Contemptuous

Showing or feeling contempt: feeling, expressing, or demonstrating a strong dislike or utter lack of respect for somebody or something.

He's acting contemptuous.

Exuberance

1. Full of enthusiasm: Full of happy high spirits and vitality.

2. Abundant: growing in great abundance or profusion.

3. Lavish: Lavish or elaborate, often to the point of being excessive.

When he saw Sharon, he jumped with exuberance.

Solemn

1. Earnest: Having or showing sincerity and gravity.

2. Humorless: Having or showing no joy or humor.

3. Formal: Characterized by ceremony or formality.

4. Celigious: Observed with sacred or religious ceremony.

5. Awe-inspiring: Inspiring wonder or reverence.

Solemn people are boring.

SGA

Short for Stargate Atlantis.

After they cancelled SG-1, many people switched to SGA because Amanda Tapping would join the cast for a season.

Thaw

VERB:

1). To smelt, or make something smelt.
2). To defrost something frozen, or become defrosted.
3). To become less cold or numb through exposure to heat.
4). To be warm enough for snow and ice to smelt.
5). To become less hostile, tense, or aloof.

NOUN:

1. The action or process of thawing.
2. A lessening of hostility, tension, or aloofness.
3. warmer weather: a period of weather warm enough to smelt snow and ice.

VERB:

1). The iceman Thawed.
2). Get the frozen meat out of the freezer to thaw.
3). Come thaw out by the fire.
4). Damn! The freezer is thaw.
5). The atmosphere thawed.

NOUN:

1). Thawing food.
2). A thawed situation.
3). Thaw weather.

Exemption

1. Freedom from an obligation: Permission or entitlement not to do something that others are obliged to do.

2. Exempt person or thing: Somebody who or something that is exempt, e.g. income that is not taxed.

1. An exemption from jury duty.
2. A range of tax exemptions.

VAT

Short for Value Added Tax.

VAT is the tax put on products.