a group that heshe admires and wants to emulate; heshe shares their interests, attitudes, and social values.
Unfortunatly the reference group of the young slum-dweller is often one that turns himer towards crime.
Buy a
reference group
mug!
If you are in a room with no windows or other direct sources of light, and if light enters from an adjoining lighted room, the indirect illumination is borrowed light.
We worked in the library and had only the borrowed light from the adjacent room to work with that night.
Buy a
borrowed light
mug!
Obviously, "the condition of being lost," but more often in a psychological sense than in a geographical sense.
The 1970s was a decade of lostness for the American people, with wavering or obliteration of compass points they had once thought permanently fixed.
One who willfully hides information, especially to prevent others from attaining knowledge or wisdom; also, tending to obscure, pertaining to the act of obscuring.
"Why are you being such an obscurant!"
To make a dull, repetitive sound.
She knew that her heart would thutter when she saw Blaine walk up the spiral staircase. That is when she would slowly step down in her slow, practiced pace.
To attack someone out of hiser view.
Catherine put up a decoy and then blindsighted the group with a very big lawsuit.
A short journey, especially with a group of other people in a bus, to visit places that are kept secret from you until you get there; often, this is done by management of a rock band or a musical establishment -- because it sees only the bottom line in entertainment or --namely the cash value of the group.
"We were taken on a mystery tour to some charity event would rather not mention!" "They don't respect our talents, they see us as only a money cow." "I've had enough of this crap!"
