A young boy was playing with a ball in the street. He kicked it too hard, and it broke the window of a house and fell inside. A lady came to the window with the ball and shouted at the young boy, so he ran away, but he still wanted his ball back.
A few minutes later he returned and knocked at the door of the house, and when the lady answered it, he said, "My father"s going to come and fix your window very soon."
After a few more minutes a man came to the door with tools in his hand, so the lady let the boy take his ball away.
When the man finished fixing the window, he said to the lady, "That will cost you exactly ten dollars."
"But aren"t you the father of that young boy?" the woman asked, looking surprised.
"No," he answered, equally surprised. "Aren"t you his mother? "
- membership fee, esp. Paid regularly. —attrib. Adj. Paid for mainly by advance sales of tickets (subscription concert).
SUBSTANTIATE
v. (-ting) prove the truth of (a charge, claim, etc.). substantiation n.
SUBSTRUCTURE
n. Underlying or supporting structure.
SUBTERRANEAN
adj. Underground. [latin terra land]
SULPHONAMIDE
n. (us sulfonamide) any of a class of antibiotic drugs containing sulphur. [german sulfon (related to *sulphur), amide a derivative of *ammonia]
SUPERANNUATE
v. (-ting) 1 pension (a person) off.
- dismiss or discard as too old.
- (as superannuated adj.) Too old for work or use. [latin annus year]
SUPERCHARGER
n. Device supplying air or fuel to an internal-combustion engine at above atmospheric pressure to increase efficiency.
SUPERCILIOUS
adj. Contemptuous; haughty. superciliously adv. Superciliousness n. [latin supercilium eyebrow]
SUPERNATURAL
—adj. Not attributable to, or explicable by, the laws of nature; magical; mystical. —n. (prec. By the) supernatural forces, effects, etc. supernaturally adv.
SUPERSTITION
n. - belief in the supernatural; irrational fear of the unknown.
- practice, belief, or religion based on this. superstitious adj. Superstitiously adv. [latin]
