An elementary school teacher sends this note to all parents on the first day of school.
"If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I will promise not to believe everything your child says happens at home.
- (attrib.) That reveals or betrays (tell-tale smile).
- automatic monitoring or registering device.
TEMERITY
n. Rashness; audacity. [latin temere rashly]
TEMPLATE
n. Piece of thin board or metal plate etc., used as a pattern in cutting or drilling etc. [originally templet, diminutive of temple, device in a loom to keep the cloth stretched]
TEMPORAL
adj. - worldly as opposed to spiritual; secular.
- of time.
- gram. Denoting time or tense (temporal conjunction).
- of the temples of the head (temporal artery). [latin tempus -por- time]
TEMPTING
adj. Attractive, inviting. temptingly adv.
TENANTRY
n. Tenants of an estate etc.
TENDENCY
n. (pl. -ies) (often foll. By to, towards) leaning or inclination. [medieval latin: related to *tend1]
TENEMENT
n. - room or flat within a house or block of flats.
- (also tenement-house or -block) house or block so divided. [latin teneo hold]
