2.  The speaker waited until the applause had abated before he continued speaking.

3.  To become weaker; to decrease

4.  The teacher acknowledged my mother in back to school night by shaking her hand.

5.  To admit the existence of.

6.  Dwight Howard's agent will try to get him a better contract at the end of this season.

7.  A person who acts or does business for another.

8.  Only the Congress of the United States has the authority to declare war.

9.  The right to give orders, make decisions, or take action.

10.  The corn crop this year has been devastated by the fact that there has been very little rain to help it grow.

11.  To ruin or destroy completely.

12.  The flu epidemic of 1918 spread so fast that it killed over twenty million people in the northern hemisphere.

13.  The rapid spreading of a disease to many people at one time.

14.  After the accident, my dad went to five repair shops to get estimates of how much it would cost to fix the car.

15.  A number that is not exact; a careful guess.

16.  The landlord threatened to evict the tenants for not paying the rent.

17.  To force out of property by taking legal action.

18.  A judge should be impartial in the courtroom so that he could make good decisions.

19.  Not favoring one side more than another; fair.

20.  The more industrious workers in the clothing factory were rewarded with pay raises at the end of the year.

21.  Hard working; not lazy.

22.  Cruelty to animals infuriates most people.

23.  To make very angry.

24.  Her comment about cats was irrelevant because we were discussing the family trip.

25.  Having nothing to do with the subject.

26.  Do you know the precise time your plane will arrive so that I know what time to go to the airport to pick you up?

27.  Exact; accurate.

28.  Their offer to make us rich turned out to be a sham, so we felt like fools.

29.  Something fake or false.

30.  The hikers were exhausted after their thirty mile trek over the mountain.

31.  A long, slow, and difficult journey.