj. [latin fundo pour]
REFUSE
v. (-sing) 1 withhold acceptance of or consent to (refuse an offer, orders).
- (often foll. By to + infin.) Indicate unwillingness or inability (i refuse to go; car refuses to start; i refuse!).
- (often with double object) not grant (a request) made by (a person).
- (also absol.) (of a horse) be unwilling to jump (a fence etc.). [french refuser]
- n. Items rejected as worthless; waste. [french: related to *refuse1]
REFUTE
v. (-ting) 1 prove the falsity or error of (a statement etc. Or the person advancing it).
- rebut by argument.
- deny or contradict (without argument). refutation n. [latin refuto]
REGAIN
v. Obtain possession or use of after loss (regain consciousness).
REGALE
v. (-ling) 1 entertain lavishly with feasting.
- (foll. By with) entertain with (talk etc.). [french regaler: related to *gallant]
REGARD
—v. - gaze on steadily (usu. In a specified way) (regarded them suspiciously).
- heed; take into account.
- look upon or think of in a specified way (regard it as an insult). —n. - gaze; steady or significant look.
- (foll. By to, for) attention or care.
- (foll. By for) esteem; kindly feeling; respectful opinion.
- respect; point attended to (in this regard).
- (in pl.) Expression of friendliness in a letter etc.; compliments. as regards about, concerning; in respect of. In (or with) regard to as concerns; in respect of. [french regard(er): related to *guard]
REGENT
—n. Person appointed to administer a state because the monarch is a minor or is absent or incapacitated. —adj. (after the noun) acting as regent (prince regent). [latin rego rule]
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Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.