Now for a pedantic comment: acceleration actually means a CHANGE in velocity, not an increase. (After all, when half of defining velocity consists of determining the object's direction, it can't really be "increased". Speed can be increased.)
Yes, actually. The official scientific definition of "acceleration" is as @ecp said, any change in speed (velocity) or direction. Speeding up, slowing down, and turning all count as accelerating.
There is a difference between the English language definition of the word "acceleration" and the physics/engineering definition of the vector quantity "acceleration."
Depreciation isn't your money becoming less valuable, it's what you bought with your money becoming less valuable. Buy a brand new car, and drive it off the lot with $20 in your pocket. The moment you hit the road, that $20 is still worth $20. But that $25,000 car is now worth $18,000. That's depreciation.
Not sure if I misspelled "dissertation" or not, but I ended up getting "desertion" halfway through the word. Either swap them around, do something about type-ins or remove one, I guess.
While I see your point that ruminants do indeed regurgitate, they only regurgitate so that they can do some more ruminating, i.e. chewing of their cud. So while regurgitating is indeed involved in the whole, somewhat gross process, it's only rumination that is a direct definition of "chewing cud". P.S. Moo.
Not: Imagination for magic rod usage?