When a person drinks alcohol, the alcohol is absorbed by the stomach, enters the bloodstream, and goes to all the tissues. The effects of alcohol are dependent on a variety of factors, including a personâs size, weight, age and sex, as well as the amount of food and alcohol consumed.
Definition of quagmire for English Language Learners. : 1  an area of soft, wet ground. : 2  a situation that is hard to deal with or get out of : a situation that is full of problems.
QUATRAIN a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit. REFRAIN a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem. RHYTHM a rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language.