You can't focus on studying if you're chatting with someone else, too. So the cell phone is off limits. Turn off the home phone, too, along with the computer (unless you're prepping on it) and any music with vocals. Study music should be lyric-free! Post a sign on your door for people to stay away.
cuirass (plural cuirasses) 1  A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle. 2  The breastplate taken by itself.
3. To emit moisture through the skin's pores. Synonym: perspire. It is a colorless, slightly turbid, salty, aqueous fluid, although that from the sweat glands in the axillae, around the anus, and of the ceruminous glands has an oily consistency. It contains urea, fatty substances, and sodium chloride. This salty, watery fluid is difficult to collect without contamination with sebum.