suspicion n.

  1. N-VAR Suspicion or a suspicion is a belief or feeling that someone has committed a crime or done something wrong.
  2. N-VAR If there is suspicion of someone or something, people do not trust them or consider them to be reliable.
  3. N-COUNT A suspicion is a feeling that something is probably true or is likely to happen.
  4. N-SING A suspicion of something is a very small amount of it.

budge v./n./adj.

  1. V-ERG If someone will not budge on a matter, or if nothing budges them, they refuse to change their mind or to come to an agreement.
  2. V-ERG If someone or something will not budge, they will not move. If you cannot budge them, you cannot make them move.

canary n.

  1. N-COUNT Canaries are small yellow birds which sing beautifully and are often kept as pets.

vestige n.

  1. N-COUNT A vestige of something is a very small part that still remains of something that was once much larger or more important.

percentage n.

  1. N-COUNT A percentage is a fraction of an amount expressed as a particular number of hundredths of that amount.

poise n./vt./vi.

  1. N-UNCOUNT If someone has poise, they are calm, dignified, and self-controlled.
  2. N-UNCOUNT Poise is a graceful, very controlled way of standing and moving.]

hatchet n.

  1. N-COUNT A hatchet is a small axe that you can hold in one hand.
  2. ADJ Someone with a hatchet face has a long, narrow face with sharp features.
  3. PHR-RECIP If two people burry the hatchet, they become friendly again after a quarrel or disagreement.

flora n.

  1. N-UNCOUNT-COLL You can refer to plants as flora, especially the plants growing in a particular area.

equivocate vi.

  1. VERB When someone equivocates, they deliberately use vague language in order to deceive people or to avoid speaking the truth.

intensify vt./vi.

  1. V-ERG If you intensify something or if it intensifies, it becomes greater in strength, amount, or degree.

oscillation n.

  1. VERB If an object oscillates, it moves repeatedly from one position to another and back again, or keeps getting bigger and smaller.
  2. VERB If the level or value of something oscillates between one amount and another, it keeps going up and down between the two amounts.
  3. VERB If you oscillate between two moods, attitudes, or types of behaviour, you keep changing from one to the other and back again.