shipment

He reduced his September quarter Mac shipment forecast to 4.4 million units from 4.9 million.

fling

“Fling the girl overboard,” cried Hook.

enforcement

The doctors want stricter enforcement of existing laws.

The city doubled the cordon zone in 2007 and reduced the enforcement period by one hour.

brace

If you can’t come up with the money in time, brace yourself for a financial nightmare.

Overhead, the lights showed the old timbers, used to brace the roof.

bolster

The country is free to adopt policies to bolster its economy.

impose

She didn’t want to impose her values on her family.

obsturct

They were accused of attempting to obstruct justice.

clog

Many diseases of the brain may be caused by clumps of proteins that clog its circuitry.

huddle

We lay there: a huddle of bodies, gasping for air.

pharmacy

If your pharmacy doesn’t stock the product you want, have them order it for you.

aversion

In many cases, they have a general aversion to the idea of elaborate theology.

toil

Button, in eight years of toil, never got into a car capable of winning races.

van

The driver got out of his van.

bluff

But, for the moment at any rate, it is his words that are bluff.

hygiene

She wasn’t very fastidious about personal hygiene.

gleam

There is no gleam of hope.

cram

The aim is to reduce the importance of costly tutors and cram schools, partly to help students enjoy a more normal high-school life.

undertake

University professors both teach and undertake research.

hamper

Avoid irritating scents like onion or ammonia, which can hamper smelling ability, he says.

ratify

Earlier,President Kaczynski had said he would ratify the Lisbon Treaty only if Ireland did.

consulate

He said that we have a consulate in Damascus and that Syria knows the U.S. position.

hectic

It was a hectic disorganized weekend.

commence

We commence building next week.

appropriate

We are available to sign an appropriate confidentiality agreement and commence due diligence immediately.

pretense

Sometimes she sent me over to check up on him under the pretense of bringing him medicine.

eligible

They are not eligible for sick pay.

foe

For development experts, such as Ehrhart, climate change is a formidable foe that must be tackled.

flank

They continued along the flank of the mountain.

scarce

Embryonic stem cell research has repeatedly raised ethical concerns and human eggs are a scarce resource.

hereby

As a first step, I hereby heartily endorse the framework laid out by the Bowles-Simpson Commission.

whereby

The two colleges have a reciprocal arrangement whereby students from one college can attend classes at the other.

namely

We need to concentrate on our target audience, namely women aged between 20 and 30.

tame

These ideas may seem tame today, but they were inflammatory in his time.

zealous

To make up for the mediocrity, zealous parents send their kids to the expensive cram schools.