Deliverance

The action of being rescued or set free.

Rescue from bondage or danger.

Rescue from moral corruption; salvation.

Ex: Ingrid Betancourt's deliverance was amazing

Prank

A mischievous trick or practical joke


Prank call

A prank call (also known as a prank phone call) or a crank call is a form of practical joke committed over the telephone. Prank phone calls began to gain an America-wide following over a period of many years, as they gradually became a staple of the obscure and amusing cassette tapes traded amongst musicians, sound engineers, and media traders beginning in the late 1970s. Among the most famous and earliest recorded prank calls are the Tube Bar prank calls tapes which centered aroundLouis "Red" Deutsch. Comedian Jerry Lewis was an incorrigible phone prankster, and recordings of his hijinks, dating from the 1960s and possibly earlier, still circulate throughout the country to this day. A crank call, although also intended to disturb and harass, is usually more hostile than lighthearted, being made by a "crank," some in anger.

Shoo

- make (a person or animal) go away by waving one’s arms at them, saying ‘shoo’, or otherwise acting in a discouraging manner.

Origin:

a natural exclamation: first recorded in late Middle English. The verb use dates from the early 17th century

Sibling

Siblings are people who share at least one parent. A male sibling is called Brother. A female sibling is called Sister.

Types of siblings:

• Full sibling: A brother or sister who share both biological parents.
• Half-sibling: A person who share just one parent with his or her sibling.
• 3/4 sibling!!!: 3/4 siblings are those who share one parent and whose non-shared parents are full siblings. It means that 3/4 siblings are at the same time cousins. I liked this example, and I am going to paste it:

"Queen Elizabeth I of England, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and Henry Carey and Catherine Carey, the children of Mary Boleyn. Before her sister married King Henry, Mary was Henry's mistress, and he is sometimes named the father of her children. If so, Henry and Catherine would be 3/4 siblings of Elizabeth" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibling#3.2F4_sibling).

Shunt

• Move to an alternate way.
• Railroad switch.
• Bypass.
• Divert to a less important position or place.

Electricity:

• Provide an electric current with a conductor joining two points of a circuit through which the current is diverted.

Medicine:

• A passage between two natural body channels, such as blood vessels, which permits the flow from one region to another. Bypass.

Peter Out

It is a verb which means to decrease slowly before coming to an end. Its origin is unknown.

Example: The bad weather petered out.

Fizzle is considered a synonym of peter out. It means come to an end or fail in a weak way.

Peter out is not commonly used.

Prevail

Be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance 

To be in force, use, or effect; be current 

To be greater in strength or influence; triumph

Tidal wave

The term tidal wave is used in everyday speech to refer to a gigantic and enormously destructive wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption (what scientists would properly call a tsunami). When scientists use the word tidal wave,they normally are referring to an unusually large wave or bulge of water that sometimes occurs around a high tide. These tidal waves are certainly big and powerful, but they are tiny in comparison with tsunamis.


Another definition is an overwhelming manifestation of some emotion or phenomenon; "a tidal wave of nausea"; "the flood of letters hit him with the force of a tidal wave"; "a tidal wave of crime"

Stammer

Speak with sudden involuntary pauses and a tendency to repeat the initial letters of words.
There is a similar word: stutter, that means to  talk with continued involuntary repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants. I think it's the same, but maybe there is a subtle technical difference.

Wind Down

For a machine or mechanism: gradual loss of power.

Informal: Of a person. Relax after a stressful situation.

Wind something down: Gradually close.

Examples:

If you suffer from high stress or want to wind down, you should take spare time.
Forget to turn off the lights in a stopped car, could make the battery winds down.
They wound the shop down after some problems with the clients.

Surmount

1. To overcome (an obstacle, for example); conquer.

2. To ascend to the top of; climb.

Other examples: 

Be or do something to a greater degree:

"her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"

"She outdoes all other athletes"

"This exceeds all my expectations"

"This car outperforms all others in its class" 

Spare

Save money. Antonym of spend.

We have to spare some money if we want to travel around the world and make our dreams a reality.

Put off

To postpone or delay something.
A word with the same meaning is procrastinate, the difference between these words is that the second one refers to put something off intentionally and habitually.

Dew

A droplet is a tiny drop, we needed to clear this up to fully understad dew, because dew is water in the form of droplets that appears on thin, exposed objects in the morning or evening. As the exposed surface cools by radiating its heat, atmospheric moisture condenses at a rate greater than that at which it can evaporate, resulting in the formation of water droplets. When temperatures are low enough, dew takes the form of ice; this form is called frost

Sin

• The first time sin happened, was when Eve ate the forbidden fruit.
• When someone breaks God's law, commits sin.